Privacy Policy

What Sidelight is

Sidelight is a Discord community management and engagement platform and bot used to support fan communities and online communities. It is not a data broker, advertising service, or public analytics product.

What data may be processed

Depending on the features enabled in a server, Sidelight may process:

• Discord user IDs.
• Discord usernames and display names.
• Server/guild IDs and names.
• Channel IDs and names.
• Role IDs and role information.
• Message IDs.
• Message content, only where needed for message-based features, moderation, administrative logging, or community features.
• Member join, leave, and update events.
• Moderation and administrative action logs.
• Configuration data for enabled bot features.

Why the data is used

Sidelight uses data only for purposes needed to operate and support the service, including:

• Providing bot features.
• Supporting moderation and administration.
• Supporting onboarding and role workflows.
• Running community engagement features.
• Keeping audit logs.
• Investigating abuse, errors, misuse, security issues, or operational problems.

Off-platform storage

Some data may be stored outside Discord in databases, logs, backups, or hosting infrastructure used to operate Sidelight. This storage is used only as necessary to provide, maintain, secure, troubleshoot, and support the service.

Message content

Message content is only processed where needed for specific features, moderation, administrative logging, or community engagement features. Message content is not sold, not used for advertising, not disclosed to data brokers, and not used to train artificial intelligence or machine learning models.

Presence data

Sidelight does not collect or store Discord presence data unless a specific server-enabled feature requires it. If no such feature is enabled, presence data is not used.

Data sharing

Sidelight does not sell data, provide advertising services, disclose data to data brokers, or use data for unrelated profiling. Data may be processed by hosting, database, logging, or infrastructure providers only as necessary to run the service.

Data retention

Data is retained only as long as needed for feature operation, moderation, audit, security, legal, or operational purposes. Retention periods may vary depending on the server feature, configuration, type of record, and operational need.

Security

Access to retained data is limited to authorised maintainers who need it to operate, secure, or support Sidelight. Reasonable technical and organisational measures are used to protect data, but no online service can guarantee absolute security.

User choices and deletion requests

Users can request access, correction, or deletion of retained data where applicable. Server administrators can disable features or remove the bot from a server. Optional message-based features can be avoided by not participating in them, although moderation and administrative processing may still apply where needed for server operation.

To make a privacy or data request, email contact@example.com. This placeholder contact address is defined in src/config.ts so it can be replaced in one obvious place.

Policy updates

This policy may be updated from time to time. Updated versions will be posted on this page with a revised last updated date.