Privacy Policy

Paper is a Discord bot run by an individual developer in Queensland, Australia. This page explains what Paper stores, why, and what you can do about it. It follows the Australian Privacy Principles, and gives everyone the rights the GDPR describes, wherever they live.

What Paper stores

• Your Discord user ID, alongside everything below. Paper never has your email, phone number or password.
• Gacha: your claimed characters, wishes, likes, notes, nicknames, karuda, badges, tower, keys and settings.
• Levels and activity: XP, level, message counts and time in voice for each server, plus daily and weekly totals for leaderboards and staff reports. Messages are counted, but what they say isn't saved.
• Moderation: warnings, jails, mutes, bans and other cases (with the reason the moderator gave), jailed members' saved roles, forced nicknames and staff points.
• Things you ask it to keep: reminders and their text, AFK status and reason, and server settings such as welcome messages, auto replies, reaction roles and automod words.
• Dashboard login: your Discord name, avatar and the list of servers you're in, for 7 days per login. Only a hashed copy of the login token is stored.
• Premium: payments go through Stripe. Paper stores only Stripe's customer and subscription IDs and the plan's status, and never sees card details.

What Paper keeps only briefly

• Recent messages are held in memory, never in the database, so snipes and chat logs can show deleted or edited text. Snipes expire after 2 hours, and memory is cleared whenever the bot restarts.
• Chat logs are posted to a channel the server's staff choose. Those posts live in that server on Discord, not in Paper's database.

Why

To run the features you and your server use. Paper doesn't sell or rent data, doesn't show ads and doesn't build profiles of anyone.

Who else handles it

• Discord, the platform Paper runs on.
• Railway, which hosts the bot and its database in the United States.
• Cloudflare, which hosts this website.
• Stripe, which processes payments.

A daily backup of the database is sent privately to the bot's owner on Discord, so it can be restored if something breaks.

How long it's kept

Data is kept while it's in use. A server's data stays after Paper leaves, in case it's added back. You can ask for deletion at any time. Moderation records stay with the server's staff unless that server asks for them to be removed.

Your choices

• $selfreset and the other self-reset commands clear your own gacha data.
• Server admins can wipe their server's data with the full-reset commands.
• Email paperbot.support@gmail.com to see what Paper holds about you, correct it, or have it deleted. Requests are answered within 30 days.
• If you're unhappy with how a request was handled, you can complain to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner at oaic.gov.au.

Children

Paper is for people old enough to use Discord under Discord's own rules (13 or older in most countries).

Changes

Changes are posted here, and the date at the top changes with them.