mrmBot-Matrix/PRIVACY.md

# esmBot and Privacy
First things first: esmBot does not collect IP addresses, emails, or any other personal/private info. This info is not accessible via Discord's API [except for emails](https://discordapp.com/developers/docs/resources/user#user-object), which require the email OAuth2 scope to access. esmBot does not use OAuth2 to link to a user account, therefore it does not have access to this info.

esmBot uses the following user-related info:
+ User IDs (needed for many reasons such as the tag commands and replying to users)
+ Avatars (needed for some embeds and the avatar command)
+ Usernames (for embeds and avatar command)
+ Discriminators (embeds)
+ Permissions (for checking if a user has perms to run some commands)
+ Whether the user is a bot (needed to prevent other bots from running commands)

Out of these, only user IDs are stored in the database, and they are used for checking the owner of a tag as well as storing a user's warnings.

![Tags section in the database](https://projectlounge.pw/pictures/tags.png)

esmBot uses the following guild-related info:
+ Guild IDs (for guild-specific settings)
+ List of members (for getting permissions and obtaining user objects by ID)
+ Guild names (for embeds)
+ Icons (embeds)

Out of these, only guild IDs are stored in the database for configuration info and storing warns, disabled channels, prefixes, and tags.

The stored info is stored in the database forever; however, I do intend to change this in the future. If you want this data removed, you can DM me on Discord (Essem#9261) or email me at [data@essem.space](mailto:data@essem.space).

Hopefully this document is clear enough to help understand what esmBot does and doesn't use. If you have any further questions, please contact me via the [esmBot Support](https://projectlounge.pw/support) server.