Terms of Service

These Terms of Service ("Terms") govern your use of the Scoreboards bot ("the Bot") and the website at scoreboards.dev ("the Website"). By accessing or using the Bot or the Website, you agree to be bound by these Terms.

1. Use of the Service

You agree to use the Bot and the Website only for lawful purposes and in compliance with these Terms, Discord's Terms of Service, and all applicable laws and regulations.

2. Age Requirements

You must meet Discord's minimum age requirement (13 years or older, or the minimum age required in your country) to use our services.

3. User Content and Data

You retain ownership of the content you create through the Bot, including leaderboard names, scores, player data, and images you upload. By using the service, you grant us a non-exclusive license to store, display, process (including resizing and format conversion), and distribute this content as necessary to operate the Bot and Website.

You represent that you have the right to upload any content you submit, including images and submission descriptions. You understand that images submitted to Rating leaderboards, together with any description, are publicly viewable on the Website, and that the admins of a leaderboard can review a log of the star ratings cast on it — including yours — to moderate their events. Votes are also listed in the leaderboard's public activity on the Website: without your name by default, or with your display name on leaderboards whose admins have turned anonymous votes off, which you are told where you vote. The rating itself is not shown on blind-voting leaderboards.

On a Levels leaderboard, the activity it counts — how many messages you send and how long you spend in voice channels, never what you write — is content you generate through the Bot. The XP and levels it earns rank members within that server only: they have no value outside it, and the server's administrators can change or reset them.

A name you enter for the game on our home page is shown publicly on its leaderboard. Don't use a name that is offensive or that impersonates someone. We may remove any entry, including one we believe was not earned by playing.

4. Public Leaderboards

Leaderboards you create using the Bot are publicly visible by default on the Website through a unique URL. This means the content of your leaderboard (including Discord usernames, team names, and scores) can be viewed by anyone. You may make a leaderboard private at any time by adjusting its settings in Discord. By using the Bot, you acknowledge and agree that your leaderboard data will be publicly accessible by default unless you opt out.

Public leaderboards that belong to a registered account and have at least five entries may additionally be indexed by search engines, and any shared leaderboard link generates a preview card showing the leaderboard's name, its number of competitors, and the leading name. Setting a leaderboard to private removes it from both. See our Privacy Policy for details.

Public leaderboards may also be embedded on other websites. You may embed any leaderboard you administer, and anyone may embed a leaderboard that is public — the same data its own page already shows. The embedded view carries an attribution link back to Scoreboards, and you agree not to remove, obscure, or alter it unless your plan includes doing so. We may decline to serve an embed to a site that breaches these Terms.

5. Restrictions

You agree not to:

• Use the service for any unlawful or unauthorized purpose
• Upload content that violates the Prohibited Content policy described below
• Use the rating system to harass, brigade, or systematically target other users
• Exploit, distribute, or publicly inform other users of any error, bug, or vulnerability that gives an unintended advantage
• Arrange, fix, or collude on the outcome of matches or scores in order to farm virtual currency, or submit results for games that were not played
• Attempt to interfere with or disrupt the service or its infrastructure
• Use automated means to access the service in a way that exceeds reasonable use

6. Prohibited Content

You must not upload or submit:

• Child sexual abuse material (CSAM) or any sexual content involving minors — we maintain a zero-tolerance policy and will report such content to NCMEC and law enforcement immediately, and permanently ban the offending account
• Content that is illegal in your jurisdiction
• Content that infringes on others' copyrights, trademarks, or intellectual property rights
• Content designed to harass, threaten, or intimidate specific individuals
• Malware, exploits, or files disguised as images

We reserve the right to remove any uploaded content and terminate accounts at our sole discretion, without prior notice. We do not pre-screen uploaded images. If you encounter content that violates these terms, please report it via our Discord support server.

7. Copyright and Takedowns

If you believe your copyrighted work has been uploaded without your permission, please contact us via our Discord support server with the following information:

• Identification of the copyrighted work
• Identification of the infringing content (leaderboard URL and submission)
• Your contact information
• A statement that you have a good faith belief the use is unauthorized

We will remove infringing content promptly upon receiving valid notices. Repeat infringers may have their accounts terminated.

Third-party games. Leaderboards can track third-party games, and game names are used only to identify what a leaderboard is about.

8. Modifications to the Service

We reserve the right to modify, suspend, or discontinue the Bot or Website, temporarily or permanently, with or without notice. You agree that we will not be liable to you or any third party for any modification, suspension, or discontinuance of the service.

9. Service Availability

We strive to keep the Bot and Website available, but we do not guarantee uninterrupted or error-free operation. The service is provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis.

10. Termination

We may terminate or suspend your access to the service immediately, without prior notice, for any reason, including if you breach these Terms. Upon termination, your right to use the service ceases immediately.

11. Limitation of Liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, we shall not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, including without limitation loss of profits, data, use, goodwill, or other intangible losses, resulting from your use of or inability to use the service.

12. Contact Us

If you have questions about these Terms, please contact us through our Discord support server.

13. Changes to These Terms

We reserve the right to modify these Terms at any time. By continuing to access or use the service after revisions become effective, you agree to be bound by the updated Terms. We will update the "Last updated" date at the top of this page when changes are made.

14. Virtual Currency

A server may switch on a currency system, in which finalized matches and scores, and levels reached on a Levels leaderboard, pay out a virtual currency that members spend on rewards the server offers, such as Discord roles. That currency is a feature of the service, not money and not property. It has no real-world value, is not a payment instrument, is not backed by anything, and cannot be exchanged for cash or for anything else of value. It cannot be bought from us, sold, or redeemed, and purchases made with it are final — there is no refund, and nothing bought can be sold back or exchanged. The same goes for a balance burned for a prestige level: the prestige level is the whole of what it buys, and the currency is not returned. A bid in an auction is taken when it is placed and returned only if it is beaten or the auction is cancelled; a winning bid is spent on the prize, not refunded.

Currency belongs to the server that issued it. A balance is meaningful only inside that server, never travels to another server, and may not be transferred, sold, or traded to anyone outside it, whether or not money changes hands. Where a server enables a transfer or gifting feature that we provide for use between its own members, using that feature as intended is permitted; nothing beyond it is.

Balances are not guaranteed and are not a debt we owe you. A server's administrators may grant, adjust, reset, or remove any balance in their server at any time and for any reason — including halving every balance when the server's currency season ends — and we may do the same where we consider it necessary — to correct a fault, to reverse an exploit, or to enforce these Terms. If a recorded result is cancelled or edited, the payout it produced is reversed, and a balance may go below zero as a result until it is earned back.

If the Bot is removed from a server, if the server switches its economy off or is itself deleted, or if we discontinue the feature, balances in that server cease to exist and are worth nothing. Deleting your own data with /delete_my_data deletes your balances in every server and ends any role you are renting; roles you bought outright are not taken back. If your access is suspended or terminated under section 10, any balance you hold is forfeited. In no case do we owe you compensation, a refund, or a replacement for currency, for rewards bought with it, or for a lost balance.

15. Paid Plans

Some features of the service, and some leaderboard limits, may require a paid plan for the Discord server that uses them. A paid plan belongs to the server, not to the person who bought it, and covers that server only.

Paid plans are sold through Discord's app store. Discord sells, bills, renews, cancels and refunds them under Discord's own terms, and Discord, not us, handles the payment. To cancel a plan or ask for a refund, use Discord's subscription settings or contact Discord support; a cancelled plan keeps running until the end of the period already paid for. We unlock a plan's features for as long as Discord reports the subscription as active.

When a plan ends — because it was cancelled, refunded or not renewed — the features it unlocked stop working, and leaderboards beyond the limit of the server's remaining plan become read-only: they stay visible, but no new results can be added to them. No data is deleted. Paying for a plan again unlocks everything at once.

Free trial. A server that adds the Bot may receive a free 14-day trial of the Plus plan, once per server; the trial ends automatically, nothing is charged, and the server then moves to the plan it has, or to the free plan.

Servers that are already using Scoreboards. A server that has the Bot when paid plans launch keeps the features it has today, free of charge, for three months from the launch date. If such a server buys a plan during those three months, that plan's features apply straight away. After the three months, the server moves to the plan it has, or to the free plan.

We may change which features and limits each plan includes, and the plans we offer. We will give notice before such a change takes effect.