Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy explains what information the LAVA Discord bot ("LAVA," "the Bot," "we," "us") collects, how we use it, and the choices you have. It applies to anyone who uses LAVA's commands or is in a server or voice channel where LAVA is active. It should be read alongside our Terms of Service.

LAVA is an independent, third-party bot built on the Discord API. It is not created, operated, or endorsed by Discord Inc. Discord's own Privacy Policy and Terms of Service continue to apply to your use of Discord itself.

1. Information We Collect

Information you provide directly. When you run a command, we process what you type or select — for example, song names or URLs given to /play and /search, names you assign to saved queues, the reasons and durations you give to /mute, /ban, and /kick, and the text you submit through /bugreport or /requestpremium.

Information Discord gives us automatically. To operate at all, the Bot receives your Discord user ID and username, the ID and name of the server and channel a command is used in, and your voice-channel presence — but only for servers LAVA has been added to, and only at the moment a relevant command or event occurs.

Information we store persistently. Most of what LAVA does — the live queue, playback position, volume, loop/autoplay state — lives only in memory and disappears once the Bot disconnects or restarts; it's never written to disk. The exceptions, kept in a local database file, are:

Saved queues are tied to your Discord user ID, not to a specific server — so they follow you into any server that has LAVA, and aren't automatically deleted if LAVA is removed from the server where you first saved them.

What we don't collect. We don't read, log, or store your regular chat messages — only the slash commands you run and their options. We also don't access your Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, or SoundCloud account, library, or listening history; track requests are resolved anonymously against those platforms' public search/streaming endpoints.

2. Privileged Intents

LAVA requests the Guilds, Guild Voice States, Guild Messages, and Message Content intents from Discord. The Message Content intent is enabled for reliability and possible future features — LAVA does not currently read or act on the text of ordinary messages. We'll update this Policy if that changes.

3. How We Use This Information

Only to: run the command you invoked, enforce the blacklist/premium systems described above, investigate bugs you report and respond to premium requests, and notify LAVA's operator when the Bot joins or leaves a server (for basic administration and abuse prevention). We don't use your information for advertising or behavioral profiling.

4. How We Share Information

We do not sell your information. We share it only:

• With Discord, as an unavoidable part of using the Discord API
• With music platforms (YouTube, Spotify, Apple Music, SoundCloud) — as a bare search term or track URL, passed through our self-hosted Lavalink audio server so it can locate and stream the track. Your Discord identity is not sent to these platforms.
• With LAVA's operator, for the bug reports, premium requests, and join/leave notices described above
• When legally required to do so

5. Data Retention

• Premium/blacklist status: kept until manually removed by LAVA's operator
• Saved queues: kept until you delete them (/savedqueue delete <name>) or ask us to
• Bug reports and premium requests: kept in our private support channel or DMs until manually deleted

6. Your Rights and Choices

You can delete an individual saved queue yourself at any time with /savedqueue delete <name>, or contact us (Section 10) to request deletion of all data tied to your user ID or your server. You can also ask what data we hold about you, or ask us to correct it. If you're in the EU/UK, California, or elsewhere with its own privacy law, you may have additional rights (for example, under the GDPR or CCPA) — we'll honor equivalent requests regardless of where you're located.

Removing LAVA from your server does not automatically delete saved queues created by individual members, since those are tied to a user ID rather than the server — contact us if you'd like those cleared too.

7. Children's Privacy

LAVA is meant to be used consistently with Discord's own Terms of Service, which set Discord's minimum age requirement (13, or higher in some countries). We do not knowingly collect information from users below that age beyond what Discord itself already exposes to bots operating on its platform.

8. Data Security

We take reasonable steps to protect the information described above, but no method of storage or transmission is completely secure, and we can't guarantee absolute security.

9. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Policy as LAVA's features change. Material changes will be reflected by updating the date at the top of this page.

10. Contact Us

Questions or requests about your data:

• Support server: https://discord.gg/K8Vgd6nNcz
• Source code: https://github.com/Ghimel9112/LAVA