Friday, March 29, 2024

Updates to Discord’s Policies

Hey!

We wanted to let you know that we're updating our Terms of Service, Privacy Policy, Paid Services Terms, and Community Guidelines. We periodically make these updates as our business evolves or to respond to new laws.

These changes will take effect on April 15, 2024.

Here are some highlights of what we've updated:

  • How we describe our services: Made it easier to understand how Discord works, the features we offer, and how our services can be personalized for you.
  • How we resolve disputes: Updated our informal dispute resolution process and our arbitration agreement. We work hard to make sure you always love Discord and hope there's never a dispute!
  • How we approach privacy: Provided more information about privacy rights and how they are exercised. We also updated what data we collect and how we use it. Your privacy is important to us, and we try to limit what information we collect and give you control over your privacy on Discord.
  • How we explain our Community Guidelines: Added more context and made our guidelines easier to understand.

We encourage you to read the updated documents in full. We've also summarised important changes on our blog.

Thanks for helping us make Discord the best place for people to hang out and talk together!

Discord

Sunday, February 18, 2024

Update your username by March 4, 2024

Hello PeterWilcoks,

We're asking everyone to choose a unique username instead of using discriminators in their username (username#0000). Starting March 4, 2024, Discord will begin assigning usernames to users who have not chosen one themselves. You are receiving this email because you have not chosen a new username.

This is a notice that if you do not update your username by March 4, 2024, Discord will assign a new, unique username to your account. We will try to assign you a unique username that is similar to your current username.

You can update your username now by following these instructions:

On Desktop/Browser

  1. Select the cog wheel in the bottom left to open User Settings
  2. Click Get Started

On Mobile

  1. Open the You tab by tapping your profile in the bottom right of the screen
  2. Tap Get Started

You can always change your username later in your User Settings. Learn more about our recent changes to usernames in our support article.

Thank you,

Discord

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Monday, August 7, 2023

Updating our Google Account inactivity policy

Every day Google works hard to keep you and your private information safe and secure by preventing unauthorized access to your Google Account with our built-in security protections. And keeping you safe means having strong privacy practices across our products that minimize how long we store your personal files and any data associated with them. We want to protect your private information and prevent any unauthorized access to your account even if you're no longer using our services.

Therefore, we are updating the inactivity period for a Google Account to two years across all our products and services. This change starts rolling out today and will apply to any Google Account that's been inactive, meaning it has not been signed into or used within a two-year period. An inactive account and any content in it will be eligible for deletion from December 1, 2023.

What this means for you:

  • These changes do not impact you unless you have been inactive in your Google Account for two years or have not used your account to sign in to any Google service for over two years.
  • While the changes go into effect today, the earliest we would enforce any account deletion would be December 2023.
  • If your account is considered inactive, we will send several reminder emails to both you and your recovery emails (if any have been provided) before we take any action or delete any account content. These reminder emails will go out at least 8 months before any action is taken on your account.
  • After a Google Account is deleted, the Gmail address for the deleted account cannot be used again when creating a new Google Account.

How to keep your account active?

The simplest way to keep a Google Account active is to sign in to the account at least once every two years. If you have signed in to your Google Account recently in the past two years, your account is considered active and will not be deleted.

Other ways to keep your account active include:

  • Reading or sending an email
  • Using Google Drive
  • Watching a YouTube video
  • Sharing a photo
  • Downloading an app
  • Using Google Search
  • Using Sign in with Google to sign in to a third-party app or service

There are some exceptions to this policy. Examples include: a Google Account with YouTube channels, videos or comments; an account that has a gift card with a monetary balance; or an account that has a published application, for example, one that hosts an app on the Google Play store. Other exceptions to this policy are available here.

Google also offers tools to help manage your Google Account and provide options to back up your data, including the ability to download your data using Google Takeout, and allowing you to plan for what happens to your data if you're inactive for a specific period of time with the Inactive Account Manager.

Our priority is to make it as easy as possible for you to keep your account active, if you want to, and we'll ensure you have adequate notice before any account is impacted by this change. So before an account is deleted, Google will send email notifications to the Google Account and its recovery email (if one has been provided). You should verify that your recovery email is up to date.

Learn more

Thank you,
The Google Account team

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Wednesday, June 28, 2023

Some of your videos have been taken down from YouTube

 

Hi xeniththeatre,

 

Due to a copyright takedown notice that we received, we had to take down the following videos from YouTube:

 

Video title: Commentary :-: Episode #4 :-: daaBOMB/CoD7 :-: HD
Video url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsh4WEaEieM
Contact info: nexalawltd@gmail.com
Takedown issued by: THEdaaBOMB

 

Video title: Commentary :-: Episode #7 :-: DaaBOMB/CoD7 :-: HD
Video url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnG8WWVNOwc
Contact info: nexalawltd@gmail.com
Takedown issued by: THEdaaBOMB

 

This means that your video can no longer be played on YouTube.

 

You received a copyright strike

 

You now have 1 copyright strike. If you get multiple copyright strikes, we'll have to disable your account. To prevent that from happening, please don't upload videos containing copyrighted content that you aren't allowed to use.

 
View details
 
 

What to do next

  • If you believe you're not at fault in one or more of the instances above, you can appeal this takedown by submitting a counter notification. Keep in mind that there may be severe legal consequences for submitting a counter notification with false information.
  • You can also contact the party that removed your video and ask them to retract their takedown.
 

Sincerely,
The YouTube team

 

 
 

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Tuesday, March 7, 2023

Updates to Discord’s Policies

Hey!

We wanted to let you know that we're updating our Terms of Service, Paid Services Terms, Privacy Policy, and Community Guidelines. We periodically make these updates as our business, and the services we offer you, grow.

Transparency is important to us, and we want to let you know what's changing ahead of time so you can learn about what's new. These changes will take effect on March 27, 2023.

Here are some highlights of what we've updated:

  • How we describe our services: We added in a broader description of how Discord works, the features we offer, and how our services can be personalized for you. We want Discord to be your experience.
  • How we resolve disputes: We've updated our informal dispute resolution process and our arbitration agreement to lay out more detail on the steps you should take in case you have a dispute. We work hard to make sure you always love Discord and hope there's never a dispute!
  • How we approach privacy: We provided more information about privacy rights and how they are exercised. We also updated what data we collect and how we use it. As always, your privacy is critically important to us, and we try to limit what information we collect and give you control over your privacy on Discord.
  • How we explain our Community Guidelines: Our Community Guidelines are the foundation for how we work to keep you safe and ensure Discord is a space where everyone can find a place to belong. We've added more context and updated our explanations so our rules are easier to understand.

We encourage you to read the updated documents in full. We've also summarized some of the most important changes in a post on the Discord Blog.

Thanks for helping us build a place where everyone can belong.

Discord

Need help? Contact our support team or hit us up on Twitter @discord.
Want to give us feedback? Let us know what you think on our feedback site.

Thursday, January 5, 2023

[Reminder] You have Web & App Activity turned on

Google logo

Hello Peter,

To protect your privacy, this is a reminder that you have your Web & App Activity setting turned on.

Web & App Activity is a setting that lets you save to your Google Account the things you do on Google sites, apps, and services, including your searches and associated information, like location and language. It can also give you more personalized experiences across Google, like faster searches and better recommendations.

You're in control

No action is required on your part. You can review your activity and change your settings anytime. If you'd like to turn off Web & App Activity, review and delete your activity, or turn on auto-delete, visit My Activity.

For step-by-step instructions, visit our Web & App Activity Help Center.

Google

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Tuesday, November 1, 2022

You can now choose your YouTube handle

 YouTube is introducing handles to make it easier for people to find and connect with each other.

Hi xeniththeatre,

You can now choose your channel's handle.

As a reminder, in most cases, if you already have a personalized URL for your channel, we've reserved this for you as your handle. If you're happy with that handle then you're all set. If you want a different handle from the one we reserved, you can change it. If you don't already have a personalized URL today, you'll also be able to choose a handle. Keep in mind that handles are unique to each channel, so once a handle has been chosen, it can't be selected by anyone else.

CHOOSE A HANDLE

In the future, your handle will be how people mention you in comments, Community posts, and more.

Sincerely,
The YouTube team

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