Privacy Policy

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1. Introduction

Welcome to uCord. We are committed to protecting your privacy and being transparent about the data we collect and how we use it. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and safeguard your information when you use our Discord vanity link service.

2. Information We Collect

2.1 Discord User Information

When you log in to uCord using Discord OAuth2, we collect:

  • Your Discord user ID
  • Your Discord username
  • Your Discord avatar
  • List of Discord servers (guilds) you are a member of

2.2 Server Information

When you create a vanity link for your Discord server, we collect:

  • Server (guild) ID
  • Server name
  • Server icon
  • Discord invite code
  • Custom vanity code
  • Embed description and color preferences
  • Server discoverability settings
  • Click statistics and analytics

2.3 Automatically Collected Information

We automatically collect certain information when you visit our website:

  • Session data for maintaining your login state
  • Cookies for authentication and user experience
  • Page visit information for analytics, as described in 5.2

3. How We Use Your Information

We use the collected information for the following purposes:

  • Service Provision: To provide and maintain the vanity link service for your Discord server
  • Authentication: To identify you and manage your account and server settings
  • Analytics: To track link clicks and provide statistics to server owners
  • Server Discovery: To display discoverable servers to other users (only if you enable this feature)
  • Service Improvement: To understand how our service is used and improve user experience

4. Data Storage and Security

Your data is stored securely on our servers. We implement appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect your information against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction.

Session data is encrypted and stored with secure, HTTP-only cookies to prevent unauthorized access.

5. Data Sharing and Third Parties

We do not sell, trade, or rent your personal information to third parties. We only share data with:

  • Discord: We use Discord's API to authenticate users and retrieve server information as authorized by you
  • Service Users: If you make your server discoverable, basic server information (name, icon, description, and vanity link) will be visible to other users browsing the discovery page
  • Google Analytics: Anonymous usage data, as described below

Our own first-party analytics (5.2) are not shared with anyone.

5.1 Google Analytics

Every page on uCord loads Google Analytics 4, a web analytics service provided by Google LLC. It tells us how the site is used in aggregate: which pages are visited, how visitors arrived, roughly where they are (country or city level), what kind of device and browser they use, and how long they stay. It does not receive your Discord account details, and we do not use it to identify you.

Google Analytics sets its own cookies (named _ga and _ga_*) to tell visits apart, and the data is processed by Google under its own privacy policy. You can opt out of Google Analytics on every site by installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on, or by blocking third-party cookies in your browser.

5.2 uCord's own analytics

Alongside Google Analytics, uCord keeps its own record of how the site is used, on our own servers. It is how we count visitors, see which pages and listings people read, and tell server owners how many people clicked through to join their server. When you load a page we record:

  • the page address, the time, and the address of the page that linked you here (the referrer), including any campaign tags in the link (utm_source, utm_medium, utm_campaign, referral)
  • your country, as reported by our network provider Cloudflare, and whether you are on a desktop, mobile or tablet, worked out from your browser's user agent (which we also keep)
  • a random visitor ID and session ID from the two cookies described in section 6
  • your IP address, which we store to prevent abuse and to ban addresses that attack or spam the site, together with a one-way keyed hash of it that we use to count distinct visitors. Only uCord administrators can see stored IP addresses, and they are deleted with the rest of these records after the retention period below.
  • if you are logged in, your Discord user ID and username

When you click through to join a server we also record which listing, where on the site the click came from, and the same referrer, country, device and visitor ID. We record when an ad or featured listing is shown or clicked as daily totals, not per visitor. Automated traffic such as search-engine crawlers is not recorded as visits and never receives these cookies.

Each day the previous day's records are summarised into totals (for example: page views per page, visitors per country, clicks per server). The totals contain no visitor IDs, IP addresses, IP hashes or account details and are kept indefinitely. The individual records, including IP addresses, are deleted after 183 days. Server owners only ever see totals for their own listing, never individual visitors.

6. Cookies

We use cookies to:

  • Maintain your login session
  • Remember your preferences
  • Improve website functionality
  • Measure how the site is used, through Google Analytics (see 5.1) and our own analytics (see 5.2)

The cookies uCord itself sets are:

NamePurposeLasts
discord.oauth2Keeps you logged in7 days
ucord_vidAnalytics: a random visitor ID, so we can count visitors and tell first visits from return visits. Set only on pages you open, never on images, badges or files embedded elsewhere. Not readable by scripts on the page.1 year from your last visit
ucord_sidAnalytics: a random session ID that groups the pages you view in one sitting30 minutes after your last page view
ucord_acqRemembers which site or link first brought you here, so it can be attributed if you sign up30 days
theme, show_nsfwYour display preferences1 year

Google Analytics sets its own cookies, listed in 5.1.

You can disable cookies in your browser settings, but this may limit your ability to use certain features of our service.

7. Your Rights and Data Control

You have the following rights regarding your data:

  • Access: You can view your data through your dashboard
  • Update: You can update your server information at any time through the edit page
  • Delete: You can delete your server data using the /delete command in Discord or by removing the bot from your server
  • Logout: You can logout at any time to end your session

8. Data Retention

We retain your information for as long as your account is active or as needed to provide you services. When you delete your server link or remove our bot from your server, we will delete your associated server data.

Session data is automatically deleted after 24 hours of inactivity.

Analytics records (page visits, join clicks, and the steps owners take when listing a server), including the IP addresses stored with them for abuse prevention and bans, are deleted after 183 days, after first being summarised into anonymous daily totals as described in 5.2.

9. Children's Privacy

Our service is intended for users who meet Discord's minimum age requirements. We do not knowingly collect information from children under 13 years of age. If you believe we have collected information from a child under 13, please contact us immediately.

10. Discord Terms of Service

By using uCord, you also agree to comply with Discord's Terms of Service and Community Guidelines. Your use of our service must comply with all applicable Discord policies.

11. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. The updated version will be indicated by an updated "Last Updated" date at the top of this page. We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically to stay informed about how we are protecting your information.

12. Contact Us

If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy or our data practices, please join our support server:

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