Content in Discord’s services
Your content
When we say ‘your content’ in these terms, we mean all the things you add (upload, post, share, stream, etc.) to our services. This includes text, links, GIFs, emojis, photos, videos, documents or other media. If we come up with another way for you to add content to the services, it includes that too.
You don’t have any obligation to add content to the services. If you choose to add content to the services, you are responsible for ensuring that you have the right to do so, that you have the right to grant the licences in this section of these terms and that your content is lawful. We take no responsibility for any of your content and we are not responsible for others’ use of your content.
Our services allow users to add content in a number of different ways, including via direct messages, group direct messages and in small and large servers. Some of these servers may be larger spaces and, if you share content within them, that content may be more likely to be accessed by a lot of people. For example, some servers are available in the Server Discovery section of the app and do not require an invite link to join. Other server owners may publish their server invite link on public websites. Anyone can access these spaces. You should be aware that these permissions are set by server owners or admins and they may change over time. Please understand where you are posting on Discord, familiarise yourself with the relevant server permissions when joining and posting in a certain space and choose the right space, features and settings for you and your content.
Your content is yours, but you give us a licence (which is a form of permission) to it when you use Discord. Your content may be protected by certain intellectual property rights. We don’t own those. But by using our services, you grant us a licence to use, reproduce, distribute, create derivative works of, display and perform your content. The rights you grant in this licence are for the limited purpose of providing, developing and improving our services as permitted by applicable laws. This licence is worldwide, non-exclusive (which means you can still license your content to others), royalty-free (which means there are no fees for this licence), sublicensable and transferable. Learn more about how we use your content in our Privacy Policy.
We reserve the right to block, remove and/or permanently delete your content if we determine it is in breach of these terms, our Community Guidelines, our other policies or any applicable law or regulation, or if it creates risk for Discord or negatively impacts the experience or interests of other Discord users to continue to make it available. You agree that we may disclose your content to third parties outside of the services when we believe we’re required to do so by law or regulation or that doing so is necessary to prevent harm to a person or to protect Discord’s rights and property.
We welcome feedback on our services. By sending us feedback, you grant us a non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, transferable licence to use the feedback and ideas generated from the feedback without any restrictions, attribution or compensation to you.
