Obelisk Terms of Service

Effective date: November 1, 2026

These terms govern your use of the Obelisk Discord bot and its web dashboard ("Obelisk", "the service"), operated by the Obelisk team ("we", "us"). By adding Obelisk to a server, using its commands, interacting with it, or signing in to the dashboard, you agree to these terms and to the Obelisk Privacy Policy. If you don't agree, don't use Obelisk.

Contact: [email protected]

1. What Obelisk does

Obelisk is a moderation and server-protection bot. It can scan messages for spam images, invite links, blocked words, and malicious or adult links. It can screen and verify new members, run honeypot (trap) channels, back up and restore server structure, handle lockdowns, and take moderation actions automatically, all as configured by each server's administrators.

2. Eligibility

You must be at least 13 years old, or the minimum age required to use Discord in your country if that is higher, and you must be allowed to use Discord. You must follow Discord's Terms of Service and Community Guidelines. If you use Obelisk on behalf of a community or organization, you confirm that you have authority to do so.

3. Server administrators' responsibilities

If you add Obelisk to a server or configure it, you:

• are responsible for how Obelisk is configured in your server, including which actions it takes automatically and against whom;
• should tell your members that the server uses automated moderation (for example, in your rules channel). Honeypot channels are only shown with a warning not to post in them, and you should keep that warning in place;
• will not upload reference images or other content that you have no right to use, or that is illegal (including any sexual content involving minors);
• will review appeals and reverse mistaken actions in good faith;
• will grant Obelisk only the permissions it needs, and understand that features like backup restore and lockdown can change many channels and roles at once.

4. Acceptable use

You may not use Obelisk to:

• break the law, or violate Discord's Terms of Service, Community Guidelines, or Developer Policy;
• harass, target, or discriminate against people, or "raid" or punish members of other communities;
• try to get around Discord's safety or privacy features, or use Obelisk to collect data about users beyond moderating your own server;
• attack, overload, reverse-engineer, scrape, or probe the bot, the dashboard, or its servers; get around rate limits or premium restrictions; or access servers or data you're not authorized to manage;
• impersonate Obelisk, Discord, or anyone else;
• resell or sublicense the service.

5. Automated moderation, mistakes, and appeals

Obelisk makes automated decisions using pattern matching, image similarity, link reputation lists, and server-defined rules. Automated systems make mistakes. Legitimate messages or users can be flagged (false positives), and harmful content can be missed (false negatives). In particular:

• image matching is based on similarity scores and can match unrelated images that look alike;
• link checks rely on third-party lists (such as Google Web Risk and the OISD list) that can be wrong or out of date;
• honeypot channels treat any post in them as spam, including posts by real people who ignored the warning;
• join screening can stop legitimate new or default-avatar accounts.

Each server decides what Obelisk does in that server. The server's staff, not the Obelisk team, are responsible for moderation outcomes in their community. If you think you were actioned by mistake, use the appeal link Obelisk sends you, or the dashboard's appeals page, if the server has appeals turned on. Otherwise, contact that server's staff. Appeals are reviewed by the server's staff, not by us. We cannot reverse actions in servers we don't run.

Obelisk is a tool to help protect a server. It does not guarantee protection against spam, raids, compromised accounts, or "nukes", and it does not replace human moderation.

6. Premium features and payments

Some features may be limited to paid tiers (premium or VIP). We may also grant tiers manually, offer each server a one-time free 7-day trial, or keep features free for everyone. Features in each tier may change.

• Payments are handled by Discord through its Premium Apps / app subscriptions system. Prices, billing, renewals, cancellations, taxes, and refunds are governed by Discord's terms and policies, including the Discord Paid Services Terms. Request refunds through Discord support. We do not process payments or see your payment details.
• Subscriptions renew until you cancel them in Discord. A tier ends when its subscription, trial, or grant expires. Settings that need premium then stop working, but the rest of the server's data is kept.
• If we offer paid features outside Discord, they will not cost more on Discord than elsewhere.
• Trials are one per server. Abusing trials (for example, by repeatedly re-creating servers) may lead to loss of access.

7. Your content and our rights

You keep ownership of anything you provide (such as reference images, settings, and appeal text). You give us permission to store and process it only to operate Obelisk for you, as described in the Privacy Policy. Obelisk, its code, name, and branding belong to the Obelisk team. These terms don't give you any rights to them beyond using the service.

8. Availability and changes to the service

Obelisk is provided as is and may be unavailable, slow, or changed at any time. Features may be added, changed, or removed. We may limit usage to protect the service or comply with Discord's API limits.

9. Termination

• You can stop using Obelisk at any time by removing it from your server and logging out of the dashboard. Data is then deleted as described in the Privacy Policy (after a 7-day hold, or immediately if a server admin requests it).
• We may suspend or end access for any user or server, for example for breaking these terms, abusing the service, or if Discord requires it, or if we stop running Obelisk. We may do so with or without notice. Where reasonable, we'll explain why.
• Sections 5, 7, 10, 11, and 13 continue to apply after termination.

10. Disclaimer of warranties

To the extent allowed by law, Obelisk is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, express or implied. This includes warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, and non-infringement. We don't promise that Obelisk will be error-free, uninterrupted, secure, or that it will catch or correctly judge any particular content or user.

11. Limitation of liability

To the extent allowed by law, the Obelisk team is not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages. We are also not liable for lost data, lost members, lost revenue, or damage to a community. This includes damage resulting from automated moderation actions, false positives or false negatives, backups or restores, lockdowns, outages, or third-party services (including Discord). Our total liability for any claim relating to Obelisk is limited to the greater of (a) what you paid for Obelisk in the 12 months before the claim, or (b) US $50. Some places don't allow these limits, so they apply only as far as the law permits.

12. Indemnity

If you use Obelisk in a way that breaks these terms or the law, or that harms someone else (including through how you configure it in your server), you agree to cover the Obelisk team's reasonable costs from resulting claims, to the extent allowed by law.

13. Governing law and disputes

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Michigan, USA, without regard to its conflict-of-law rules. Disputes will be handled by the state or federal courts located in Michigan, unless the law where you live requires otherwise. Before filing a claim, please contact us first so we can try to resolve it informally.

14. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms. When we do, we'll change the effective date above. For significant changes, we'll give notice through the dashboard or the bot's support channels. If you keep using Obelisk after changes take effect, you accept the updated terms.

15. Other

These terms, together with the Privacy Policy, are the whole agreement between you and us about Obelisk. If any part is unenforceable, the rest still applies. If we don't enforce a term right away, we can still enforce it later. Obelisk is not affiliated with or endorsed by Discord Inc.

16. Contact and reporting

To report a bug, misuse of Obelisk, or a violation of these terms or Discord's rules, or to ask a question, contact us. We review reports and take appropriate action.

Contact: [email protected]

The Obelisk team