Nightwatch
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Last updated September 29, 2026

Privacy policy

Nightwatch is a Discord moderation bot and a web dashboard. This page says exactly which data it keeps, why, for how long, who can see it and how to exercise your rights.

Who handles your data

Nightwatch is published by Achille. Contact: [to fill in: LEGAL_CONTACT].

Each Discord server that adds the bot chooses what it turns on (message history, for instance). Its administrators decide how they use these moderation tools.

What is kept

  • Discord accounts seen by the bot: id, username, display name, avatar, and whether it's a bot.
  • Membership of a server: nickname and avatar on that server, roles, join and leave dates.
  • Message history, only if the server turns it on: message text, earlier versions of edited messages, deletion date, channel, and the name, size and type of attachments. Never the files themselves nor their links.
  • Events: joins, leaves, nickname, role, username or avatar changes, voice channel joins and leaves and voice state (muted, deafened, streaming, camera). The bot never listens to voice channels: no sound is captured.
  • Moderation: sanctions (reason, effects, durations, moderator, private note for the team only, messages attached as evidence) and their history, team notes about members, reports (reason and a copy of the reported message), appeals and answers.
  • Community modules: tickets (answers to questions, messages exchanged) and suggestions with their votes.
  • Dashboard: an encrypted session cookie (your Discord id, name and avatar, and a Discord token used only to list your servers), a language cookie, and the log of actions taken by the team in the dashboard.

Why

  • Moderating and protecting servers (legitimate interest of the communities using the bot).
  • Running the dashboard and the member space (providing the service you use).
  • Message history helps understand the context before a sanction. It is only turned on by an explicit decision of the server's administrators, for a limited time.

How long

  • Message history and events: 7 to 90 days depending on the server's setting (30 days by default), then deleted automatically. Never more than 90 days.
  • Sanctions, notes, reports, appeals, tickets and suggestions: as long as the server uses the bot, since the sanction history is what moderation relies on over time. A server administrator can ask for their deletion.
  • Dashboard session: 7 days at most.

Who can see it

  • The moderation team of the server concerned, according to their Discord permissions and the configured roles.
  • A private note is only visible to its author.
  • Each member sees their own sanctions in their member space, without private notes, and without moderators' names unless the server chooses to show them.
  • No resale, no advertising, no trackers. Data goes through Discord (the platform) and is stored at OVH SAS, 2 rue Kellermann, 59100 Roubaix, France.

Your rights

You can ask to access, correct or erase your data, object to its processing or ask to restrict it by writing to [to fill in: LEGAL_CONTACT]. For data specific to a server, you can also contact its administrators.

If you think your rights aren't respected, you can file a complaint with your data protection authority (in France, the CNIL: cnil.fr).

Security

Every dashboard action checks your rights on the server at the time it is made, the session is encrypted, and a server's data is only available to its team.