Terms of Service

These terms cover the Kovu Discord bot, any custom bot Kovu runs on your behalf, the website and dashboard at kovu.gg, the Kovu API and MCP server, and the status page at status.kovu.gg (together, “Kovu”). Kovu is run by the Kovu team (“we”). By adding Kovu to a server, using its commands, signing in to the dashboard or connecting an app to the API, you agree to them. If you use Kovu for a community, you confirm you’re allowed to configure it for that server.

You must meet Discord’s minimum age for your country and follow the Discord Terms of Service and Community Guidelines. Kovu is not made by, endorsed by or affiliated with Discord Inc.

Kovu is free right now. We plan to keep a generous free tier and offer two paid tiers later. Their prices, contents and launch date aren’t set yet.

• Before paid tiers start, we’ll publish their prices and billing terms and give reasonable advance notice on kovu.gg and in the updates channel you pick in Bot Settings.
• You’ll only be charged if you choose a paid tier and agree to its price and billing terms at that time. Nothing moves to a paid plan on its own.
• Paid tiers may include features and higher limits that are free for every server today.
• We won’t retroactively charge for any use of Kovu before paid tiers start.

To keep the service healthy for everyone, Kovu applies anti-abuse limits (for example, the number of custom commands per server). Today those limits apply equally to every server.

You agree not to use Kovu to:

• harass, threaten, dox or spam people, or run raids against other servers;
• send content that is illegal, sexualizes minors, or promotes violence or self-harm;
• collect other users’ data beyond what Discord allows, or evade bans or moderation;
• attack, overload, reverse engineer or probe Kovu or its infrastructure;
• get around the API’s rate limits, Discord permissions or the dashboard’s safety checks, for example by sharing an API key or automating sign-ins;
• impersonate Kovu, Discord or any other person or organization with a custom bot.

We may limit, suspend or remove Kovu from servers, or block accounts, API keys and connected apps, that break these rules or put other users at risk.

We may also remove or disable specific content that breaks these terms or the law, such as a ticket or modmail transcript, an uploaded image, a custom command, an autoresponder, a tag or a server template’s share link, and stop the same image or link from being used with Kovu again.

For safety or maintenance, we may temporarily turn off part of Kovu, such as a module, a command or the API. Kovu says when something is temporarily unavailable, and we post outages and planned maintenance on status.kovu.gg.

These decisions are made by members of the Kovu team with defined roles, and each one is logged with who made it, when and why. You can appeal a block or a removal. Anyone can report abuse of Kovu to support@kovu.gg.

If we block your account or server, or remove something from it, you can appeal. Email appeals@kovu.gg with the server or account ID and, if you received a notice from us, the reason it gave.

• A person on the Kovu team reads every appeal. We aim to answer within 7 days.
• If an appeal shows we got it wrong, we reverse the decision as far as we can: a block is lifted, and a disabled item can be turned back on. Content we deleted can’t be restored.
• We may ignore repeated or abusive messages to the appeals address.

You keep ownership of what you put into Kovu: custom commands, messages, embeds, images, settings and server templates. You give us permission to store and process that content only to run Kovu for you and your servers, including keeping your templates and showing a template you share to the people who open its link. You’re responsible for what your server’s custom commands, messages and bots say.

A server template is yours, not a server’s: the roles, channels, settings and Kovu setup you save from a server or build on the dashboard. You can apply it to servers you manage and share it by link.

• What you share. When you turn on a template’s share link, you let anyone who opens the link while it’s on see the whole template, copy it into their own templates, apply their copy to servers they manage, change it and share it the same way. Turning the link off stops new copies, but copies already made stay with the people who made them.
• Only share what you have the right to share. Don’t put other people’s personal information in a template you share, or anything that breaks Acceptable use. Kovu takes Discord IDs, invite links and similar data out of templates, but it can’t check the text you write in them.
• What you apply. When you apply a template, including one someone else made, you’re responsible for what it sets up in your server, as if you made those changes on the dashboard yourself. Check the preview before you apply. The Kovu team doesn’t review shared templates, and we aren’t responsible for what someone else’s template contains.
• We may disable a template’s share link that breaks these terms or the law. Its owner sees why on the dashboard and can’t turn sharing on again, for it or a copy of it they make, until we allow it; they can appeal. Copies other people already made aren’t changed. If someone keeps sharing content we disabled, we may block their account.

Server staff decide what Kovu publishes on kovu.gg for their server, such as a public leaderboard, a server page, a badge page, ban appeal forms and web forms. Staff are responsible for what those pages say. Members can hide themselves from public leaderboards in Privacy and data.

If you give Kovu a bot token for your own Discord application, you confirm you own that application. We store the token encrypted, use it only to run Kovu’s features for your servers, and never show it again. You can remove it at any time from the dashboard; reset the token in the Discord developer portal if you think it was exposed.

Song Requests lets viewers add songs to a streamer’s own Spotify queue from Twitch or Kick chat, or with /sr in Discord. It needs a free Spotify developer app that the streamer creates in their own Spotify developer account (Kovu asks only for its Client ID, never its secret), a Spotify Premium account, and the streamer’s Twitch or Kick channel. Kovu doesn’t play or stream any audio. When you link these:

• You confirm the accounts and the Spotify app are yours, or that you may link them for the server.
• The Spotify app is yours, and you use it under the Spotify Developer Terms. The terms of Spotify, Twitch and Kick also apply to how you use song requests on their services, and you’re responsible for following them.
• You’re responsible for what you play and broadcast on your stream, including music viewers request. Broadcasting copyrighted music may need permission that Kovu doesn’t give you.
• We store the Spotify and Kick tokens encrypted, use them only to run song requests for that server, and never show them again. You can unlink at any time on the dashboard.
• Like any part of Kovu (see Acceptable use), we may turn song requests off, for every server or only in Twitch or Kick chat.
• Kovu is not made by, endorsed by or affiliated with Spotify, Twitch or Kick, and song requests can stop working when they change their services.

You can connect your own AI app to Kovu’s MCP server (kovu.gg/mcp) or use a personal API key with the REST API (kovu.gg/api/v1) to set up servers you manage. When you do:

• The app or script acts for you. It can only do what your Discord permissions and your dashboard access allow, and each server can switch API access off in Bot Settings.
• Changes are previewed first and made only when they’re applied. You’re responsible for changes made with your key or connected app, as if you made them on the dashboard.
• Your AI app is a service you choose. Its provider’s terms and privacy policy cover what you share with it, and we aren’t responsible for what it suggests.
• Keep API keys secret. You can revoke keys and disconnect apps at any time on the dashboard’s Developer & AI page.

We work hard to keep Kovu running, but it is provided “as is” without warranties of any kind. Kovu is still young, so expect changes. Features may change or be removed, and Discord outages or API changes can affect Kovu. We’ll post notable changes to the updates channel you pick in Bot Settings.

Parts of Kovu are sometimes offline for maintenance. We post planned maintenance and incidents on status.kovu.gg, ahead of time when we can.

To the extent the law allows, Kovu and its maintainers are not liable for indirect, incidental or consequential damages, or for loss of data, members or messages, arising from your use of Kovu. Moderation tools act on your configuration, so review automod rules and punishments before you enable them.

You can stop using Kovu at any time by removing it from your server and signing out. See the Privacy Policy for what happens to your data.

Kovu and kovu.gg are available in 9 languages. These terms are written in English, and the English text is the version that applies.

We may update these terms; the date above shows the latest version, and continuing to use Kovu means you accept the update. Questions? Email support@kovu.gg.