The Architect Terms

These Terms apply when you use The Architect, the Discord app and bot, or its portal at https://architect.synchsupport.org. They add to our main Terms & Conditions, which apply to everything Synch runs. If the two ever conflict, these Terms apply to The Architect. How we handle data is in the The Architect Privacy Policy.

By using The Architect, or adding it to a Discord server, you agree to these Terms.

1. What The Architect is

The Architect sets up and looks after Discord servers. It can:

• build or remodel a server from templates;
• work out channel permissions from role tiers and channel types, and fix them when they drift;
• take backups of a server's structure, and restore or undo changes;
• verify new members;
• keep track of the other bots in a server;
• set up Discord AutoMod and Community mode.

The Architect is provided by Synch ("we", "us"), an unregistered online community. It is automated and has no staff team. Help comes from its documentation and its Discord server.

Synch is independent. The Architect is not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by or approved by Discord Inc. Discord is a trademark of Discord Inc.; we use the name only to describe that The Architect works with Discord.

2. Adding The Architect to your server

You may add The Architect to a server only if you're allowed to manage it. When you do, you confirm that the server's owner agrees to the bot being there and to these Terms.

• The bot asks for the permissions it needs to build roles, channels and permissions. It never asks for Administrator. If you remove permissions, some features stop working.
• You decide every change. Each change is shown to you first, and nothing happens until someone with Manage Server presses Apply. The only exception is automatic permission fixing, which runs only if you switch it on (Premium).
• Moving roles into or out of the Owner and Admin tiers needs the server owner.
• Verification scores and bot-manager risk ratings are suggestions to help your moderators. The bot never bans or kicks anyone because of a score. Decisions made by your moderators are yours.

3. Your responsibilities

• Check the preview before you apply a change. Backups and undo are there to help, but you are responsible for what you apply to your server.
• Don't use The Architect to break Discord's Terms of Service or Community Guidelines, to harass anyone, or to set up servers for illegal or harmful purposes.
• Don't try to break, overload or get around the bot or the portal. Don't use the portal for a server you don't help run.

4. The marketplace

You can publish your templates for others to use, and use templates other people have published.

• What you publish must be yours to share. It must not contain links, invites, hateful, sexual or illegal content, or pretend to be official or to come from Discord or Synch.
• Automatic checks. Every listing is checked automatically before it goes live. There is no staff team reviewing listings.
• Reports. Anyone signed in can report a listing. If three different people report it, it is hidden until Synch looks at it. Synch can restore it or remove it for good.
• Permission to use. By publishing, you let anyone use, copy and change your template for their own servers, free of charge. You can take your listing down at any time, but servers and people who already used or copied it keep what they have.
• Your name. Your Discord name is shown on your listings unless you choose to publish anonymously.
• Ratings. You can rate a template only after applying it to a server. Don't post fake ratings or reports.
• No guarantee. Templates are made by other people. Check the preview before you apply one.

5. Backups

Backups contain your server's structure only: roles, permissions, channels and the server logo. They never contain messages or member information. We keep a limited number of backups per server (see the portal). We do our best to keep them safe, but they are not a guarantee: keep your own records of anything that matters to you.

6. Premium [DECIDE]

Some features need Premium, a paid subscription. Examples are automatic permission fixing, scheduled backups, more saved templates and more servers.

• Prices, what's included and the billing period are shown in the portal before you pay. Payments are handled by Stripe. We never see your card details.
• You can cancel at any time in the portal. Premium then stays active until the end of the period you've paid for.
• [DECIDE] Refunds and the 14-day cancellation right for consumers in the UK and EU.
• [DECIDE] Who the seller is. Synch is unregistered, so confirm which person or organisation takes payments and is named on receipts, and how VAT/sales tax is handled, before Premium is switched on.

7. Suspension and removal

We can restrict or end a server's or person's use of The Architect if these Terms or our main Terms are broken, or where we need to protect people. You can stop using The Architect at any time by removing it from your server. Your server's data is then deleted after 30 days (see the Privacy Policy).

8. No warranty, limited liability

The Architect is provided "as is". Features and availability may change or be interrupted. Sections 10 and 11 of our main Terms & Conditions (warranty and liability) apply to The Architect in full. We aren't responsible for changes you apply to your server, for decisions your moderators make, or for what other bots in your server do.

9. Changes and contact

We may update these Terms. When we do, we'll change the version and date at the top, and announce important changes in the The Architect Discord server. Section 14 of our main Terms (problems and disputes) applies to The Architect too.

Synch · The Architect Discord server: https://discord.gg/DGB2jan7UD