Privacy Policy

• ‣We store your Minecraft UUID and username, the IP addresses you connect from, and your progress on the server.
• ‣Staff can read chat, private messages (/msg) and the commands you run, and an automatic filter run by Anthropic checks chat for abuse.
• ‣Public chat, join messages, bans and store purchases are shown in game and in a public Discord channel.
• ‣If you link Discord, we store your Discord ID with your Minecraft account.
• ‣Payments go through PayNow. We never see your card or bank details.
• ‣This website has no analytics, ads or cookies.
• ‣We don’t sell your data.

To see or delete your data, open a ticket on Discord.

We don’t log the blocks you place or break, and we don’t collect your client brand, mod list or real name.

If you link your Minecraft account with /link, we store your Discord user ID, when you linked, your Discord account’s creation date (read from the ID), and when you joined our Discord server. We keep a history of links and unlinks, so one Discord account can’t collect the link reward twice and staff can spot account sharing. You can /unlink 30 days after linking.

Our bot reads messages in the servers it is in, so it can relay chat, run commands, handle tickets and filter invite spam. It can see message content and the member list, but not your online status or activity.

In our Discord server:

• ‣Messages in the Minecraft chat channel are shown in game under your Discord name.
• ‣Tickets store your Discord name and ID, the Minecraft username you give and what you write. Closed tickets are archived, not deleted, and a summary is sent to you and to staff. Carl-bot, a third-party moderation bot, is added to ticket threads.
• ‣Messages with an invite link from members who joined less than 3 days ago are removed and shown to staff.
• ‣If you leave the server while you’re a guard, we note when, because it affects your guard rank.

Every bot command and slash command is logged with your Discord name and ID, the channel and the server.

When a gang connects its own Discord server, we store that server’s ID and the IDs of the gang chat, vault log and event channels.

From then on, the gang’s chat, vault logs and gang events are posted in that server, where its owners and anyone who can see the channel can read them. Messages written in the gang chat channel are shown in game to the gang with the author’s Discord name. That Discord server is run by players, not by us, so its owners decide who can see it.

Commands run in a gang server are logged like any other bot command.

Applying with /apply needs a linked Discord account and 2 hours of playtime. Your answers, score and result are posted for the recruitment team with your Minecraft name, UUID and Discord account, and the result is sent to you in a Discord DM. We store when you last applied and when you were last denied.

Some applications can include written questions, such as your age, your timezone and why you want to be a guard. Your answers are only shared with staff.

Some application campaigns use a Google Form. Those answers are stored by Google and read by our staff.

The store runs on PayNow, which processes your payment as the merchant of record. PayNow collects your payment details, email address and billing information under its own Privacy Policy. We don’t receive card or bank details.

We send PayNow your Minecraft UUID and username so it can create your customer account and deliver purchases. PayNow sends back what you bought, so the server can deliver it.

We store your credits, how much you spent and gifted on the store, and your parole+ membership dates. Purchases, credit changes and refunds are logged for staff.

This website has no analytics, ads, tracking or cookies of our own, and no forms.

It is hosted on Cloudflare Pages, which handles your request and may log your IP address for security. To show the live player and Discord counts, your browser asks api.mcstatus.io and Discord directly. Fonts load from Google Fonts. Each of them sees your IP address, like any website you visit.

The store at store.parole.rocks is hosted by PayNow and also loads player heads from crafatar.com and mc-heads.net, which see the username or UUID being shown.

Some things are shown to every player, and in the public Minecraft chat channel of our Discord server:

• ‣Public chat, with your username.
• ‣Join, leave and first-join messages.
• ‣Bans and mutes, with their reason and length, unless staff hand them out silently.
• ‣Store purchases.
• ‣Leaderboards (escapes, guard XP, playtime, gangs and more), and your stats and playtime, which anyone can look up with a Discord command.
• ‣Your gang, its level and its members.

Staff work from staff-only Discord channels and in-game tools. Depending on their rank they can see:

• ‣Team chat, gang chat, private messages and the commands you run.
• ‣Reports, /helpop requests, anticheat alerts and chat filter alerts.
• ‣Your moderation history, and which accounts share an IP address with yours (alts). Staff see that accounts are linked, not your IP address. Only admins can see addresses.
• ‣Your Discord link history and account age.

Staff are players we trust and are expected to keep this to themselves.

Public chat, team chat, gang chat and private messages are checked by an AI model, Claude by Anthropic, for abuse aimed at a person, like slurs, harassment and telling someone to kill themselves. To judge a message in context, we send Anthropic the message, the sender’s username, the channel type, and up to 10 earlier messages from the same channel from the last 5 minutes, with their usernames.

A flagged message is shown to staff and can give a strike: a warning or a mute, which grows with each strike. Strikes expire after 30 days. Staff can review and remove them, and you can appeal in a ticket.

Anthropic processes this data to give us a verdict and does not use it to train its models. The recent chat we send along is only kept in the server’s memory, for 5 minutes.

We use these services to run parole. We don’t sell data to anyone, and nobody gets it for advertising.

Some of these services are outside the European Economic Area, mainly in the United States. They handle data under their own privacy policies.

We can share data with the authorities if the law requires it, or to protect players from serious harm.

Where privacy laws like the GDPR apply, we rely on:

• ‣Running the service you asked for (the Terms of Service): your account, progress, purchases and gang.
• ‣Our legitimate interest in a safe and fair server: moderation, logs, the chat filter, alt detection, anticheat and security.
• ‣Your choice: linking Discord, applying to be a guard, and connecting a gang Discord server are optional.
• ‣Legal obligations: for example, keeping payment records (handled by PayNow).

Depending on where you live, you can ask us for a copy of your data, to correct it, to delete it, to limit or object to how we use it, or to get it in a portable form.

Open a ticket on Discord and tell us your Minecraft username. We’ll check that the account is yours (usually through your linked Discord account, or by asking you to join the server) and reply within a month.

When we delete your data, we remove your profile, progress, Discord link and store data from the server. We keep what we need to enforce the rules: active bans, your moderation history and the IP addresses tied to a ban. Messages already posted in Discord or in a gang’s own Discord server stay there unless you ask us to remove them, and PayNow keeps its own payment records.

If you’re in the EEA or the UK, you can also complain to your data protection authority.

You need to be at least 13 to use parole, or older where your country requires it, the same as Discord. If you’re younger than that, don’t play or join the Discord server. If you think a child under 13 has given us data, tell us in a ticket and we’ll delete it.

We don’t ask for your age, except optionally in a guard application.

The database and admin tools are not reachable from the internet, and only server admins can reach them. Staff accounts need an approved IP address, and a login from a new IP alerts the admins. No system is perfectly secure, but if a breach puts you at risk, we’ll announce it on Discord.

We update this policy when what we store changes. The date at the top shows the last change, and big changes are announced on Discord.

Questions, or a request about your data? Open a ticket on Discord.