Do not use an existing role! This bot will take full and exclusive control over it. Users that have the role but are not having a birthday + *will* be removed from it!
+ +Optional, but recommended: +* Customize the announcement message: See `/config announce help` for more information. * Set the birthday announcement channel: `/config announce set-channel` * Set a default time zone: `/config set-timezone` -* Customize the announcement message: See `/config announce help` for more information. -#### Time zone support -You may specify a time zone in order to have your birthday recognized with respect to your local time. This bot only accepts zone names -from the IANA Time Zone Database (a.k.a. Olson Database). -* To find your zone: https://xske.github.io/tz/ -* Interactive map: https://kevinnovak.github.io/Time-Zone-Picker/ -* Complete list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones +### Supporting the bot +Birthday Bot is provided for free, period. No paywalled features, subscriptions, or monetization insentices. This is an independent hobby project done in my spare time, and all costs associated with it come out of my pocket. My only interest is to provide something that I hope others find as useful as I do. -#### Support the bot -Birthday Bot is and shall remain fully free to use. I have no plans to hide any new or existing features behind pay-only, premium features. -This is an independent hobby project and all costs associated with it come out of my pocket. +That said, this bot has proven to be far more popular than I ever anticipated, and keeping things running has occasionally strained me both financially and time-wise. If you'd like, please consider pitching in a bit to cover my recurring costs by checking out my Ko-fi page on the sidebar. -This bot has had a far greater response than I've ever expected, and at this point I find it difficult to pay for the server it runs on as -its resource needs grow. I would greatly appreciate if you consider pitching in a little bit to cover my recurring costs by checking out my -Ko-fi page: https://ko-fi.com/noithecat. +### Privacy and Security +This bot collects and stores only information necessary for its operation, then associated to user, server, and role IDs. As little information is stored as possible and access to the database is strongly restricted through proper security practices. -#### Support, Privacy and Security -The support server for my bots can be accessed via the given link: https://discord.gg/JCRyFk7. Further information in setting up the bot -can be found within it, as well as a small group of volunteers who are willing to answer questions. +Birthday information is not shared between servers *by design*, for those preferring to be selective about where they want their information known. Users must set their birthday settings in each individual server. -This bot collects and stores only information necessary for its operation, including user, server, and role IDs. This data is not stored -indefinitely, but is removed after an extended period of lack of use. If an individual member of a server is not seen after 360 days, their -data is purged. If the bot has been removed from a server, all data (including of its associated users) is purged after 180 days. +Any questions and concerns regarding data privacy, security, and retention may be sent to the bot author via the support server or by opening an issue on GitHub. -Birthdays are not shared between servers that this same bot may be in. This is *by design*, for those preferring to share their birthdays -with only certain communities instead of automatically sharing it to all of them. Users must enter their birthday information onto every -server they share with the bot for the servers they wish for it to be known in. - -Any questions and concerns regarding data and security may be sent to the bot author via the support server or GitHub. - -#### Image credit +### Image credit Cake icons created by Freepik - Flaticon \ No newline at end of file