Documentation
Permissions & privacy
Fated Updates is built on least privilege: the bot asks for exactly the permissions it needs to post alerts, the dashboard sees only which servers you manage, and nothing can ever read your community's messages.
Bot permissions
The Add bot invite requests these permissions and nothing more (no Administrator):
| Permission | Why the bot needs it |
|---|---|
| View Channels | See the channels it can post into. |
| Send Messages | Post the go-live alert. |
| Embed Links | Let the Watch/VOD link buttons render. |
| Attach Files | Upload the rendered live-card image. |
| Mention Everyone | Fire the @everyone/@here/role pings you configure. If you never use those mentions, you can revoke this permission and everything else keeps working. |
You can restrict the bot further with Discord's per-channel permission overrides. It only needs access to the channels you point monitors at.
Dashboard access
- Sign-in uses Discord OAuth with only the
identifyandguildsscopes: your user ID, name, and avatar, plus the list of servers you belong to. We never see your email, DMs, or messages. - Only servers where you are the owner or hold the Administrator permission appear in the dashboard, and every change is re-checked with Discord on our end, not just hidden in the UI.
- Your session refreshes itself automatically. If it ever can't, you're asked to sign in again instead of silently losing access.
What we store
| Data | Details |
|---|---|
| Your Discord identity | User ID, username, and avatar, used to attribute the monitors you create. |
| Monitor configuration | The streamers, channels, mentions, messages, and options you set up. Deleted the moment you delete the monitor. |
| Alert history | A record of alerts the bot posted (used for stream-end cleanup and de-duplication). |
Full details are in the Privacy Policy and Terms of Service. The short version: we store your configuration, we don't sell data, and removing the bot and deleting your monitors removes your footprint.