Clippy terms of service

Effective date: November 8, 2026

These terms apply to everyone who uses Clippy, the Discord bot run by the Clippy team ("we"), and its dashboard. By adding Clippy to a server, signing in to the dashboard or using Clippy, you agree to them. Our privacy policy says what Clippy does with data. Contact us at privacy@heyclippy.app.

What Clippy does

Clippy joins a voice channel when someone in it asks with /join, or when someone with Discord's Move Members permission moves it there. It leaves with /leave or on its own after 60 seconds with nobody but bots in the channel.
While it is in a channel, it keeps up to 120 seconds of everyone's audio in memory. It stores no audio.
When someone in the channel asks with /clip, it posts a clip of up to the last 120 seconds in the server's clips channel, naming everyone heard. Anyone who can see that channel can play and download the clip.
The requester and anyone named as heard can delete it with its Delete button, as long as Clippy is running and still in the server.
Clippy posts one notice when it joins a server, saying what it does and linking these terms and the privacy policy. It posts none if it can't post in any of the server's text channels, or if it was offline when it was added.
People who manage a server sign in to the dashboard with Discord to install Clippy, pick its clips channel and remove it.

Clippy is free.

Who can use Clippy

You must be at least 13, or the minimum age to use Discord in your country if that is higher, and allowed to use Discord. You must follow Discord's Terms of Service and Community Guidelines whenever you use Clippy.

Your responsibilities

Consent. Recording people can need their consent, and some places require everyone's. Discord's terms say you may not use someone's content "without that person's consent, or as allowed by law". You are responsible for making sure everyone in a voice channel knows Clippy is there and what it does, and for having any consent the law where you and they are requires.
Server managers who add Clippy are responsible for telling their members about it, even if no join notice was posted, and for choosing a clips channel that suits clips of their voice channels.
Use clips fairly. Don't use Clippy or its clips to harass, threaten, impersonate or expose anyone, or for anything illegal or against Discord's rules.
Don't try to break, overload or get around Clippy, or to reach data that isn't yours.

To report a problem with Clippy, or someone misusing it, contact privacy@heyclippy.app. We review reports and act on them.

Clips

You and the people heard keep whatever rights you have in what you say. You let us process the voice audio in Clippy's channel as the privacy policy describes, so that Clippy can make and post the clips people ask for. Once a clip is posted, it is a Discord message, and Discord's terms apply to it.

Availability

We run Clippy as it is, without promises that it will always be available, work without errors or keep working in the same way. A restart takes Clippy out of its voice channels and empties what it has heard, so a clip can't reach back past it, and someone has to bring Clippy back with /join. We can change Clippy, stop serving a server, or stop running Clippy at any time.

Removing Clippy

Anyone who manages a server can remove Clippy from the dashboard at any time, and anyone allowed to kick it can remove it in Discord. Removing it deletes the server's settings. Clips already posted stay in the clips channel until someone deletes them, and once Clippy is gone that takes someone with Discord's Manage Messages permission. Removing Clippy doesn't delete anyone's dashboard account. The privacy policy says when that happens.

Liability

Clippy is free and provided "as is" and "as available". As far as the law allows, we give no warranties, including that Clippy will capture or post any clip, and we aren't liable for indirect or consequential loss or for what people say, clip, post or do with clips. As far as the law allows, our total liability to you for anything connected with Clippy is limited to 50 euros. Nothing in these terms limits liability that the law doesn't allow us to limit, such as for death or personal injury caused by negligence or for fraud, or takes away rights you have as a consumer.

Changes to these terms

We'll update this page when the terms change, and change the effective date at the top. Using Clippy after a change means you accept the new terms.