What we keep, and what we don’t.
No dark patterns, no data sales, no reading your chats. This page says plainly what Akiko stores, how long it lasts, and how to make it go away.
Akiko stores what your features need and the security data required to keep banned users from walking back in. It does not store the general contents of your channels, it does not sell anything to anyone, and moderators are never shown your IP address. Run ;;data to see everything held against your account, export it, or delete it.
What we collect
Identifiers
User, server, and channel IDs. These tie your settings to you and nothing more.
What you give a feature
Reminder text, AFK reasons, birthdays, tags, custom commands, and the parameters a command needs to run.
Feature data
Economy balances, levels, and profile data for servers that use those features.
Moderation records
Warnings, infractions, and bans recorded by your server’s staff.
Conversational AI
Where AI features are enabled, messages that trigger a response are stored so the conversation has context — your message, Akiko’s reply, and a mathematical representation used to recall relevant history. This applies only where AI is switched on, and only to messages that actually trigger the assistant. Akiko does not record channels it is merely sitting in. You can clear this history or turn the feature off at any time.
Usage statistics are aggregate counters only — how often a command has run and when it last ran. There is no per-use record of who ran what, where, or with which parameters.
Ban evasion & alt detection
To stop banned users returning under a new account, we record your IP address when you complete web verification or sign in to the dashboard, whether that address belongs to a VPN, proxy, hosting provider, or Tor exit node, and basic browser characteristics during verification (user agent, language, timezone, screen size, reported processor count).
This detects when several accounts share a network, which works across servers because an address is not tied to any one of them.
- Moderators see derived results only — how many accounts appear linked, and when. Never your address.
- Not used for advertising, profiling, or location tracking.
- We do not try to work out where you physically are.
- The reputation provider gets the address alone, with no Discord identity attached.
How long it lasts
| Data | Kept for |
|---|---|
| Reminders, birthdays, AFK, economy, levels, tags | Until you delete them |
| AI conversation history | Until you clear it or delete your data |
| Music queues | The session, plus 5 minutes to reconnect |
| Voice state | Memory only — never written to disk |
| IP addresses, shared-network records, verification attempts | 90 days after last use, then deleted automatically |
| Moderation records | As long as Akiko is in the server |
Who else sees it
| Service | What it receives | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Discord | Whatever running a bot requires | Core service |
| IP reputation provider | An IP address alone, with no Discord identity attached | VPN, proxy, and Tor classification |
| RunPod | Conversation text, where AI is enabled | Runs the language model |
| Sightengine | Images posted where image scanning is on | Detects scam and rule-breaking images |
| Google Translate | The text of direct messages sent to Akiko | Translates non-English support messages |
| Stripe | Billing details you enter | Payment processing |
| sinking.yachts / URLhaus | URLs found in messages, where link filtering is on | Phishing and malware detection |
| TensorArt | Prompts you supply to image generation | Generates the image |
What we never store
Getting it back
;;data- View, export, or delete everything held against your account.
;;opt in/;;opt out- Turn non-essential collection on or off.
Everything tied to your account: reminders, birthdays, AFK status, AI history and memory, economy and levels, profile data, tags, premium records, your stored email, dashboard login addresses, and verification records. We do not keep a shadow copy.
Two things survive, and we would rather be direct about why:
- Ban evasion links. Where your account is linked to another through a shared network, that link keeps its normal 90-day life instead of being erased on request. If deletion wiped it, anyone evading a ban could clear the evidence by asking for their data back.
- Server moderation records. Warnings, infractions, and bans belong to the server that issued them, not to us, and stay visible to that server’s staff.
Both are kept under legitimate interest for security and abuse prevention, used for nothing else, and shared with no one. Moderators still never see your IP address.
How it’s protected
No public access
The server is unreachable from the open internet. Admin access runs over a private Tailscale network with key-based auth.
Isolated database
Postgres is not exposed to any network. It is reachable only from the host itself.
Encrypted in transit
Traffic between Akiko, Discord, and the dashboard is protected with TLS.
Automatic purging
Expired IP and verification records are deleted on a daily schedule, not on request.
Questions, or want your data?
Use ;;data for anything self-serve. For everything else, open a ticket in the support server or email us. Significant changes to this policy are announced in the support server and via bot alerts.
Effective 5 August 2026. Previous versions were hosted as a GitHub gist. More about Akiko.