Terms of Service

Discord Terms of Service

Understand the account, content, payment, subscription, service-limit, termination, liability, and dispute rules that shape how Discord services are used.

Eligibility
Accounts
Content
Payments
Termination
Liability
Overview

Key terms at a glance

Discord terms define the basic responsibilities that apply when people use the website, apps, servers, channels, bots, subscriptions, and community features. They cover account access, content activity, payments, service restrictions, policy enforcement, and liability boundaries.

Scope

These baseline terms apply across Discord apps, websites, community tools, developer integrations, and paid digital services where relevant.

Eligibility

1. Eligibility and access requirements

Using Discord generally requires meeting the age, region, and legal requirements that apply to the service. Access should not rely on fraud, impersonation, account evasion, or restricted methods.

  • Meet the minimum age and legal requirements for your location
  • Use accurate account information and avoid impersonation
  • Follow any region, feature, or subscription-specific access requirements
Accounts

2. Account security and user responsibility

Users are responsible for protecting login credentials, verification methods, trusted devices, and account activity. Accounts may be reviewed or restricted when compromise, abuse, fraud, or unusual risk signals appear.

Use a strong password
Enable two-factor authentication
Watch for suspicious login alerts
Avoid sharing high-permission accounts
Content

3. Content rules and community conduct

People are responsible for the messages, files, images, streams, links, bots, and other content they share. Content and behavior should follow Discord rules, community standards, intellectual-property requirements, and applicable law.

Topic Description Common handling
Illegal content Material or activity that violates applicable law Removal, restriction, compliance review
Harassment and abuse Threats, targeted attacks, repeated harassment, or coordinated abuse Warning, limits, removal, suspension
Intellectual property Unauthorized copying, distribution, or misuse of protected work Notice handling, takedown, appeals flow
Payments

4. Subscriptions, payments, and digital benefits

Paid features such as Nitro, gifts, premium services, and digital benefits may involve billing terms, renewal rules, cancellation timing, refund limits, and platform-specific purchase conditions.

  • Subscriptions may renew automatically unless canceled before the next billing cycle
  • Payment failures can interrupt paid benefits or account features
  • Gift, promotional, and virtual-benefit rules may follow separate eligibility terms
Termination

5. Service limits, suspension, and termination

Access may be limited, suspended, removed, or terminated when there is abuse, legal risk, platform manipulation, payment misuse, safety concern, or repeated violation of Discord rules.

  1. Identify abuse, policy, payment, safety, or legal-risk signals
  2. Review the surrounding context, evidence, severity, and repeat behavior
  3. Apply warnings, feature limits, removals, suspensions, or account termination where appropriate
  4. Use review or appeal paths when they are available for the issue type
Liability

6. Liability, disputes, and additional terms

Terms may also address service availability, third-party services, user-generated content risk, liability limits, indemnity, dispute processes, governing law, arbitration, and future policy updates.

Legal context

Formal legal requirements, dispute-resolution steps, and jurisdiction-specific provisions should be checked in the full terms before relying on them.

Next step

Continue with Discord community rules and safety standards

After reviewing service terms, the Community Guidelines explain behavior boundaries, reporting context, moderation logic, and safety expectations for servers, channels, DMs, and live interactions.