Terms of Service

These Terms of Service ("Terms") are the rules for using Pokébot ("Pokébot", "we", "our" or "us"): the Discord bot, the website at thepokebot.com, and the Pokébot Arena, on the web or as a Discord Activity. By using any of them, adding the bot to a server, logging in or opening the Activity, you agree to these Terms.

1. Using Pokébot

You may use Pokébot only in line with these Terms, Discord's Terms of Service and Community Guidelines, and the rules of the server you use it in. You agree not to misuse it, exploit bugs, spam commands, harass other players, interfere with how it runs, or use it for anything that breaks Discord's rules or the law.

2. Your Discord account

Everything in Pokébot — cards, coins, gems, progress, your League team, your Arena record, cooldowns — is tied to your Discord user ID. You are responsible for your account and for what is done through it. Logging in to the website or the Activity uses that same account.

3. The game

Pokébot includes card collecting, pack opening, grading, trading, auctions, a market, the Wanted Board, binders, quizzes, quests, achievements, seasons, leaderboards, the Pokémon League, the region map and its towns, and the Arena. All of it is for entertainment. We may add, rebalance, limit, reset, pause or remove any feature at any time — to improve the game, fix a bug, stop abuse or keep play fair.

4. Virtual items and currency

Cards, coins, gems, stardust, items, grades, badges, Rank Points, achievements and every other reward in Pokébot are virtual. They have no real-world cash value, cannot be bought or sold for real money through Pokébot, and may not be sold, traded or transferred outside it.

We may adjust, remove, reset or correct items, balances, rewards or progress obtained through a bug, an exploit, cheating, a system error or any unauthorised method.

5. Trading and the market

Trades, offers, auctions and market sales between players are agreements between those players. Review a deal before you accept it; a deal willingly accepted is final. We may still investigate and act on scams, exploit-based trades, bug abuse or manipulation of the economy.

6. The Arena

Arena battles are played with the moves and rules the game provides, against other players, their teams or the bot's own trainers. Results, Rank Points, seasons, Tower runs, cups and tournaments are recorded and may be shown to other players, live, in replays, on profiles and on ladders. We may void, replay or correct a battle affected by a bug, a disconnection or foul play, and may reset ladders and seasons.

7. The website and the Activity

The website shows the game as it is: public trainer profiles, server pages, leaderboards, the Market, the card database and the region map are visible to anyone with the link. Logging in lets you see your own collection and edit your wall and binders; those edits are sent to the bot and count as actions in the game. The Activity signs you in through Discord to open the Arena inside it. Don't try to read other people's private data, overload the site, or use it to automate play.

8. Vote rewards

Voting on top.gg (or a similar listing) pays in-game rewards. They may be delayed, changed or withheld where automation, duplicate voting or vote manipulation is suspected.

9. What you may not do

• Exploit bugs, glitches or loopholes
• Use scripts, self-bots, macros or automation, in Discord, on the website or in the Arena
• Manipulate trades, votes, cooldowns, rewards, battles or the economy, or collude to farm them
• Try to duplicate cards, coins, gems, items or rewards
• Harass, scam, threaten or abuse other players through any Pokébot feature, including chat and emotes in the Arena
• Try to access, modify or damage Pokébot's files, databases, hosting or systems
• Use Pokébot for anything illegal, harmful or malicious

10. Enforcement

If you break these Terms we may remove rewards, reset progress, void battles, blacklist your account from some or all features, remove the bot from a server, and report serious abuse to Discord or other appropriate parties.

11. Server admins

Server owners and admins are responsible for how Pokébot is used in their server. They choose its channels, its town on the map and whether text commands are on, and may restrict or remove it at any time.

12. Availability and changes

We try to keep the bot, the website and the Arena online and working, but we don't promise they always will be. Downtime, bugs, maintenance, hosting or Discord API problems happen. We may change, pause or discontinue any part of Pokébot at any time.

13. Data and privacy

Pokébot stores Discord IDs and game data to work, and the website keeps a login cookie and usage counts. What exactly, why, what is public and how to have it deleted is in the Privacy Policy.

14. Third-party services

Pokébot relies on Discord, hosting providers, top.gg, image hosts and an image CDN, and sprite sources. They have their own terms and privacy policies, and we are not responsible for them or their availability.

15. No affiliation

Pokébot is an independent project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to Discord, Nintendo, The Pokémon Company, Game Freak, Creatures Inc. or any related brand. All trademarks belong to their owners.

16. Disclaimer

Pokébot is provided "as is" and "as available", with no promise that it will meet your expectations, run without interruption, be secure or be free of errors.

17. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent the law allows, we are not responsible for losses, damages, deleted progress, lost virtual items, downtime, bugs, trade decisions, battle outcomes, reward issues or any other problem that comes from using Pokébot.

18. Changes to these Terms

These Terms change when the game does. The date at the top is the version you are reading; continued use after a change means you accept it.

19. Contact

Questions, support and abuse reports go to the bot owner in the official support server: discord.gg/zj9Sxz3reR.

Thank you for playing Pokébot.