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Developer Terms

Last updated: 8 November 2026

These terms apply when you make a plugin for ChatLink on developers.chatlink.nu. You agree to them when you create your first plugin. They come on top of our Terms of Service and Community Guidelines, which still apply to you and to everything your plugin does. In these terms, “ChatLink”, “we” and “us” mean the provider of the service; “your plugin” means every plugin you make, including the program you run for it.

1. Who can make plugins

  • You need a ChatLink account with a confirmed email address, and you must follow our Terms of Service.
  • You are responsible for your plugins and for everything they do, also when someone else runs them for you.
  • Keep your plugin’s token secret. Anyone with the token can act as your plugin. If it leaks, make a new one straight away on your plugin’s page.

2. What your plugin may do

Your plugin may only do what it’s made for, and what the servers that add it expect from it. In particular:

  • Only use the permissions a server gave it, and don’t try to get around them, around our rate limits or around other limits of ChatLink.
  • Only read the text of messages where the server allowed that. Don’t try to get message text in other ways.
  • Don’t send spam, unsolicited messages or mass messages, and don’t message people who didn’t ask for it.
  • Don’t pretend to be ChatLink, another plugin, a person or an organisation you aren’t. Its name, picture and description must be honest about what it does.
  • Don’t spread malware, phishing or anything else that harms people or their devices, and don’t ask people for passwords, payment details or other sensitive information.
  • Don’t scrape ChatLink, and don’t use data from ChatLink to follow people across servers or build profiles of them.
  • Don’t use data from ChatLink to train AI models, unless the people it’s about clearly agreed to that.

3. Data and privacy

  • You are responsible for the data your plugin gets. Under the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation you are the controller for it. ChatLink only passes on what a server lets your plugin see.
  • Have a privacy policy that says what your plugin keeps, why, for how long, where, and how people can reach you. Give its link on your plugin’s page. Public servers need it before we approve your plugin.
  • Keep only what your plugin needs, keep it safe, and don’t sell it or share it with others, unless the law requires that.
  • When a server removes your plugin, delete what you kept about that server and its members within 30 days, unless the server asks you to keep it or the law requires it.
  • Answer people who ask about their data, as the law requires.
  • If your plugin’s data leaks, tell the people involved and the authorities as the law requires, and tell us too.
  • Where you run your plugin is your choice. If you keep data outside the European Union, you’re responsible for doing that lawfully.

4. Private and public servers

  • Your plugin can be added to private servers right away.
  • Before it can be added to public servers, you ask us on your plugin’s page and we look at it. What you tell us in that request must be true. We may ask questions, try your plugin, or say no.
  • We can withdraw an approval at any time. Your plugin then pauses in public servers until it’s approved again.

5. What we may do

  • We may suspend your plugin (it stops everywhere, and you see why) or delete it (it’s removed from every server) when it breaks these terms or the law, harms people or ChatLink, or when we have to by law. We tell you why when we can.
  • We may change the Plugin API and the gateway. We try to announce changes that break plugins in advance, in the developer docs or by email.
  • ChatLink and its Plugin API are offered as they are. We do our best to keep them running, but can’t promise that they’re always available or free of errors.
  • We may contact you about your plugins at your account’s email address.

6. Money

Making and running plugins on ChatLink is free. You may offer paid extras for your plugin yourself, outside ChatLink. You’re responsible for that, and it must never look like it comes from ChatLink.

7. Liability

We are only liable for damage caused by our intent or gross negligence, as far as the law allows. You are liable for damage caused by your plugin breaking these terms, as far as the law allows. Nothing in these terms limits rights you have as a consumer.

8. Ending

  • You can delete your plugin at any time on your plugin’s page. Its token stops working and it’s removed from every server.
  • When you delete your ChatLink account, your plugins are deleted too.
  • What you have to do with data you kept (section 3) still applies after your plugin is gone.

9. Changes

We may change these terms. If a change matters, we tell you by email or on developers.chatlink.nu before it applies. If you don’t agree, you can delete your plugins.

10. Law and disputes

Dutch law applies to these terms. Disputes go to the competent court in the Netherlands, unless the law gives you the right to go to a court where you live.