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Acceptable Use Policy
Last updated June 2026
This Acceptable Use Policy explains what you may and may not do on Clockwise, with one overriding goal: keeping our shared hosting infrastructure safe, stable, and available for every developer who uses it.
Who This Policy Is For
This Acceptable Use Policy applies to everyone who uses Clockwise. Clockwise is a tool for developers, not the general public: to use it you must be a developer who writes and maintains your own bot code, and you must be at least 16 years old.
The rules below exist to protect the hosting infrastructure that everyone shares. Following them keeps Clockwise fast, stable, and safe for all of us.
Our Focus: Protecting the Infrastructure
Clockwise does not judge what your bot does inside Discord. We do not review your bot's purpose or features, and we do not moderate your product. Your logic is your own business.
What we care about, and what this policy governs, is the safety of our servers and the other bots running on them. The prohibitions below are about preventing harm to that shared infrastructure, not about controlling what your bot is for.
Do Not Attack or Escape the Host
You may not write or run code that attempts to compromise Clockwise's systems. This includes trying to read or write the host filesystem outside your sandbox, running shell commands on the host, escalating privileges, escaping or breaking out of the sandbox, or exploiting vulnerabilities in our platform.
An automated safety check blocks code that tries to do these things. Attempting to defeat, probe, or circumvent that check is itself a violation of this policy.
Do Not Access Other Tenants' Data
Clockwise runs many users' bots on shared infrastructure. You may not attempt to read, access, intercept, or interfere with another user's code, data, secrets, traffic, or running processes.
Each account is isolated. Trying to cross that boundary is one of the most serious things you can do on the platform and will result in immediate suspension.
Do Not Abuse Resources
You may not use Clockwise to mine cryptocurrency, run fork bombs, intentionally exhaust CPU, memory, disk, or network capacity, or otherwise degrade service for other users.
Your bot should use a fair share of resources for what a Discord bot reasonably needs. Code that exists mainly to consume compute, rather than to operate a bot, is not allowed.
Do Not Use the Host to Attack Third Parties
You may not use Clockwise's infrastructure as a launch point against anyone else. This includes denial-of-service attacks, port scanning, spamming, sending malware, credential stuffing, scraping in violation of others' terms, or any other use of our network to harm third parties.
Using our servers to attack others puts our whole platform at risk and is strictly prohibited.
No Illegal Content That Creates Liability for the Host
You may not use Clockwise to store, process, or distribute content that is illegal or that exposes Clockwise to legal liability, such as child sexual abuse material, content that infringes others' rights, or material that violates applicable law.
We do not monitor your bot's ordinary activity, but we will act on illegal content that creates risk for the platform when we become aware of it.
Your Responsibilities Stay With You
Nothing in this policy shifts responsibility for your bot away from you. You remain fully responsible for complying with Discord's Terms of Service and Developer Policies, for the behavior of your bot toward Discord users, and for following the law.
Clockwise checks only whether your code endangers our infrastructure. Everything your bot does inside Discord is on you.
Enforcement
When code or activity threatens our infrastructure or other users, we may block the code, suspend the bot, or suspend the account, depending on severity. Serious abuse, such as attacking the host or accessing other tenants' data, can result in immediate termination without notice.
Where it is safe and practical, we will tell you what happened and why.