The rules

Terms of Service

Last updated 22 October 2026

Control Center is the directory and hosting for Discord moderation bots (such as Inertia Control) run by Inertia Studios ("the operator"), based in the United States of America. By signing in here, adding one of the bots to a server, or using a panel, you agree to these terms. If you don't agree, remove the bot from your server and don't use the panel.

Inertia Control is a paid service (section 5). Please read section 11: it says disputes are settled by individual arbitration, not in court or as a class action, unless you opt out. It isn't made by, endorsed by, or affiliated with Discord Inc.; "Discord" is their trademark.

1. What the bot does

It moderates Discord servers that have been approved to use it: auto-moderation, raid and nuke protection, warnings and cases, tickets with saved transcripts, ban appeals, staff applications, welcome messages, levels, giveaways, a music player, custom commands and auto-replies, YouTube and Twitch alerts, a weekly report, daily backups of a server's roles and channels, per-server bot branding, and a panel where a server's staff manage all of that. Every feature is off until a server's own staff turn it on.

2. Who can use it

You must follow Discord's Terms of Service and Community Guidelines. The bot can't be used to break them.
The bot only works in servers its operator has approved. Approval can be refused or withdrawn at any time, in which case the bot leaves the server.
Panel access is decided by your roles in the server, by that server's owner. Don't share your sign-in session, your authenticator codes, or sign-in links with anyone.
First setup. For the first 48 hours after the bot joins a server, and until that server's owner chooses who can use the panel, anyone there with a moderation permission (Administrator, Manage Server, Ban Members, Kick Members, Timeout Members or Manage Messages) can sign in and use the staff pages, so the team can help set the bot up. Owner-only pages (Security, Backups, Branding, Staff activity) are never included. After 48 hours, anyone the owner hasn't added (by role or by name on the Security page) loses access, and only the owner or the operator can give it back.
You must meet Discord's minimum age (13, or higher where your country requires it). The bot doesn't knowingly keep records about anyone younger; if that happens, tell the operator and they'll be removed.

3. The operator

The bot is run by its operator. The operator can open any approved server's panel to fix something that's broken and out of that server's control, and to approve or remove servers. A server's owner can limit the operator to viewing only; the operator can override that in an emergency, and the server's owner is told every time, with the reason. Everything done on a server's panel, by anyone, is written to that server's log channel. The operator doesn't read your server's messages, can't act as you, and won't use access to a server for anything other than keeping the bot working.

To be clear about what the operator does see: the list of servers the bot is in and their owners, help requests sent from a panel, security blocks, and the IP address and country of every panel sign-in (nobody else sees addresses, not even that server's staff). That's for keeping the bot and its panels safe — spotting stolen sessions and break-in attempts — and for nothing else. The Privacy Policy has the detail.

4. Server owners' responsibilities

You're responsible for how the bot is set up in your server: which words are filtered, who gets banned, what the welcome message says, who can open the panel.
Choose who can use your server's panel (Security page) within 48 hours of adding the bot. Until you do, your staff with moderation permissions can use the staff pages; after that, only the people you've chosen can. If you don't, your staff lose access until you (or the operator) add them.
Tell your members what the bot does if your community's rules or local law require it. The Privacy Policy describes what it stores so you can.
The application feature lets your staff ask applicants questions. Don't ask for anything the Privacy Policy says the bot shouldn't hold (passwords, payment details, government ID numbers).
Warnings, bans, ticket outcomes, application and appeal decisions are your server's decisions, made by your staff with the bot as the tool. Disputes about them go to your server, not to the operator.
The music player plays audio from sources your staff pick. The bot doesn't host or supply that audio; your server is responsible for what it plays and for having the right to play it.
Custom commands, auto-replies, alert messages, and the nickname, picture, banner and bio you give the bot are your server's words and images. You must have the right to use them, and they must follow Discord's rules. The operator can remove any that break these terms.
If someone makes a claim against the operator because of how your server used the bot (your settings, your content, your staff's decisions, or your breaking these terms or the law), your server's owner agrees to cover the operator's reasonable costs of dealing with it, including legal fees.

5. Payment

A subscription per server. Each approved server pays a recurring fee, monthly or yearly, at the price and billing period agreed with the operator when the server is approved. The price for a server doesn't change during a paid period; a change is told to the server before its next renewal.
How it's paid. Through the payment method agreed at approval. Card and bank details go to the payment provider, never to the bot, which never sees or stores them.
Cancelling. A server can cancel at any time. It keeps the bot until the end of the period it has paid for, and isn't charged again.
Refunds. No refunds for time already paid for, except where the law requires one. If a payment is taken by mistake (for example twice), it's returned.
Lapsed payment. If a renewal isn't paid, the server's owner is told and gets a grace period of seven days. After that the bot leaves the server; its settings and records are kept for 30 days so it can come straight back once paid, then deleted.
Support. Servers with an active subscription get priority when they ask the operator for help from their dashboard. It's handled as soon as reasonably possible; there's no guaranteed response time.
Removal by the operator. If the operator removes a paying server for a reason that isn't abuse, a breach of these terms, or the server's own doing, the unused part of the current period is refunded.

6. No guarantees and limits on liability

Provided as is. THE BOT, ITS DASHBOARDS AND THE CONTROL CENTER ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE", WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, INCLUDING ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT THE LAW ALLOWS. The operator doesn't promise that the bot will be uninterrupted, error-free or secure, that it will catch every raid, scam or rule-breaker, or that it will keep working the same way. It can go offline, and Discord can change in ways that break features. It isn't a replacement for human moderators. Live status and recent uptime are shown at panel.inertiaroleplay.com/status.

Automatic actions. Auto-moderation, raid and nuke protection, the honeypot, lockdowns, scam-link checks and other automatic features act on the settings your server chose, and they can get it wrong. The operator isn't liable for anything they do or fail to do, including bans, kicks, timeouts, deleted messages, removed roles or locked channels, whether or not they were deserved. Your server can review and undo them.

Your accounts and your staff. Keeping Discord accounts secure, and choosing who gets staff roles and dashboard access, is up to each server and each person. The operator isn't liable for anything done through an account that was hacked, shared or misused, including changes to settings, members or channels made with valid access.

People's conduct. The operator isn't responsible for what members, staff or servers say or do, on Discord or elsewhere, or for disputes between them.

Other services and their content. The bot relies on and links to services the operator doesn't control, including Discord, YouTube, Twitch, music sources, Cloudflare, hosting providers and Stripe. Their own terms apply, and the operator isn't responsible for them, for their outages, or for the content of videos, streams, songs or links shown through the bot.

Backups and exports. Backups are a safety net, not a promise. A restore puts back roles, channels and permissions as they were in the snapshot, as far as Discord allows; it can't bring back messages, and it may not undo everything. The operator isn't liable for a snapshot that's missing, out of date, or only partly restored. Once a server's owner downloads its data, keeping that copy safe is their responsibility. Keep your own records of anything you can't afford to lose.

Information servers collect. Each server decides what its application forms, tickets, reports and other features ask for, and is responsible for that information and how its staff use it.

Not an emergency service. Ranks, roles, "police", "courts" and similar inside a community or game are part of that community, not real authorities. The bot isn't an emergency service and mustn't be relied on for real-world safety or legal decisions. In a real emergency, contact your local emergency services.

Limit on liability. To the fullest extent the law allows, the operator's total liability for anything to do with the bot, its dashboards or these terms is limited to what your server paid in the 12 months before the claim (or US $50 if it paid nothing). The operator isn't liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive losses, such as lost profits, lost members, lost data or damage to reputation, even if told they were possible. Nothing in these terms limits liability that the law doesn't allow to be limited, such as for fraud or deliberate wrongdoing; where a limit isn't allowed, it applies as far as the law permits.

Things outside the operator's control. The operator isn't responsible for failures or delays caused by things it can't reasonably control: Discord outages or changes, hosting, network or payment provider failures, attacks on the service, power cuts, natural disasters, government action, and the like.

If the operator learns that data the bot holds has been exposed or taken, the affected servers are told promptly, with what happened and what was affected.

7. Anti-abuse policy

The panel watches for behaviour that looks like an attack or an attempt to get at things you're not allowed to, and acts on its own. This is what counts and what happens.

What counts as a violation: wrong authenticator codes; sign-ins that are refused because you have no access; opening pages or records your roles don't allow; sending requests to the panel without using the panel page (scripts, replayed requests); and mass changes far faster than a person makes them. Each is worth points (1 for the everyday mistakes, 2 for a refused sign-in, 3 for scripted or mass requests).
Temporary block: too many points in a short window blocks the address and the account for a while, ends its sessions, and DMs the person the reason and when the block lifts. The server's staff are told; the address itself is seen only by the operator.
Escalation: every further block within the repeat period lasts twice as long. At the repeat limit the block becomes permanent (by default: three blocks in seven days).
Manual blocks: a server's owner, or the operator, can block a visitor from a sign-in log at any time with a reason, which is DMed to them. Breaking these terms, trying to get into other servers' data, or using the bot against Discord's rules is grounds for a block, and for a server to be removed from the bot.
Honest mistakes: mistyping a code a few times won't block you. The limits are set so that only a pattern of attempts does.
Operator bans (severe cases only): for serious abuse — attacking the panel, trying to get into other servers' data, using a hacked or stolen account, or repeatedly breaking these terms — the operator can permanently ban a person from every panel and application site the bot runs. Only the operator can lift that ban; a server's owner can't, even if they want you on their staff. The operator can also ban a server outright: the bot leaves it and won't come back until the ban is lifted.
Appeals: if you think a block is wrong, contact the server's owner or the operator shown on the panel's Overview page; a server's owner can lift blocks their server made, and the operator can lift any block or ban. Blocks and bans never stop you using Discord itself, only the panel.

8. Ending use

A server can stop using the bot at any time by removing it or cancelling its subscription (section 5).

The operator reserves the right to remove the bot from any server, withdraw a server's approval, or end a person's access, at any time and for any reason, with or without notice. Because this is a paid service, what that means for money depends on why, and on how serious it was:

For cause. Abuse of the bot or its panels, breaking these terms or Discord's rules, a security risk (for example a hacked staff account that isn't dealt with), or an unpaid subscription. The bot leaves. Whether any of the unused paid period comes back is the operator's call, based on how serious it was: a server removed for serious abuse, an attack on the panels, or repeated breaches gets no refund; a server removed for something lesser, or something it fixes promptly, may get part or all of the unused period back at the operator's discretion. The operator will say what the cause was, and a server that fixes it may be approved again.
At the operator's discretion. If the operator removes a paying server for any other reason (its own choice, a change of direction, a conflict that isn't the server's fault), the unused part of the current paid period is refunded, and the server gets at least seven days' notice where practical.
The bot being wound down. If the service closes, every paying server gets at least 30 days' notice and the unused part of its paid period back.

Blocking or banning a single person (section 7) doesn't end their server's subscription and carries no refund on its own. Beyond this section, paying for a period doesn't give a server a right to keep the bot. See the Privacy Policy for what happens to stored data after the bot leaves.

9. Rights reserved

Inertia Studios reserves all rights not expressly granted in these terms. In particular, the operator reserves the right to:

own the bot, its dashboards, the Control Center, their code, design, name and branding. Using them gives you permission to use them as these terms allow, not ownership of any part of them. Don't copy, resell, reverse engineer, or try to get at their code or data beyond what the dashboard shows you.
refuse to approve any server or person, for any reason or none.
add, change, limit or remove features at any time. A change that takes away something a paying server relies on is announced first where practical.
change prices for future billing periods, with notice before a server's next renewal (section 5).
remove or switch off any custom command, auto-reply, alert, image or other content set up on the bot that breaks these terms, Discord's rules, or the law.
suspend the bot, a feature, or a dashboard for maintenance, security, or to stop abuse, without notice when it can't wait.
remove the bot from any server or end anyone's access at any time (section 8), and keep and hand over records where the law requires it.
decide, at its own discretion, what counts as abuse, a security risk, or a breach of these terms.
look into suspected abuse, fraud or attacks, including checking the logs and records the bot keeps, and act on what it finds.
set and change limits on how much any server can use: commands, feeds, snapshots, storage, requests to the dashboard, and the like. Servers that go well past normal use may be slowed or asked to cut back.
block sign-ins and requests from networks, services or regions that are being used for abuse.
suspend a server straight away if a payment is disputed, charged back or found to be fraudulent, until it's sorted out.
delete content and records once the retention periods in the Privacy Policy have passed, and delete anything that's illegal as soon as it's found.
report illegal content or activity, and accounts that break Discord's rules, to Discord or the authorities.
publish overall numbers about the service (how many servers it protects, uptime, attacks stopped). These never name a server or a person without permission.
change the companies it relies on (hosting, payments, networking), as long as the Privacy Policy still holds.
transfer the service and these terms to another owner, for example if Inertia Studios is sold or restructured. Paying servers are told before it happens.

Not using one of these rights straight away doesn't mean giving it up.

10. Changes

These terms can change. The date at the top shows the current version; continuing to use the bot after a change means you accept it. Big changes are announced to approved servers.

11. Law and disputes

These terms are governed by United States federal law, including the Federal Arbitration Act, which applies to section 11's arbitration agreement. Where federal law doesn't cover a question, ordinary US contract law principles fill the gap.

Talk first. If you have a dispute with the operator, contact them (section 14) and give them 30 days to try to sort it out before taking it further.
Arbitration. If it isn't sorted out, it's settled by binding individual arbitration under the American Arbitration Association's consumer rules, held online or by phone, rather than in court. Either side can instead take a claim that qualifies to small claims court.
No class actions. Claims are brought individually, not as part of a class, group or representative action.
Opting out. You can opt out of arbitration by telling the operator in writing within 30 days of first agreeing to these terms. Disputes then go to the courts instead.
Time limit. Any claim has to be brought within one year of when it arose, where the law allows that limit.

12. Copyright

Don't put anything on the bot (custom commands, auto-replies, alert messages, images) that you don't have the right to use. If you think something set up on the bot infringes your copyright, send the operator (section 14): what the work is, where it appears on the bot, your contact details, a statement that you believe in good faith the use isn't authorised, a statement that your notice is accurate and that you're the owner or allowed to act for them, and your signature (typing your full name is enough). The operator will remove or disable it, tell the server that put it there, and may remove servers that infringe repeatedly. The server can send a counter-notice if it thinks the removal was a mistake.

13. General

These terms and the Privacy Policy are the whole agreement between you and the operator about the bot.
If any part turns out to be unenforceable, the rest still applies.
If you send ideas or suggestions, the operator can use them freely without owing you anything.
You can't transfer your rights under these terms to anyone else without the operator's agreement.
Headings are for reading ease and don't change the meaning.

14. Contact

Questions go to Inertia Studios through the server the bot was approved for, or by DMing the operator listed on your panel's Overview page.