Privacy Policy
Last updated 18 October 2026
This policy explains what Black Swan Commerce's stock-alert bots collect, and why: Blackswan Stock Watch on Discord, and its Telegram bot (together, "the service").
What is collected
- Your user id, when you run a command, to check that you are allowed to use the bot. It isn't stored; the allowed list is set by the operator.
- Your watches: the words and maximum price you give
/watch, and the id of the channel or chat to send alerts to. - Restock announcements from the channels the bot is set up to read: the message text, item, price, link and time.
- Logs of the bot's activity, such as commands handled and messages that couldn't be sent, kept for running and fixing the service.
The bot doesn't collect your name, email, payment details or location.
Message Content intent
Blackswan Stock Watch has Discord's Message Content intent, because
restock announcements arrive as messages in a channel of the operator's server
(NowInStock's announcement channels, followed into it), and the bot has to read
their text to find the item, price and link. It reads and keeps only the
messages in those configured channels. Discord sends it other messages in
servers it's in, but it drops them at once without reading or storing them.
Commands such as /watch are slash commands and don't need the
intent.
How it is used
Only to run the service: match announcements against your watches, send
you alerts, and answer /watches and /alerts. It isn't
used for advertising and isn't sold or shared with anyone, except where the
law requires it.
Where it is kept
On a server run by the operator in the United States. Messages pass through Discord and Telegram, whose own privacy policies apply to them. Nothing is sent to any other service, including AI services.
How long, and deleting it
A watch is kept until you remove it with /unwatch. Announcements
and logs are kept as long as they're useful for running the service. To have
your data deleted, remove your watches with /unwatch or email
support@blackswan.dev, and it will be deleted.
Changes
This policy may be updated. The date above shows the latest version.
Contact
Questions or deletion requests: support@blackswan.dev.