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Leaves Terms & Policies

Leaves operates a number of communities across several platforms, and your Terms of Service and Privacy Policy are generally governed by the Terms of Service and Privacy Policies of those platforms.

We do, however, occasionally use tools to help us manage and maintain those communities, and you will find the Terms of Service and Privacy Policies here.

DogBot for Reddit — AI Post and Comment Moderation

Terms of Service
(Effective: 11/13/2026)

These terms cover Dogbot ("the app"), a moderation tool used by the moderators of the Reddit community r/leaves ("we", "us").

1. What Dogbot is

Dogbot helps the r/leaves moderators enforce the community's rules. It checks new and edited posts and comments using two AI services (OpenAI ChatGPT and Google Gemini). It hides items that may break the rules and places them in the moderators' review queue. A human moderator makes every final decision.

2. Who it is for

Dogbot is built for and used only on r/leaves. It is not offered to other communities.

3. How it affects people who post in r/leaves

By posting in r/leaves, your posts and comments are subject to the community's rules and to Reddit's User Agreement and policies. As part of moderation, they may be checked automatically by Dogbot, as described in the Dogbot Privacy Policy. If Dogbot hides your post or comment, it stays hidden until a moderator reviews it. The moderator may restore it or keep it removed.

4. No guarantees

Dogbot uses AI, which can make mistakes. It may hide content that follows the rules or miss content that breaks them. Dogbot is provided "as is", without warranties of any kind. To the extent the law allows, we are not liable for any loss or harm arising from its decisions or from content being hidden or not hidden. Moderators remain responsible for final moderation decisions.

5. Not medical or crisis help

Dogbot does not provide medical advice, treatment or crisis support. If you are in crisis or thinking about harming yourself, contact your local emergency number or a crisis line right away.

6. Questions and appeals

To question a moderation decision, message the r/leaves moderators through modmail.

7. Changes

We may update these terms. The effective date above shows the current version. Continued use of r/leaves after a change means the updated terms apply.

8. Privacy

How Dogbot handles information is described in the Dogbot Privacy Policy.

Privacy Policy
(Effective: 11/13/2026)

Dogbot ("the app") is a moderation tool used by the moderators of the Reddit community r/leaves ("we", "us"). This policy explains what information Dogbot handles, why, who it is shared with, and how long it is kept.

What Dogbot does

Dogbot checks new and edited posts and comments in r/leaves against the community's rules, using two AI services: OpenAI ChatGPT and Google Gemini. If either service says an item may break the rules, Dogbot hides the item and places it in the moderators' review queue. A human moderator makes the final decision. Dogbot does not ban, message or contact users.

What information Dogbot uses

For each post or comment in r/leaves, Dogbot reads:

  • the item's Reddit ID, and whether it is a post or a comment;

  • the time it was posted;

  • the post title (posts only) and the text of the post or comment;

  • the author's Reddit username, only to check, within Reddit, whether the author is a moderator or an automated account whose content is not checked.

All of this is content that has already been posted publicly in r/leaves. Dogbot does not read private messages, modmail or anything else that isn't public. Dogbot does not collect any other personal information. It does not ask users for anything, and users do not interact with it directly.

Why

Only to help the moderators of r/leaves enforce the community's rules, which are published in the subreddit. Dogbot does not use the information for any other purpose.

Who the information is shared with

To get a verdict, Dogbot sends the item ID, item type, posting time, title and text to:

  • OpenAI (ChatGPT API), and

  • Google (Gemini API, paid service).

Usernames and other account information are never sent to either service. Both act as service providers processing the text on our behalf. At the time of writing, their published terms state:

  • OpenAI: data sent to the OpenAI API is not used to train or improve OpenAI's models. OpenAI keeps abuse-monitoring logs for up to 30 days unless the law requires longer. Dogbot asks OpenAI not to store responses.

  • Google: for paid Gemini API services, Google does not use prompts or responses to improve its products. Google logs them for a limited period only to detect and prevent violations of its policies; its usage-policies page gives this period as 55 days. Data may be processed in any country where Google has facilities.

The services' own privacy terms apply to their handling of the data. We do not share information with anyone else, and we never sell it.

What Dogbot stores, and for how long

Dogbot stores information in the app's own storage, hosted by Reddit:

  • The list of item IDs waiting to be checked: until they are checked, usually within minutes.

  • Whether a username belongs to a moderator (yes or no), so Dogbot doesn't have to ask Reddit every time: 1 hour.

  • For each checked item: its ID, each AI's verdict, a short reason and a one-sentence explanation, and, if the item was hidden, the moderator's decision: 30 days.

  • Review cases (items the AIs disagreed on, or where moderators disagreed with the AIs): the ID, a link, the verdicts and reasons: 90 days.

  • Running totals (counts and costs, with no item or user details): daily totals for 90 days; all-time totals are kept.

The text of posts and comments is not stored by Dogbot, and, apart from the one-hour moderator check, no usernames are stored. Dogbot's technical logs, visible only to the app's developer, record each item's ID and the AI verdicts, but no usernames. They are kept as long as Reddit's developer platform keeps app logs.

What Dogbot does not do

  • It does not build profiles of users or infer personal characteristics, including health.

  • It does not use Reddit content to train or improve any AI model, and does not allow anyone else to.

  • It does not sell, rent or share data for advertising or any commercial purpose.

  • It does not provide medical advice or crisis support.

Your choices

Posting in r/leaves means your posts and comments are reviewed under the community's rules, by moderators and with Dogbot's help. If you delete your post or comment, Dogbot no longer has its text. Its records hold only the ID, the AI verdicts and their short explanations, which expire as described above. (The AI services' own abuse-monitoring logs, described above, follow their own retention periods.) To ask about Dogbot or a decision about your content, message the r/leaves moderators through modmail.

Security

The AI services' access keys are stored as encrypted secrets on Reddit's developer platform and are never placed in the app's code. Information is sent to the AI services over encrypted (HTTPS) connections, from the app's server only.

Changes

If Dogbot's handling of information changes, we will update this policy and its effective date.

Contact

The moderators of r/leaves, via modmail.