Community terms

Scope

These terms apply to all community services of Nishinija Productions, owner René Ickert (contact see legal notice):

• our Discord server (invitation via nishinija.de/discord),
• our Minecraft network (around the clock),
• our VNyan server for VTubers (around the clock),
• time-limited game projects (e.g. Palworld, ARK, The Forest), and
• community events online and in person.

Our terms and conditions and the terms of the respective platform also apply, e.g. Discord's Terms of Service and Community Guidelines or the Minecraft EULA. Additional rules may apply to individual servers or events; we announce them there.

Participation and age

• Participation is permitted from the age of 16. Persons under 16 may not take part.
• If you are 16 or 17, you need the consent of your parents or guardians – for participation and for recordings. By joining you confirm that this consent has been given. We may ask for proof.
• From the age of 18 you take part on your own responsibility.
• The minimum age requirements of the respective platform (e.g. Discord) also apply.
• Participation is voluntary and free of charge. There is no entitlement to admission or permanent participation.

Joining and consent

When you join our Discord server, you go through a short onboarding. There you

1. accept these terms and our rules,
2. confirm your age (and, if you are 16 or 17, the consent of your parents or guardians), and
3. give your consent to recordings actively and separately (see “Recordings by our content creators”).

Only then are the channels unlocked. Access to game servers and events is granted via our Discord server (e.g. whitelist), so the confirmations given there also apply. We store when you gave which confirmation.

Code of conduct

We want a place where everyone feels welcome. That is why the following applies throughout the community:

• Respect: No insults, threats, harassment, bullying or personal attacks – not even “as a joke” and not via direct messages to members of our community.
• No discrimination: No hate or degradation based on origin, skin colour, religion, gender, sexual orientation, disability, age or other characteristics. No extremist content or symbols.
• No inappropriate content: No pornographic, sexualised, violence-glorifying content or content harmful to minors – neither in messages nor in names, avatars, skins or buildings.
• Privacy: No publishing of other people's personal data (doxxing), no sharing of private messages or images without consent.
• No spam and no advertising: Self-promotion, invitation links to other servers and advertising only in the designated channels or with the team's permission.
• No harmful links or files: No malware, phishing links, IP grabbers or similar.
• Fair play: No cheating, no hacks, unauthorised clients or mods, no exploiting bugs, no griefing, no stealing in game worlds. Report any bugs you find to the team.
• No real-money trading: No selling of in-game items, accounts or advantages for money or anything of monetary value.
• Respect for streams: No stream sniping, no disrupting live streams, no deliberate noise, no abuse of soundboards or voice changers in voice channels.
• Authenticity: Do not impersonate another person, a team member or one of our talents.
• Confidentiality: Do not pass on server passwords, addresses of non-public servers or other access data.
• No circumvention: Alternative accounts to get around a ban or timeout are prohibited.
• Team instructions: Follow the instructions of admins, moderators and supporters. If you disagree, use the appeal procedure instead of a public discussion.

No recordings by members

As a member you may not record, capture or publish conversations in voice channels, video or screen shares, or other members' content without the consent of everyone involved. This also applies to your own streams: if you want to stream on our servers or in our voice channels yourself, discuss it with the team beforehand and obtain the consent of those involved. Recording words spoken in private without authorisation may be a criminal offence under Section 201 of the German Criminal Code.

The only exception are recordings by our content creators under the following section.

Recordings by our content creators

What may be recorded

Nishinija's content creators (our “talents”) and Nishinija itself may – if you have consented – broadcast live and record, while you take part,

• your voice in voice channels on our Discord server, on game servers and at events,
• your user and player name, your avatar or in-game character,
• your chat messages and your in-game actions and buildings, and
• at in-person and video events, your image where you are visible.

What the recordings are used for

The recordings may be published in live streams, saved streams (VODs), clips, short videos, videos and posts on platforms such as Twitch, YouTube, Kick, TikTok, Instagram, X and Bluesky and on nishinija.de – including where this content is monetised (e.g. through advertising, subscriptions or sponsorship). The content may be edited, subtitled, combined with music or graphics and used in excerpts, but not in a way that distorts your statements or disparages you. Use is not limited in territory or time. No remuneration is paid.

Your consent

You give this consent when joining, actively and separately from accepting these terms (e.g. via a separate button in the onboarding). For 16- and 17-year-olds, the consent of their parents or guardians is also required. The legal basis is Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR and Section 22 KUG (German Art Copyright Act).

Transparency and recording-free areas

• Live streams and recordings are made recognisable, e.g. by “🔴 LIVE” in the channel name, the talent's live status or an announcement at the start of an event.
• Channels marked as recording-free are never recorded or streamed. If you do not want to be recorded, you can continue to use the community there.
• During a stream you can ask at any time for a moment not to be shown or to be cut out later.

Withdrawal

You can withdraw your consent at any time with effect for the future – via a ticket on our Discord server, by email to info@nishinija.de or by removing the corresponding role. From then on you will no longer be recorded; for channels, servers or events that are streamed, you may then only be able to take part in recording-free areas.

On request, we will edit or remove content that has already been published, as far as this is technically possible and reasonable – for example by cutting, muting or obscuring the relevant part in VODs and videos that we or our talents control. We cannot undo live broadcasts that have already taken place or copies made by third parties. Withdrawal does not affect the lawfulness of use before the withdrawal.

Our team

The community is looked after by a team:

• Admins are responsible for servers, rules, roles and technical settings and decide on permanent bans and appeals.
• Moderators make sure the rules are followed, step in when they are broken and impose measures up to and including temporary bans.
• Supporters help with questions, handle tickets and events and give reminders; they coordinate measures beyond reminders and timeouts with moderators or admins.

The following also applies to the team:

• Team members are bound by these rules in the same way as everyone else – and are expected to set an example.
• Permissions are only used for the task for which they were granted. Abuse leads to removal of the role and may itself be sanctioned.
• Decisions are impartial. Where a team member is personally involved (e.g. a dispute with a friend), they hand the case over to someone else.
• Measures are documented with reason and time.
• Information from moderation, tickets and team channels is confidential. Team members only see the data they need for their task and do not pass it on.
• Additional internal guidelines apply to team members, which they confirm before taking on their role.

Measures for violations

The team responds to violations appropriately and in stages. As a rule:

Level	Measure	Typical reason
1	Reminder	First, minor violation, e.g. wrong channel, spam
2	Warning (documented)	Repeated minor violation, disrespectful behaviour
3	Timeout / mute (minutes up to 7 days)	Continued violations despite a warning
4	Kick or removal from the whitelist	Significant disruption, ignoring instructions
5	Temporary ban (up to 90 days)	Serious or repeated violations, cheating, griefing
6	Permanent ban	Very serious violations, ban evasion, repeated serious violations

• For serious violations – e.g. hate speech, threats, sexual harassment, doxxing, spreading malware or illegal content – levels may be skipped and a ban imposed immediately.
• On game servers, damage may additionally be rolled back, illegitimately obtained items removed or game progress reset.
• A ban may apply to all Nishinija services (Discord, game servers, events).
• We report illegal content to Discord or the competent authorities.
• Warnings expire after 12 months without a further violation.

Appeals against measures

If you think a measure is wrong, you can appeal within 14 days – via a ticket on our Discord server or, if you are banned there, by email to info@nishinija.de. Briefly describe what it is about and why you think the measure is wrong.

• The appeal is reviewed by a team member who was not involved in the original decision; for permanent bans an admin decides.
• We usually reply within 14 days and give reasons for our decision.
• A permanent ban can be reviewed again after 6 months at the earliest.

Reporting illegal content

If you see content in our community that you consider illegal (e.g. copyright infringements, insults, depictions of violence), please report it via a ticket or by email to info@nishinija.de. Please state as precisely as possible where the content is located and why it is illegal. We review every report promptly, carefully and objectively and inform you of the outcome. You can also report content on Discord directly to Discord.

Game servers

• Availability: The Minecraft network and VNyan server are intended to run around the clock, but there is no entitlement to this. Where possible, we announce maintenance in advance.
• Time-limited projects (e.g. Palworld, ARK, The Forest) only run for an announced period. Afterwards, servers and game progress may be deleted without replacement.
• Resets: Game worlds may be reset for technical reasons, for major updates or at the start of a new season. Where possible, we announce this in advance.
• In-game items, currencies and progress have no monetary value. There is no entitlement to their preservation or restoration.
• Buildings and content you create on our servers may be left on the servers, changed, removed and shown in our talents' content.
• We announce the permitted mods, clients and resource packs for each server.

Your content

You are responsible for the messages, images and other content you share. You grant us the right to display them within our community and to store, move or delete them as part of moderation. You must respect third-party rights (e.g. copyright in images, music or videos).

Liability

Participation is free of charge. We are therefore only liable for intent and gross negligence and without limitation for damage resulting from injury to life, body or health; otherwise the provisions of our terms and conditions apply. We are not responsible for the behaviour of other members or for third-party services (e.g. Discord, gaming platforms). At in-person events, the house rules of the venue and the team's instructions also apply.

Termination

You can leave the community at any time. This does not automatically end your consent to recordings for content already created; however, you can withdraw it at any time (see above). In the event of violations we may exclude you in accordance with the levels described above or discontinue a service altogether.

Changes

We may adapt these terms if our services, the law or the needs of the community change. We announce changes on our Discord server and on this page. If a change affects your consent to recordings or extends their use, we will actively ask for your consent again.

These terms are available in German and English. The German version is binding.