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# Permissions & Security

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When adding **Sense** to your server you will be asked to authorize the following permissions:\
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**Manage Channels**\
Sense requires this permission in order to create the 4 necessary channels (see the next section). \
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**Read Messages**\
Sense needs to read your messages in order to broadcast them! \
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**Send Messages**\
Sense needs to be able to send messages to populate the channels and keep logging records in the `🪵┃sense-logs` channel. \
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**Embed Links**\
Required in order to embed the Lite & Pro subscription links, and all other embeds like the `🔔┃get-alerts` embed.\
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**Read Message History**\
Again, Sense needs to read your messages in order to broadcast them! This is also a permission for future features where we can produce more robust stats for you on your broadcasted messages sent.<br>

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Many Discord bots ask for a slew of dangerous permissions in your server. This opens them up to security risks in more ways than one.&#x20;

**Sense does NOT request Administrator or Role permissions**, and only uses permissions that are absolutely necessary.
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**Note: All of these permissions are required for Sense to function.** \
Manually disabling any of these permissions will result in errors or unseen messages.
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