Requirements and Guidelines

There may not be many but we do expect the bare minimum at least

Data usage requirements

1. You are required to credit "Clarity" as the source of the data
2. 1. You are not required to shove this in users' faces but it should be easy for the average user to find where the data came from
   2. If you do not wish to feature our project's name prominently or it creates design challenges, you may opt to list "Community Insights" or "Community Research" next to the tooltip.
3. You are required to link to our website (https://d2clarity.com) in your credits at the very least but preferably in a more prominent location next to our tooltips.
4. You must clearly indicate that the data comes from an external source (us).
5. 1. There should be no ambiguity even at a glance that our data does not come from you or your project's maintainers.
   2. Ideally, this point is taken care of by fulfilling the requirements of points 1) and 2) in good faith but we want to clarify this requirement.
6. You must have a way for your users to direct their tooltip feedback our way.
7. 1. Directing them our way when they contact you about tooltips is not sufficient. Please include a link to our Discord server (https://d2clarity.com/discord) in your project's credits to direct your users our way.
8. You must not modify our database's contents without extremely clearly indicating that you made a change and where you did so. We will not be taking any responsibility for errors stemming from doing so.
9. 1. If you wish to make long-term or more general changes to the data (for the sake of formatting as an example), please get in touch with us through Discord before doing so.
10. You must handle updating your local copies of our database (if applicable) so that you only serve the latest information we have to users.
11. 1. Both of our databases are versioned using an additional JSON file: versions.json and update.json. If your app/website/else doesn't fetch our data directly from our database, you must periodically check these two files to see if any new updates have been released.
12. (Optional) You may link to our donation page (https://url.d2clarity.com/ko-fi) in case your users wish to support our work on maintaining this resource 

Usage of our data without a Partnership

The seven points listed above still apply to your project even if you are not an official Clarity Partner. Naturally, for strictly personal use, basically all data is free to use as long as you can get your hands on it. However, we want to make it clear that you may still freely use our data for smaller projects with a potential user base that does not exceed 150 users as long as you keep to the above requirements. As an example, if our data is used for a Discord bot in a server with 160 members but only 20 of them are active,  you should still reach out to us for a partnership before launching.

We want this to be permissive so that if there are particularly motivated people who want to, for example, make a Discord bot for their clan or similar, they can do so with no questions asked. Then, if it turns out nicely and they wish to make it available to the public, they can still hit us up for a partnership whenever they want to. 

What you need to know about Partnerships

Partnerships are low-requirement agreements between you and us about how our data will be used and displayed by you in your applications. The partnership agreement basically consists of us sitting down for a quick chat. You show us your idea of how things would be implemented, we give our feedback on it and figure out something that we're both happy with, and that's it!

Partnerships are free of charge for hobbyist devs of the Destiny community seeking to provide a valuable service to their communities or the Destiny community at large. Get in touch with us through Discord (see below) and we'll sort things out in no time.

For commercial entities seeking to enhance their Destiny coverage with our data, don't hesitate to get in touch with us through Discord (see below) or send an email to [email protected] so we can discuss licensing terms and agree on a reasonable fee.

The main benefit of a Partnership is that it opens up a direct line of communication between our project maintainers and you. If any changes are made that would be relevant to our data's implementation in your project, we'll be able to let you know about it in our Discord server easily. You'll also be able to ask us or fellow Partners questions regarding the implementation more easily.