During installation to your Slack workspace, 3-Minute Animal will ask you to review and accept requested permissions.

Here’s what 3-Minute Animal requests and why.

On behalf of users

View information about a user’s identity

3-Minute Animal accesses user profile information like full name, Slack handle, and profile picture for supporting the game, and for showing the logged-in user on the Fun Dashboard.

Upload, edit and delete files on a user’s behalf

Players can draw pictures with the 3-Minute Animal Sketchpad from the Fun Dashboard in the browser. This permission allows the Sketchpad to post drawings to game channels in Slack as the player user.

On behalf of the 3-Minute Animal app

View messages that directly mention @3minute_animal in conversations that the app is in

3-Minute Animal will answer you if you @ it.

Set the description of public channels

3-Minute Animal sets the channel topic in game channels to show game scheduling and status information.

Send messages as @3minute_animal

For letting you know what’s going on with the game.

Send messages as @3minute_animal with a customised username and avatar

The 3-Minute Animal bot wants you to see his cool haircut.

Add shortcuts and/or slash commands that people can use

3-Minute Animal provides commands and shortcuts for managing and interacting with the game.

View messages and other content in public channels that “3-Minute Animal” has been added to

Allows 3-Minute Animal to look for drawing submissions in game channels.

View basic information about public channels in a workspace

During app installation, the wizard presents a list of public channels for selecting a game channel.

View files shared in channels and conversations that “3-Minute Animal” has been added to

3-Minute Animal players submit their drawings by posting image files to game channels.

View messages and other content in direct messages that “3-Minute Animal” has been added to

Allows 3-Minute Animal to message users directly when they interact with or manage the game.

View emoji reactions and their associated content in channels and conversations that “3-Minute Animal” has been added to

3-Minute Animal tracks how wild everyone gets with emoji reactions, and shows player and game statistics on the Fun Dashboard.

View the name, email domain and icon for workspaces “3-Minute Animal” is connected to

Lets the Slack team name be shown on the Fun Dashboard.

View profile details about people in a workspace

3-Minute Animal accesses user profile information like full name, Slack handle, and profile picture for supporting the game, and for showing the logged-in user on the Fun Dashboard.

View people in a workspace

Allows 3-Minute Animal to receive notification when a user profile changes, to stay current with the full name, user handle, and profile picture for game players only.

View email addresses of people in a workspace

In the case of the 3-Minute Animal Slack app installer user, 3-Minute Animal collects an email address for billing-related contact. It doesn’t access email addresses for any other users.