Telm needs admin rights so it can act inside your group — delete spam, restrict bad actors, and pin or post. Those rights are scoped to that one group. It cannot read your private chats, cannot post as you, and cannot touch your Telegram account. You can remove it at any time, and you can export your data to CSV, so there is no lock-in.
1Why the bot needs admin rights
A regular member cannot delete other people's messages or restrict users. To do its job, a moderation bot has to be an admin of the group. That is a Telegram requirement, not a Telm quirk.
Admin rights are always granted per group and can be adjusted or revoked in Telegram at any moment.
2What it can do with those rights
Inside a group where it is an admin, Telm does moderation work.
- Delete spam and scam messages.
- Restrict, mute, or ban members that break the rules.
- Run captcha and welcome flows for new members.
- Pin and post content such as FAQs and scheduled messages.
3What it cannot do
Admin rights in one group do not spill over anywhere else, and they give no access to you as a person.
- It cannot read your private chats or any group it was not added to.
- It cannot post as you — actions come from the bot, not from your personal account.
- It cannot access your Telegram password, your card details, or your account settings.
- Its data and counters are isolated per group.
4What happens if something goes wrong
Telm is built to keep protecting your group even if part of the system has a brief hiccup. If one check becomes unavailable, the others carry on instead of leaving the group unprotected, and quick global checks — such as blocking a known spammer on entry — keep working on their own.
5You are never locked in
Trust is easier when leaving is easy. You can remove the bot from any group the moment you decide to, which ends its access to that group immediately.
You can export your moderation logs and detections to CSV (on the Business plan), and you can request full deletion of your data. See Data privacy and storage for how that works.