Hope the Chatbot is a chatbot that is being deployed to the web and to Facebook Messenger.
Data about conversations you may have with Hope are logged in a database. This database is used to improve the performance of the chatbot, and to draw conclusions about human thinking and current beliefs in the aggregate.
In general, no personally identifying information about you is available to the chatbot (which tracks users based on a numerical identifier) or logged in the database. However, there are a few exceptions.
If you provide personal information voluntarily in response to a question from the chatbot (e.g. “What shall I call you?”), it will be logged.
If you agree to provide information about your age, gender, religious affiliation, background, etc., that will be logged too for demographic analysis.
Information logged by the chatbot will be used to offer a more useful, customized experience. But we make no effort to tie any such information to any individual.
Furthermore this site is non-commercial and will not use any information it gathers for any for-profit purpose.
If you go through the Facebook version, your Facebook profile name is not visible to the administrators of the Hope the Chatbot page on Facebook.
Feel free to contact admin at HopeBot dot org with any questions.