Ao Bot Privacy & Data Promise
This policy explains how Ao Bot — a private companion for the Ao Server — collects, protects, and uses data when you interact with our bot, dashboard experiences, and supporting services.
Last updated October 28, 2025
1. What We Collect
Discord Profile Identifiers
We store your Discord user ID, username, and discriminator so Ao Bot can recognize you. This is required for leveling, economy systems, and personalization.
Progress & Economy Data
Items like your XP, coin balance, inventory, quest progress, battle pass status, and achievements are stored so that the game systems can work across sessions.
Feature Interactions
Certain commands log context-specific data (e.g., shop transactions, friend links, pet names) to provide history, leaderboards, and fairness safeguards.
2. How We Use It
Core functionality
XP gains, economy balances, achievements, and event unlocks rely on this data to work. Removing it would reset your progress.
Community safety
Moderation features, heist protections, and anti-cheat checks reference stored data to keep the community fair and secure.
Experiments & improvements
Aggregated insights (never personally identifying) help us improve balance, add events, and tune drop rates.
3. Data Storage & Retention
Where data lives
Ao Bot uses encrypted storage managed by the AO Collective. Access is limited to the bot maintainers and trusted service operators.
How long we keep it
We keep your profile while you interact with the bot. Inactive accounts may be purged after extended dormancy as part of database maintenance.
Backups
Periodic encrypted backups exist to recover from outages or corruption. They follow the same retention approach and are rotated regularly.
4. Your Choices
Command-based controls
Use `/profile privacy` to review, download, or request deletion of your Ao Bot data. Removing data may reset progress.
Opting out
Declining the privacy prompt or requesting deletion prevents future use of Ao Bot features. We will honor deletion requests promptly.
Server moderation
Server administrators can manage privacy acceptance for their community, following the same policies.
5. Sharing & Third Parties
No external advertisers
Ao Bot never sells your data or partners with ad networks. Your information is exclusively for Ao Server experiences.
Infrastructure partners
We rely on Discord APIs and secure hosting providers (like Cloudflare) to render the experience. These providers process minimal data to deliver services and follow their own privacy terms.
Legal compliance
If a valid legal request is received, we may disclose necessary data. You will be notified whenever legally permissible.
6. Contact & Questions
Reach out
Need clarifications or wish to exercise data rights? DM the AO Collective team or email privacy@aobot.cc.
Rapid responses
We aim to respond within 72 hours for data requests and provide updates as they progress.
Policy updates
We update this policy when systems change. Significant changes will be announced in the Ao Server.