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PDPA-Compliant AI Chatbots for Singapore Businesses

Every conversation your customers have with an AI Convo chatbot involves personal data: a name, a phone number, sometimes more. This page explains, in plain English, how that data is collected, used, stored and protected under Singapore's Personal Data Protection Act. It's an operational overview, not a substitute for legal advice, our full legal notice is the Privacy Policy and PDPA Notice.

Data flow, plainly

From a customer's message to a stored record

1. Message sent

A customer sends a message on your website, WhatsApp or Facebook Messenger.

2. Processed for a reply

The message is processed to generate a grounded reply from your approved training material, over an encrypted connection.

3. Relevant details stored

If the customer shares contact details, they're stored against that conversation in your account, isolated from other businesses' data.

4. Retained, then purged

Data is kept for the retention period in our Privacy Policy, then securely purged unless a legal, dispute or contractual reason requires longer retention.

What's collected, and why

Data, purpose, retention and rights

Data categoryPurposeLawful basis
Name, phone, emailFollow-up and service deliveryConsent given during the conversation
Conversation contentAnswering the enquiry, quality reviewConsent / contract performance
Usage data (device, page visited)Service operation and improvementLegitimate interest, disclosed in Privacy Policy

Retention, deletion, access and correction are covered in full in the Privacy Policy and PDPA Notice.

Security controls

Hosting, encryption and access

Encryption

Data is encrypted at rest (AES-256) and in transit (HTTPS/TLS), per our published Privacy Policy.

Tenant isolation

Each business's data is logically isolated from every other business on the platform, with row-level access controls.

Staff access

Production data access is restricted; developers do not have standing direct access to production databases, only app-generated queries are executed.

Logs

Conversation logs are retained for the same period as the underlying data, and are available to your team for review and quality control.

Your responsibilities

What your business needs to do

Display a chatbot notice

Tell customers they're speaking with an AI assistant and link to your privacy notice, this is good practice and, in many cases, a PDPA expectation.

Only collect what you need

Configure the bot to ask for the minimum details required for the enquiry, not every field you could theoretically capture.

Have a review process

Assign someone to periodically review conversations, both for data-handling issues and answer quality.

Incident & escalation

If you believe there's been a data incident affecting your account, contact our Data Protection Officer immediately using the details in our Privacy Policy. We investigate and notify affected parties per PDPA breach-notification obligations where applicable.

FAQ

PDPA questions, answered

Is this page legal advice?+
No. This page is operational information about how AI Convo's platform handles data. For legal advice on your own PDPA obligations, speak with your own counsel or Data Protection Officer.
What personal data does the chatbot collect?+
Typically name, contact number, email and the content of the conversation itself. The exact fields depend on what you configure the bot to ask for, we don't collect more than the conversation requires.
How long is chatbot conversation data kept?+
Retention follows the period set out in AI Convo's Privacy Policy, currently six months from the end of the business relationship or service, except where a legal, dispute or contractual reason requires longer retention.
Can a customer ask for their data to be deleted?+
Yes. Access, correction and deletion requests are handled per the process in our Privacy Policy, generally responded to within seven business days.
Is customer conversation data used to train third-party AI models?+
Conversation data is used to operate and improve the AI Convo service for your business, as described in our Privacy Policy. Speak with your account contact if you need specifics on model-provider data handling for your deployment before signing up.
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