What LivingSocial records

LivingSocial does not receive your conversation with your assistant and cannot show it to anyone. It receives only what the assistant sends in a tool call, and what it answers.

For each call it keeps a short record: which tool, when, how long it took, whether it worked, the search words and filters, and the ids of the offers that came back. For a purchase it also records the cart and checkout it created. The record does not hold the session token, an email address, a phone number, a payment link or a copy of the whole request, and it keeps a confirmation code only as a one-way hash. When a person confirms an email or a phone, the record keeps a one-way hash of the contact, not the contact. The text message or email that carried the code is a separate matter: LivingSocial keeps a log of every message it sends, and that log holds this one with its recipient and the code (for a text message, the link too).

LivingSocial also notes the assistant's name as the assistant reports it. That name is a claim, and LivingSocial does not verify it.