Participation is voluntary. You can stop using the site at any time.
Who is responsible for the research?
Researcher: Gaston Welisch. This project is conducted as part of my doctoral research project at the University of Bristol. The site does not ask for your name. However, it records pseudonymous research data linked to a cookie-based visitor ID.
Cookies
The site uses cookies to remember that you have consented and to connect your interactions to a pseudonymous visitor record. These cookies are used for research, site functionality, consent recording, and security.
How the data will be used
The data collected includes:
- your consent status
- approximate location, such as region/country inferred from IP address
- messages sent to the chatbot
Please do not enter directly identifying or sensitive personal information into the chatbot or question fields.
The data will be used to support my doctoral research into AI, divination, and augury. It will be used to:
- analyse how visitors interact with the site
- study how people respond to AI-generated auguries
- support academic writing, presentations, exhibitions, and the doctoral thesis
- produce pseudonymised examples, summaries, and findings, and be collated into a less granular open-data dataset for other researchers
AI systems and third-party services
Some interactions are processed using external AI services (OpenAI) or technical services (PythonAnywhere server) needed to operate the site. This includes sending chatbot messages, prompts, or generated text to an AI provider so the system can respond.
The data is not kept by OpenAI beyond temporary logging; it is not used to train OpenAI services.
Data storage
Data is kept on a server hosted by PythonAnywhere. The data will be made open access once stripped of all identifiers upon the end of the doctorate (estimated October 2028). Operational records on the live site will be retained while the project website / artwork remains active.
Withdrawal and deletion
You can stop using the site at any time. Because the site does not ask for your name, it may not be possible to identify your record for requested deletion later. We may be able to locate your data if you give detail such as the date, time, and content of an interaction.
To ask about withdrawal or deletion, contact Gaston Welisch.