Overlord Brenda is a collaborative effort by multiple developers in the program to create an effective way of sending targeted notifications to users regarding their wishlist items on vine.
Brenda is responsible for parsing links in the alert channels, removing duplicates, and then pinging users based off what categories interest them.
Her latest version also has the ability to not only ping people when certain items containing certain keywords drop, but can also be used in RFY to track when items transition from RFY and drop into AI/AFA.
Brenda retrieves the product's Amazon category using an API and assigned to our "Brenda category" with her algorithm. Amazon has thousands of categories, so we are using this to limit and group together products that make sense to be in the same category. That is why many of our categories do not match Amazon.
¶ FAQ
- ❓ How do I find the right link to share?
- ❓ How do I get notifications for only certain categories?
- ❓ Why Can't I Send Links to the AI or AFA Alert Channels?
- ❓ How Do I Turn Off Pings/Alerts?
- ❓ How Do I Mute/Hide Channels that I Find Irrelevant?
- ❓ Can I Edit the ETV on an Alert?
- ❓ Why Am I Getting Notifications for All Products and Not Just the Ones I Selected In /categories?
- ❓ Why Did Brenda Delete My Message from the Alert Channel?
- ❓ My Amazon Shopping app is opening from discord's Vine search links
- ❓ Can I report etv cost to Brenda?
- ❓ What is the #feed channel
- ❓ What is the purpose of the RFY Alert channel?
- ❓ Can I delete my message that I sent to Brenda when I reported the wrong URL or in the wrong channel?
- ❓ Should I write short descriptions of a product together with the link when I share?
- ❓ Can I report products to Brenda using short URLs?
- ❓ Can I report products to Brenda using long Amazon URLs?
- ❓ Can I report to Brenda an item that is already gone?
- ❓ Can I report multiple products in the same message for Brenda?
- ❓ How can I tell Brenda to link a product from alerts into discussion channel?
- ❓ Troubleshoot: I am not getting notifications
- ❓ More
¶ Privacy Policy
Brenda is a Discord bot for the Amazon Vine community, operated by Ultraviner LLC. It runs the community's product alert channels. This policy explains what data Brenda uses and why. Brenda runs only in that community's Discord server.
¶ What Brenda uses
- Discord account details: user ID, display name, avatar, and roles.
- Shared alerts: the product link you share, any text you add to it, and the server, channel, message, and date of the alert.
- Message content: only in the situations described below.
- Reactions: certain reactions on Brenda's alerts, such as thanks, reports, and marking an item as gone.
- Activity and medals: alert activity and the medals you earn.
- Product alert preferences: the products or terms you have asked to be alerted about, along with your Discord ID.
- Images: images posted in the AI art channel.
¶ How Brenda uses it
- Alerts: when you share a product link in an alert channel, using a command, or through a connected tool such as a browser extension, Brenda creates an alert and deletes your original message. The alert is public to the server and can show your display name, avatar, and any text you added.
- Top alerts: popular alerts may be reposted to another channel.
- Pings: Brenda uses member roles to work out who should be notified about a product.
- Checks and moderation: Brenda uses your roles to apply sharing rules, and sends reported alerts to reviewers. It may record why a share was rejected.
- Recognition: Brenda records activity and awards medals based on alerts and reactions.
- AI art: Brenda may use a popular image from the AI art channel as its profile picture and award a medal to the person who posted it.
Brenda ignores message content outside the alert channels, the AI art channel, and its own system channels. It only processes reactions on its own alerts.
¶ Where data goes
- Our database keeps your Discord user ID linked to your shared alerts, the text you added to them, activity, medals, and alert preferences. It also keeps channel and message IDs.
- OpenAI receives product names to suggest product categories. Brenda does not send your messages or Discord details to OpenAI for this.
- Ultraviner services receive product details from alerts, such as the product ID, title, and price, so they can provide product information and alerts. This does not include your Discord details.
- Our logging service receives operational logs, which can include user IDs, product IDs, and rejection reasons. These logs are delivered to private staff channels on Discord.
We do not sell your data or use your messages to train AI models.
¶ How long we keep it
Alert, activity, medal, and preference records are kept until you request deletion or they are no longer needed to run the community. Text you add to an alert is kept with that alert. Alerts and logs posted in Discord remain there until they are deleted.
¶ Your choices and rights
Any text you add to a product link is displayed and saved with the alert, so leave it out if you don't want it kept. There is no per-user opt-out for shared alerts, other than not sharing them.
You can ask us to access, correct, or delete your data by contacting us below. Depending on where you live, you may have additional rights under local privacy law.
Discord's own handling of your data is covered by Discord's Privacy Policy. You must meet Discord's minimum age requirement to use Brenda.
¶ Changes and contact
We may update this policy and will change the effective date when we do.
Contact: contact@ultraviner.com