What you're agreeing to

OpenAI's Terms of Service allow OpenAI to use your conversations to improve its models unless you opt out by disabling chat history. You must be 13 or older and ChatGPT cannot be used for illegal, harmful, or deceptive purposes.

Privacy in plain English

OpenAI collects your conversation history, account information, and device data. By default, conversations are used to train OpenAI's models and human reviewers can access your chats for safety evaluation.

Terms of Service: Breakdown

Concerning Clauses

• - Conversations are used to train OpenAI's models by default — you must manually disable chat history to opt out.
• Content you generate may be reviewed by OpenAI staff and contractors for safety and quality purposes.
• OpenAI can change its terms and policies with notice and continued use counts as acceptance.

Data Sharing

• - Conversation data is shared with OpenAI's computing infrastructure partners for processing.
• OpenAI uses third-party contractors to review conversations for safety training.

Known Incidents

• - 2023: Italy temporarily banned ChatGPT over GDPR violations related to data collection and age verification practices.
• 2023: A bug briefly exposed conversation titles and payment information of other users to incorrect accounts.

Privacy Policy: Breakdown

Privacy Issues

• - Chat history is enabled by default and used to train future versions of OpenAI's models.
• Human reviewers at OpenAI and contracted staff can read your conversations for safety evaluation.

Who Gets Your Data

• - Conversations may be reviewed by OpenAI employees and third-party contractors. - OpenAI's API customers receive your inputs and outputs under their own privacy terms.

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