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The company can share your personal data if it determines, at its sole discretion, that you've violated its terms or policies (risk_flags-1). Additionally, if your account or content is banned due to usage policy violations, the company may retain that data for longer periods (risk_flags-2). The company may use content you provide to improve its services, including training AI models (data_use-1) and may use information from advertisers and data partners to measure and improve ad effectiveness (data_use-2).
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Risk Flags
Critical issues and red flags that are often difficult to reverse or have severe consequences for the user.
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Service and Account Termination at Company's Sole Discretion
We may share your Personal Data, including information about your interaction with our Services, with government authorities, industry peers, or other third parties in compliance with the law if we determine, in our sole discretion, that there is a violation of our terms, policies, or the law.
Why it matters: The company can share your personal data if it determines, at its sole discretion, that you've violated its terms or policies, which could lead to service or account termination without clear recourse.
We may share your Personal Data, including information about your interaction with our Services, with government authorities, industry peers, or other third parties in compliance with the law (i) if required to do so to comply with a legal obligation, or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with a legal obligation, (ii) to protect and defend our rights or property, (iii) if we determine, in our sole discretion, that there is a violation of our terms, policies, or the law
Disclosure of Personal Data, paragraph 2 · Citation strength: strong
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Data Retention for Policy Violations
If specific Content, or your account, is banned because of violations of our usage policies, we may retain that data to protect our services from fraud, abuse, or other violations of our policies.
Why it matters: If your account or content is banned due to usage policy violations, the company may retain your data for longer periods, potentially indefinitely, to handle fraud, abuse, or other policy breaches.
If specific Content, or your account, is banned because of violations of our [usage policies](https://openai.com/policies/usage-policies/), we may retain that data for to protect our services from fraud, abuse, or other violations of our policies
Practices concerning the collection, processing, and sharing of user data, including for purposes like advertising and AI model training.
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User Content Used for Model Training
We may use Content you provide us to improve our Services, for example to train the models that power ChatGPT.
Why it matters: The company may use the content you provide to improve its services, including training the AI models.
As noted above, we may use Content you provide us to improve our Services, for example to train the models that power ChatGPT.
We use Personal Data for the following purposes:, paragraph 3 · Citation strength: strong
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Data Sharing for Marketing and Advertising
We may receive information from advertisers and other data partners, which we use for purposes including to help us measure and improve the effectiveness of ads shown to Free and Go users on our Services.
Why it matters: The company may use information from advertisers and data partners to measure and improve the effectiveness of ads shown to Free and Go users on its Services.
We may receive information from advertisers and other data partners, which we use for purposes including to help us measure and improve the effectiveness of ads shown to Free and Go users on our Services.
Personal Data we collect, paragraph 7 · Citation strength: strong
Cancellation and Renewal
Terms related to subscription cancellations, auto-renewal processes, and associated refund policies.
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Gotchas
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Protections
Safeguards and user-beneficial policies, such as data encryption, privacy controls, and clear notice provisions.
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Control Over Content for Model Training
You can easily choose whether your Content can be used to improve and train our models.
Why it helps: Users have explicit control over whether their content is used to train AI models.
You can easily [choose whether your Content can be used to improve and train our models(opens in a new window)](https://help.openai.com/articles/5722486-how-your-data-is-used-to-improve-model-performance).
Data controls, paragraph 2 · Citation strength: strong
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Data Deletion and Export Options
You can export your ChatGPT history and data in your account’s data controls. You can delete or archive chats in ChatGPT, or delete your account entirely.
Why it helps: Users have options to export their data and delete specific chats or their entire account, providing control over their personal information.
You can export your ChatGPT history and data in your account’s data controls. * You can delete or archive chats in ChatGPT, or delete your account entirely.
Data controls, paragraph 2 · Citation strength: strong
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Non-Collection of Personal Data from Children Under 13
Our Services are not directed to, or intended for, children under 13. We do not knowingly collect Personal Data from children under 13.
Why it helps: The policy explicitly states that services are not for children under 13 and that they do not knowingly collect personal data from them, protecting minors.
Our Services are not directed to, or intended for, children under 13. We do not knowingly collect Personal Data from children under 13.
Children, paragraph 1 · Citation strength: strong
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