https://openai.com/policies/privacy-policy

EU privacy policy

We implement commercially reasonable technical, administrative, and organizational measures designed to protect Personal Data from loss, misuse, and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. However, no Internet or email transmission is ever fully secure or error free. Therefore, you should take special care in deciding what information you provide to the Services. In addition, we are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Service, or third-party websites.

Purpose of processing

Type of Personal Data processed, depending on the processing activity

Legal basis, depending on the process activity

To provide, analyze, and maintain our Services

  • Account Information

  • User Content

  • Communication Information

  • Other Information You Provide

  • Log Data

  • Usage Data

  • Device Information

  • Location Information

  • Cookies and Similar Technologies

Where necessary to perform a contract with you, such as processing a user’s prompts to provide a response.

To improve and develop our Services and conduct research

  • Account Information

  • User Content

  • Communication Information

  • Other Information You Provide

  • Data We Receive From Other Sources

  • Log Data

  • Usage Data

  • Device Information

  • Cookies and Similar Technologies

See here⁠(opens in a new window) for more specific information on the data used to train our models.

Where necessary for our legitimate interests and those of third parties and broader society, including in developing, improving, or promoting our Services, such as when we train and improve our models. See here⁠(opens in a new window) for more information.

To communicate with you, including to send you information about our Services and events

  • Account Information

  • Communication Information

  • Social Media Information

  • Other Information You Provide

  • Log Data

  • Usage Data

  • Device Information

  • Cookies and Similar Technologies

Where necessary to perform a contract with you, such as processing your contact information to send you a technical announcement about the Services. 

Your consent when we ask for it to process your Personal Data for a specific purpose that we communicate to you, such as processing your contact information to send you certain forms of marketing communications.

To prevent fraud, illegal activity, or misuses of our Services, and to protect the security of our systems and Services

  • Account Information

  • User Content

  • Communication Information

  • Social Media Information

  • Other Information You Provide

  • Data We Receive From Other Sources

  • Log Data

  • Usage Data

  • Device Information

  • Cookies and Similar Technologies

Where necessary to comply with a legal obligation.

Where we are not under a specific legal obligation, where necessary for our legitimate interests and those of third parties, including in protecting our Services from abuse, fraud, or security risks, such as processing data from security partners to protect against fraud, abuse and security threats in our Services.

To comply with legal obligations and to protect the rights, privacy, safety, or property of our users, OpenAI, or third parties

  • Account Information

  • User Content

  • Communication Information

  • Social Media Information

  • Other Information You Provide

  • Data We Receive From Other Sources

  • Log Data

  • Usage Data

  • Device Information

  • Cookies and Similar Technologies

Where necessary to comply with a legal obligation, such as retaining transaction information to comply with record-keeping obligations.

Where we are not under a specific legal obligation, where necessary for our legitimate interests and those of third parties and broader society, including in protecting our or our affiliates’, users’, or third parties’ rights, safety, and property, such as analyzing log data to identify fraud and abuse in our Services.