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Summary by gemma-4-12b. It may be wrong; the diff below is what actually changed. Raw: 8352f0227f-openai-privacy.diff · commit 8352f0227f
diff --git a/snapshots/openai/privacy.md b/snapshots/openai/privacy.mdindex 8205ab9..e13174d 100644--- a/snapshots/openai/privacy.md+++ b/snapshots/openai/privacy.md@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ <!-- fineprint snapshot: openai/privacy | source: https://openai.com/policies/privacy-policy/ --> -Updated: April 1, 2026+Updated: April 30, 2026 # US privacy policy@@ -44,4 +44,5 @@ We use Personal Data for the following purposes: - For Free and Go users, to personalize the ads you see on our Services (subject to your settings), and to measure the effectiveness of ads shown on our Services. Learn more about ads on our services; - To communicate with you, including to respond to your questions, and send you information about our Services and events, for example about changes or improvements to the Services;+- To promote our products and services to you through direct marketing and on third-party properties, and to assess the effectiveness of those efforts, subject to your choices and controls (learn more); - Identify your contacts who use our Services when you choose to connect your contacts and update you if they join our Services later; - To prevent fraud, illegal activity, or misuses of our Services, and to protect the security of our systems and Services, including by monitoring any Content submitted or exchanged on our platforms (learn more here); and@@ -54,6 +55,5 @@ As noted above, we may use Content you provide us to improve our Services, for e We disclose your Personal Data in the following circumstances: -- Vendors and Service Providers: To assist us in meeting business operations needs and to perform certain services and functions, we disclose Personal Data to vendors and service providers, including providers of hosting services, customer service vendors, cloud services, content delivery services, support and safety services, email communication software, web analytics services, payment and transaction processors, search and shopping providers, marketing service providers, and information technology providers. We also work with service providers who help us with age and identity verification, and you can learn more here. Based on our instructions, these parties will access, process, or store Personal Data only in the course of performing their duties to us.-+- Vendors, Service Providers, and Marketing Partners: To assist us in meeting business operations needs and to perform certain services and functions, we disclose Personal Data to vendors, service providers, and marketing partners, including providers of hosting services, customer service vendors, cloud services, content delivery services, support and safety services, email communication software, web analytics services, payment and transaction processors, search and shopping providers, and information technology providers. We also work with service providers who help us with age and identity verification, and you can learn more here. When we work with Service Providers, these parties will access, process, or store Personal Data based on our instructions and only in the course of performing their duties to us. We also share limited information with select marketing partners who are not service providers in order to promote our products and services on third-party properties and help us assess the effectiveness of those efforts. Some of these partners may receive information through cookies and similar technologies. Learn more about these practices and the choices available to you here. - Business Transfers: If we are involved in strategic transactions, reorganization, bankruptcy, receivership, or transition of service to another provider (collectively, a "Transaction"), your Personal Data may be disclosed in the diligence process with counterparties and others assisting with the Transaction and transferred to a successor or affiliate as part of that Transaction along with other assets. - Government Authorities or Other Third Parties: 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; (iv) to detect or prevent fraud or other illegal activity; (v) to protect the safety, security, and integrity of our products, employees, users, or the public, or (vi) to protect against legal liability.@@ -89,5 +89,5 @@ Our Services provide you with a number of controls over your Personal Data and h - You can delete or archive chats in ChatGPT, or delete your account entirely. - If you enable Temporary Chat in ChatGPT, those conversations with ChatGPT will not appear in your history or be used to improve OpenAI's models.-- Depending on applicable law, you may be able to choose which cookies are used when you use our Services.+- Depending on applicable law, you may be able to choose which cookies are used when you use our Services, and you can make choices about the use of your information for purposes of promoting our products and services to you on third-party properties (learn more). - For Free and Go users, you can use the advertising controls in your account settings to control what data we use to personalize the ads we show you on our Services. - If you use the Atlas browser, you can delete your browsing history or choose to browse the web in incognito mode, which helps keep your browsing private from other people who use your device.@@ -118,5 +118,5 @@ Our Services are not directed to, or intended for, children under 13. We do not 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. -Some U.S. state privacy laws require specific disclosures. The following table provides additional information about the categories of Personal Data we collect and how we use and disclose that information. You can read more about the Personal Data we collect and where we collect it from in "Personal Data we collect" above, how we use Personal Data in "How we use Personal Data" above, when we disclose Personal Data in "Disclosure of Personal Data" above and how we retain Personal Data in "Retention" above.+Some U.S. state privacy laws require specific disclosures. The following table provides additional information about the categories of Personal Data we collect and how we use and disclose that information. You can read more about the Personal Data we collect and where we collect it from in "Personal Data we collect" above, how we use Personal Data in "How we use Personal Data" above, when we disclose Personal Data in "Disclosure of Personal Data" above and how we retain Personal Data in "Retention" above. We don't process sensitive data for the purpose of inferring characteristics about you. | Category of Personal Data | Use of Personal Data | Disclosure of Personal Data |@@ -124,14 +124,9 @@ Some U.S. state privacy laws require specific disclosures. The following table p | We collect the following information, as described above:Identifiers, such as your name, contact details, IP address, and other device identifiersCommercial information, such as your transaction historyNetwork activity information, such as how you interact with our Services, including Log Data, Usage Data, and information about the device you use to access the ServicesContent, including your prompts and content you upload to the Services and interactions and messages with other usersCommunication Information, such as your contact information when you send us emailContact Data if you choose to connect your device contactsGeolocation data, such as the general area from which your device accesses our Services based on information like its IP address, or precise location information you choose to provideOther Account Information, such as your account credentials, and payment information, date of birth, and profile pictureOther Information You Provide, such as if you choose to participate in our events or surveys or when you provide us or a vendor operating on our behalf with information to establish your identity or age. | We use this information for the following purposes, as described above:Provide, analyze, and maintain our ServicesImprove and develop our Services and conduct research, including using your Content to train our models (subject to your control)To personalize and customize your experience across our ServicesFor Free and Go users, subject to your controls, to personalize the ads you see on our Services and measure the effectiveness of ads shown on our Services. Learn more.Communicate with you, including to respond to your questions, and send you information about our Services and events, for example about changes or improvements to the Services or offers or information that may interest youTo identify your contacts who use our Services when you choose to connect your contacts and update you if they join our Services later.Prevent fraud, illegal activity, or misuses of our Services, and to protect the security of our systems and Services, including by monitoring any Content submitted or exchanged on our platforms (learn more here)Comply with legal obligations and protect the rights, privacy, safety, or property of our users, OpenAI, or third parties, for instance to prevent harm to you or others, and to estimate your age to give you an age-appropriate experience | We may disclose this information in the following circumstances, as described above:Vendors, service providers, and affiliates to assist us in meeting business operations needs and to perform certain services and functions described aboveGovernment authorities or other third parties for the legal reasons described aboveParties involved in TransactionsBusiness account administrators for the reasons described aboveParents or guardians of teen users for account linking purposes described aboveOther users and third parties you interact or share information with | -Depending on where you live and subject to applicable exceptions, you may have the following privacy rights in relation to your Personal Data:--- The right to know information about our processing of your Personal Data, including the right to access your Personal Data, often in a portable format;-- The right to request deletion of your Personal Data;-- The right to correct your Personal Data; and-- The right to be free from retaliation relating to the exercise of any of your privacy rights.+Your Opt-Out Rights. We don't "sell" Personal Data. Depending upon your choices, we may share limited data with select marketing partners for purposes of promoting our products and services to you on third-party properties. -We don't "sell" Personal Data or "share" Personal Data for cross-contextual behavioral advertising, and we do not process Personal Data for "targeted advertising" purposes (as those terms are defined under state privacy laws). We also don't process sensitive Personal Data for the purposes of inferring characteristics about a consumer.+This is known as "targeted advertising" or sharing for "cross-context behavioral advertising" under certain state privacy laws. You can opt out using the marketing privacy control in your account settings. If you're not logged in, you can opt out using the Your Privacy Choices link on our website. You can also opt out using a legally recognized opt-out mechanism, like Global Privacy Control. You can learn more about the types of data we use and share for these purposes and controls we offer you here. We don't engage in these activities for users we know to be under 18 years of age. -Exercising Your Rights. You can exercise privacy rights described in this section by submitting a request through privacy.openai.com or to dsar@openai.com. Review our California privacy rights reporting here.+Your Other Rights. You can exercise these privacy rights described in this section by submitting a request through privacy.openai.com or to dsar@openai.com. Review our California privacy rights reporting here. Verification. In order to protect your Personal Data from unauthorized access, change, or deletion, we may require you to verify your credentials before you can submit a request to know, correct, or delete Personal Data. If you do not have an account with us, or if we suspect fraudulent or malicious activity, we may ask you to provide additional Personal Data for verification. If we cannot verify your identity, we will not be able to honor your request.