Service Terms scope, effective date and priority over the Agreement
These Service Terms say they govern a person's use of OpenAI's Services, and they carry an update date of September 29, 2026. Words with capital letters that are not defined here take the meanings in OpenAI's Terms of Use, its Services Agreement, or whatever other agreement the person has with OpenAI for the Services; that combined set is called the Agreement. If the Service Terms and that Agreement conflict, the Service Terms control. The page does not say which of those underlying agreements applies to any particular reader.
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Updated: September 29, 2026
These Service Terms govern your use of the Services.
Capitalized terms not defined here will have the meanings in the Terms of Use
If there is a conflict between the Service Terms and your Agreement, the Service Terms will control.
Qualifications & exceptions
The priority rule is stated for conflicts with the Agreement as defined here; this source does not describe other conflict rules.
Many sections below apply only to a named product, plan or kind of customer.
Not stated here
The text of the Terms of Use, the OpenAI Services Agreement and any other governing agreement is not supplied in this source.
Which underlying agreement applies to a given reader is not stated here.
Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · Context
"Content" in these terms includes "Customer Content"
For the purposes of the Service Terms, the word Content also covers what other OpenAI agreements call Customer Content. This is a definition for reading the sections below; it does not itself grant or limit any right.
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For purposes of these Terms, “Content” includes “Customer Content.”
Qualifications & exceptions
The definition applies 'for purposes of these Terms'.
Not stated here
The meaning of Customer Content in the Agreement is not supplied in this source.
Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · Company commitment
API customers: Output infringement indemnity and its exclusions
OpenAI's indemnification duties to API customers under the Agreement include third party claims that the customer's use or distribution of Output infringes someone's intellectual property right. The indemnity does not apply in six listed situations: the customer or its End Users knew or should have known the Output was infringing or likely to; they disabled, ignored or did not use relevant citation, filtering or safety features OpenAI provided; the Output was modified, transformed or combined with products or services not provided by or for OpenAI; they lacked the right to use the Input or fine-tuning files; the claim alleges trademark or related-rights violation from use of Output in trade or commerce; or the Output comes from content from a Third Party Offering.
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OpenAI’s indemnification obligations to API customers under the Agreement include any third party claim that Customer’s use or distribution of Output infringes a third party’s intellectual property right.
This indemnity does not apply where:
(vi) the allegedly infringing Output is from content from a Third Party Offering.
Qualifications & exceptions
The exclusions are listed (i) to (vi) in the source and each is a separate situation in which the indemnity does not apply.
Alpha, preview, early access or beta features are excluded from indemnification under the Beta Services section.
Not stated here
The rest of OpenAI's indemnification terms, the definitions of Customer, End Users, Input and Third Party Offering, and any caps or procedures live in the Agreement, which is not supplied.
Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · Restriction or exception
API use must follow the published documentation
An API customer must use the APIs only in line with OpenAI's applicable API documentation, and must make sure its End Users do the same. The documentation itself is a web page that is not part of this source.
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Customer will only, and will ensure that its End Users only, use APIs in accordance with the applicable documentation
Qualifications & exceptions
Applies to API use under the section titled API.
Not stated here
The content of the documentation and the consequence of departing from it are not stated here.
Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · Restriction or exception
Beta Services are as-is and outside any indemnity
Services or features OpenAI offers on an alpha, preview, early access or beta basis are called Beta Services. They are offered as-is for testing and evaluation, and they are excluded from any indemnification obligations OpenAI may have to the user.
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services or features that OpenAI offers on an alpha, preview, early access, or beta basis (“Beta Services”)
Beta Services are offered “as-is” to allow testing and evaluation and are excluded from any indemnification obligations OpenAI may have to you.
Qualifications & exceptions
This exclusion qualifies the Output indemnities for API and Enterprise customers elsewhere in these terms.
Not stated here
Which specific features OpenAI treats as Beta Services is not listed in this source.
Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · Restriction or exception
No warranties for Beta Services
OpenAI makes no representations or warranties for Beta Services, including that they will become generally available, run without interruption or errors, or that Content will be secure or not lost or damaged. Except where the law prohibits it, OpenAI disclaims all warranties for Beta Services, including implied warranties such as merchantability, satisfactory quality, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement and quiet enjoyment, and warranties arising from course of dealing or usage of trade.
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OpenAI makes no representations or warranties for Beta Services, including any warranty that Beta Services will be generally available, uninterrupted or error-free, or that Content will be secure or not lost or damaged.
Except to the extent prohibited by law, OpenAI expressly disclaims all warranties for Beta Services
Qualifications & exceptions
The disclaimer is limited to Beta Services and is subject to 'except to the extent prohibited by law'.
Not stated here
Which warranties, if any, apply to non-beta Services is not stated in this source.
Account & Service Control · Company practice
Workspace administrators can manage users and, for ChatGPT Enterprise, see Content and logs
ChatGPT Enterprise, Edu and Healthcare (together called Enterprise) and ChatGPT Business accounts are managed by End Users with administrative privileges, called Administrators. Administrators may be able to add, remove and suspend End Users' access to the organization's workspace. The text goes further for ChatGPT Enterprise: its Administrators may be able to access, share and remove Content and to access logging and information about End Users' use of ChatGPT Enterprise. In practice, a person using a work or school workspace account may have their workspace access changed, and for Enterprise their Content and usage information viewed, by their organization's administrators.
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ChatGPT Enterprise, ChatGPT Edu, and ChatGPT for Healthcare (collectively, “Enterprise”) and ChatGPT Business accounts are managed by End Users with administrative privileges (“Administrators”).
Administrators may be able to add, remove and suspend End Users’ access to the organization’s workspace.
In addition, ChatGPT Enterprise Administrators may be able to (a) access, share and remove Content; and (b) access logging and information about End Users’ use of ChatGPT Enterprise.
Qualifications & exceptions
Content access and log access are stated for 'ChatGPT Enterprise Administrators', while the general user-management powers cover both Enterprise and Business accounts.
The wording is 'may be able to', not a statement that every administrator has every power.
Not stated here
It is not stated whether Edu, Healthcare or Business administrators have the same Content and log access as ChatGPT Enterprise administrators.
The paragraph does not say how an organization sets or limits these powers.
Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · Restriction or exception
Customers must obtain End User consents for administrator actions
The organization that is the Customer is responsible for obtaining and maintaining all consents it needs from End Users for the administrator actions described in that paragraph and so that OpenAI can deliver the Services. That responsibility sits with the Customer, not with OpenAI, as the text is written.
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Customers are responsible for obtaining and maintaining all necessary consents from End Users to take the actions above and to allow OpenAI to deliver the Services.
Qualifications & exceptions
Tied to the actions in the same paragraph (administrators adding, removing, suspending, accessing, sharing and removing, and viewing logs) and to OpenAI delivering the Services.
Not stated here
Which consents are 'necessary' is not defined here and may depend on law outside this source.
Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · Company commitment
Enterprise customers: Output infringement indemnity and its exclusions
OpenAI's indemnification duties to Enterprise customers under the Agreement include claims that the customer's use or distribution of Output infringes a third party's intellectual property right. The same six exclusions as the API indemnity apply: knew or should have known; disabled, ignored or did not use citation, filtering or safety features; Output modified, transformed or combined with products or services not provided by or for OpenAI; no right to use the Input or fine-tuning files; trademark or related-rights claims from use in trade or commerce; and Output from content from a Third Party Offering. Here 'Enterprise' is the term defined in the administrators paragraph as ChatGPT Enterprise, Edu and Healthcare.
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OpenAI’s indemnification obligations to Enterprise customers under the Agreement include claims that Customer’s use or distribution of Output infringes a third party’s intellectual property right.
This indemnity does not apply where:
(vi) the allegedly infringing Output is from content from a Third Party Offering.
Qualifications & exceptions
The exclusions are listed (i) to (vi); each is a separate situation in which the indemnity does not apply.
Alpha, preview, early access or beta features are excluded from indemnification under the Beta Services section.
'Enterprise' is defined in the previous paragraph to mean ChatGPT Enterprise, Edu and Healthcare; ChatGPT Business is named separately there.
Not stated here
Whether ChatGPT Business customers receive an equivalent indemnity is not stated in this section; the Agreement, which is not supplied, may address it.
The Agreement's other indemnity terms and the definitions of Third Party Offering and End Users are not supplied.
Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · Restriction or exception
ChatGPT for Healthcare: verify output and do not use for certain analysis
For ChatGPT for Healthcare, the text tells users to always verify the information it provides and to use independent professional judgment about a patient rather than relying primarily or solely on the output. It also says not to use ChatGPT for Healthcare to analyze medical images or patterns and signals from signal acquisition systems or in vitro diagnostic devices, with ECG waveforms and genomic sequences given as examples.
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You should always verify the information provided by ChatGPT for Healthcare and exercise independent professional judgment in decision-making about a patient without relying primarily or solely on the output.
Do not use ChatGPT for Healthcare to analyze medical images or patterns/signals from signal acquisition systems or in vitro diagnostic devices (such as an ECG waveforms or genomic sequences).
Qualifications & exceptions
Limited to ChatGPT for Healthcare; the general Medical Use section is separate.
Not stated here
The consequences of using the product for the prohibited analysis are not stated here.
Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · Context
Customer's Business Associate and Healthcare Addendum applies to ChatGPT for Healthcare
This section says the Customer's Business Associate and Healthcare Addendum applies to the Customer's use of ChatGPT for Healthcare. The addendum's terms are not in this source.
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(ii) Customer’s Business Associate and Healthcare Addendum applies to Customer’s use of ChatGPT for Healthcare.
Qualifications & exceptions
Applies to the Customer's use of ChatGPT for Healthcare.
Not stated here
The Business Associate and Healthcare Addendum is not supplied, so what it requires is unknown.
Content & IP Rights · Context
Output from code generation features may carry third party licenses
Output from OpenAI's code generation features, including Codex, may be subject to third party licenses, including open source licenses. The text says only that this may be so; it does not say which licenses apply to any given output.
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Output generated by code generation features of our Services, including
may be subject to third party licenses, including, without limitation, open source licenses.
Qualifications & exceptions
The wording is 'may be subject to', not a statement that a license always applies.
Not stated here
Which third party licenses attach to particular Output is not stated.
Content & IP Rights · Context
GPTs are customized versions of ChatGPT that users create and share
The Service Terms describe GPTs as customized versions of ChatGPT that users can create and share access to. The following paragraphs split the rules between people who build GPTs and people who use them.
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Users can create and share access to their own customized versions of ChatGPT called “GPTs”.
Qualifications & exceptions
The rules that follow are grouped under 'For Builders of GPTs' and 'For Users of GPTs'.
Content & IP Rights · Company commitment
GPT builders own their GPT Content and are solely responsible for it
What a builder uploads to or includes with a GPT, such as its name, instructions and description, is called GPT Content and is the builder's own Content. As between the builder and OpenAI, the builder is solely responsible for that GPT Content, for the Actions and configurations used or enabled to create the GPT, and for any Output based on them. The builder must also make sure the GPT complies with the Agreement and OpenAI's Usage Policies.
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The information or content that you upload to or include with your GPT (for example your GPT name, instructions, and description) (“GPT Content”) is your Content.
As between you and OpenAI, you are solely responsible for your GPT Content, Actions, and configurations that you use or enable to create your GPT as well as any Output that is based on your GPT Content, Actions, and configurations.
You must ensure your GPT complies with the Agreement and our
For purposes of these Terms, “Content” includes “Customer Content.”
Qualifications & exceptions
Responsibility is stated 'as between you and OpenAI', so it does not by its terms address claims by third parties.
Applies to people who build GPTs.
Not stated here
The Usage Policies and the Agreement are not supplied in this source.
Content & IP Rights · Permission or license
Sharing a GPT grants OpenAI and users a broad, irrevocable license
By sharing a GPT with others, the builder grants a nonexclusive, worldwide, irrevocable, royalty-free license. To OpenAI, it covers using, testing, storing, copying, translating, displaying, modifying, distributing, promoting and otherwise making available to other users all or any part of the GPT, including its GPT Content. To users of the GPT, to the extent Output from the GPT includes the builder's GPT Content, it covers using, storing, copying, displaying, distributing, preparing derivative works of and otherwise using that GPT Content.
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By sharing your GPT with others, you grant a nonexclusive, worldwide, irrevocable, royalty-free license:
(i) to OpenAI to use, test, store, copy, translate, display, modify, distribute, promote, and otherwise make available to other users all or any part of your GPT (including GPT Content)
(ii) to the extent Output from your GPT includes your GPT Content, to users of your GPT to use, store, copy, display, distribute, prepare derivative works of and otherwise use your GPT Content.
Qualifications & exceptions
The license is triggered by sharing the GPT with others.
The license to users reaches GPT Content only to the extent Output from the GPT includes it.
Not stated here
The source does not say whether the license continues after a GPT is removed or the builder stops sharing, beyond describing it as irrevocable.
Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · Restriction or exception
GPT builders must keep published GPT information accurate
A builder must make sure that all information it publishes about its GPT is, at all times, complete, accurate and not misleading.
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You will ensure that all information that you publish about your GPT is, at all times, complete, accurate, and not misleading.
Qualifications & exceptions
Applies to information the builder publishes about the GPT.
Not stated here
The consequence of failing to meet this duty is not stated here, beyond OpenAI's removal right.
Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · Restriction or exception
GPT Actions are subject to the App Developer Terms
Any API, website or service that interacts with a GPT is called an Action and is subject to OpenAI's App Developer Terms. The builder is responsible for making sure any Action included with the GPT operates in compliance with those terms.
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Any API, website, or service that interacts with a GPT (an “Action”) is subject to our
you are responsible for ensuring that any Action included with your GPT operates in compliance with those terms.
Qualifications & exceptions
Stated for builders; the separate Apps and Actions section covers how Actions work for users.
Not stated here
The App Developer Terms are linked but not supplied.
Account & Service Control · Company practice
OpenAI and GPT creators can remove GPTs at any time without notice
OpenAI may reject or remove any GPT at any time for any reason without notice to the builder, such as for legal or security reasons or because the GPT violates OpenAI's terms. For people using GPTs, the text says OpenAI and the creators of GPTs can remove GPTs at any time for any reason without prior notice, so a GPT someone relies on may disappear.
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We may reject or remove any GPT from our Services at any time for any reason without notice to you, such as for legal or security reasons or if your GPT violates our Terms.
OpenAI and creators of GPTs can remove GPTs at any time for any reason without prior notice.
Qualifications & exceptions
Builder-side wording is 'We may reject or remove'; user-side wording is 'OpenAI and creators of GPTs can remove'.
Not stated here
The text does not describe any appeal, refund or data export when a GPT is removed.
Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · Company practice
GPTs from other users are not created, supported or endorsed by OpenAI
Unless OpenAI is identified as the builder, GPTs are created by other users and may rely on content or third party applications that OpenAI does not control. Using the word GPT in a name does not mean OpenAI created, supports or endorses the GPT. The text tells users to only use GPTs they know and trust.
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Except where OpenAI is identified as the builder of a GPT, GPTs are created by other users and they may rely on content or third party applications that are not controlled by OpenAI.
Use of “GPT” in the name of a GPT created by other users does not imply that OpenAI created, supports or endorses the GPT.
Only use GPTs that you know and trust.
Qualifications & exceptions
The exception is for GPTs where OpenAI is identified as the builder.
Not stated here
The text does not say what, if anything, OpenAI does to review GPTs before or after they are shared.
Account & Service Control · User right or choice
Users can report GPTs that violate the Usage Policies
People using ChatGPT can report GPTs that violate OpenAI's Usage Policies through a reporting feature within ChatGPT.
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You can report GPTs that violate our
using our reporting feature within ChatGPT.
Qualifications & exceptions
The reporting route stated is the feature within ChatGPT.
Not stated here
What happens after a report is not described here.
Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · Context
GPT Actions for users fall under the Apps and Actions terms
GPTs may let a user interact with Actions. For users, those Actions are subject to OpenAI's terms for Apps and Actions, which appear later in the same document.
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GPTs may allow you to interact with Actions. Those Actions are subject to our terms for Apps and Actions below.
Qualifications & exceptions
Points forward to the Apps and Actions section of this document.
Not stated here
The substance of those terms is in the Apps and Actions cards, not here.
Visual Capabilities cannot be used to identify people or infer private information
OpenAI's models can accept images and videos as Inputs; the text calls this Visual Capabilities. A user may not use them to help identify a person, or to solicit or infer private or sensitive information about a person. A user also may not use them to reproduce a person's likeness without express consent and all necessary rights.
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Our models can accept images and videos as part of Inputs to the Services (“Visual Capabilities”).
You may not use Visual Capabilities to assist in identifying a person nor to solicit or infer private or sensitive information about a person.
You may not use Visual Capabilities to reproduce the likeness of any person without express consent and all necessary rights.
Qualifications & exceptions
The likeness restriction has an exception for use with express consent and all necessary rights; the identification and private-information restriction has no stated exception.
Not stated here
The source does not say how these restrictions are checked or enforced.
Content & IP Rights · Permission or license
Sharing an image or video publicly gives OpenAI rights to use and promote it
If a user chooses to share an image or video publicly on the Services, such as to the Sora feed or by uploading it to create a Sora cameo, the user represents having all necessary rights and gives OpenAI the right to reproduce, distribute, modify, display and perform it for the purpose of operating and promoting the Services.
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By choosing to share an image or video publicly on the Services, such as by sharing it to the Sora feed or uploading it to create a Sora cameo, you represent you have all necessary rights, and you give OpenAI the right to reproduce, distribute, modify, display and perform it for the purpose of operating and promoting the Services.
Qualifications & exceptions
Triggered by choosing to share publicly on the Services, including the examples given.
Not stated here
The text does not say whether uploads that are not shared publicly are covered by this particular grant.
Content & IP Rights · Permission or license
Other users get a limited right to reproduce and remix publicly shared media
A user who shares an image or video publicly also agrees to give other users the limited right to reproduce and remix that content only on the Services. Uploading a cameo or sharing an image or video does not give other users any rights to use those materials outside the Services.
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You also agree to give users the limited right to reproduce and remix that content solely on the Services.
Uploading a cameo or sharing an image or video does not give other users any rights to use those materials outside of the Services.
Qualifications & exceptions
The right is limited and applies solely on the Services.
Not stated here
The source does not describe how a user can end sharing or whether remixes survive removal.
Account & Service Control · Restriction or exception
Users are responsible for what they do with Apps and custom Apps
Apps and Actions, together called Apps, let ChatGPT send and receive information from a third-party application or website, for example to request a restaurant reservation. The user is solely responsible for actions taken using Apps or adding custom Apps, and can control whether an App is enabled in the workspace. A custom App is subject to the App Developer Terms, and the user must make sure the App and its connected Application comply with them.
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Apps and Actions (together “Apps”) allow ChatGPT to send and receive information from a third-party application or website (“Application”).
You are solely responsible for the actions you take using Apps or adding custom Apps, and you can control whether an App is enabled in your workspace.
Any custom App is subject to our
you are responsible for ensuring that your App and its connected Application operate in compliance with those terms.
Qualifications & exceptions
Responsibility covers the user's own actions with Apps and custom Apps.
Workspace control is stated as the user's ability to control whether an App is enabled.
Not stated here
The App Developer Terms are linked but not supplied.
Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · Restriction or exception
Third-party Apps are not verified by OpenAI and are used at the user's own risk
OpenAI may review, refuse or remove Applications from ChatGPT but has no obligation to. Third-party Apps are not developed or verified by OpenAI and may expose the user to Applications or content that may be offensive, inappropriate or objectionable. The user agrees to use Apps at their own risk, and the text warns, in capital letters, not to add or enable an App unless the user knows and trusts the underlying Application and has reviewed its terms and privacy policy.
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OpenAI may (but will have no obligation to) review, refuse, or remove Applications from ChatGPT.
Third-party Apps are not developed or verified by OpenAI, and may expose you to Applications or content that you may find offensive, inappropriate or objectionable.
You agree that you use Apps at your own risk.
DO NOT ADD OR ENABLE AN APP UNLESS YOU KNOW AND TRUST THE UNDERLYING APPLICATION AND HAVE REVIEWED ITS TERMS AND PRIVACY POLICY.
Qualifications & exceptions
Applies to third-party Apps; the text does not say Apps owned by OpenAI are covered by the same risk language.
Not stated here
Which Apps OpenAI itself has reviewed or removed is not stated.
Sharing & Disclosure · Permission or license
Enabling an App lets OpenAI send parts of your Content and location to the Application
When a user adds or enables an App, the Services may send applicable portions of the user's Content and certain information such as country and state, called App Data, through the App to the Application. By using or enabling the App, the user authorizes and instructs OpenAI to send that App Data to the Application, which will handle it under the Application's own terms.
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When you add or enable an App, the Services may send applicable portions of your Content and certain information such as your country and state (“App Data”) via the App to the Application.
By using or enabling the App, you authorize and instruct us to send your App Data to the applicable Application, which will be handled in accordance with its terms.
Qualifications & exceptions
Triggered by adding, enabling or using an App.
Described as 'applicable portions' of Content and 'certain information such as' country and state.
Not stated here
The full list of information in App Data is not given; 'such as' leaves it open.
The Application's terms are not supplied.
Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · Restriction or exception
OpenAI is not responsible for App Data once an Application has it; returned content is not owned by you or OpenAI
OpenAI says it is not responsible for App Data after it has been provided to an Application, unless the Application is owned by OpenAI. An App may also retrieve information and content from the Application, which may appear in Output the user receives. The text says that information and content is not owned by the user or OpenAI and may be subject to the Application's terms.
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We are not responsible for App Data after it has been provided to an Application other than Applications owned by us.
This information and content included in the Output is not owned by you or OpenAI, and may be subject to the terms of the Application.
Qualifications & exceptions
The exception is for Applications owned by OpenAI.
Not stated here
The text does not say what OpenAI does if an Application misuses App Data.
Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception
ChatGPT Voice Output is non-commercial only and not covered by assigned Output rights
Voice conversations let a user speak to OpenAI's models and have them speak back; the spoken result is called ChatGPT Voice Output. It is for non-commercial use only and may not be distributed or repackaged as a standalone audio recording or any other sound file. Any rights in Output that are assigned to the user do not include ChatGPT Voice Output.
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Voice conversations is a ChatGPT feature that allows you to speak to our models and have them speak back (“ChatGPT Voice Output”).
ChatGPT Voice Output is for non-commercial use only and may not be distributed or repackaged as a standalone audio recording or any other sound file.
Any rights in Output assigned to you do not include ChatGPT Voice Output.
Qualifications & exceptions
The limit applies to ChatGPT Voice Output, not to text Output.
The assignment of Output rights it refers to is described in the Agreement, not here.
Not stated here
The text does not define non-commercial use or say how the limit is enforced.
The Agreement's Output-rights terms are not supplied.
Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · Restriction or exception
Services are not intended for diagnosing or treating a health condition
OpenAI says its Services are not intended for use in the diagnosis or treatment of any health condition, and that the user is responsible for complying with applicable laws for any use of the Services in a medical or healthcare context. For ChatGPT for Healthcare, the earlier section adds that users should verify output and use independent professional judgment rather than relying primarily or solely on the output.
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Our Services are not intended for use in the diagnosis or treatment of any health condition.
You are responsible for complying with applicable laws for any use of our Services in a medical or healthcare context.
You should always verify the information provided by ChatGPT for Healthcare and exercise independent professional judgment in decision-making about a patient without relying primarily or solely on the output.
Qualifications & exceptions
The statement is about intended use; it does not say what happens if someone uses the Services that way anyway.
ChatGPT for Healthcare has its own additional verification and use limits in the Enterprise section.
Not stated here
Which laws apply is not stated and depends on the user's location and use.
Licensed Materials: limited, non-transferable license to run delivered software on Customer Systems
Some OpenAI Services involve the Customer downloading and installing software, packages, code, containers or other modules, called Licensed Materials, on local machines, private cloud infrastructure or other customer-managed systems, called Customer Systems. During the Term, OpenAI grants the Customer a limited, non-exclusive license to copy, install and use the Licensed Materials solely on Customer Systems and in accordance with the Agreement. The license cannot be transferred, except with a permitted assignment, and cannot be sublicensed, and it ends at the end of the Term or on written notice to the Customer.
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Some OpenAI Services may involve Customer downloading and installing software, packages, code, containers, or other modules that are delivered as source code, object code, data, and/or other works (“Licensed Materials”) on local machines, private cloud infrastructure, or other customer-managed systems (“Customer Systems”).
OpenAI hereby grants to Customer during the Term a limited non-exclusive license to copy, install, and use the Licensed Materials solely on Customer Systems and in accordance with the Agreement.
This license is non-transferable (except in connection with a permitted assignment) and non-sublicensable and will terminate at the end of the Term or upon written notice to Customer.
or other agreement you have with us governing your use of the Services (“Agreement”).
Qualifications & exceptions
Applies to Customers, to the Licensed Materials, and to use on Customer Systems only.
The license can end at the end of the Term or on written notice.
Not stated here
The Term is not defined in this source.
The text does not say which Services involve Licensed Materials or what conditions govern a notice of termination.
Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception
Licensed Materials cannot be modified, redistributed or sublicensed; open source licenses can override
The Customer may not modify, redistribute or sublicense the Licensed Materials. If a component of the Licensed Materials is offered under an open source license, and that license grants the Customer additional rights, those provisions expressly override some terms of the Agreement for that component only.
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You may not modify, redistribute, or sublicense the Licensed Materials.
If any component of the Licensed Materials are offered under an open source license, to the extent the provisions of that license grant Customer additional rights, those provisions will expressly override some terms of the Agreement solely with respect to that component of the Software.
Qualifications & exceptions
The override applies only to the extent the open source license grants additional rights and only for that component.
Not stated here
The text refers to 'the Software' without defining it, and does not say which Agreement terms the override affects.
Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception
Licensed Materials may be used only with the Services, within the Services' restrictions and documentation
Licensed Materials may be used only in connection with the permitted use of the Services under the Agreement, in line with any restrictions that apply to the Services generally and with applicable documentation, and solely to use them with or connect them to the Services. A person who does not agree to these terms, or who lacks authority to agree to the Licensed Materials Agreement for the Customer, may not view or use them.
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You may not use the Licensed Materials except in connection with your permitted use of the Services in accordance with the Agreement.
Your use of the Licensed Materials must comply at all times with any restrictions applicable to the Services, generally, and must be used in accordance with any applicable documentation.
If you do not agree to these terms, or if you do not have the requisite authority to agree to the Licensed Materials Agreement on behalf of the Customer, you may not view or use the Licensed Materials.
Qualifications & exceptions
Use is tied to permitted use of the Services and to applicable documentation.
Not stated here
The 'Licensed Materials Agreement' is not defined or supplied in this source.
The applicable documentation is not supplied.
Retention & Deletion · Restriction or exception
On termination Licensed Materials and all copies must be permanently deleted
When the arrangement terminates, the Customer must permanently delete the Licensed Materials and all copies of them.
Supporting quotations
Upon termination, you must permanently delete the Licensed Materials and all copies thereof.
Qualifications & exceptions
Triggered by termination.
Not stated here
The text does not say whether 'termination' means the license, the Agreement or both, or how deletion is to be confirmed.
Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · Restriction or exception
Licensed Materials are part of the Services and carry its disclaimers and liability limits
Licensed Materials are treated as part of the Services and are subject to the disclaimers and limitations of liability set out in the terms for the Services.
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The Licensed Materials are considered a part of the Services and subject to the disclaimers and limitations of liability set forth therein.
Qualifications & exceptions
The disclaimers and limits referred to are those for the Services.
Not stated here
Those disclaimers and limitations are in the Agreement and are not supplied here.
Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · Context
ChatGPT Sites use is subject to separate ChatGPT Sites Terms
ChatGPT Sites is a feature that lets users create, publish and maintain websites or web applications. Use of it is subject to the ChatGPT Sites Terms, which are a separate linked document.
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ChatGPT Sites is a feature that enables users to create, publish, and maintain websites or web applications.
The use of ChatGPT Sites is subject to the
Qualifications & exceptions
The substantive rules for ChatGPT Sites are in the linked terms.
Not stated here
The ChatGPT Sites Terms are not supplied.
Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · Context
OpenAI Academy has its own terms, not the business agreement
OpenAI Academy is a free learning hub and community for users of OpenAI products and services. Using it is subject to OpenAI's Terms of Use and to OpenAI Academy's own Terms of Use and Code of Conduct. For users whose accounts are tied to a business or enterprise workspace, the OpenAI Services Agreement or other business or enterprise terms do not apply to using Academy, even when they use Sign in with ChatGPT with their workspace account.
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OpenAI Academy is a free learning hub and community for users of OpenAI products and services.
Use of OpenAI Academy is subject to OpenAI’s
For users with accounts associated with a business or enterprise workspace, the OpenAI Services Agreement or other business or enterprise terms do not apply to use of OpenAI Academy, even if a user uses Sign in with ChatGPT with their workspace account.
Qualifications & exceptions
The statement that business terms do not apply is specific to use of OpenAI Academy and to workspace accounts.
This is an exception to the general rule that Service Terms sit alongside the user's governing Agreement.
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The linked Terms of Use and the Academy Terms of Use and Code of Conduct are not supplied.
Which of OpenAI's Terms of Use editions applies to a reader is not stated.
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narrows (model-proposed): Service Terms scope, effective date and priority over the Agreement — exception_to: The Service Terms are written to sit with the user's governing Agreement and to control in a conflict; for OpenAI Academy, the paragraph says business or enterprise terms do not apply at all.
Sharing & Disclosure · Company practice
OpenAI may share Academy activity with an account's organization administrators
If a person uses an email address or account associated with an organization, including through Sign in with ChatGPT, OpenAI may share information about their Academy activity, such as enrollment, engagement, progress and completion status, with the organization's owners or administrators.
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If you use an email address or account associated with an organization, including through Sign in with ChatGPT, OpenAI may share information about your OpenAI Academy activity, such as enrollment, engagement, progress, and completion status, with your organization’s owners or administrators.
Qualifications & exceptions
Applies when the email address or account is associated with an organization.
The wording is 'may share', and the examples are introduced by 'such as'.
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The full list of Academy activity information that can be shared is not given.
The text does not describe any way for the person to decline the sharing.
Charges & Financial Obligations · Restriction or exception
Financial Services are informational and not financial or investment advice
OpenAI's financial plugins and ChatGPT for Financial Services, together called Financial Services, and their Output are for informational purposes only. OpenAI says it does not provide financial or investment advice through them.
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OpenAI’s financial plugins and ChatGPT for Financial Services (together, “Financial Services”) and their Output are for informational purposes only.
OpenAI does not provide financial or investment advice through Financial Services.
Qualifications & exceptions
Applies to Financial Services and their Output.
Charges & Financial Obligations · Restriction or exception
Financial data may be wrong or late, and the user remains responsible for decisions
Data and Output from Financial Services may be inaccurate, delayed or outdated. Users should review important information, use independent professional judgment before relying on it, and seek advice from a qualified financial advisor where appropriate. The user remains responsible for decisions made using Financial Services.
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Data and Output may be inaccurate, delayed, or outdated.
Review important information and exercise independent professional judgment before relying on it.
You remain responsible for decisions made using Financial Services.
Qualifications & exceptions
Applies to Financial Services data and Output.
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The text does not say when seeking a financial advisor is 'appropriate'.
Charges & Financial Obligations · Context
Financial Services and credit score features are subject to separate terms
Use of Financial Services, including third-party data and content, is subject to the Financial Services Terms, which include data partner terms, disclaimers and restrictions on use and redistribution. Using credit score services, such as connecting to and accessing credit scores, reports, monitoring and personalized insights, is also subject to the Credit Score Terms.
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including third-party data and content, is subject to the
including applicable data partner terms, disclaimers, and restrictions on use and redistribution.
Your use of credit score services, such as connecting to and accessing credit scores, reports, monitoring, and personalized insights, is also subject to the
Qualifications & exceptions
Credit score services are subject to the Credit Score Terms in addition to the Financial Services Terms.
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The Financial Services Terms, any data partner terms and the Credit Score Terms are not supplied.
Account & Service Control · Restriction or exception
Users decide what dots and agentic features can do and are responsible for their actions
The user decides how to use dots and related agentic features, including what access, authority and instructions to give them. The user is responsible for the actions they take and the content they share on the user's behalf. The text does not define dots.
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You decide how to use dots and related agentic features, including what access, authority, and instructions you give them.
You are responsible for actions they take and content they share on your behalf.
Qualifications & exceptions
Responsibility covers actions taken and content shared on the user's behalf.
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What 'dots' are is not explained in this source.
Account & Service Control · Restriction or exception
Users must provide oversight appropriate to the task
The user is responsible for oversight that fits the task and its potential consequences, including setting clear instructions and appropriate limits and reviewing the actions and communications of dots and related agentic features.
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You are responsible for providing oversight appropriate to the task and its potential consequences.
This includes setting clear instructions and appropriate limits and reviewing actions and communications.
Qualifications & exceptions
The level of oversight depends on the task and its potential consequences.
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The text does not say what oversight is 'appropriate' for any particular task.
Charges & Financial Obligations · Restriction or exception
Purchases made by agentic features: permission, responsibility and monitoring
A user must have permission to use any account or payment method they provide. The user is responsible for transactions made on their behalf, must give appropriate purchase guidance, monitor their accounts, and promptly raise any errors with the relevant financial institution or payment provider. Third-party terms may also apply to these transactions.
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You must have permission to use any account or payment method you provide.
You are responsible for transactions made on your behalf.
You must provide appropriate purchase guidance, monitor your accounts, and promptly raise any errors with the relevant financial institution or payment provider.
Third-party terms may also apply to these transactions.
Qualifications & exceptions
Part of the Dots and Agentic Features section, so it concerns transactions made through those features on the user's behalf.
Errors are to be raised with the financial institution or payment provider, not stated as raised with OpenAI.
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The text does not say how quickly 'promptly' is, or whether OpenAI offers any remedy for erroneous transactions.
Account & Service Control · Context
Sign in with ChatGPT lets developers connect ChatGPT accounts; separate SIWC Terms apply
Sign in with ChatGPT lets developers enable users to connect their ChatGPT accounts, including certain features or functionality within those accounts, to their tool, application or website. A developer who uses it in their services is subject to the Sign in with ChatGPT Terms, which are a separate linked document.
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Sign in with ChatGPT (“SIWC”) allows developers to enable users to connect their ChatGPT accounts, including certain features or functionality within those accounts, to their tool, application, or website.
If you use SIWC in your services, the
Qualifications & exceptions
The Sign in with ChatGPT Terms apply to those who use SIWC in their services.
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The Sign in with ChatGPT Terms are not supplied.
Sharing & Disclosure · User right or choice
Users connecting through Sign in with ChatGPT share authentication information
A user who connects their ChatGPT account to another service with Sign in with ChatGPT agrees to share the information needed to authenticate them, including name, email and/or profile photo, and, where relevant, their ChatGPT usage. What they share with the other service is subject to that service's terms, policies and configuration.
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If you are a user connecting your account to a service using SIWC, you agree to share information necessary to authenticate you (including name, email, and/or profile photo) and, where relevant, your ChatGPT usage.
The information you share with another service will be subject to that service’s terms, policies, and configuration.
Qualifications & exceptions
Applies to a user connecting an account to a service using SIWC.
The wording is 'including' for the authentication information and 'where relevant' for ChatGPT usage.
Not stated here
The text does not say which usage information is relevant or when.
The other service's terms, policies and configuration are not supplied.