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OpenAI updated its Privacy Policy on May 1, 2026 to add explicit language about direct marketing to users and disclosure of data sharing with marketing partners. The policy now states that OpenAI will promote products and services to users through direct marketing on third-party properties, subject to user choices and controls. Additionally, the policy introduces a new category called 'Vendors, Service Providers, and Marketing Partners,' specifying that OpenAI shares limited information with select marketing partners who are not traditional service providers to help promote products and assess marketing effectiveness. Users can now make choices about the use of their information for third-party product promotion purposes.
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13Useful resources Updated: April 1, 2026 US privacy policy ( Previous version ⁠ ) For individuals in the European Economic Area, United Kingdom, and Switzerland, you can read this version of our Privacy Policy.13Useful resources Select language English (United States) العربية አማርኛ Armenian বাংলা bosanski български Burmese català hrvatski čeština dansk Nederlands eesti suomi français (Canada) français (France) Georgian Deutsch Ελληνικά ગુજરાતી हिन्दी magyar Icelandic Indonesia Irish italiano 日本語 ಕನ್ನಡ Kazakh 한국어 latviešu lietuvių Macedonian Melayu മലയാളം Maltese मराठी Mongolian norsk bokmål polski português (Brasil) português (Portugal) română русский slovenčina slovenščina српски (Srbija) Somali español (Latinoamérica) español (España) Kiswahili svenska Filipino தமிழ் తెలుగు ไทย Türkçe українська اردو Tiếng Việt 中文 (中国) 中文 (台灣) 中文 (香港) Updated: April 30, 2026 US privacy policy ( Previous version ⁠ ) For individuals in the European Economic Area, United Kingdom, and Switzerland, you can read this version of our Privacy Policy.
47Learn more ⁠ (opens in a new window) 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; 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 To comply with legal obligations and to protect the rights, privacy, safety, or property of our users, OpenAI, or third parties, for instance to prevent harm to you or others, or to estimate your age to give you an age-appropriate experience.47Learn more ⁠ (opens in a new window) 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 ⁠ (opens in a new window) ); 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 To comply with legal obligations and to protect the rights, privacy, safety, or property of our users, OpenAI, or third parties, for instance to prevent harm to you or others, or to estimate your age to give you an age-appropriate experience.
52Disclosure of Personal Data 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.52Disclosure of Personal Data We disclose your Personal Data in the following circumstances: 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.
53We also work with service providers who help us with age and identity verification, and you can learn more here ⁠ (opens in a new window) .53We also work with service providers who help us with age and identity verification, and you can learn more here⁠ ⁠ (opens in a new window) .
54Based on our instructions, these parties will access, process, or store Personal Data only in the course of performing their duties to us.54When 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.
55We 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.
56Some of these partners may receive information through cookies and similar technologies.
57Learn more about these practices and the choices available to you here ⁠ (opens in a new window) .
84Depending on applicable law, you may be able to choose which cookies are used when you use our Services.87Depending 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 (l earn more ⁠ (opens in a new window) ).
122Prevent 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 above Government authorities or other third parties for the legal reasons described above Parties involved in Transactions Business account administrators for the reasons described above Parents or guardians of teen users for account linking purposes described above Other 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.125Prevent 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 above Government authorities or other third parties for the legal reasons described above Parties involved in Transactions Business account administrators for the reasons described above Parents or guardians of teen users for account linking purposes described above Other users and third parties you interact or share information with Your Opt-Out Rights.
123We 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).126We don’t “sell” Personal Data.
124We also don’t process sensitive Personal Data for the purposes of inferring characteristics about a consumer.127Depending 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.
125Exercising Your Rights.128This is known as “targeted advertising” or sharing for “cross-context behavioral advertising” under certain state privacy laws.
126You can exercise privacy rights described in this section by submitting a request through privacy.openai.com ⁠ (opens in a new window) or to dsar@openai.com ⁠ .129You can opt out using the marketing privacy control in your account settings.
130If you’re not logged in, you can opt out using the Manage Cookies link on our website .
131You can also opt out using a legally recognized opt-out mechanism, like Global Privacy Control.
132You can learn more about the types of data we use and share for these purposes and controls we offer you here ⁠ (opens in a new window) .
133We don’t engage in these activities for users we know to be under 18 years of age.
134Your Other Rights.
135You can exercise these privacy rights described in this section by submitting a request through privacy.openai.com ⁠ (opens in a new window) or to dsar@openai.com .
138To appeal a decision, please send your request to dsar@openai.com ⁠ . 10.147To appeal a decision, please send your request to dsar@openai.com . 10.
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