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| 1 | (“ we ”, “ us ” or “ our ”) respects your privacy and we are committed to protecting it through our compliance with this Privacy Policy. | 1 | (" we ", " us " or " our ") respects your privacy and we are committed to protecting it through our compliance with this Privacy Policy. |
| 4 | This Privacy Policy applies to all personal data collected through any written, electronic, or oral communications, as you: Access the website located at https://openrouter.ai/ and all corresponding webpages and websites that link to this Privacy Policy (the “ Site ”); Interact with applications on third party websites and services, if those applications include links to this Privacy Policy; Utilize our Service. | 4 | This Privacy Policy applies to all personal data collected through any written, electronic, or oral communications, as you: Access the website located at https://openrouter.ai/ and all corresponding webpages and websites that link to this Privacy Policy (the " Site "); Interact with applications on third party websites and services, if those applications include links to this Privacy Policy; Utilize our Service. |
| 5 | Before using our Site and Service, please carefully read our Terms of Service, which you can view here (opens in new tab) and this Privacy Policy. | 5 | Before using our Site and Service, please carefully read our Terms of Service (opens in new tab) and this Privacy Policy. |
| 10 | We will provide individuals who create an account (“ Users ”) with advanced notice by email if we make any material changes to how we collect, use or disclose Users’ personal data or that impact Users’ rights under this Privacy Policy. | 10 | We will provide individuals who create an account (" Users ") with advanced notice by email if we make any material changes to how we collect, use or disclose Users' personal data or that impact Users' rights under this Privacy Policy. |
| 18 | Any text or data (excluding prompts you send to the Service, which are governed by section five of the Terms of Service section 5) you input into the Service (“ Inputs ”) that include personal data will also be collected by us. | 18 | Any text or data you input into the Service (" Inputs ") that include personal data will also be collected by us. |
| 19 | We do not control, and are not responsible for, LLMs’ handling of your Inputs or Outputs, including for use in their model training. | 19 | We do not control, and are not responsible for, LLMs' handling of your Inputs or Outputs, including for use in their model training. |
| 20 | To understand how your Inputs are used by AI models, check the terms of the providers here (opens in new tab) . | 20 | To understand how your Inputs are used by LLMs, check their LLM Terms here (opens in new tab) . |
| 22 | Personal Data You Voluntarily Provide to Us The personal data we collect from you may include: Information that you provide by filling in forms on our Site or Service. | 22 | Personal Data You Voluntarily Provide to Us The personal data we collect from you may include: Information that you provide by using our Site or Service or by filling out forms on the Site. |
| 23 | This includes information provided at the time of or after registering and creating an account, using our Service, and sending Inputs through the Service. | 23 | This includes information provided at the time of or after registering and creating an account, using our Service, sending Inputs through the Service, and using Shared User Content functionality. |
| 25 | Information that you provide to our third-party partners that integrate, interoperate with, or connect to the Site or Service. | ||
| 30 | Image, audio, video, and "biometric information". | ||
| 31 | Certain Models available through our Service accept image, audio or video Inputs, or generate image, audio or video Outputs. | ||
| 32 | If you submit image, audio or video files through the Service, including voice recordings and other depictions of identifiable individuals those files may contain personal data about you or others, that are considered "biometric information" under applicable laws. | ||
| 33 | Cookies and Other Tracking Technology We may use cookies, embedded scripts, and other similar tracking technologies (“ Tracking Technologies ”) to collect additional personal data automatically as you interact with the Site and to personalize your experience with our Site. | 37 | Model Provider Data Practices When you submit Inputs through the Service, those Inputs are transmitted to the Model Provider you select, or that is selected through automatic routing, as applicable. |
| 38 | Different Model Providers have different data practices, including with respect to whether they retain or use your Inputs and Outputs to train, fine-tune, evaluate, or improve their Models. | ||
| 39 | Some Model Providers may use your Inputs and Outputs for model training or improvement. | ||
| 40 | Before using a Model, you should review the applicable Model Provider's data practices, which are linked here (opens in new tab) . | ||
| 41 | Where disclosed to us, we label Models that do not use your data for training. | ||
| 42 | If you do not want your Inputs used for model training, select a Model or Model Provider that commits to not using your data for that purpose. | ||
| 43 | Enterprise and API Users If you have a Data Processing Agreement with us, the terms of that agreement and our separate agreements with Model Providers govern how your data is handled by each Model Provider, including any restrictions on model training. | ||
| 44 | OpenRouter does not use your Inputs or Outputs for model training. | ||
| 45 | Biometric Data Processing Some Models perform processing that may constitute biometric data processing under applicable law. | ||
| 46 | This includes, but is not limited to: Voice cloning: creating a synthetic replica of a speaker's voice from audio samples, which requires extracting unique vocal characteristics (a voiceprint). | ||
| 47 | Voice changer: transforming or altering a speaker's voice in real time, which involves analyzing unique vocal features. | ||
| 48 | Speaker identification: distinguishing or identifying individual speakers based on voice characteristics. | ||
| 49 | Voice-preserving audio translation: translating audio while retaining the acoustic and tonal characteristics the original speaker's voice. | ||
| 50 | Face cloning: generating a digital replica of a person's face from a photograph, video or other sample, which requires extracting facial geometry that may constitute a faceprint. | ||
| 51 | When using these features, the Model Provider will process your audio or visual data to extract biometric identifiers, including without limitation voice prints, voice models, and face prints. | ||
| 52 | This data is treated as biometric data under the EU and UK GDPR, as sensitive personal information under the CCPA, and as biometric identifiers under the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act ("BIPA") and similar state laws. | ||
| 53 | If you submit image, audio or video data containing the voice or image of another person to a Model that performs biometric processing, you are responsible for ensuring that you have obtained appropriate notice and consent from that individual as required by applicable law. | ||
| 54 | You should not submit another person's voice or image data to a biometric processing feature without their informed consent. | ||
| 55 | OpenRouter acts as an intermediary, passing source image, audio and visual data to Models, and does not independently process or store this biometric data, or generate any biometric identifiers. | ||
| 56 | Cookies and Other Tracking Technology We may use cookies, embedded scripts, and other similar tracking technologies (" Tracking Technologies ") to collect additional personal data automatically as you interact with the Site and to personalize your experience with our Site. | ||
| 35 | Cookies Cookies are small web files that a site or its provider transfers to your device’s hard drive through your web browser that enables the site’s or provider’s system to recognize your browser and remember certain information. | 58 | We also may use these technologies to collect information about your online activities over time and across third party websites or other online services (known as "behavioral tracking"). |
| 59 | Cookies Cookies are small web files that a site or its provider transfers to your device's hard drive through your web browser that enables the site's or provider's system to recognize your browser and remember certain information. | ||
| 64 | Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google LLC (“ Google ”) that tracks and reports Site traffic. | 88 | Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google LLC (" Google ") that tracks and reports Site traffic. |
| 69 | You may review PostHog’s terms and conditions here: https://posthog.com/terms. | 93 | You may review PostHog's terms and conditions here: https://posthog.com/terms. |
| 97 | Transmitting your Inputs to third-party Model Providers for inference, and depending on the Model selected, for model training and improvement purposes. | ||
| 117 | Delivering interest-based ads (also known as personalized ads or targeted ads). | ||
| 118 | We show you interest-based ads to display aspects of our Site and Services that might be of interest to you. | ||
| 119 | We use cookies, pixels, IP addresses and other technologies (" Advertising Technologies "), which enable us to understand the effectiveness of the interest-based ads we show you by measuring what ads are clicked or viewed, and to provide you with more useful and relevant ads. | ||
| 120 | We also work with third parties, such as advertisers, social media networks, search engines, ad serving companies, and advertising companies working on their behalf, to improve the relevance of ads we serve. | ||
| 121 | In providing you interest-based ads we do not associate your interactions on unaffiliated sites with information which on its own identifies you, such as name or email address, and we do not provide any such information to advertisers or to third-party sites that display our interest-based ads. | ||
| 122 | Third party advertisers or advertising companies working on their behalf sometimes use Advertising Technologies in the process of delivering content, including ads, directly to your browser or device, and they may automatically receive an IP address when this happens. | ||
| 123 | They may also use advertising technologies to measure the effectiveness of their ads, show you more relevant advertising content, and perform services on our behalf. | ||
| 103 | We may employ other companies and individuals to facilitate our Site and Service (“ Service Providers ”), provide the Service on our behalf, perform Service-related services or assist us in analyzing how our Site and Service are used. | 135 | We may employ other companies and individuals to facilitate our Site and Service (" Service Providers "), provide the Service on our behalf, perform Service-related services or assist us in analyzing how our Site and Service are used. |
| 117 | We will preserve and disclose any and all information to law enforcement agencies or others if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such preservation or disclosure is reasonably necessary to: (a) comply with legal or regulatory process (such as a judicial proceeding, court order, or government inquiry) or obligations that we may owe pursuant to ethical and other professional rules, laws, and regulations; (b) enforce our Terms of Service and other policies; (c) respond to claims that any content violates the rights of third parties; or (d) protect the rights, property, or personal safety of OpenRouter, its employees, its users, its clients, and the public. 4. | 149 | We will preserve and disclose any and all information to law enforcement agencies or others if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such preservation or disclosure is reasonably necessary to: (a) comply with legal or regulatory process (such as a judicial proceeding, court order, or government inquiry) or obligations that we may owe pursuant to ethical and other professional rules, laws, and regulations; (b) enforce our Terms of Service and other policies; (c) respond to claims that any content violates the rights of third parties; or (d) protect the rights, property, or personal safety of OpenRouter, its employees, its users, its clients, and the public. |
| 150 | With Model Providers. | ||
| 151 | When you use our Service, we transmit your Inputs to the Model Provider(s) you select. | ||
| 152 | Model Providers process your Inputs to generate Outputs and may, depending on their own terms and data practices, retain and use your Inputs and Outputs for their own purposes, such as model training and improvement. | ||
| 153 | We contractually require Model Providers to comply with applicable data protection laws, but the Model Provider's own terms govern their independent use of your data to the extent permitted by our agreements. | ||
| 154 | A list of Model Providers and links to their data practices is available here (opens in new tab) . 4. | ||
| 120 | You may also choose to stop receiving our promotional or marketing communications by following the “unsubscribe” instructions included in these messages. | 157 | You may also choose to stop receiving our promotional or marketing communications by following the "unsubscribe" instructions included in these messages. |
| 161 | Advertising Preferences You can update your advertising preferences on your account page and choose not to receive interest-based ads from us. | ||
| 162 | You can also generally opt out of receiving personalized ads from third party advertisers and ad networks who are members of the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI) (opens in new tab) or who follow the Digital Advertising Alliance's Self-Regulatory Principles for Online Behavioral Advertising (opens in new tab) by visiting the opt out pages at the links provided above. | ||
| 155 | We do not “sell” your personal data as that term is defined by applicable laws and regulations. 5. | 194 | We do not "sell" your personal data as that term is defined by applicable laws and regulations. |
| 156 | Data Security We implement and maintain physical, technical and administrative security measures designed to protect Your Data from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration and disclosure. | 195 | You can opt out of sharing your personal data for targeted advertising by following the directions in this section. |
| 196 | Under the California Consumer Privacy Act ("CCPA"), you may exercise your right to opt out of "sharing" as defined in the CCPA by selecting Model Providers that do not use your personal data for training. | ||
| 197 | OpenRouter cannot control Model Provider-side training once user data is transmitted to a training-permitted Model Provider. 5. | ||
| 198 | Data Security We have implemented measures designed to secure your personal data from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration and disclosure. | ||
| 170 | We maintain a compliance program that includes independent third-party audits and certifications. | 212 | When the personal data we have collected is no longer required by us, we and our service providers will perform the necessary procedures for destroying, deleting, erasing or converting it into an anonymous form as permitted or required by applicable laws. |
| 171 | When the personal data we have collected is no longer required by us, we and our service providers will perform the necessary procedures for destroying, deleting, erasing or converting it into an anonymous form as permitted or required by applicable laws. 8. | 213 | Image, Audio, and Video Data Image, audio, and video data submitted through the Service is transmitted to the applicable Model Provider for inference. |
| 214 | We do not persist image, audio or video files beyond the duration necessary to route the request, except as required for abuse detection, security, billing, or legal compliance. | ||
| 215 | Model Providers' retention practices vary; check the applicable provider's data practices. | ||
| 216 | You may request deletion of your data by contacting us at [email protected] . 8. | ||
| 175 | Data Transfers When you access our Site or Service, your personal data may be transferred to our servers in the US, or to other countries outside the European Economic Area (“ EEA ”) and the UK. | 220 | Data Transfers When you access our Site or Service, your personal data may be transferred to our servers in the US, or to other countries outside the European Economic Area (" EEA ") and the UK. |
| 177 | When information is transferred outside the EEA or UK, we ensure it benefits from an adequate legal protection by relying on (1) adequacy decisions from the European Commission under Article 45 of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) where they recognize that a country outside of the EEA offers an adequate level of data protection, and (2) standard contractual clauses approved by the European Commission under Article 46 of the GDPR, which allows companies in the EEA to transfer data outside the EEA. 10. | 222 | When information is transferred outside the EEA or UK, we ensure it benefits from an adequate legal protection by relying on (1) adequacy decisions from the European Commission under Article 45 of the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) where they recognize that a country outside of the EEA offers an adequate level of data protection, and (2) standard contractual clauses approved by the European Commission under Article 46 of the GDPR, which allows companies in the EEA to transfer data outside the EEA. 10. |
| 178 | Governing Law All disputes arising out of or relating to the Privacy Policy or the purchase, registration, or use of any OpenRouter product or Service shall be governed by New York law regardless of where you access the Site or the Service, and notwithstanding any conflicts of law principles. 11. | 223 | Governing Law All disputes arising out of or relating to the Privacy Policy or the purchase, registration, or use of any OpenRouter product or Service shall be governed by New York law regardless of where you access the Site or the Service, and notwithstanding any conflicts of law principles, except to the extent applicable privacy laws provide rights or obligations that cannot be waived or varied by contract. 11. |
| 180 | The information below provides additional information about the categories of personal data we collect and how we use and disclose that information. | 225 | The below provides additional information about the categories of personal data we collect and how we use and disclose that information. |
| 181 | You can read more about the personal data we collect and where we collect it from in the “Collection of Personal Data” above, how we use personal data in “How We Use Your Personal Data” above, and how we retain personal data in “Personal Data Retention” above. | 226 | You can read more about the personal data we collect and where we collect it from in the "Collection of Personal Data" above, how we use personal data in "How We Use Your Personal Data" above, and how we retain personal data in "Personal Data Retention" above. |
| 182 | You can read more about your rights regarding the personal data collected in the “Rights Regarding Your Personal Data” above. | 227 | You can read more about your rights regarding the personal data collected in the "Rights Regarding Your Personal Data" above. |
| 183 | Categories of Personal Data: We collect the following information, as described above: Identifiers, such as your name, contact details, IP address, and other device identifiers Commercial information, such as your transaction history Network activity information, such as how you interact with our Service Communication information, such as your contact information when you send us email Geolocation data, such as the general area from which your device accesses our Service based on information like its IP address, or precise location information you choose to provide Your account credentials Use of Personal Data We use this information for the following purposes, as described above: Provide, analyze, and maintain our Service. | 228 | Categories of Personal Data Use of Personal Data Disclosure of Personal Data We collect the following information, as described above: Identifiers, such as your name, contact details, IP address, and other device identifiers Commercial information, such as your transaction history Network activity information, such as how you interact with our Service Communication information, such as your contact information when you send us email Geolocation data, such as the general area from which your device accesses our Service based on information like its IP address, or precise location information you choose to provide Your account credentials We use this information for the following purposes, as described above: Provide, analyze, and maintain our Service, and where applicable, for Model training and improvement by Model Providers. |
| 193 | Disclosure of Personal Data We may disclose this information in the following circumstances, as described above: Vendors, service providers, and affiliates to process in accordance with our instructions Government authorities or other third parties for the legal reasons described above Parties involved in corporate transactions Other users and third parties you interact or share information with | 238 | We may disclose this information in the following circumstances, as described above: Vendors, service providers, and affiliates to process in accordance with our instructions, including to Model Providers Government authorities or other third parties for the legal reasons described above Parties involved in corporate transactions Other users and third parties you interact or share information with |
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