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This clause establishes Customer control over data processing as the default, with the only override being a legal obligation imposed on OpenAI—limiting OpenAI's discretion to use Customer Data for other purposes.
Interpretive note: The excerpt is truncated; any further elaboration on the scope of 'Customer Instructions' or the legal override is not captured.
Customers can expect their Customer Data to be processed only as they instruct, with the exception that applicable law binding OpenAI may require different processing.
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This clause establishes Customer control over data processing as the default, with the only override being a legal obligation imposed on OpenAI—limiting OpenAI's discretion to use Customer Data for other purposes.
Customers can expect their Customer Data to be processed only as they instruct, with the exception that applicable law binding OpenAI may require different processing.
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