“Authorized OpenAI employees will only ever access your conversations for the purposes of resolving incidents, recovering end user conversations with your explicit permission, or where required by applicable law.”
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The clause creates an exhaustive list of permissible access purposes, meaning employee access outside those three purposes is not authorized.
Your conversations can only be accessed by authorized OpenAI employees for incident resolution, recovery with your explicit permission, or legal compliance.
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"Authorized OpenAI employees will only ever access your conversations for the purposes of resolving incidents, recovering end user conversations with your explicit permission, or where required by applicable law.Excerpt from OpenAI's Enterprise Privacy
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The clause creates an exhaustive list of permissible access purposes, meaning employee access outside those three purposes is not authorized.
Your conversations can only be accessed by authorized OpenAI employees for incident resolution, recovery with your explicit permission, or legal compliance.
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