OpenAI may restrict, suspend, or terminate accounts for breaches of terms, legal compliance requirements, risk of harm, or over one year of inactivity on free accounts, with a commitment to provide reasonable advance notice to allow data export where appropriate.
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The termination provision establishes a broad set of grounds for account action including risk or harm determinations made by OpenAI, qualified by an objectivity and reasonableness standard. The notice commitment is conditioned on several exceptions that may limit advance notification in practice.
Previous version had no excerpt; current version adds explicit 'acting reasonably and objectively' standard and specifies additional termination grounds including inactivity over one year for non-paid accounts.
View full change record →Under this clause, OpenAI may suspend or terminate accounts based on terms violations, legal obligations, risk or harm determinations, or inactivity exceeding one year on free accounts. The agreement states OpenAI will make reasonable efforts to provide advance notice to allow Content export, subject to named exceptions.
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Compare across platforms →"OpenAI rights. We may take action to restrict, suspend, or terminate your access to our Services or close your account if we determine, acting reasonably and objectively: You breached these Terms, including our Usage Policies. We must do so to comply with the law. Your use of our Services could cause risk or harm to OpenAI, our users, or anyone else. Your account has been inactive for over a year and you do not have a paid account. Notice. If we terminate your account, we will make reasonable efforts to notify you in advance so you can export your Content or your data from the Services, unless it is not appropriate for us to do so, we reasonably believe that continued access to your account will cause damage to OpenAI or anyone else, or we are legally prohibited from doing so.Excerpt from OpenAI's EU Terms of Use
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The termination provision establishes a broad set of grounds for account action including risk or harm determinations made by OpenAI, qualified by an objectivity and reasonableness standard. The notice commitment is conditioned on several exceptions that may limit advance notification in practice.
Under this clause, OpenAI may suspend or terminate accounts based on terms violations, legal obligations, risk or harm determinations, or inactivity exceeding one year on free accounts. The agreement states OpenAI will make reasonable efforts to provide advance notice to allow Content export, subject to named exceptions.
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