OpenAI shares your personal data with a wide range of outside companies for services like payments and marketing, and will hand over your data to government authorities when legally required.
Your personal data is shared with third-party service providers for marketing, analytics, payment processing, and other purposes, and may be disclosed to law enforcement or national security agencies without your knowledge or consent upon receipt of valid legal process.
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(1) REGULATORY FRAMEWORK: This provision implicates CCPA/CPRA §§1798.110, 1798.115 (disclosure of categories of third-party recipients); FTC Act Section 5 for adequate disclosure of data sharing; Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA, 18 U.S.C. §2701 et seq.) and the Stored Communications Act (18 U.S.C. §2703) governing government access to stored communications; National Security Letter authority (18 U.S.C. §2709); and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA, 50 U.S.C. §1801) for national security data requests. The FTC, DOJ, and relevant state AGs have enforcement jurisdiction. (2)
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