We retain your Personal Data for as long as reasonably necessary to provide our services, maintain your account, comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements. The specific retention period depends on the nature of the data and the purposes for which it is processed.
Vague retention terms mean OpenAI could retain your conversation history and personal data indefinitely, with no clear deadline for deletion.
OpenAI collects extensive personal data including conversation content, audio and image inputs, device identifiers, location data, and usage logs across all its services, and may use this data to train AI models unless users opt out. This creates a meaningful privacy risk because sensitive information shared in conversations β health queries, financial details, personal communications β could indirectly influence model outputs. You can opt out of conversation data being used for AI training by navigating to Settings > Data Controls in your ChatGPT account and disabling 'Improve the model for everyone'.