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The updated terms establish an 18-year minimum age requirement with no parental consent pathway, effectively excluding users under 18 from the Service. For users uploading files, OpenRouter reserves the right to screen, scan, and review files at any time without notice, including through automated detection for CSAM and malware, and may suspend access or report files to law enforcement as required by law. The terms clarify that OpenRouter retains independent legal obligations to report apparent CSAM to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children under federal law, and establish a DMCA takedown procedure with potential account termination for repeat infringers. You can review OpenRouter's Privacy Policy for details on file retention and deletion procedures.
View change record →The updated terms establish explicit liability for all activity and charges under a user's account or API credentials, except where directly caused by OpenRouter's breach of the Terms. Users must now promptly notify OpenRouter of any actual or suspected compromise or unauthorized use of credentials. OpenRouter reserves the right to suspend, revoke, or limit API credentials or account access if it reasonably believes doing so is necessary to protect the Service, the user, OpenRouter, or any third party. Additionally, promotional credits are now defined as non-refundable, non-transferable, and subject to expiration, with no cash value and no entitlement to standard refund rights. You can review your API credential security settings and update your account information through your account page.
View change record →The updated terms establish explicit commercial licensing rights over user content when prompt logging is enabled. Specifically, when you opt into prompt logging, OpenRouter gains a worldwide, perpetual license to use, modify, reproduce, and distribute your user content, including the right to license or sell anonymized versions for commercial purposes. The terms also introduce new warranty requirements stating that you represent you own or have rights to your inputs and that they do not infringe third-party intellectual property or privacy rights. Additionally, users accessing Stealth Program models must now agree to a separate End User License Agreement. You can review your account settings to understand whether prompt logging is enabled and adjust this setting if desired.
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You agree not to change or delete any copyright or proprietary notice related to materials downloaded from the Websites and/or Platforms.
Copyright-infringing materials found on the Site can be identified and removed via our process listed below, and you agree to comply with such process in the event you are involved in any claim of copyright infringement...
Nothing in this Agreement assigns or transfers ownership of any IP Rights to the other party, or contemplates a joint development of intellectual property.
"your Inputs, and the use of your Inputs as contemplated by these Terms, does not and will not: (i) infringe, violate, or misappropriate any third-party right, including any copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, moral right, privacy right, right of publicity.Excerpt from OpenRouter's Terms of Service
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The clause states: “your Inputs, and the use of your Inputs as contemplated by these Terms, does not and will not: (i) infringe, violate, or misappropriate any third-party right, including any copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, moral right, privacy right, right of publicity.”
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