What dots does with your messages
Source: OpenAI's safety, security and privacy write-up for dots, read 2026-10-01. Its words are quoted, never paraphrased.
Whose hands it passes through
Somebody carries the message, somebody runs the model that reads it, and where the agent uses a website on your behalf somebody operates that browser. A blank below is not an absence of a company, it is a company nobody has named.
- Slack, Web, Voice
- OpenAI
- Not named
- OpenAI
- Runs its own
- Not stated
In its own words
“For personal ChatGPT plans, you control whether your dots’ conversations and the work they carry out are used to improve our models, through your “Improve the model for everyone” setting.”
What it does not answer
Each of these is a question some policies in this directory answer. The count is how many of the 78 we have read close it.
- the people in your threads who never signed up
- what happens to your data when you cancel
Silence is not a denial and it is not a promise. A document that does not address the people in your group thread has not agreed to anything about them.
How old this document is
The document carries no revision date. 70 of the 78 policies here carry one and 8 do not, and without one there is no way to tell whether this describes the product as it ships today.
We started keeping a dated copy of this document on 2026-10-01. A policy that is quietly rewritten leaves nothing behind, so from here any change to it is recorded with the date it appeared.
Who else answers this the same way
The products that gave the same answer, each on a page like this one.
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