Teacher Access Terms

These Teacher Access Terms apply to your use of OpenAI’s ChatGPT for Teachers offering as a K‑12 or higher‑ed teacher and do not apply to OpenAI services used by consumers or individuals for personal use or services for business or developers. 

The following terms and conditions (these “Teacher Access Terms”) form an agreement between you and OpenAI OpCo, LLC (“OpenAI,” “we,” “our”), a Delaware company, regarding your use of OpenAI’s ChatGPT for Teachers offering and any other services that require agreement to these Terms to access (the “Services”), and they include important provisions for resolving disputes through arbitration. By using our Services, you agree to these Teacher Access Terms, our Services Terms⁠⁠ and OpenAI’s Student Data Privacy Agreement⁠⁠(opens in a new window) (“Student DPA” and, together with the Teacher Access Terms and our Services Terms, these “Terms”). 

By agreeing to these Terms, you represent and warrant to us: (a) you are a teacher in a region in which OpenAI has decided, in its sole discretion, to offer the Services; (b) you have received all authorizations necessary from the school, school district, or other similar educational institution (“School”) with which you are currently employed to accept these Terms on behalf of your School and to register and use the Services; (c) you are at least 18 years old; (d) you have not previously been suspended or removed from the Services or any of our other products or services; and (e) your registration and your use of the Services is in compliance with all applicable laws and regulations. If your School has a separate written agreement with OpenAI, that agreement will govern our relationship with you.

When you register for an account for the Services (“Teacher Account”), you may be required to provide us with some information about yourself, and we may ask you to verify your employment status at your School. For example, we may ask you to validate a school email domain or provide information to a third-party identity verification provider. You must provide accurate and complete information to register for a Teacher Account. If we cannot verify your employment status at your School, we may deny you the right to use the Services. (See our right to limit or suspend access for policy or legal reasons in Section 9.) You may not share your account credentials or make your Teacher Account available to anyone else and you are responsible for all activities that occur under your Teacher Account. If you create a Teacher Account or use the Services on behalf of another person or entity, you must have the authority to accept these Terms on their behalf.

If you create a workspace under your Teacher Account, then by default you will manage the workspace’s settings. As the manager of the workspace’s settings (“Admin”), you may add other individuals from your School as members of your workspace. If you invite an individual to your workspace, then that individual will need an account for the Services to access the workspace. As the Admin, you may transfer your management rights for the workspace to another member of the workspace.  You agree to seek and maintain any permissions needed from invitees and your School to manage any workspace you create.

If you join a workspace created by another member, then you agree that your use of that workspace will be subject to the Admin’s settings and these Terms. 

Subject to your compliance with these Terms, you may access and use our Services. In using our Services, you must comply with all applicable laws as well as our Sharing & Publication Policy, ⁠⁠Usage Policies⁠⁠, and any other documentation, guidelines, or policies we make available to you (“Policies”). The Policies are hereby incorporated by reference into these Terms.

Because your School can take control of, and become an Admin to your account, you should only use the Services and your Teacher Account for educational purposes in your role as a teacher (for example: lesson planning, classroom activities, learning assessment, or communications with students and families). 

Your Teacher Account is separate from your personal OpenAI account. You agree not to use your Teacher Account for any personal or commercial projects unrelated to your work as an educator. We may suspend or revoke access if we detect policy‑violating use.

In addition, you may not use our Services for any illegal, harmful, or abusive activity. For example, you may not:

• Use our Services in a way that infringes, misappropriates or violates anyone’s rights.
• Modify, copy, lease, sell or distribute any of our Services.
• Attempt to or assist anyone to reverse engineer, decompile or discover the source code or underlying components of our Services, including our models, algorithms, or systems (except to the extent this restriction is prohibited by applicable law).
• Automatically or programmatically extract data or Output (defined below).
• Represent that Output was human-generated when it was not.
• Interfere with or disrupt our Services, including circumvent any rate limits or restrictions or bypass any protective measures or safety mitigations we put on our Services.
• Use Output to develop models that compete with OpenAI.

Software. Our Services may allow you to download software, such as mobile applications, which may update automatically to ensure you’re using the latest version. Our software may include open source software that is governed by its own licenses that we’ve made available to you.

Third-party Services. Our services may include third-party software, products, or services, (“Third-Party Services”) and some parts of our Services, like our browse feature, may include output from those services (“Third-Party Output”). Third-Party Services and Third-Party Output are subject to their own terms, and we are not responsible for them. If you elect to connect to or activate our service with any Third-Party Services, you represent and warrant that you have the permission from your School to do so. If you elect to use a Third-Party Service that allows you to export any content to that Third-Party Service, you authorize OpenAI to transfer Content (defined below) to the applicable Third-Party Services. Third-Party Services are not under OpenAI’s control, and OpenAI is not responsible for any Third-Party Service’s use of your Content. Please be sure to review the terms of use and privacy policy of any Third-Party Services before you share any Content or information with those Third-Party Services.

Your Content. You may provide input to the Services (“Input”) and receive output from the Services based on the Input (“Output”). Input and Output are collectively “Content.” You are responsible for Content, including ensuring that it does not violate any applicable law or these Terms. You represent and warrant that you have all rights, licenses, and permissions needed to provide Input to our Services. 

Ownership of Content. As between you and OpenAI, and to the extent permitted by applicable law, you (a) retain your ownership rights in Input, and (b) own the Output. We hereby assign to you all our right, title, and interest, if any, in and to Output. 

Similarity of Content. Due to the nature of our Services and artificial intelligence generally, output may not be unique and other users may receive similar output from our Services. Our assignment above does not extend to other users’ output or any Third-Party Output. 

Our use of Content. OpenAI will only use your Content as necessary to provide you with the Services, comply with applicable law, enforce the Policies, and prevent abuse. OpenAI will not use your Content to develop or improve the Services. 

Accuracy. Artificial intelligence and machine learning are rapidly evolving fields of study. We are constantly working to improve our Services to make them more accurate, reliable, safe, and beneficial. Given the probabilistic nature of machine learning, use of our Services may, in some situations, result in Output that does not accurately reflect real people, places, or facts. 

When you use our Services, you understand and agree:

• Output may not always be accurate. You should not rely on Output from our Services as a sole source of truth or factual information, or as a substitute for professional advice.
• You must evaluate Output for accuracy and appropriateness for your use case, including using human review as appropriate, before using or sharing Output from the Services.
• You must not use any Output relating to a person for any purpose that could have a legal or material impact on that person, such as making credit, educational, employment, housing, insurance, legal, medical, or other important decisions about them. 
• Our Services may provide incomplete, incorrect, or offensive Output that does not represent OpenAI’s views. If Output references any third-party products or services, it doesn’t mean the third party endorses or is affiliated with OpenAI.

School Content. You acknowledge and agree that: (a) your Content may be shared with your School and may be modified, deleted, or accessed by your School; (b) the School may terminate your access to the Services at any time and you may not be able to access any of the Content associated with your Teacher Account; and (c) any Content you make available through your Teacher Account may grant your School broad rights to your Content. As between you and OpenAI, you are responsible for resolving any dispute you may have with the School related to Content associated with your Teacher Account.  

We and our affiliates own all rights, title, and interest in and to the Services. You may only use our name and logo in accordance with our Brand Guidelines⁠⁠.

Feedback. We appreciate your feedback, and you agree that we may use it without restriction or compensation to you.

Payments. If you purchase the Services, you will provide complete and accurate billing information, including a valid payment method. For paid subscriptions, we will automatically charge your payment method on each agreed-upon periodic renewal until you cancel. You’re responsible for all applicable taxes, and we’ll charge tax when required. If your payment cannot be completed, we may downgrade your account or suspend your access to our Services until payment is received. If you subscribe to a subscription service, you may cancel your paid subscription at any time. Payments are non-refundable, except where required by law. These Terms do not override any mandatory local laws regarding your cancellation rights. 

Changes. We may change our prices from time to time, including by charging fees for Services that were previously provided free of charge. If we increase our subscription prices, we will give you at least 30 days’ notice and any price increase will take effect on your next renewal so that you can cancel if you do not agree to the price increase.

You understand and agree that your Teacher Account may later be moved into or associated with your School’s admin‑managed workspace, and your School administrators may get access to classroom content, settings, and activity to meet legal, safety, or policy needs. This administrative oversight does not permit password sharing and will be implemented through standard admin controls. Once your account is transferred, your School’s administrator will be able to control your account, including being able to access Content (defined below) and restrict or remove your access to the account. 

If you input or generate Student Data (as defined in the Student DPA), then the Student DPA applies. In short:

• Student Data belongs to the School and remains under the School’s control.
• OpenAI performs services as a School Official with a legitimate educational interest.
• The School is responsible for any required notices/permissions and for securing access to accounts.

If we believe there’s misuse (including non‑educational use) or a security risk, we may limit or suspend access (we’ll try to notify you when reasonable). Your School is responsible for ensuring use complies with School policy.

You are free to stop using our Services at any time. We reserve the right to suspend or terminate your access to our Services or delete your account if we determine:

• You breached these Terms or any of our 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.

We also may terminate your account if it has been inactive for over a year and you do not have a paid account. If we do, we will provide you with advance notice.

Appeals. If you believe we have suspended or terminated your account in error, you can file an appeal with us by contacting our Support team⁠⁠(opens in a new window).

Discontinuation of services. We may decide to discontinue our Services, but if we do, we will give you advance notice and a refund for any prepaid, unused Services.

We are continuously working to develop and improve our Services. We may update these Terms or our Services accordingly from time to time. For example, we may make changes to these Terms or the Services due to:

• Changes to the law or regulatory requirements.
• Security or safety reasons.
• Circumstances beyond our reasonable control.
• Changes we make in the usual course of developing our Services.
• To adapt to new technologies.

We will give you at least 30 days advance notice of changes to these Terms that materially adversely impact you either via email or an in-product notification. All other changes will be effective as soon as we post them to our website. If you do not agree to the changes, you must stop using our Services.

OUR SERVICES ARE PROVIDED “AS IS.” EXCEPT TO THE EXTENT PROHIBITED BY LAW, WE AND OUR AFFILIATES AND LICENSORS MAKE NO WARRANTIES (EXPRESS, IMPLIED, STATUTORY OR OTHERWISE) WITH RESPECT TO THE SERVICES, AND DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, SATISFACTORY QUALITY, NON-INFRINGEMENT, AND QUIET ENJOYMENT, AND ANY WARRANTIES ARISING OUT OF ANY COURSE OF DEALING OR TRADE USAGE. WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE SERVICES WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, ACCURATE OR ERROR FREE, OR THAT ANY CONTENT WILL BE SECURE OR NOT LOST OR ALTERED. 

YOU ACCEPT AND AGREE THAT ANY USE OF OUTPUTS FROM OUR SERVICE IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK AND YOU WILL NOT RELY ON OUTPUT AS A SOLE SOURCE OF TRUTH OR FACTUAL INFORMATION, OR AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR PROFESSIONAL ADVICE.

NEITHER WE NOR ANY OF OUR AFFILIATES OR LICENSORS WILL BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES, INCLUDING DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF PROFITS, GOODWILL, USE, OR DATA OR OTHER LOSSES, EVEN IF WE HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. OUR AGGREGATE LIABILITY UNDER THESE TERMS WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF THE AMOUNT YOU PAID FOR THE SERVICE THAT GAVE RISE TO THE CLAIM DURING THE 12 MONTHS BEFORE THE LIABILITY AROSE OR ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS ($100). THE LIMITATIONS IN THIS SECTION APPLY ONLY TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW.

Some countries and states do not allow the disclaimer of certain warranties or the limitation of certain damages, so some or all of the terms above may not apply to you, and you may have additional rights. In that case, these Terms only limit our responsibilities to the maximum extent permissible in your country of residence.

OPENAI’S AFFILIATES, SUPPLIERS, LICENSORS, AND DISTRIBUTORS ARE INTENDED THIRD PARTY BENEFICIARIES OF THIS SECTION.

YOU AND OPENAI AGREE TO THE FOLLOWING MANDATORY ARBITRATION AND CLASS ACTION WAIVER PROVISIONS:

MANDATORY ARBITRATION. You and OpenAI agree to resolve any claims arising out of or relating to these Terms or our Services, regardless of when the claim arose, even if it was before these Terms existed (a “Dispute”), through final and binding arbitration. You may opt out of arbitration within 30 days of account creation or of any updates to these arbitration terms within 30 days after the update has taken effect by filling out this form⁠⁠. If you opt out of an update, the last set of agreed upon arbitration terms will apply. 

Informal dispute resolution. We would like to understand and try to address your concerns prior to formal legal action. Before either of us files a claim against the other, we both agree to try to resolve the Dispute informally. You agree to do so by sending us notice through this form⁠⁠. We will do so by sending you notice to the email address associated with your account. If we are unable to resolve a Dispute within 60 days, either of us has the right to initiate arbitration. We also both agree to attend an individual settlement conference if either party requests one during this time. Any statute of limitations will be tolled during this informal resolution process.

Arbitration forum. If we are unable to resolve the Dispute, either of us may commence arbitration with National Arbitration and Mediation (“NAM”) under its Comprehensive Dispute Resolution Rules and Procedures and/or Supplemental Rules for Mass Arbitration Filings, as applicable (available here⁠⁠(opens in a new window)). OpenAI will not seek attorneys’ fees and costs in arbitration unless the arbitrator determines that your claim is frivolous. The activities described in these Terms involve interstate commerce and the Federal Arbitration Act will govern the interpretation and enforcement of these arbitration terms and any arbitration. 

Arbitration procedures. The arbitration will be conducted by videoconference if possible, but if the arbitrator determines a hearing should be conducted in person, the location will be mutually agreed upon, in the county where you reside, or as determined by the arbitrator, unless the batch arbitration process applies. The arbitration will be conducted by a sole arbitrator. The arbitrator will be either a retired judge or an attorney licensed to practice law in the state of California. The arbitrator will have exclusive authority to resolve any Dispute, except the state or federal courts of San Francisco, California have the authority to determine any Dispute about enforceability, validity of the class action waiver, or requests for public injunctive relief, as set out below. Any settlement offer amounts will not be disclosed to the arbitrator by either party until after the arbitrator determines the final award, if any. The arbitrator has the authority to grant motions dispositive of all or part of any Dispute. 

Exceptions. This section does not require informal dispute resolution or arbitration of the following claims: (i) individual claims brought in small claims court; and (ii) injunctive or other equitable relief to stop unauthorized use or abuse of the Services or intellectual property infringement or misappropriation.

CLASS AND JURY TRIAL WAIVERS. You and OpenAI agree that Disputes must be brought on an individual basis only, and may not be brought as a plaintiff or class member in any purported class, consolidated, or representative proceeding. Class arbitrations, class actions, and representative actions are prohibited. Only individual relief is available. The parties agree to sever and litigate in court any request for public injunctive relief after completing arbitration for the underlying claim and all other claims. This does not prevent either party from participating in a class-wide settlement. You and OpenAI knowingly and irrevocably waive any right to trial by jury in any action, proceeding, or counterclaim. 

Batch arbitration. If 25 or more claimants represented by the same or similar counsel file demands for arbitration raising substantially similar Disputes within 90 days of each other, then you and OpenAI agree that NAM will administer them in batches of up to 50 claimants each (“Batch”), unless there are less than 50 claimants in total or after batching, which will comprise a single Batch. NAM will administer each Batch as a single consolidated arbitration with one arbitrator, one set of arbitration fees, and one hearing held by videoconference or in a location decided by the arbitrator for each Batch. If any part of this section is found to be invalid or unenforceable as to a particular claimant or Batch, it will be severed and arbitrated in individual proceedings.  

Severability. If any part of these arbitration terms is found to be illegal or unenforceable, the remainder will remain in effect, except that if a finding of partial illegality or unenforceability would allow class arbitration, class action, or representative action, this entire dispute resolution section will be unenforceable in its entirety.

If you believe that your intellectual property rights have been infringed, please send notice to the address below or fill out this form⁠⁠. We may delete or disable content that we believe violates these Terms or is alleged to be infringing and will terminate accounts of repeat infringers where appropriate.

OpenAI OpCo, LLC
1455 3rd Street
San Francisco, CA 94158
Attn: General Counsel / Copyright Agent

Written claims concerning copyright infringement must include the following information:

• A physical or electronic signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright interest
• A description of the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed upon
• A description of where the allegedly infringing material is located on our site so we can find it
• Your address, telephone number, and e-mail address
• A statement by you that you have a good-faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law
• A statement by you that the above information in your notice is accurate and, under penalty of perjury, that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on the copyright owner’s behalf

Assignment. You may not assign or transfer any rights or obligations under these Terms and any attempt to do so will be void. We may assign our rights or obligations under these Terms to any affiliate, subsidiary, or successor in interest of any business associated with our Services.

Delay in enforcing these Terms. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of our right to do so later. Except as provided in the dispute resolution section above, if any portion of these Terms is determined to be invalid or unenforceable, that portion will be enforced to the maximum extent permissible and it will not affect the enforceability of any other terms.

Trade controls. You must comply with all applicable trade laws, including sanctions and export control laws. Our Services may not be used in or for the benefit of, or exported or re-exported to (a) any U.S. embargoed country or territory or (b) any individual or entity with whom dealings are prohibited or restricted under applicable trade laws. Our Services may not be used for any end use prohibited by applicable trade laws, and your Input may not include material or information that requires a government license for release or export. 

Entire agreement. These Terms contain the entire agreement between you and OpenAI regarding the Services and supersedes any prior or contemporaneous agreements between you and OpenAI regarding the Services. 

Governing law. California law will govern these Terms except for its conflicts of laws principles. Except as provided in the dispute resolution section above, all claims arising out of or relating to these Terms will be brought exclusively in the federal or state courts of San Francisco, California.

If the Services are accessed or used by any agency or other part of the U.S. Government, the U.S. Government acknowledges that OpenAI provides the Services, including related software and technology, for ultimate federal government end use solely in accordance with the following: Government technical data and software rights related to the Services include only those rights customarily provided to the public as defined in these Terms. This customary commercial license is provided in accordance with FAR 12.211 (Technical Data) and FAR 12.212 (Software) and, for Department of Defense transactions, DFAR 252.227-7015 (Technical Data – Commercial Items) and DFAR 227.7202-3 (Rights in Commercial Computer Software or Computer Software Documentation).