OpenRouter policy evolution

“EACH PROVISION OF THESE TERMS THAT PROVIDES FOR A LIMITATION OF LIABILITY, DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES, OR EXCLUSION OF DAMAGES IS INTENDED TO AND DOES ALLOCATE THE RISKS BETWEEN YOU AND OPENROUTER UNDER THESE TERMS. THIS ALLOCATION IS AN ESSENTIAL ELEMENT OF THE BASIS OF THE BARGAIN BETWEEN YOU AND OPENROUTER. EACH OF THESE PROVISIONS IS SEVERABLE AND INDEPENDENT OF ALL OTHER PROVISIONS OF THESE TERMS. THE LIMITATIONS IN THIS SECTION 17 WILL APPLY EVEN IF ANY LIMITED REMEDY FAILS OF ITS ESSENTIAL PURPOSE.”

“These Terms provide that all disputes between you and OpenRouter will be resolved by BINDING ARBITRATION. YOU AGREE TO GIVE UP YOUR RIGHT TO GO TO COURT to assert or defend your rights under this contract, except for matters that may be taken to small claims court. Your rights will be determined by a NEUTRAL ARBITRATOR and NOT a judge or jury, and your claims cannot be brought as a class action. Please review Section 19 ("Dispute Resolution and Arbitration") for the details regarding your agreement to arbitrate any disputes with OpenRouter.”

“We use this information for the following purposes, as described above: Provide, analyze, and maintain our Service, and where applicable, for Model training and improvement by Model Providers. The legal basis is to perform a contract with you. Improve and develop our Service and conduct research. The legal basis is a legitimate interest. Communicate with you, including to send you information about our Service and events. The legal basis is your consent. Prevent fraud, illegal activity, or misuses of our Service, and to protect the security of our systems and Service. The legal basis is legitimate interest and legal obligation. Comply with legal obligations and protect the rights, privacy, safety, or property of our users, OpenRouter or third parties. The legal basis is legitimate interest and legal obligation. We may disclose this information in the following circumstances, as described above: Vendors, service providers, and affiliates to process in accordance with our instructions, including to Model Providers Government authorities or other third parties for the legal reasons described above”

“You may provide input into the Services, which may include images, data, text, and other types of work (" Input ") and receive an output from the Services based on your Input (" Output ", and collectively, the Input and Output are " User Content "). By making any User Content available through the Service, you hereby grant to OpenRouter a non-exclusive, transferable, worldwide, royalty-free license, with the right to sublicense, to use, host, cache, store, reproduce, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, publish, distribute and modify (for formatting purposes only), your User Content solely in connection with operating and providing the Service and, depending on the permission you grant for certain features, to provide to other users, individuals, and/or organizations. You retain copyright and any other proprietary rights that you may hold in the Input. Your ownership rights in the Output are set forth in the Model Terms for each Model you use. While we strive to keep the Model Terms up to date every time we add or remove each Model from the Service, there may be incorrect or missing terms. If you see any linked terms to Models that are inaccurate, missing or out of date, you may contact us at [email protected] . Some Models may store or train on your Inputs for improving their own large language models and may allow you to opt-out of model training, as described in their Model Terms. Where possible, OpenRouter has opted out of model training with the Models it uses. OpenRouter strives to accurately represent the status of prompt logging and training for each Model on our Site. However, OpenRouter is not liable for errors or misrepresentations made in any Model Terms. You are encouraged to review Model Terms yourself as needed.”

“You may provide input into the Services, which may include images, data, text, and other types of work (" Input ") and receive an output from the Services based on your Input (" Output ", and collectively, the Input and Output are " User Content "). By making any User Content available through the Service, you hereby grant to OpenRouter a non-exclusive, transferable, worldwide, royalty-free license, with the right to sublicense, to use, host, cache, store, reproduce, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, publish, distribute and modify (for formatting purposes only), your User Content solely in connection with operating and providing the Service and, depending on the permission you grant for certain features, to provide to other users, individuals, and/or organizations. You retain copyright and any other proprietary rights that you may hold in the Input. Your ownership rights in the Output are set forth in the Model Terms for each Model you use. While we strive to keep the Model Terms up to date every time we add or remove each Model from the Service, there may be incorrect or missing terms. If you see any linked terms to Models that are inaccurate, missing or out of date, you may contact us at [email protected] . Some Models may store or train on your Inputs for improving their own large language models and may allow you to opt-out of model training, as described in their Model Terms. Where possible, OpenRouter has opted out of model training with the Models it uses. OpenRouter strives to accurately represent the status of prompt logging and training for each Model on our Site. However, OpenRouter is not liable for errors or misrepresentations made in any Model Terms. You are encouraged to review Model Terms yourself as needed.”

“We use this information for the following purposes, as described above: Provide, analyze, and maintain our Service, and where applicable, for Model training and improvement by Model Providers. The legal basis is to perform a contract with you. Improve and develop our Service and conduct research. The legal basis is a legitimate interest. Communicate with you, including to send you information about our Service and events. The legal basis is your consent. Prevent fraud, illegal activity, or misuses of our Service, and to protect the security of our systems and Service. The legal basis is legitimate interest and legal obligation. Comply with legal obligations and protect the rights, privacy, safety, or property of our users, OpenRouter or third parties. The legal basis is legitimate interest and legal obligation. We may disclose this information in the following circumstances, as described above: Vendors, service providers, and affiliates to process in accordance with our instructions, including to Model Providers Government authorities or other third parties for the legal reasons described above”

“When you submit Inputs through the Service, those Inputs are transmitted to the Model Provider you select, or that is selected through automatic routing, as applicable. Different Model Providers have different data practices, including with respect to whether they retain or use your Inputs and Outputs to train, fine-tune, evaluate, or improve their Models. Some Model Providers may use your Inputs and Outputs for model training or improvement. Before using a Model, you should review the applicable Model Provider's data practices, which are linked here . Where disclosed to us, we label Models that do not use your data for training. If you do not want your Inputs used for model training, select a Model or Model Provider that commits to not using your data for that purpose.”

“You may provide input into the Services, which may include images, data, text, and other types of work (" Input ") and receive an output from the Services based on your Input (" Output ", and collectively, the Input and Output are " User Content "). By making any User Content available through the Service, you hereby grant to OpenRouter a non-exclusive, transferable, worldwide, royalty-free license, with the right to sublicense, to use, host, cache, store, reproduce, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, publish, distribute and modify (for formatting purposes only), your User Content solely in connection with operating and providing the Service and, depending on the permission you grant for certain features, to provide to other users, individuals, and/or organizations. You retain copyright and any other proprietary rights that you may hold in the Input. Your ownership rights in the Output are set forth in the Model Terms for each Model you use. While we strive to keep the Model Terms up to date every time we add or remove each Model from the Service, there may be incorrect or missing terms. If you see any linked terms to Models that are inaccurate, missing or out of date, you may contact us at [email protected] . Some Models may store or train on your Inputs for improving their own large language models and may allow you to opt-out of model training, as described in their Model Terms. Where possible, OpenRouter has opted out of model training with the Models it uses. OpenRouter strives to accurately represent the status of prompt logging and training for each Model on our Site. However, OpenRouter is not liable for errors or misrepresentations made in any Model Terms. You are encouraged to review Model Terms yourself as needed.”

“You may provide input into the Services, which may include images, data, text, and other types of work (" Input ") and receive an output from the Services based on your Input (" Output ", and collectively, the Input and Output are " User Content "). By making any User Content available through the Service, you hereby grant to OpenRouter a non-exclusive, transferable, worldwide, royalty-free license, with the right to sublicense, to use, host, cache, store, reproduce, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, publish, distribute and modify (for formatting purposes only), your User Content solely in connection with operating and providing the Service and, depending on the permission you grant for certain features, to provide to other users, individuals, and/or organizations. You retain copyright and any other proprietary rights that you may hold in the Input. Your ownership rights in the Output are set forth in the Model Terms for each Model you use. While we strive to keep the Model Terms up to date every time we add or remove each Model from the Service, there may be incorrect or missing terms. If you see any linked terms to Models that are inaccurate, missing or out of date, you may contact us at [email protected] . Some Models may store or train on your Inputs for improving their own large language models and may allow you to opt-out of model training, as described in their Model Terms. Where possible, OpenRouter has opted out of model training with the Models it uses. OpenRouter strives to accurately represent the status of prompt logging and training for each Model on our Site. However, OpenRouter is not liable for errors or misrepresentations made in any Model Terms. You are encouraged to review Model Terms yourself as needed.”

“When you submit Inputs through the Service, those Inputs are transmitted to the Model Provider you select, or that is selected through automatic routing, as applicable. Different Model Providers have different data practices, including with respect to whether they retain or use your Inputs and Outputs to train, fine-tune, evaluate, or improve their Models. Some Model Providers may use your Inputs and Outputs for model training or improvement. Before using a Model, you should review the applicable Model Provider's data practices, which are linked here . Where disclosed to us, we label Models that do not use your data for training. If you do not want your Inputs used for model training, select a Model or Model Provider that commits to not using your data for that purpose.”