Privacy

Last reviewed September 30, 2026. howdoesanai.work is a personal, non-commercial project. It is not directed at children.

What this site does with your messages

When you send a message, this site's server passes it to OpenAI's API to generate a reply, together with the earlier turns of your conversation and this site's instructions (which the chat shows word for word). It asks OpenAI not to store the response for later use (store: false).
Before that, your message is checked by OpenAI's moderation model.
This site doesn't store your conversation on its servers and doesn't log what you write. Server logs contain only request IDs, sizes, token counts, timings, costs, and error codes.
Your conversation is kept in this browser tab (session storage) so you can inspect it. Closing the tab or choosing Clear conversation removes it.
To enforce fair-use limits and a daily budget, the server keeps counters under hashed identifiers of your browser tab and IP address, never the raw values. They expire within two days.
OpenAI receives a hashed identifier of your browser tab's session (a “safety identifier”) so it can detect abuse without knowing who you are.
On the deployed site, Vercel's bot protection runs a check in your browser to confirm that requests come from a real browser. This site uses no analytics.

What OpenAI does with them

According to OpenAI's data controls page (retrieved 2026-09-30):

Data sent to OpenAI's API isn't used to train its models unless the account owner opts in. This site hasn't.
OpenAI keeps abuse-monitoring logs, which can include prompts and replies, for up to 30 days, or longer where the law requires it.
Because this site sends store: false, OpenAI doesn't keep the reply as stored application data. For longer conversations, OpenAI may keep cached intermediate results of the start of a request (not its text) for up to 24 hours, to speed up later requests that start the same way. These caches aren't shared with other organizations (prompt caching guide).

Please don't share personal information

Anything you type is sent to OpenAI. Please don't include names, contact details, health or financial information, or anything else you wouldn't want a third party to process.