HiGPT Privacy Policy

HiGPT is an educational service used under the management of educational institutions, teachers, and administrators. Student inputs, AI conversations, posts, attachments, assignment activity, operation logs, and login history may be recorded.

1. Important Data Use in HiGPT

Data is used for educational purposes.

2. Definitions

Definitions of terms.

3. Information We Collect

We collect input data and logs.

4. Purposes of Use

Student data may be used for learning guidance, feedback, assignment management, grading, misconduct checks, security, and service operation.

5. Access by Teachers, Educational Institutions, and Administrators

Teachers, school administrators, organization administrators, and HiGPT operators may be able to view student data where necessary.

6. Visibility Among Students in the Same Discussion Group

Posts or shared content in discussion groups may be visible to other students in the same group.

7. Transmission to External Services such as OpenAI, Microsoft, Azure, and AWS

Data may be sent to OpenAI, Microsoft, Azure, AWS, and other external cloud or AI services.

8. Non-use for Model Training by External AI Services

Data sent from HiGPT to external AI services is handled under settings or contractual terms that do not allow use for training or improving those providers’ foundation models. This does not mean that external providers never process, store, log, monitor, or review data for service provision, abuse prevention, safety, legal compliance, or incident response.

9. Processors, Sub-processors, and International Processing

Details about international data processing.

10. Sensitive Information and Information That Must Not Be Entered

Users must not enter unnecessary sensitive information, third-party personal information, passwords, addresses, phone numbers, health information, family circumstances, or secrets.

11. Possible Third-party Access Due to Account Mismanagement or Unauthorized Access

Account sharing, login URL sharing, forgotten logout on shared terminals, misconfiguration, or unauthorized access may allow third parties to view data.

12. Logs, Audits, and Abuse Detection

We keep logs.

13. Information Sharing for Safety Reasons

Information may be shared for safety.

14. Data Retention

Data is retained as specified.

15. Deletion, Anonymization, and Statistical Use

HiGPT itself does not use personally identifiable student data for its own research, papers, conference presentations, external publication, case studies, or marketing materials. HiGPT may use aggregated or anonymized statistics for service improvement and quality analysis.

16. Research Use and External Publication

If teachers or organizations use HiGPT data for research, external publication, identifiable analysis, teaching-material publication, case studies, or educational-effect analysis beyond ordinary class operation, they must comply with their institution’s rules, ethics review procedures, privacy rules, applicable laws, and required consent procedures. HiGPT does not replace or guarantee research ethics review, institutional approval, or consent procedures.

17. Requests for Disclosure, Correction, Deletion, or Suspension of Use

We comply with legal requests.

18. Minors and Guardians

Information regarding minors and guardians.

19. Response to Data Leakage or Similar Incidents

We will respond promptly.

20. Data Handling upon Service Suspension or Termination

Service interruption, suspension, or termination may occur due to AWS, Azure, OpenAI, Microsoft, communication providers, power outage, disaster, security incident, maintenance, or operator accident, illness, death, long-term incapacity, or other unavoidable operational circumstances.

21. Allocation of Responsibility with Educational Institutions

Clarifies the allocation of responsibilities.

22. Changes to This Policy

This policy may change.

23. Contact

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