# Ask Oscar Data Handling (Level 2)

## Ask Oscar

As of February 2025, we do not collect or store any user data for this tool, and we have no plan to change that. Any chat messages that the users provide and the output generated by AI models are not stored by the service. All AI models that we use for this service comes from Vertex AI on Google Cloud Platform and strictly follows the [Zero Retention Policy](https://docs.cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/generative-ai/docs/vertex-ai-zero-data-retention), which guarantees that your prompts (inputs) and completions (outputs), your embeddings, and your training data:

* are NOT available to other customers.
* are NOT available to Google.
* are NOT used to improve Google models and all managed models on Google Cloud.


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# Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation

If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question.

Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter:

```
GET https://docs.ccv.brown.edu/ai-tools/data-privacy/ask-oscar-data-handling-level-2.md?ask=<question>
```

The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language.
The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation.

Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.