High, provisions that significantly limit your legal rights, authorize broad data collection, or create material financial exposure. Medium, provisions worth knowing about but with partial protections or limited scope. Low, standard terms with minimal consumer impact.
Higher = more protective of you, the user/customer — a deliberately user-protective lens, not a universal “good vs bad” score. Computed algorithmically from DeepSeek’s cited governance stances; no dimension we haven’t confidently read is ever counted against the score. Free, reproducible, and never purchasable.
An absolute disclaimer of liability across all legal theories and all types of damages means users bear full risk of any harm arising from the Software with no recourse against the authors or copyrig…
The complete disclaimer of all warranties, including the three named implied warranties, means users receive no assurance about the Software's quality, suitability, or non-infringement of third-party…
This clause ensures that use-based restrictions cannot be stripped away by relicensing derivatives, preserving the floor of restrictions across the entire chain of downstream versions.
By excluding every named category of damages, the clause leaves users without a contractual remedy against DeepSeek for virtually any harm connected to the Model or the License.
This clause makes legal compliance with personal information laws a contractual obligation, meaning a breach of applicable privacy law also constitutes a breach of the License.
DeepSeek gives anyone who obtains the Software a free, unrestricted right to use, modify, distribute, sublicense, and sell it. The only requirement is that you keep the copyright and permission …
The submitted document is not DeepSeek's Acceptable Use Policy but rather an AWS WAF CAPTCHA security verification page that was served in place of the policy content. The actual policy …
This license gives you broad, free, permanent rights to use, share, and build on DeepSeek's Model, but comes with strict rules about what you cannot do with it—such as using …
The submitted document is a security verification screen rather than DeepSeek's privacy policy. The page implements automated bot-detection challenge functionality that prevents access to the underlying policy content. The actual …
The DeepSeek Terms of Use document could not be retrieved due to a security verification page returned by AWS WAF at the submitted URL. No terms, conditions, or operational provisions …
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ConductAtlas tracks 5 DeepSeek documents including terms of service, privacy policy, and other governance documents. Every document is captured daily with cryptographic verification.
DeepSeek has made 12 policy changes in the past 12 months across the documents ConductAtlas tracks.
ConductAtlas has classified 22 provisions across DeepSeek's tracked documents. 5 are rated high severity, 12 medium, and 5 low.
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