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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.
Interpretive note: The phrase 'applicable laws and regulations' is jurisdiction-dependent; the clause does not specify which jurisdiction's laws apply, but that ambiguity is not introduced into reader-facing prose.
Users are contractually bound to follow all applicable laws and regulations governing personal information handling and the use of licensed works.
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Right to Know: The right to request details about the Personal Information we collect, use, or disclose, as well as information about our data practices.
The right to request that we disclose to you the personal information we collect, use, or disclose about you, and information about our data practices.
The CCPA provides California residents specific rights to delete their personal data that we collected from them and retained, subject to certain exceptions (the "right to delete").
"You commit to complying with applicable laws and regulations in the handling of personal information and the use of such works.Excerpt from DeepSeek's Open Source License
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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.
Users are contractually bound to follow all applicable laws and regulations governing personal information handling and the use of licensed works.
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