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This prohibition directly restricts users from leveraging Perplexity AI's services to build competitive offerings, protecting Perplexity AI's market position.
Readers are prohibited from using Perplexity AI's services to build or distribute competing or substitute products without first obtaining express written permission from Perplexity AI.
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"Frame" or "mirror" or otherwise incorporate part of the services into any website, or "deep-link" to any portion of the services without our express written permission...
index, frame, embed or link to the Services in a manner not authorized by us, or to collect information about users for the purpose of sending, facilitating, or encouraging unsolicited bulk or other communications
You may not display any personal contact, banking, or peer-to-peer payment information, whether in relation to you or any other person (for example, names, home addresses or postcodes, telephone numbers, email addresses, URLs, credit/debit card...)
"Create or make available any products or services competitive with, similar to, or that would otherwise be a substitute for the Services...except with Perplexity's express prior written permissionExcerpt from Perplexity AI's Perplexity Acceptable Use Policy
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This prohibition directly restricts users from leveraging Perplexity AI's services to build competitive offerings, protecting Perplexity AI's market position.
Readers are prohibited from using Perplexity AI's services to build or distribute competing or substitute products without first obtaining express written permission from Perplexity AI.
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