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This is a foundational acceptable-use restriction, establishing that legality and respect for others' rights are baseline requirements for all use of the services.
Readers are prohibited from accessing or using Perplexity AI's services in connection with any unlawful, fraudulent, or rights-violating activity.
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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...)
Bypass or ignore instructions contained in our robots.txt file that controls automated access to portions of our Services;
Send content created in Mailchimp through another service.
"You must not access, deploy or use the Services to conduct or facilitate any activity that is unlawful, fraudulent, or that violates the rights of others.Excerpt from Perplexity AI's Perplexity Acceptable Use Policy
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This is a foundational acceptable-use restriction, establishing that legality and respect for others' rights are baseline requirements for all use of the services.
Readers are prohibited from accessing or using Perplexity AI's services in connection with any unlawful, fraudulent, or rights-violating activity.
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