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A data transfer in a corporate acquisition means your query history and behavioral profile could end up under the control of an entirely different company with different privacy practices, with notification being the only protection offered.
Perplexity AI collects your search queries, conversation history, device identifiers, IP address, and account information, and the policy permits this data to be used for AI model training and product improvement in addition to core service delivery. This means sensitive or personal information you enter as a search query may inform model development in ways that go beyond what users typically expect from a search product. You can submit a data deletion or access request by emailing privacy@perplexity.ai or using the account settings within the Perplexity platform.
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We may share or transfer your information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company. In such transactions, user information generally is one of the transferred business assets.
If Medium is involved in a merger, acquisition, or sale of all or a portion of its assets, your information may be transferred as part of that transaction. We will notify you via email and/or a prominent notice on our website of any change in ownership or uses of your personal information, as well a...
We may share and/or transfer customer information in connection with the sale or merger of our business or assets (subject to local laws). Also, if we go out of business, enter bankruptcy, or go through some other change of control.
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"In the event of a merger, acquisition, reorganization, bankruptcy, or other sale of all or a portion of our assets, your personal information may be transferred to the acquiring entity or successor as part of that transaction. We will notify you of any such change in ownership or control of your personal information.— Excerpt from Perplexity AI's Perplexity AI Privacy Policy
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A data transfer in a corporate acquisition means your query history and behavioral profile could end up under the control of an entirely different company with different privacy practices, with notification being the only protection offered.
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