“By submitting your personal data to us you agree to the transfer, storage, and processing of your data in a country other than your country of residence including, but not limited to, the United States.”
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Cross-border data transfers may move personal data to jurisdictions with different or weaker privacy protections than a user's home country, and this clause treats the act of data submission as consent to that transfer.
The updated Privacy Notice establishes more granular disclosure of data collection methods across multiple product areas. Perplexity now explicitly discloses that it collects and stores browsing history and settings in the Comet browser based on consent or legitimate interest, accesses email content through Email Assistant to analyze messages (while stating it does not train AI models on that content), and collects demographic data if users voluntarily upload it. The revised structure also clarifies that local browser data storage occurs on users' devices and that incognito mode does not fully prevent tracking by websites or Perplexity. You can review Comet privacy settings and controls as described in the updated policy.
View change record →Submitting personal data to Perplexity AI constitutes your agreement to have that data transferred, stored, and processed outside your country of residence, including in the United States.
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"By submitting your personal data to us you agree to the transfer, storage, and processing of your data in a country other than your country of residence including, but not limited to, the United States.Excerpt from Perplexity AI's Privacy Policy
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Cross-border data transfers may move personal data to jurisdictions with different or weaker privacy protections than a user's home country, and this clause treats the act of data submission as consent to that transfer.
Submitting personal data to Perplexity AI constitutes your agreement to have that data transferred, stored, and processed outside your country of residence, including in the United States.
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