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The license covers a wide range of actions—including modification and promotion—beyond what is necessary purely to deliver the service, meaning user content may be used in ways that extend beyond the user's immediate interaction.
By submitting content to the Services, readers grant Perplexity AI the right to use that content in all the listed ways for all the listed purposes.
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Where the law allows us to, we may use the content you and other users have posted for training or to help us to improve the way we filter content on our platform.
In accordance with applicable legal requirements, we may use your information to tailor and provide you with content and advertisements.
We may use your personal data to personalize your experience interacting with Content, including what Content we recommend, show, or don't show to you.
"you grant us a license to access, use, host, cache, store, reproduce, transmit, display, publish, distribute, and modify Your Content to operate, improve, promote and provide the Services...Excerpt from Perplexity AI's Terms of Service
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The license covers a wide range of actions—including modification and promotion—beyond what is necessary purely to deliver the service, meaning user content may be used in ways that extend beyond the user's immediate interaction.
By submitting content to the Services, readers grant Perplexity AI the right to use that content in all the listed ways for all the listed purposes.
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