“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...”
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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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We use information about you, information that we collect from within your account, information that you provide to our customer happiness team, and information about your interactions with the Service to resolve technical issues you experience with the Service.
We may also aggregate and/or de-identify your Data and may use such aggregate or de-identified information for any other purposes to the extent permitted under applicable law and not attempt to re-identify the information, unless required by law.
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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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