“Customer shall not take any action that would render the provision of Personal Data to Perplexity hereunder a Sale or Share under US Privacy Laws or otherwise render Perplexity not a Service Provider or Processor under US Privacy Laws.”
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If the data transfer were legally reclassified as a Sale or Share, it would trigger significantly different and more onerous obligations under US Privacy Laws for both parties; this clause makes the Customer responsible for avoiding that outcome.
Customers must not act in any way that would legally transform their data transfer to Perplexity AI into a Sale or Share, or undermine Perplexity AI's regulatory classification.
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We process your data for necessary purposes as described in the main Policy, and for secondary purposes. We use both human and automated means to process your data.
When we process personal information about you, we do so with your consent or as necessary to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations; to provide the products and services you use...
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.
"Customer shall not take any action that would render the provision of Personal Data to Perplexity hereunder a Sale or Share under US Privacy Laws or otherwise render Perplexity not a Service Provider or Processor under US Privacy Laws.Excerpt from Perplexity AI's Perplexity Data Processing Addendum
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If the data transfer were legally reclassified as a Sale or Share, it would trigger significantly different and more onerous obligations under US Privacy Laws for both parties; this clause makes the Customer responsible for avoiding that outcome.
Customers must not act in any way that would legally transform their data transfer to Perplexity AI into a Sale or Share, or undermine Perplexity AI's regulatory classification.
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