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The clause caps the frequency of compliance audits and imposes procedural prerequisites, meaning a Customer cannot conduct an unannounced or open-ended audit at will.
Customers are permitted to audit Perplexity AI's DPA compliance, but that right is constrained to once per 12 months and is conditioned on advance written notice and agreed scope.
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You may make a verifiable consumer request related to your personal information twice per 12-month period.
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"Customer shall be permitted to request such information and/or audit (to the extent required by Privacy Laws) no more than once every 12 months, upon 30 days' advance written notice to Perplexity, and only after the Parties come to agreement on the scope of the audit— Excerpt from Perplexity AI's Perplexity Data Processing Addendum
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The clause caps the frequency of compliance audits and imposes procedural prerequisites, meaning a Customer cannot conduct an unannounced or open-ended audit at will.
Customers are permitted to audit Perplexity AI's DPA compliance, but that right is constrained to once per 12 months and is conditioned on advance written notice and agreed scope.
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