8 Total
4 High severity
4 Medium severity
0 Low severity
Summary

This is Perplexity AI's contract for businesses that license its AI search and answer technology for their employees or products. The agreement states that Perplexity can use aggregated, de-identified data from enterprise interactions to improve its AI models, and that the business customer is responsible for ensuring their employees and end users follow the acceptable use policy. Businesses signing this agreement should review the data processing addendum separately, particularly regarding how employee query data is handled, before deploying the service organization-wide.

Technical / Legal Breakdown

This document governs the enterprise-tier relationship between Perplexity AI and business customers accessing Perplexity's AI-powered search and answer engine through an enterprise subscription, with the agreement structured as a standard SaaS master services agreement incorporating an order form. The terms authorize Perplexity to process customer data and user inputs to deliver the service, reserve broad rights to modify or discontinue features with notice, and establish that the enterprise customer (not Perplexity) bears responsibility for ensuring end users comply with acceptable use requirements. Several provisions are operationally notable for enterprise contexts: the agreement asserts that AI-generated outputs are provided 'as is' without accuracy warranties, that Perplexity retains the right to use aggregated and de-identified usage data for product improvement, and that the enterprise customer indemnifies Perplexity for claims arising from customer or end-user inputs and deployments. The document engages GDPR and CCPA frameworks through its data processing obligations and customer data definitions, with the precise scope of Perplexity's data processing role (controller vs. processor) requiring evaluation under applicable law given the nature of AI inference processing. Compliance teams at enterprise customers should evaluate the data processing addendum (referenced but not fully reproduced in this rendering), the limitation of liability caps relative to contract value, and the governing law clause selecting California courts, which may create jurisdictional considerations for non-US enterprise customers subject to GDPR or other mandatory local law frameworks.

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Mapped Governance Frameworks

CCPA/CPRA
California, USA
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Connecticut Data Privacy Act Amendments
US-CT
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CAN-SPAM
United States Federal
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DMCA
United States Federal
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FTC Act Section 5
United States Federal
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GDPR
European Union
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Indiana Consumer Data Protection Act
US-IN
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Kentucky Consumer Data Protection Act
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UK GDPR
United Kingdom
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Universal Opt-Out Mechanism Expansion 2026
US
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Archival ProvenanceSource & Archival Record
Last Captured May 11, 2026 10:28 UTC
Capture Method Automated scheduled archival capture
Document ID CA-D-000762
Version ID CA-V-002384
SHA-256 79d2e548458f6f32a261f12baa37d1eb50180bdfd8f3dcfe18d46b04e5f3eb9a
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