Enterprise customers and all their employees must use Perplexity only for lawful purposes and cannot attempt to copy or reverse-engineer the AI model. Perplexity can suspend or cut off access immediately if these rules are broken.
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The acceptable use requirements are enforced at the enterprise customer level, meaning the company is responsible for ensuring all its employees comply. Immediate termination without a cure period for acceptable use violations could disrupt business operations significantly.
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Enterprise customers must actively monitor and enforce acceptable use obligations across all employees authorized to use the service. The agreement authorizes Perplexity to suspend service access immediately upon a material breach, which could interrupt business operations without advance notice or an opportunity to remedy the issue.
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"Customer shall not, and shall ensure that Authorized Users do not, use the Service in any manner that: (a) violates applicable laws or regulations; (b) infringes the intellectual property rights of any third party; (c) transmits harmful, offensive, or illegal content; or (d) attempts to reverse engineer, scrape, or extract the underlying AI model. Perplexity reserves the right to suspend or terminate Customer's access to the Service immediately upon a material breach of the acceptable use obligations.— Excerpt from Perplexity AI's Perplexity Enterprise Terms
(1) REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: Acceptable use provisions interact with applicable law in multiple jurisdictions regarding prohibited content, intellectual property, and AI system usage. The EU AI Act imposes specific prohibited use categories for AI systems that enterprise customers must comply with independently of this contractual provision. (2) GOVERNANCE EXPOSURE: Medium. The customer's obligation to ensure all authorized users comply with the acceptable use policy creates an organizational compliance obligation that scales with the size of the deployment. Immediate suspension rights without a cure period for material breaches create operational risk for enterprises relying on the service for critical functions. (3) JURISDICTION FLAGS: EU enterprise customers must comply with EU AI Act prohibited use categories in addition to Perplexity's contractual acceptable use requirements. The definition of 'material breach' is not specified in the visible document text, creating interpretive uncertainty about what triggers immediate suspension. (4) CONTRACT AND VENDOR IMPLICATIONS: Procurement teams should negotiate for a cure period before suspension for most acceptable use violations, with immediate suspension reserved only for the most serious violations such as security incidents or illegal activity. The enterprise customer's internal policies should align with and reference Perplexity's acceptable use policy. (5) COMPLIANCE CONSIDERATIONS: Enterprise customers should incorporate Perplexity's acceptable use requirements into their AI governance frameworks, employee training programs, and acceptable use policies. Access controls should limit which employees can use the service and in what contexts.
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The acceptable use requirements are enforced at the enterprise customer level, meaning the company is responsible for ensuring all its employees comply. Immediate termination without a cure period for acceptable use violations could disrupt business operations significantly.
Enterprise customers must actively monitor and enforce acceptable use obligations across all employees authorized to use the service. The agreement authorizes Perplexity to suspend service access immediately upon a material breach, which could interrupt business operations without advance notice or an opportunity to remedy the issue.
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