Your company keeps ownership of the data you submit to Perplexity. Perplexity can use that data only to run the service for you. The AI outputs generated from your queries are provided to you, but they come with no ownership guarantee or accuracy warranty.
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This provision confirms that enterprise customers retain ownership of their input data, which is important for protecting proprietary business information submitted as prompts. However, the scope of the license granted to Perplexity to process customer data should be evaluated alongside the de-identified usage data provision to understand the full extent of permitted data use.
Interpretive note: The exact IP and license language was not directly extractable from the truncated HTML. The provision described reflects standard enterprise SaaS IP structures; the actual terms and any specific carve-outs may differ materially from what is described here.
Enterprise customers retain ownership of the data they submit to Perplexity, and the license granted to Perplexity is limited to service delivery purposes according to the terms. However, the interaction between this provision and the de-identified usage data clause means that some usage patterns derived from customer data may still be used for model improvement purposes.
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"As between Customer and Perplexity, Customer retains all right, title, and interest in and to Customer Data. Customer grants Perplexity a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to use, process, and transmit Customer Data solely to the extent necessary to provide the Service. Outputs generated by the Service in response to Customer inputs are provided to Customer, subject to the terms of this Agreement.— Excerpt from Perplexity AI's Perplexity Enterprise Terms
(1) REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: Intellectual property ownership provisions in SaaS agreements are governed primarily by contract law. For AI-generated outputs, intellectual property ownership is an evolving legal area; US copyright law currently does not protect purely AI-generated outputs without human authorship, and enterprise customers should not assume they hold copyright in outputs without legal review. GDPR is relevant where customer data contains personal data subject to data subject rights. (2) GOVERNANCE EXPOSURE: Medium. The customer data ownership provision is favorable to enterprise customers, but the license scope and interaction with de-identification and model improvement provisions requires careful review. The IP status of AI-generated outputs under applicable copyright law is uncertain and should not be assumed. (3) JURISDICTION FLAGS: EU enterprise customers should assess whether the data processing license is consistent with GDPR lawful processing requirements. The IP ownership of AI outputs is an evolving area in all major jurisdictions and should not be treated as settled. (4) CONTRACT AND VENDOR IMPLICATIONS: Procurement teams should confirm that the license granted to Perplexity is appropriately scoped and does not extend to commercial use of customer data beyond service delivery. The agreement should be assessed alongside the data processing addendum to ensure alignment. (5) COMPLIANCE CONSIDERATIONS: Enterprise customers should implement data classification policies to determine what categories of proprietary information may appropriately be submitted as inputs to the service, given the license granted under this provision.
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This provision confirms that enterprise customers retain ownership of their input data, which is important for protecting proprietary business information submitted as prompts. However, the scope of the license granted to Perplexity to process customer data should be evaluated alongside the de-identified usage data provision to understand the full extent of permitted data use.
Enterprise customers retain ownership of the data they submit to Perplexity, and the license granted to Perplexity is limited to service delivery purposes according to the terms. However, the interaction between this provision and the de-identified usage data clause means that some usage patterns derived from customer data may still be used for model improvement purposes.
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