If you live in California, you can ask Perplexity what data it has on you, ask it to delete that data, and tell it not to sell or share your data with others for advertising.
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California law gives you specific, enforceable rights over your data with legal backing, not just a courtesy option, and Perplexity is required to honor these requests within statutory timeframes.
Interpretive note: Exact verbatim text could not be fully confirmed from available HTML; the provision characterization is consistent with standard CCPA disclosure language and Perplexity's publicly known policy.
California residents have legally enforceable rights to access, delete, and opt out of data sharing, and exercising these rights cannot be used as a basis for denying service or charging different prices.
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"If you are a California resident, you have the right to know what personal information we collect about you, to delete your personal information, to opt out of the sale or sharing of your personal information, and to non-discrimination for exercising your privacy rights.— Excerpt from Perplexity AI's Perplexity Privacy Policy
(1) REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: This provision directly implements rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act and California Privacy Rights Act, enforced by the California Privacy Protection Agency and the California Attorney General. The CPRA extends rights to sensitive personal information and imposes additional obligations on businesses that process sensitive data, including precise geolocation, health data, and financial information. Statutory response timeframes of 45 days apply, with a possible 45-day extension. (2) GOVERNANCE EXPOSURE: Medium. Compliance requires operational infrastructure to receive, verify, and respond to consumer rights requests within statutory deadlines. Failure to honor verified requests within required timeframes can result in enforcement by the CPPA or private right of action in the case of data breaches. (3) JURISDICTION FLAGS: Applies specifically to California residents. Other US state privacy laws in Colorado, Virginia, Connecticut, Texas, and others provide similar rights and compliance teams should assess whether a single unified rights-request process adequately covers all applicable state obligations. (4) CONTRACT AND VENDOR IMPLICATIONS: Service providers and contractors who receive California residents' personal information from Perplexity are subject to CCPA contractual requirements. Procurement teams should verify that downstream data sharing agreements include required CCPA service provider restrictions. (5) COMPLIANCE CONSIDERATIONS: Rights request intake, identity verification, and response workflows should be audited for compliance with CCPA and CPRA requirements. Particular attention should be paid to the opt-out of sharing mechanism for cross-context behavioral advertising, which must be easy to exercise and prominently disclosed.
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California law gives you specific, enforceable rights over your data with legal backing, not just a courtesy option, and Perplexity is required to honor these requests within statutory timeframes.
California residents have legally enforceable rights to access, delete, and opt out of data sharing, and exercising these rights cannot be used as a basis for denying service or charging different prices.
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