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The opt-out right is conditioned on targeted advertising occurring on Perplexity AI's services, and the mechanism identified is a cookie consent pop-up, meaning users must actively use that mechanism to exercise the right.
Interpretive note: The excerpt appears to be truncated after 'cookie consent pop-up'. Additional opt-out mechanisms may be described in the full text but are not present in the provided excerpt and have not been inferred.
The updated notice provides more granular disclosure of what data Perplexity collects and how it uses that data, organized by collection method and use case. The notice explicitly describes collection of Comet browser history and settings, Email Assistant message analysis, and local device data storage, each with stated legal bases. The notice also clarifies that Email Assistant does not use message contents for AI model training. You can review the updated notice to understand which data collection practices apply to services you use, and adjust Comet privacy settings or opt out of Email Assistant if desired.
View change record →When targeted advertising occurs on Perplexity AI's services, you may opt out, including by using the cookie consent pop-up.
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You can opt out of third parties collecting your Personal Information for targeted advertising purposes in the United States by visiting the National Advertising Initiative's (NAI) opt-out page...
You may update your Privacy Settings, including opting out of cookies and other tracking technologies.
If you use an authorized agent to submit a request, we will not act on that request unless we are able to authenticate, with commercially reasonable efforts, both your identity and the authorized agent's authority to act on your behalf.
"When targeted advertising occurs on our services, you have the choice to opt-out. You can opt out of online targeted advertising (e.g. cookies and pixels) through the cookie consent pop-up...Excerpt from Perplexity AI's Perplexity Privacy Policy
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The opt-out right is conditioned on targeted advertising occurring on Perplexity AI's services, and the mechanism identified is a cookie consent pop-up, meaning users must actively use that mechanism to exercise the right.
When targeted advertising occurs on Perplexity AI's services, you may opt out, including by using the cookie consent pop-up.
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