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Broad License Grant To Company For User Content

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Key Facts

What license does Perplexity AI require users to grant it?
Perplexity AI requires users to grant it a license to access, use, host, cache, store, reproduce, transmit, display, publish, distribute, and modify user content to operate, improve, promote, and provide the Services, including with respect to Output.
What may Perplexity AI do with user content?
Perplexity AI requires users to grant it a license to access, use, host, cache, store, reproduce, transmit, display, publish, distribute, and modify user content to operate, improve, promote, and provide the Services, including with respect to Output.
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Why it matters (compliance & governance perspective)

The license covers a wide range of uses of user content, including modification and promotion, and explicitly extends to Output generated from that content.

Recent Activity

This document changed recently

Medium Aug 3, 2026

The updated terms state that the Company reserves the right, and has absolute discretion, to remove, screen, edit, or delete any user content at any time, for any reason, and without notice. The revised language also clarifies that while the Company does not claim ownership of user-submitted content, the Company retains ownership of the Services and the underlying technology used to generate Output. Additionally, the terms now specify that users must obtain license rights in their content to allow the Company to operate the Service without legal violations. The operational effect is that user content may be subject to removal at any time under the Company's sole discretion, and users should understand the distinction between their ownership rights in submitted content and the Company's ownership of the platform and generation technology.

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Clause Stability Stable

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Changes
3
Months Monitored
Jul 10, 2026
First Seen
Jul 10, 2026
Last Seen
This clause type exists across 3333 other provisions on other platforms.

Consumer impact (what this means for users)

Readers grant Perplexity AI broad rights over their submitted content, including the right to modify it and use it in connection with Output.

How other platforms handle this

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Where the law allows us to, we may use the content you and other users have posted for training or to help us to improve the way we filter content on our platform.

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We may infer certain information from your interactions with the Lyft Platform and other personal information available to us. For example, if you frequently ride to or from airports, we may infer you are a frequent traveler.

Notion Medium

In accordance with applicable legal requirements, we may use your information to tailor and provide you with content and advertisements.

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you grant us a license to access, use, host, cache, store, reproduce, transmit, display, publish, distribute, and modify Your Content to operate, improve, promote and provide the Services, including to reproduce, transmit, display, publish and distribute Output...

Excerpt from Perplexity AI's Perplexity Terms of Service

Applicable regulations

EU AI Act
European Union
CCPA/CPRA
California, USA
Colorado AI Act
US-CO
CAN-SPAM
United States Federal
ePrivacy Directive
European Union
EU AI Act - High Risk Provisions
EU
FTC Act Section 5
United States Federal
GDPR
European Union
UK GDPR
United Kingdom

Provision details

Document information
Document
Perplexity Terms of Service
Entity
Perplexity AI
Document last updated
May 5, 2026
Tracking information
First tracked
May 21, 2026
Last verified
July 9, 2026
Record ID
CA-P-049644
Document ID
CA-D-00509
Evidence Provenance
Source URL
Wayback Machine
Content hash (SHA-256)
c9921e0f99f05cd64f3f85a6a26d9a37e88e12aed94b338db72b7dc58e524fa1
Analysis generated
May 21, 2026 02:16 UTC
Methodology
Evidence
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Citation Record
Entity: Perplexity AI
Document: Perplexity Terms of Service
Record ID: CA-P-049644
Captured: 2026-05-21 02:16:55 UTC
SHA-256: c9921e0f99f05cd6…
URL: https://conductatlas.com/platform/perplexity-ai/perplexity-terms-of-service/provision/CA-P-049644/broad-license-grant-to-company-for-user-content/
Accessed: Aug. 18, 2026
Permanent archival reference. Stable identifier suitable for legal filings, compliance documentation, and research citation.
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Frequently Asked Questions

What does Perplexity AI's Broad License Grant To Company For User Content clause do?

The license covers a wide range of uses of user content, including modification and promotion, and explicitly extends to Output generated from that content.

How does this clause affect you?

Readers grant Perplexity AI broad rights over their submitted content, including the right to modify it and use it in connection with Output.

How many platforms have this type of clause?

ConductAtlas has identified this type of provision across 279 platforms. See the full comparison.

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