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Prohibition On Scraping Or Automated Data Extraction

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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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You may not display any personal contact, banking, or peer-to-peer payment information, whether in relation to you or any other person (for example, names, home addresses or postcodes, telephone numbers, email addresses, URLs, credit/debit card...)

ActiveCampaign Medium

Bypass or ignore instructions contained in our robots.txt file that controls automated access to portions of our Services;

Mailchimp Medium

Send content created in Mailchimp through another service.

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use any robot, spider, crawlers, scraper, or other automatic device, process, software or queries that intercepts, "mines," scrapes, extracts, or otherwise accesses the Services to monitor, extract, copy or collect information or data...

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Document
Perplexity Terms of Service
Entity
Perplexity AI
Document last updated
May 5, 2026
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First tracked
May 21, 2026
Last verified
July 9, 2026
Record ID
CA-P-049606
Document ID
CA-D-00509
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May 21, 2026 02:16 UTC
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Entity: Perplexity AI
Document: Perplexity Terms of Service
Record ID: CA-P-049606
Captured: 2026-05-21 02:16:55 UTC
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URL: https://conductatlas.com/platform/perplexity-ai/perplexity-terms-of-service/provision/CA-P-049606/prohibition-on-scraping-or-automated-data-extraction/
Accessed: Aug. 5, 2026
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Frequently Asked Questions

What does Perplexity AI's Prohibition On Scraping Or Automated Data Extraction clause do?

The clause states: “use any robot, spider, crawlers, scraper, or other automatic device, process, software or queries that intercepts, "mines," scrapes, extracts, or otherwise accesses the Services to monitor, extract, copy or collect information or data...”

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