What you're agreeing to
Perplexity's Terms of Service govern its AI-powered search service and grant Perplexity a license to process your queries to generate answers. Perplexity can modify its service and terms at any time.
Privacy in plain English
Perplexity collects your search queries, device information, and usage patterns. Perplexity does not sell personal data and data collection is focused on service delivery and improvement.
Terms of Service: Breakdown
Concerning Clauses- - Perplexity uses your queries to improve its models and search quality.
- The service can change at any time including pricing for Pro features.
- - Perplexity shares limited data with infrastructure providers and analytics partners.
- - 2024: Perplexity faced criticism for reportedly scraping content from news publishers without permission, prompting legal letters from several media organizations.
Verdict:
Perplexity is a low-risk AI search tool with straightforward data practices and no advertising model.
Privacy Policy: Breakdown
Privacy Issues- - Perplexity retains search query history which can reveal sensitive research topics and personal concerns.
- - Infrastructure providers process your queries under data processing agreements. - Perplexity does not sell user data to advertisers.
Verdict:
Perplexity is one of the lower-risk AI tools available — avoid sharing identifying personal information in queries as with any AI service.
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