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Perplexity AI

Vannus has not established which model this vendor runs, and does not infer one. Every finding below is quoted to the vendor’s own document, or marked not disclosed where the vendor publishes nothing.

Determination
Not established — no document this record cites carries a finding about this vendor's corporate control, so none is published. This is a gap in our sourcing, not a finding about this vendor.
perplexity.ai · read 2026-08-08
read from terms of service · inferred from the address, not the heading
Contracting entity
Not established
Jurisdiction
Not established
Governing law
Not established
US corporate control
Not established the rule

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docs.perplexity.ai ↗ Vendor-sourcedQuote last confirmed 14 Sep 2026; the house has paused automated re-reading of its host until it reads its terms or rules, so it is not re-checked
Who controls it
US corporate controlNot established — no document this record cites carries a finding about this vendor's corporate control, so none is published. This is a gap in our sourcing, not a finding about this vendor. · clause read 8 Aug 2026; the house has paused automated re-reading of its host until it reads its terms or rules, so it is not re-checked
Trains on your dataYes, unless you opt out — on the vendor's default plan
On a paid or enterprise planIts words, on training: “Perplexity shall not use (or authorize third parties to use) Customer Content to train, retrain, fine-tune or otherwise improve any generative artificial intelligence models” — no retention position recorded

Applies to: Customers under Perplexity's Enterprise Terms of Service

From the enterprise terms of service: “Perplexity shall not use (or authorize third parties to use) Customer Content to train, retrain, fine-tune or otherwise improve any generative artificial intelligence models.” perplexity.ai ↗

Training and retention posture varies by plan. The default-plan row above describes the vendor’s free or standard tier; the paid-plan row is quoted from the document linked beside it. A negotiated contract can override either. Check your own agreement before relying on this.

On U.S. CLOUD Act reach specifically: the statute reaches a provider subject to U.S. jurisdiction over data in its possession, custody or control. Corporate control is a strong indicator of that and it is what we can evidence from published documents — but it is not the whole test. A company founded outside the U.S. can still contract through a U.S. entity or run substantial U.S. operations. Treat this as a starting point for your own review, not a legal determination, and take advice on anything that matters.

Record history

This is the history of our record of this vendor: when we first recorded it; each time one of these changed: the determination sentence, the contracting entity, its country, the governing law, the US-control finding, what the answer depends on, the note beside the finding, or the cited document; and each time the vendor's document was read again and none of them changed. A change only in capitals, punctuation or spacing is not a line, and neither is a first document title. A line names what changed and does not repeat what those fields said before; the determination above says what they say now. Where the determination sentence itself changed, the line shows the earlier sentence too, marked as before, with why it changed. The automated re-check's latest result is not a line here; it is printed beside the clause above. A change here may be the vendor changing its document or us correcting our reading of it, and a line says which only where the record shows it; otherwise it says the cause is not established. Each line is today's reading of the record as it stood on that date. A reading we later found its citation does not carry was withdrawn, and is not repeated here. This history as data.

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Perplexity AI: “Not established — no document this record cites carries a finding about this vendor's corporate control, so none is published. This is a gap in our sourcing, not a finding about this vendor.”
Vannus, https://vannus.co/tool/perplexity-ai
perplexity.ai · read 2026-08-08

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