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Method v1.6As At 2026-08-156 Surfaces Read1 Offering Assessed

Your own published record, as at 2026-08-15.

Your Details

The Macro Picture17

Red · Adverse
5
of 17 banded observations across 1 offering band Adverse. 2 were never measured.

What Is Published8

Your Own Words3

We retain Personal Data for as long as necessary to provide our Services and for the other purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We also retain Personal Data when necessary to comply with contractual and legal obligations, when we have a legitimate business interest to do so (such as improving and developing our Services and enhancing their safety, security and stability), and for the exercise or defense of legal claims.
Retention. No fixed period is published for chat/prompt content specifically; retention is criteria-based and one of the stated criteria ('improving and developing our Services') is functionally open-ended given the training default above. · Source
We may access, preserve, and share the Personal Data described in 'What Personal Data We Collect' with law enforcement agencies, public authorities, copyright holders, or other third parties if we have good faith belief that it is necessary to: comply with applicable law, legal process or government requests, as consistent with internationally recognized standards, in accordance with the due process prescribed by law.
Disclosure for legal reasons. A disclosure chain is stated in principle; it is not accompanied by any transparency report, any request count, or any published legal standard specific to the People's Republic of China's own national-intelligence and cybersecurity statutes, which impose duties on the entity that this clause does not mention. · Source
We use third party vendors to provide necessary information to responde to your inquiries. We use communication service providers to send notifications and/or communications to you. We integrate third-party APIs to provide search services. We use analytics services providers to analyse data. We use support and safety monitoring services providers.
Third party vendors. Five categories of recipient are named; zero companies are named. The independent Korean and Italian regulator findings recorded under onward_destination_risk name at least two entities DeepSeek itself never does — Beijing Volcano Engine Technology Co., Ltd and Beijing DeepSeek Artificial Intelligence Co. Ltd — which corroborates that the category-only disclosure omits real, identifiable recipients rather than describing a genuinely unnamed or informal set. · Source

Parties You Name0

`recipient_disclosure`: Categories. The individual names are not yet carried as a field on this record, so none are listed here. An empty list is not a finding that no party is named.

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Register Check3

AI Role By Offering1

Assessment Basis

Produced under Method v1.6 from the entity's fact record. 8 of 8 observations were measured under that generation; the rest read Not Measured, which is a fact about this register's coverage and not a finding about the entity.

Read from 6 first-party surface(s) across 1 assessed offering(s), found by the entity's own link graph and sitemap rather than by guessed paths.

Fact Record
Version 1.0, dated 2026-08-15
Standards Commit
3487bce7d591
Register Control Quality
Both Views

Verification And Challenge

Every finding on this record is a statement about what could be read on your own published surfaces as at 2026-08-15. Correspondence route as recorded on this card input: ror@blacksnowintel.com.

What A Machine Could Not Establish7

7 questions are open and 1 is established, read as at 2026-08-15 under method v1.6.

The One Thing To Publish First

Publish it: publish a sub-processor list.

Red · AdverseSub-Processor List Published

Subprocessor List Completeness: Not Assessable; Subprocessor Locations: No List To Assess

Where To Put It

This was read on your own page at https://cdn.deepseek.com/policies/en-US/deepseek-open-platform-terms-of-service.html. That is the page a reader already reaches for and does not find it on, so it is the page to correct first.

Where Others Stand

83 organisations in the register publish a sub-processor list. You do not.

What A Published Answer Looks Like

We use a few different third-party subprocessors to help us provide our services to you. These subprocessors process data that you input into the services, which may include personal data.

A question answered plainly in public, by an organisation read as Strong on it. It is not an endorsement of the position the sentence states — Black Snow reads what is published and never recommends what to practise. Read on a published sub-processor page. Claim tier Quoted. The organisation that published it is not named. A name in the original is replaced; nothing else in the sentence is changed.

One is named here, and one is deliberate. The rest of the open questions are listed below without a prescription; what to publish for each, in what order, and drafted machine-readable evidence for all of them, is the Deep Dive.

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