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Perplexity

Method v1.6As At 2026-08-1512 Surfaces Read2 Offerings Assessed

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

Your Details

The Macro Picture34

Red · Adverse
4
of 34 banded observations across 2 offerings band Adverse. 5 were never measured.

What Is Published8

Your Own Words3

We keep your personal data for only as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes in this Notice... To determine the appropriate retention period... we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the data... the potential risk of harm... the purposes... and applicable legal requirements.
Privacy Notice, How We Protect and Retain Data. · Source
For the avoidance of doubt, Personal Data will not be used for training of Perplexity's large language models. // 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.
DPA, Prohibitions section; Enterprise Terms §1.3.3. · Source
For Free, Perplexity Pro and Perplexity Max users, AI Data Retention is enabled by default... Toggle off to opt out of AI training data collection... Opt-outs only apply to data collected after the opt-out date. Previously collected training data cannot be deleted or removed.
Perplexity Help Center, 'Data Collection at Perplexity', last updated July 16, 2026. · Source

Parties You Name23

See which of these are assessed in this register

Register Check3

AI Role By Offering2

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 12 first-party surface(s) across 2 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 Establish4

4 questions are open and 4 are established, read as at 2026-08-15 under method v1.6.

The One Thing To Publish First

Publish it: say whether decisions about people are made automatically.

Red · AdverseAutomated Decision-Making

A finding on the public record.

Where To Put It

No page on your own surfaces was carrying an answer to this question when you were read, so there is no address to correct — this one needs a home before it needs wording.

Where Others Stand

4 organisations in the register say whether decisions about people are made automatically. You do not.

What A Published Answer Looks Like

Under certain laws, residents may also be permitted to opt out of certain profiling relating to automated processing analyzing certain categories of an individual's information that would produce a legal or similarly significant effect. [the vendor] does not engage in this type of profiling of individuals.

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 trust or security 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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