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Clay carries highly permissive license terms; Perplexity AI carries highly permissive license terms.FOR ENTERPRISE: CLAY NOT RECOMMENDED · PERPLEXITY AI NOT RECOMMENDED
| RISK SURFACE | CLAY | PERPLEXITY AI |
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“ Our services include some content that belongs to us, such as our product, our website, and content written by us. You may use this content as permitted by these terms, but we retain all intellectual property rights in our content.We welcome feedback on our services. By sending…”
“ In order to operate the Service, we must obtain from you certain license rights in Your Content so that actions we take in operating the Service are not considered legal violations. Accordingly, by using the Service and uploading Your Content, you grant us a license to access, u…”
“ When we say “your content” in these terms, we mean all the things you add (upload, share etc.) to our services ("User Content"). You retain ownership of your User Content. By submitting User Content, you grant Clay Labs a worldwide, non-exclusive (which means you can still licen…”
“ Information we receive when you choose to link any third-party platforms to your account, such as when you sign into your account through Google or Apple (“ Third Party Platform Information ”) or when you voluntarily link one or more of your health and wellness applications (suc…”
“Clay does not claim ownership of any data that you upload to Clay. Further, Clay does not make data uploaded by users available to anyone other than those using the Clay workspace of the uploading account and the Clay team. Clay does not use user-uploaded content for any purpose…”
“In addition to the specific uses described above, we may use most of the above information to provide you with and improve the Services (including our AI models) and to maintain our business relationship, including by enhancing the safety and security of our Services (e.g., troub…”
User data — which includes 'most' categories described above (including Service Interaction Information, i.e., prompts and outputs) — may be used to improve AI models. No opt-out mechanism is described here.
“ You agree not to license, sell, or transfer your account without our prior written approval.”
“ If we become aware that we have unknowingly collected information about a child under 13 years of age or the relevant minimum age in your jurisdiction, we will make commercially reasonable efforts to delete such information. If you are the parent or guardian of a child under the…”
“ whether we sell your personal information to third parties;”
“To the extent the laws in your jurisdiction do not recognize the legal basis of legitimate interest or another legal basis specified above for a particular purpose, you consent to the processing of your personal information for that purpose through using the Services.”
Perplexity uses mere use of the Services as implied consent for processing where 'legitimate interests' is not recognized as a valid legal basis. This is a broad fallback consent mechanism that may not be valid under GDPR or other strict privacy regimes.
“All Clay accounts are on a subscription basis; the Subscription will renew unless canceled before the Renewal Commencement Date. Subscription renewals happen with Clay’s most up-to-date pricing unless otherwise stated in your contract.”
“This Privacy Policy does not cover the use of the Perplexity API or Enterprise Pro, where we act solely as a processor, and which are governed by the applicable Terms and Conditions, including the Data Processing Addendum incorporated therein, that you agree to when signing up fo…”
API and Enterprise Pro users have different (and potentially stronger) data-processor protections under a DPA, whereas free/Pro/Max users are governed by this policy which permits broader use of their data.