What they may do · DPDP §6(4)
What Perplexity does with your data
Perplexity records your browsing history in its Comet browser, shares data with advertising partners who can track you across other companies' websites, uses your data to improve its AI models, and may refuse a deletion request for business purposes.
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Shares your data with partners
Passed to group companies, advertisers or analytics firms you never chose.
What this costs you. Your number and habits travel to companies you have never heard of and never agreed to. This is the step where the spam calls start.
Show me where they say that
Perplexity’s own policy says “We may share data among our Company Group, which includes our affiliates (e.g., parent company, sister companies, subsidiaries, joint ventures, or other companies under common control).”
Our summary data is shared across the corporate group and separately with service providers, business partners, professional services and advertising partners.
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Builds an advertising profile of you
They watch what you view, tap and buy, and use it to decide which ads you see.
What this costs you. Your attention gets priced. What you hesitate over becomes a bid — and a profile built to predict you is a profile built to persuade you.
Show me where they say that
Perplexity’s own policy says “Among other things, third parties may use this data to serve ads tailored to your interests, which may include ads about our products or services.”
Our summary data shared with third-party advertising and measurement partners may be used to serve interest-tailored ads.
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Follows you onto other websites and apps
Their tracking carries on after you leave, through pixels and SDKs embedded elsewhere.
What this costs you. You get recognised on sites that have nothing to do with them. Closing the app does not close the file.
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Perplexity’s own policy says “Depending on your settings, we record your browsing history and track your use and engagement when you use Comet with your synced Perplexity account.”
Our summary when the Comet browser is used with a synced account, Perplexity records the user's browsing history and tracks engagement across the sites they visit.
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Keeps your records long-term
Held on after you stop using the service.
What this costs you. Years after you delete the app, the record is still sitting there — and every year it sits there is another year it can leak.
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Perplexity’s own policy says “You may ask us to delete your personal data. If required by law, we will grant such a request. Note, however, that in many cases we must keep your personal data to comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, enforce agreements, or for other business purposes.”
Our summary deletion is granted only where legally required and may be refused for open-ended 'other business purposes', so records can be kept beyond the user's control.
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Processes your face or other biometrics
Face matching, liveness checks or similar.
What this costs you. You can change a leaked password in a minute. You cannot change your face. A biometric breach is permanent in a way nothing else is.
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Perplexity’s own policy says “If you participate in one of our health-specific services and upload data, connect third-party services, or direct us to collect information from third parties, we may collect your health, genetic, biometric, and/or neural data.”
Our summary enrolling in Perplexity Health may involve collection of biometric, genetic and neural data alongside health data.
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Trains AI models on your content
Your photos, messages or activity are used to train machine-learning models.
What this costs you. This one has no undo. Once your content is inside a trained model, no erasure request can lift it back out.
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Perplexity’s own policy says “Improve or create services and products, including our AI models.”
Our summary collected data is used to improve or create products including Perplexity's AI models.
Perplexity is one app. How many are on your phone?
Most people carry twenty to forty. Add yours and see the total in one screen — how many share your data, profile you for ads, or follow you across the web. Then take it back from all of them at once.
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Questions
What does Perplexity do with my personal data?
According to Perplexity's own privacy policy, read on 2026-08-14, it discloses 6 of the six uses we track: shares your data with partners, builds an advertising profile of you, follows you onto other websites and apps, keeps your records long-term, processes your face or other biometrics, trains ai models on your content.
Can I withdraw my consent from Perplexity?
Section 6(4) of India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act 2023 gives you the right to withdraw consent for processing you agreed to. The Act's substantive provisions commence in stages up to May 2027, so a request made now asks for voluntary compliance and puts the date on record. Processing a company carries out under a legal obligation — such as KYC records the RBI requires — cannot be withdrawn.
Does Perplexity track me for advertising?
Yes — Perplexity's published policy discloses this. The exact sentence it is based on is quoted on this page, with the date we read it and a link to the source.
Every use above is one Perplexity declared in its own published privacy policy, which we
read on 2026-08-14. Quotes are verbatim; the summary beside each one is ours
and is labelled as ours. Nothing here is inferred.
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representative. The DPDP Act 2023 commences in stages up to May 2027, so a request
made today asks for voluntary compliance and records the date you asked.
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