Data Report Card · Perplexity
Perplexity Data Report Card
AI search · Perplexity AI, Inc.
Data
Practices
Practices
2Access1Portability1Friction2Deletion1Sells1Trains AI
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C
8/12
Agent
Readiness
Readiness
2Access
1Portability
0API access
=
C
3/6
Agent Readiness is a derived signal — a synthesis of two existing cells (Access, Portability) plus one sourced factor (API access), not an independently measured grade. API access scale: Best (2) consumer-grantable API · Moderate (1) partial / encumbered · Restrictive (0) manual export only. What is Agent Readiness?
Reviewed Jun 2026 · policies are checked weekly for changes · stated — every cell is read from Perplexity's published policy; none has been tested (run by us) yet.
2Accessstated
Perplexity states you can request a copy of your personal information and exercise access rights through your account settings and a privacy request, returning the personal data it holds about you.
Perplexity — Privacy Policy (your rights), corroborated via ComplianceHub · accessed Jun 2026 ↗1Portabilitystated
Access returns a copy of your data, but Perplexity does not document multiple confirmed structured machine-readable export formats (e.g. JSON plus CSV) for a self-serve portable download, so portability is scored at the single-format level.
Perplexity — Privacy Policy (right to a copy), corroborated via Cape · accessed Jun 2026 ↗1Frictionstated
Requests are handled through account settings and a privacy contact rather than a one-click self-serve portal, placing friction at the moderate level.
Perplexity — Privacy Policy (how to exercise rights) · accessed Jun 2026 ↗2Deletionstated
Perplexity states that deleting your account removes your personal data, with deletion completed within about 30 days subject to limited legal-retention exceptions.
Perplexity — Privacy Policy (data retention and deletion) · accessed Jun 2026 ↗1Sells / sharesstated
Perplexity states it does "not 'sell' (as defined under the CCPA) personal information, nor have we done so in the preceding 12 months," but it works with advertising partners and ingests third-party marketing data, and an April 2026 CCPA class action alleges it shared user queries with Meta and Google; sharing for ad purposes keeps this off the clean no-sale level.
Perplexity — Privacy Policy (no sale), with class-action context · accessed Jun 2026 ↗1Trains AIstated
Perplexity uses user queries to train and improve its models by default, but provides an "AI data retention" opt-out toggle in Account Settings -> Preferences that stops your data being used for training, so training use is scored at the partial level.
Perplexity — AI data retention setting, corroborated via Cape · accessed Jun 2026 ↗0API access — feeds Agent Readiness, not the /12stated
Perplexity offers the Sonar API for developers to query its models and search, but there is no consumer-grantable OAuth API for an agent to fetch your own personal account data; the self-data path is the manual privacy request, so agent access is scored at the lowest level.
Perplexity — Sonar API (developer-facing) · accessed Jun 2026 ↗Reviewed Jun 2026. Perplexity's privacy policy and consumer help center returned 403 to automated fetches; the data-rights mechanics were corroborated through named third-party write-ups (Cape, ComplianceHub) and the public CCPA class-action filing. Perplexity is an AI search company, so two cells turn on its training and ad relationships.
How to request your data from Perplexity
- Go to https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/legal/privacy-policy — Perplexity's data-request entry point.
- Account -> Settings -> Preferences (AI data retention); privacy request to exercise access / deletion.
- Expected wait: access / deletion handled via account settings and a privacy request; deletion completed within about 30 days subject to legal-retention exceptions — Perplexity's stated turnaround (we haven't independently timed a request yet).
- No self-serve option, or want a formal request? Contact Perplexity — Privacy / Data Requests: https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/legal/privacy-policy.
These steps reflect Perplexity's documented process as of Jun 2026. The wait time is the company's stated figure, not yet independently measured by us.