(cache)ChatBot Terms Shootout (as of January 2025) - WIP

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1	AI Provider	Anthropic	Bytedance	DeepSeek	DeepSeek China	DeepSeek API	Gemini Apps	OpenAI (Europe)	Perplexity

2	Documents Reviewed	Terms of Service Privacy Policy	Terms and Conditions Privacy Policy	Terms of Service Privacy Policy			Terms of Service Privacy Notice	Terms of Use Privacy Policy	Terms of Service Privacy Policy
3	Effective Date	5/13/2024 12/5/2024	5/20/2024 5/20/2024	8/30/2024 12/5/2024			5/22/2024 12/13/2024	12/11/2024 11/8/2024	6/4/2024 12/22/2024
5	Prohibited Uses	* Violation of laws or regulations, including export controls. * Development of competing products or services, including AI/ML algorithms. * Reverse engineering, decompiling, or disassembling the services. * Unauthorized data scraping. * Infringing intellectual property rights or privacy. * Unauthorized access to systems or deception. * Accessing services through automated means (unless permitted). * Disruptive or harmful conduct, including introducing viruses or malware. * Sharing account credentials. * Using Anthropic's name or trademarks without permission. * Exporting services to embargoed countries or restricted parties. Source: Section 3, ToS	* Uploading, transmitting, or distributing malicious content like viruses or harmful material. * Using content in combination with AI tools for training or development. * Employing web scraping techniques or automated tools for data extraction. * Disrupting the services or others' use. * Unauthorized access to systems or networks. * Publishing or distributing unauthorized advertising or promotional material. * Distributing public information or shareware for personal gain. Source: T&Cs	3.4 You will not use the Services to generate, express or promote content or a chatbot that: (1) is hateful, defamatory, offensive, abusive, tortious or vulgar; (2) is deliberately designed to provoke or antagonize another or is bullying or trolling another; (3) may harass, intimidate, threaten, harm, hurt, scare, distress, embarrass or upset another; (4) is discriminatory such as discriminating another based on race, gender, sexuality, religion, nationality, disability or age; (5) is pornographic, obscene, or sexually explicit (e.g., sexual chatbots); (6) facilitates, promotes, incites or glorifies violence or terrorist/extremism content; (7) exploits, harms, or attempts to exploit or harm or minors or exposes minors to such content; (8) are designed to specifically appeal to or present a persona of any person under the age of 18; (9) constitute, encourage or provide instructions for a criminal offence; or (10) impersonates or is designed to impersonate a celebrity, public figure or a person other than yourself without clearly labelling the content or chatbot as "unofficial" or "parody", unless you have that person's explicit consent. 3.5 You will not violate any applicable, nor interfere with, damage, or attack the Services, systems, networks, models, and other components that support the normal operation of the service. You will not engage in activities that endanger the security of the Services: (1) Engage in illegal activities involving network intrusion, such as: using unauthorized data or accessing unauthorized servers/accounts; forging TCP/IP packet names or partial names; attempting to probe, scan, or test vulnerabilities in the software system or network without permission. (2) Engage in activities that disrupt or damage the normal operation of the network, such as: intentionally generating, spreading malicious programs or viruses; entering public computer networks or other people's computer systems without permission and deleting, modifying, adding stored information, etc. (3) Engage in activities to steal network data, such as: reverse engineering, reverse assembly, reverse compilation, translation, or attempting to discover the source code, models, algorithms, and system source code or underlying components of the software in any way; capturing, copying any content of the Services, including but not limited to using any robots, spiders, or other automatic setups, setting mirrors. (4) Engaging in other activities that endanger the Services' systems, networks, models, and other components. 3.6 You will not use the Services for the following improper purposes: (1) Using the Services for any illegal purposes that violate laws and regulations, regulatory policies, or infringe on the legitimate rights and interests of third parties. (2) Using the Services for dangerous purposes that may have serious harmful impacts on physical health, psychology, society, or the economy, or violate scientific and technological ethics. (3) Engaging in activities that infringe on intellectual property rights, trade secrets, and other violations of business ethics, or using algorithms, data, platforms, etc., to implement monopolistic and unfair competition behaviors. (4) Using the Services to develop other products and services that are in competition with the Services (unless such restrictions are illegal under relevant legal norms). (5) Without DeepSeek's authorization, copying, transferring, leasing, lending, selling, or sub-licensing the entire or part of the Services. (6) Other uses prohibited or restricted by laws and administrative regulations, or that may harm DeepSeek's interests. Source: Section 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, ToS	You must not violate laws and regulations such as 《 Internet Information Service Management Measures 》, 《 Network Information Content Ecological Governance Regulations 》, 《 Interim Measures for Generating Artificial Intelligence Service Management》 and related standards regarding the content of network information The requirements for safety shall not be entered, used to export or disseminate the following illegal and bad information: (1) Oppose the basic principles established by the Constitution; (2) Endangering national security, leaking state secrets, subverting state power, and undermining national unity; (3) Damage to national honor and interests; (4) Distorting, vilifying, blasphemy, denying the deeds and spirits of heroes and martyrs, insulting, defamating or otherwise infringing on the names, portraits, reputation, and honors of heroes and martyrs; (5) Promote terrorism, extremism or incite terrorist activities and extremist activities; (6) Inciting national hatred, ethnic discrimination, and undermining national unity; (7) Undermine national religious policies, promote cults and feudal superstitions; (8) Spreading rumors that disrupt economic and social order; (9) Dissemination of obscenity, pornography, gambling, violence, homicide, terror or abetment of crime; (10) Insulting or defamating others, infringing on the reputation, privacy and other legitimate rights and interests of others; (11) Other content prohibited by laws and administrative regulations. You must not maliciously confront the information content security management and risk prevention mechanism of this service in the following ways, including but not limited to: (1) Malicious confrontation behaviors, including but not limited to the use of variants, barcodes, characters, homophones, etc. to circumvent service testing to enter or generate remarks that violate the above 3.3. (2) Malicious attacks, inducements and poisoning by pretending to be identity, reverse inducement, jailbreak attacks, etc. (3) Unauthorized removal and tampering with the generated content logo involved in this service without deep consent or legal and legitimate basis. 3.5 As a user of this service, You must not violate the requirements of laws and regulations such as the 《 Cybersecurity Law 》, 《 Data Security Law 》, and related standards. You must not address this service and the systems, networks, models, and other components that support the normal operation of this service. Interfere, destroy or attack, and must not engage in the following activities that endanger the safety of this service: (1) Engage in activities that illegally invade the network, such as: using unauthorized data or entering unauthorized servers/accounts; forging TCP/IP data package names or partial names; unauthorized attempts to detect, scan, test Weaknesses of this software system or network, etc. (2) Engage in activities that interfere with or disrupt the normal functions of the network, such as: intentionally generating and disseminating malicious programs or viruses; entering the public computer network or other people’s computer systems without permission and deleting, modifying, and adding stored information; to cause computer systems or facilities to suffer Unreasonable load interference with operations, etc. (3) Engaged in activities to steal network data, such as: reverse engineering, reverse compilation, reverse compilation, translation, or other attempts to discover the source code, model, algorithm, and system of this software Source code or bottom assembly; in any way (including but not limited to any robot, reptile, other automatic settings, mirror image) to grab, Copy this service and any content it contains. (4) Engage in other activities that endanger the safety of this service system, network, model and other components. 3.6 As a user of this service, You must not use this service for the following improper purposes: (1) Use this service for any illegal purpose that violates laws and regulations, regulatory policies, or infringes on the legitimate rights and interests of third parties. (2) Use this service for dangerous purposes that may have serious harmful effects on personal health, psychology, society, or economy, or violate scientific and technological ethics. (3) Engage in infringement of intellectual property rights, trade secrets, and other violations of business ethics, or use advantages such as algorithms, data, and platforms to implement monopolies and unfair competition. (4) Without in-depth request authorization, copy, transfer, lease, lend, sell or provide sub-licenses, and transfer licenses for all or part of the service. (5) Prohibited and restricted by other laws and administrative regulations, or may damage the way in which deep interests are sought. Sections 3.3-3.6, User Agreement		* Violating Google Terms of Service and Generative AI Prohibited Use Policy. * Sharing confidential information or data that users do not want Google to use for improvement. Source: ToS	* Using services for illegal, harmful, or abusive activities. * Infringing on anyone's rights. * Modifying, copying, distributing, or selling services. * Reverse engineering or decompiling services. * Extracting data or output automatically or programmatically. * Representing AI-generated output as human-generated. * Interfering with or disrupting services, including bypassing rate limits or safety measures. * Using output to develop competing models. Source: ToU	* Directing services to generate output violating intellectual property rights, contractual restrictions, or laws. * Publishing output without citing the services or misrepresenting its source or AI generation. * Engaging in activities prohibited in section 5. of their Terms of Service (e.g., unauthorized downloading, copying, data scraping). * Introducing malicious materials into their systems. * Submitting unlawful, harmful, or abusive content. Source: ToU
6	User Liability	Responsible for ensuring all rights and permissions are in place for submitted prompts. Must comply with the Terms of Service, Acceptable Use Policy, and relevant laws. Prompt Liability: "You are responsible for all Prompts you submit to our Services. You must ensure that you have all rights, licenses, and permissions that are necessary for us to process such Prompts in accordance with our Terms." Source: Section 4, Terms of Service	Responsible for content uploaded to the service, including compliance with laws and regulations. Must ensure legal rights to the data and protect against fraudulent, harmful, unauthorized, or illegal activity. Source: T&Cs	Responsible for legality of end-user data and compliance with data protection requirements. Must establish organizational and technical measures for data security and prevent misuse. Liable for consequences of violation of terms. Users (including open platform providers) are solely responsible for inputs submitted and corresponding Outputs, and that neither will violate DeepSeek Terms, or any laws or regulations applicable to those Inputs and Outputs. Source: Section 4.1, ToS			Must follow Google Terms of Service and Generative AI Prohibited Use Policy. Google processes information to maintain functionality, safety, and reliability, including detecting and preventing abuse and illegal activities. Source: Privacy Notice	Responsible for content submitted, including ensuring it doesn't violate laws or the Terms of Use. Must comply with trade laws, sanctions, and export control laws. Liable for copyright infringement claims. Source: ToU	Responsible for ensuring submitted input doesn't violate intellectual property rights, contractual restrictions, or laws. Must cite the service when publishing output. Not allowed to misrepresent output's source or AI generation. This is very broad. "By posting or submitting Your Content through the Services, you represent and warrant that you have, or have obtained, all rights, licenses, consents, permissions, power and/or authority necessary to grant the rights granted herein for Your Content. You agree that Your Content will not contain material subject to copyright or other proprietary rights, unless you have the necessary permission or are otherwise legally entitled to post the material and to grant us the license described above." Source: Sections 1.1, 6.4, ToS
7	Ownership of Inputs	Users retain ownership of their inputs (Prompts) Section 4, Tos	Users retain ownership of intellectual property rights in submissions (including feedback and suggestions), but grant Bytedance "(and those we work with) a royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, non-exclusive right and license to publish, post, reformat, index, archive, make available, link to, and otherwise use such Submission in all forms and media (whether now known or later developed), in connection with the operation of our respective businesses (including, without limitation, the Services) and to permit others to do so. a broad license to Bytedance for use and distribution. Bytedance may remove submissions and reserves editorial control." Source: T&Cs	Users retain rights to inputs. Section 4.1, ToS			Google's broad terms do not claim ownership of user-generated content. Source: Google Privacy & Terms / Terms of Service	As between you and OpenAI, and to the extent permitted by applicable law, you (a) retain your ownership rights in Input. Source: ToU	Users retain ownership of their content, but grant Perplexity an extremely broad license for use and distribution, including " include a right for us to make Your Content available to, and pass these rights along to, others with whom we have contractual relationships related to the provision of the Services, solely for the purpose of providing such Services, and to otherwise permit access to or disclose Your Content to third parties if we determine such access is necessary to comply with our legal obligations.". Perplexity reserves the right to remove user content. Source: Sections 1.1, 6.4, ToS
8	Ownership of Outputs	Anthropic assigns all its right, title, and interest in outputs (Outputs) to the user, subject to compliance with the terms Section 4, ToS	Bytedance appears to claim ownership of the 'content made available through the Services' which may include outputs "Unless otherwise set out in these Terms of Use, content made available through the Services, including articles, text, graphics, user interfaces, visual interfaces, photographs, trademarks, logos, videos, audio, images, applications, programs, computer code and other information (collectively, the “Content”), including but not limited to the design, layout, “look and feel” and arrangement of such Content, is owned by the Doubao Team, its licensors or its content providers and is protected by copyright, trademark and other intellectual property and unfair competition laws." Source: T&Cs	DeepSeek assigns all rights, titles, and interests to outputs (subject to compliance with terms). Users who publish or disseminate outputs "must: (1) proactively verify the authenticity and accuracy of the output content to avoid spreading false information; (2) clearly indicate that the output content is generated by artificial intelligence, to alert the public to the synthetic nature of the content; (3) avoid publishing and disseminating any output content that violates the usage specifications of these Terms." Source: Sections 3.1, 4.1, ToS			Unclear - I could not find details in any of the policies Google makes available -- also it's a mess.	Users retain ownership in Outputs. OpenAI hereby assigns to you all our right, title, and interest, if any, in and to Output. Source: ToU	See above.
9	Provider's Use of Inputs/Outputs	Anthropic may use inputs and outputs to provide, maintain, and improve services, and to develop other products and services. They will not train their models on materials that are not publicly available, except for feedback, trust and safety review, or with explicit user consent. Section 4, ToS	Bytedance uses collected data to provide, operate, and improve the service, communicate with users, understand their needs and interests, provide support and maintenance, for research and development, to comply with the law, for compliance, fraud prevention, and safety, and with user consent. Source: T&Cs	DeepSeek may use inputs and outputs to provide, maintain, operate, develop, or improve services or underlying technologies. They will not use the data for purposes unrelated to the services without separate consent. Use to a 'minimal extent' 'under the premise of security encryption technology processing [?], strict de-identification, and irreversibility [hashing?] to avoid re-identification of specific individuals. Can delete all content without prior notice. Source: Section 4.2, 7.1, ToS			Google uses collected data (including Gemini conversations, related product usage information, location information & feedback) to provide, improve, and develop Google products and services, and machine-learning technologies, including Google’s enterprise products such as Google Cloud. This includes review of conversations by human reviewers. Apps Activity (storage) is on by default if the user is 18 or older. Source: Privacy Notice	OpenAI can use user content worldwide to provide, maintain, develop, and improve services, comply with applicable law, enforce terms and policies, and keep services safe. OpenAI may use inputs to train models, but users can opt-out. Source: ToU	Perplexity may use user content to operate, improve, promote, and provide services, including reproducing, transmitting, displaying, publishing, and distributing output based on input. Source: Section 6.4, ToS
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12	Direct Data Collection from users	* Account information * Name * Email * Password * User Inputs * Feedback * Communications with Company * IP Address * Device type * Operating System * Browser info * Unique identifiers * Usage data (pages visited, services used, clickstream data) * Cookies & Trackers * Payment Information Source: Privacy Policy	* Account information * Name * Email * Password * User Inputs * Feedback * Communications with Company * IP Address * Device type * Operating System * Browser info * Unique identifiers * Usage data (pages visited, services used, clickstream data) * Cookies & Trackers * Payment Information Source: Privacy Policy	* Date of birth * Username * Email address * Telephone number * Password * Text or audio input * Prompt * Uploaded files * Feedback * Chat history * UserID	* Mobile number * login password * real name * ID number * telephone number * mailbox * Contact Name * Chat History * Acclaim records * Feedback * Uploaded files * "Supporting materials" submitted in feedback		* Account information * Name * Email * Password * User Inputs * Feedback * Communications with Company * IP Address * Device type * Operating System * Browser info * Unique identifiers * Usage data (pages visited, services used, clickstream data) * Cookies & Trackers * Payment Information Source: Privacy Notice	* Account information * Name * Email * Password * User Inputs * Feedback * Communications with Company * IP Address * Device type * Operating System * Browser info * Unique identifiers * Usage data (pages visited, services used, clickstream data) * Cookies & Trackers * Payment Information Source: Privacy Policy	* Account information * Name * Email * Password * User Inputs * Feedback * Communications with Company * IP Address * Device type * Operating System * Browser info * Unique identifiers * Usage data (pages visited, services used, clickstream data) * Cookies & Trackers * Payment Information Source: Privacy Policy
13	Indirect Data Collection	* Model Training data (internet, publicly available data, licensed data, data provided by trainers) * Third party services (integration with other platforms)	* Model Training data (internet, publicly available data, licensed data, data provided by trainers) * Third party services (integration with other platforms)	* IP address * Unique device identifiers * Cookies * Device and network connection information * Device model * Operating system * Keystroke patterns or rhythms * System language * Service-related data * Diagnostic, and performance information (crash reports and performance logs) * Device ID and user ID * Payment order and transaction information * Usage information * OAuth (Google/Apple Auth) * Advertising, mresurement, and third parties (purchase activities, mobile identifiers, hashed email addresses, phone numbers, cookie identifiers)	* IP address * software version number * operating system version number * Equipment identifiers * network access method * type * status * network quality data * operation * use * service log * equipment sensor data (such as acceleration sensors, gyroscope sensors). * Camera settings * De-identified data * Cookies		* Model Training data (internet, publicly available data, licensed data, data provided by trainers) * Third party services (integration with other platforms) Source: Privacy Notice	* Model Training data (internet, publicly available data, licensed data, data provided by trainers) * Third party services (integration with other platforms)	* Model Training data (internet, publicly available data, licensed data, data provided by trainers) * Third party services (integration with other platforms)
14	Data Retention	"as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes and criteria outlined in this Privacy Policy". Individual conversations can be deleted by users, and they will be removed from the user's history immediately and automatically deleted from Anthropic's back-end within 30 days. Source: Section 6, Privacy Policy	Not specified.	Not specified.			Apps activity is stored within Google account for up to 18 months. This can be changed by the user from 3 or 36 months in the Activities Setting. Content reviewed by human reviewers is retained for up to 3 years. Source: Privacy Notice	No set retention. "For only as long as we need in order to provide our Services to you, or for other legitimate business purposes." Otherwise, the data retention depends on "several factors, including the purpose of data processing, the nature of the information, the risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure, and legal requirements." ChatGPT temporary chats will be kept for up to 30 days for "safety purposes." Source: Section 4, Privacy Policy	No set retention period. For "as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes specified.", "we consider various criteria, including whether we need the information to continue to provide you the Services, resolve a dispute, enforce our contractual agreements, prevent harm, promote safety, security and integrity, or protect ourselves, including our rights, property or products." If a user deletes their account, Perplexity aims to delete personal information from servers within 30 days. Sections 8, 11, Privacy Policy
15	Company Liability	Not liable for errors caused by third-party payment processors. Disclaims warranties related to fitness for purpose, title, merchantability, accuracy, availability, reliability, security, privacy, compatibility, non-infringement. Liability limited for foreseeable loss. No liability for loss of profits / business etc. Liability limited to (a) the amount you paid to us for access to or use of the Services in the six months prior to the event giving rise to the liability, and (b) €100. Source: Section 10, ToS	Not responsible for actions of third-party websites or services linked on the platform. Employs security practices but does not guarantee the security of personal information. Liability limited to fees paid. Source: T&Cs	Not liable for incidental, consequential, punitive, special, or indirect losses. Liability limited to service fees consumed in the past twelve months. Source: Section 7.2, ToS			Not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or exemplary damages. Google’s total liability arising out of or relating to these terms is limited to the greater of (1) €500 or (2) 125% of the fees that you paid to use the relevant services in the 12 months before the breach. Third-party beneficiaries (affiliates, suppliers, licensors, distributors) benefit from this limitation. Google General ToS (no separate ToS for Gemini)	Not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or exemplary damages. Aggregate liability limited to the greater of the amount paid for the service in the past 12 months or $100. Third-party beneficiaries (affiliates, suppliers, licensors, distributors) benefit from this limitation. Source: ToU	Not liable for content created, uploaded, or shared by users or third parties. No responsibility or liability to users for the infringement of the rights of any third party in your use of any Output. Disclaims warranties regarding the completeness, accuracy, security, or reliability of the services. Liability limited to the greater of $100 or the amount paid in the past six months for the services. Source: Sections 8.1, 8.2, ToS
16	Indemnification	No explicit indemnification clause for users. Source: Section 10, ToS	Users indemnify Bytedance for liability arising from their violation of the Terms of Use. Source: T&Cs	Users indemnify DeepSeek and its affiliates for liability arising from their breach of the terms, violation of laws, or misconduct. Source: Section 7.4, ToS			Users idemnify Google and its directors, officers, employees, and contractors for any third-party legal proceedings (including actions by government authorities) arising out of or relating to your unlawful use of the services or violation of these terms or service-specific additional terms. This indemnity covers any liability or expense arising from claims, losses, damages, judgments, fines, litigation costs, and legal fees, except to the extent a liability or expense is caused by Google's breach, negligence, or willful misconduct. If you’re legally exempt from certain responsibilities, including indemnification, then those responsibilities don’t apply to you under these terms. Source: Privacy Notice	Business users indemnify OpenAI for liability from their use of services and content or violation of terms. Source: ToU	Users indemnify Perplexity for liability arising from their breach of terms, violation of rights, misuse of services, user content, or negligence. Source: Section 8.3, ToS
17	Arbitration / Courts	Arbitration not mentioned; Lawsuits for EEA individuals will be in Irish Courts, buit consumers can also file locally. Source: Section 12, ToS.	Arbitration is not mentioned; Chinese courts, applying Chinese law. Source: T&Cs	Arbitration not mentioned. "Amicably through negotiation" first, otherwise courts located in the 'registered office of Hangzhou DeepSeek Artificial Intelligence, Co.' Source: Section 9.2, ToS			No arbitration clause, governing law and courts of the user's country of residence (for EEA users) Source: Privacy Notice	Yes; California Law, and JAMS arbitration (also court for EEA users) Source: ToU	Yes; Mandatory binding arbitration, and a class action waiver. JAMS for arbitration. Source: Section 9, ToS
18	Data Storage			China	China	China
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1	AI Provider	Anthropic	Bytedance	DeepSeek	Google Vertex AI	OpenAI	Perplexity

2	Terms title	Commercial Terms		DeepSeek Open Platform Terms of Service		Business Terms	Enterprise Terms
3	URL	https://www.anthropic.com/legal/commercial-terms	?	https://platform.deepseek.com/downloads/DeepSeek%20Open%20Platform%20Terms%20of%20Service.html	https://cloud.google.com/terms https://cloud.google.com/terms/service-terms https://cloud.google.com/terms/aup?hl=en https://cloud.google.com/terms/data-processing-addendum?hl=en https://policies.google.com/terms/generative-ai/use-policy	https://openai.com/policies/business-terms/ https://openai.com/policies/usage-policies/	https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/legal/enterprise-terms-of-service
4	Prohibited Uses	"Customer may not and must not attempt to (a) access the Services to build a competing product or service... (b) reverse engineer or duplicate the Services; or (c) support any third party’s attempt at any of these restricted conducts." s. B.4 - Commercial Terms Usage policy lists universal usage standards prohibiting uses that compromise children's safety, incite violence, spread misinformation, create political campaigns, use for criminal justice, or generate fraudulent, abusive, sexually explicit content. Usage Policy - https://www.anthropic.com/legal/aup		3.4 You will not use the Services to generate, express or promote content or a chatbot that: (1) is hateful, defamatory, offensive, abusive, tortious or vulgar; (2) is deliberately designed to provoke or antagonize another or is bullying or trolling another; (3) may harass, intimidate, threaten, harm, hurt, scare, distress, embarrass or upset another; (4) is discriminatory such as discriminating another based on race, gender, sexuality, religion, nationality, disability or age; (5) is pornographic, obscene, or sexually explicit (e.g., sexual chatbots); (6) facilitates, promotes, incites or glorifies violence or terrorist/extremism content; (7) exploits, harms, or attempts to exploit or harm or minors or exposes minors to such content; (8) are designed to specifically appeal to or present a persona of any person under the age of 18; (9) constitute, encourage or provide instructions for a criminal offence; or (10) impersonates or is designed to impersonate a celebrity, public figure or a person other than yourself without clearly labelling the content or chatbot as "unofficial" or "parody", unless you have that person's explicit consent. 3.5 You will not violate any applicable, nor interfere with, damage, or attack the Services, systems, networks, models, and other components that support the normal operation of the service. You will not engage in activities that endanger the security of the Services: (1) Engage in illegal activities involving network intrusion, such as: using unauthorized data or accessing unauthorized servers/accounts; forging TCP/IP packet names or partial names; attempting to probe, scan, or test vulnerabilities in the software system or network without permission. (2) Engage in activities that disrupt or damage the normal operation of the network, such as: intentionally generating, spreading malicious programs or viruses; entering public computer networks or other people's computer systems without permission and deleting, modifying, adding stored information, etc. (3) Engage in activities to steal network data, such as: reverse engineering, reverse assembly, reverse compilation, translation, or attempting to discover the source code, models, algorithms, and system source code or underlying components of the software in any way; capturing, copying any content of the Services, including but not limited to using any robots, spiders, or other automatic setups, setting mirrors. (4) Engaging in other activities that endanger the Services' systems, networks, models, and other components. 3.6 You will not use the Services for the following improper purposes: (1) Using the Services for any illegal purposes that violate laws and regulations, regulatory policies, or infringe on the legitimate rights and interests of third parties. (2) Using the Services for dangerous purposes that may have serious harmful impacts on physical health, psychology, society, or the economy, or violate scientific and technological ethics. (3) Engaging in activities that infringe on intellectual property rights, trade secrets, and other violations of business ethics, or using algorithms, data, platforms, etc., to implement monopolistic and unfair competition behaviors. (4) Without DeepSeek's authorization, copying, transferring, leasing, lending, selling, or sub-licensing the entire or part of the Services. (5) Other uses prohibited or restricted by laws and administrative regulations, or that may harm DeepSeek's interests. s. 3 DeepSeek Terms of Use	Customer will not, and will not allow End Users to (a) copy, modify, or create a derivative work of the Services; (b) reverse engineer... (c) sell, resell... or (d) access or use the Services... in violation of the AUP... GCP Terms of Service - s.3.3 Customer agrees not to, and not to allow third parties to use the Services: to violate, or encourage the violation of, the legal rights of others; to engage in, promote or encourage illegal activity, including child sexual exploitation, child abuse, or terrorism or violence that can cause death, serious harm, or injury to individuals or groups of individuals; for any unlawful, invasive, infringing, defamatory or fraudulent purpose including Non-consensual Explicit Imagery (NCEI), violating intellectual property rights of others, phishing, or creating a pyramid scheme; to distribute viruses, worms, Trojan horses, corrupted files, hoaxes, or other items of a destructive or deceptive nature; to gain unauthorized access to, disrupt, or impair the use of the Services, or the equipment used to provide the Services, by customers, authorized resellers, or other authorized users; to disable, interfere with or circumvent any aspect of the Services, Software, or the equipment used to provide the Services; to generate, distribute, publish or facilitate unsolicited mass email, promotions, advertisements, or other solicitations (“spam”); or to use the Services, or any interfaces provided with the Services, to access any other Google product or service in a manner that violates the terms of service of such other Google product or service. GCP AUP https://cloud.google.com/terms/aup?hl=en Generative AI models can help you explore, learn, and create. We expect you to engage with them in a responsible, legal, and safe manner. The following restrictions apply to your interactions with generative AI in the Google products and services that refer to this policy. Do not engage in dangerous or illegal activities, or otherwise violate applicable law or regulations. This includes generating or distributing content that: Relates to child sexual abuse or exploitation. Facilitates violent extremism or terrorism. Facilitates non-consensual intimate imagery. Facilitates self-harm. Facilitates illegal activities or violations of law – for example, providing instructions for synthesising or accessing illegal or regulated substances, goods, or services. Violates the rights of others, including privacy and intellectual property rights – for example, using personal data or biometrics without legally-required consent. Tracks or monitors people without their consent. Makes automated decisions that have a material detrimental impact on individual rights without human supervision in high-risk domains – for example, in employment, healthcare, finance, legal, housing, insurance, or social welfare. Do not compromise the security of others' or Google's services. This includes generating or distributing content that facilitates: Spam, phishing, or malware. Abuse of, harm to, interference with, or disruption to Google's or others' infrastructure or services. Circumvention of abuse protections or safety filters – for example, manipulating the model to contravene our policies. Do not engage in sexually explicit, violent, hateful, or harmful activities. This includes generating or distributing content that facilitates: Hatred or hate speech. Harassment, bullying, intimidation, abuse, or the insulting of others. Violence or the incitement of violence. Sexually explicit content – for example, content created for the purpose of pornography or sexual gratification. Do not engage in misinformation, misrepresentation, or misleading activities. This includes Frauds, scams, or other deceptive actions. Impersonating an individual (living or dead) without explicit disclosure, in order to deceive. Facilitating misleading claims of expertise or capability in sensitive areas – for example in health, finance, government services, or the law, in order to deceive. Facilitating misleading claims related to governmental or democratic processes or harmful health practices, in order to deceive. Misrepresenting the provenance of generated content by claiming it was created solely by a human, in order to deceive. We may make exceptions to these policies based on educational, documentary, scientific, or artistic considerations, or where harms are outweighed by substantial benefits to the public. Generative AI-Prohibited Use Policy https://policies.google.com/terms/generative-ai/use-policy	Customer must not (and must not permit End Users) to violate applicable law, infringe third party rights, process data of minors, reverse engineers services, use output to develop competing product, extract data other than as API permits, transfer API keys to or from third parties. S.2 - Business terms Customer must not violate applicable law, harm themself or others, circumvent guardrails. Usage Policies - Universal Policies https://openai.com/policies/usage-policies/ Customer must not use API to build products which compromise privacy (e.g. unlawful data collection, biometric ID or assessment, spyware), significantly affect end user safety or wellbeing (e.g. automated health or financial advice, automated decision making that affects an individual’s safety, rights or well-being, gambling or payday lending, political campaigning, deterring democratic participation), intentionally decieves users (e.g. disinformation, impersonation, academic misconduct, use of AI without disclosure, misrepresenting purpose of customer's LLM-based product,) are inappropriate for minors (e.g. sexually explicit imagery) targets minors. Usage Policies - Building with the Open AI Platform
5	Provider liability	Indirect loss excluded with carve-outs for indemnities. s. J.3.a - Commercial terms		Not liable for incidental, consequential, punitive, special, or indirect losses. Liability limited to service fees consumed in the past twelve months. s. 7.2 DeepSeek Terms of Use	12.1 Limitation on Indirect Liability. To the extent permitted by applicable law and subject to Section 12.3 (Unlimited Liabilities), neither party will have any Liability arising out of or relating to this Agreement for any (a) indirect, consequential, special, incidental, or punitive damages or (b) lost revenues, profits, savings, or goodwill. 12.2 Limitation on Amount of Liability. Each party's total aggregate Liability for damages arising out of or relating to the Agreement in connection with the GCP Services or SecOps Services, as applicable, is limited to the Fees Customer paid for such Services during the 12 month period before the event giving rise to Liability, except Google’s total aggregate Liability for damages arising out of or related to Services or Software provided free of charge is limited to $5,000. GCP ToS - s.12	Limited to annual fees. Indirect damages excluded with carve-outs for: GN or WC, breach of confidentiality, breach of security oblirations, indemnification obligations. s.11 - Business terms
6	Customer Liability	Indirect loss excluded with carve-outs for indemnities. s. J.3.a - Commercial terms		As the provider and operator of downstream systems, applications, or functions, you are responsible for these systems, applications, or functions. You must assume the corresponding legal responsibilities and obligations, and establish agreements with your end users regarding their rights and obligations. It is also your duty to regulate and manage the usage behavior of end users. DeepSeek Open Platform Terms of Service; Section 3.2 In response to your violation... you shall be solely responsible for any legal liabilities... and you shall compensate us for any losses incurred... DeepSeek Open Platform Terms of Service; Section 7.1	As above.	Limited to annual fees. Indirect damages excluded with carve-outs for: GN or WC, breach of confidentiality, breach of usage restrictions, indemnification obligations. s.11 - Business Terms Responsible for all inputs and for use and evaluation of outputs. s.3.3 - Business Terms
7	Ownership of Inputs	"Anthropic... disclaims any rights it receives to the Customer Content... Anthropic does not anticipate obtaining any rights in Customer Content under these Terms." s.A.4 - Commercial Terms		Subject to applicable law and our Terms, you... retain any rights, title, and interests—if any—in the Inputs you submit DeepSeek Open Platform Terms of Service; Section 4.2(1)		Customer retains all ownership rights to Inputs. Provider will use only as necessary to provide services, comply with applicable law and with provider policies. s.3 - Business Terms
8	Ownership of Outputs	"As between the parties... Customer owns all Outputs... Subject to Customer’s compliance with these Terms, Anthropic hereby assigns to Customer its right, title and interest (if any) in and to Outputs." s.A.4 - Commercial Terms		Subject to applicable law and our Terms...We assign any rights, title, and interests—if any—in the Outputs of the Services to you. DeepSeek Open Platform Terms of Service; Section 4.2(2)	As between the parties... Google retains all Intellectual Property Rights in the Services and Software... GCP ToS s.5.1 “Generated Output” means the data or content generated by a Generative AI Service prompted by Customer Data. Generated Output is Customer Data. As between Customer and Google, Google does not assert any ownership rights in any new intellectual property created in the Generated Output. Service Specific Terms s.19 (a)	All rights assigned to Customer. Provider will use only as necessary to provide services, comply with applicable law and with provider policies. s.3 - Business Terms
9	Provider's Use of Inputs/Outputs	"Anthropic may not train models on Customer Content from paid Services." s.A.4 - Commercial Terms		In order to fulfill the requirements stipulated by laws and regulations or provide the Services specified in these Terms, and under the premise of secure encryption technology processing, strict de-identification rendering, and irreversibility to identify specific individuals, we may, to a minimal extent, use Inputs and Outputs to provide, maintain, operate, develop or improve the Services or the underlying technologies supporting the Services. If you refuse to allow us to process the data in the manner described above, you may provide feedback to us through the methods outlined in Section 10. DeepSeek Open Platform Terms of Service; Section 4.3	Google will not use Customer Data to train or fine-tune any AI/ML models without Customer's prior permission or instruction. Service Specific Terms s.17 Google will only access, use, and otherwise process Customer Data in accordance with the Cloud Data Processing Addendum and will not... process Customer Data for any other purpose... GCP ToS s.5.2	Provider will use only as necessary to provide services, comply with applicable law and with provider policies. s.3 - Business Terms
10	DIsclosure to Authorities	"Recipient may disclose Discloser’s Confidential Information to the extent it is required by law, or court or administrative order... but will, except where expressly prohibited, notify Discloser... and fully cooperate with Discloser." s.C.3 - Comercial Terms		For behaviors suspected of violating laws..., relevant records will be retained, reports made to the competent authorities... DeepSeek Open Platform Terms of Service; Section 7.1 DeepSeek Terms of Use; Section 7.2	The recipient may disclose Confidential Information to the extent required by applicable Legal Process; provided that the recipient... uses commercially reasonable efforts to promptly notify the other party... GCP ToS s.7.2	May disclose only to extent required by applicable law, provided uses reasonable efforts to notify customer. s. 4.2 - Business Terms Reports apparent CSAM to NCMEC Usage Policies - Universal Policies
11	Disclosure to Third Parties	Provider may not sell personal data to third parties, share for cross-context behavioural advertising, or otherwise use, disclose or retain personal data outrside of customer instructions. Commercial Terms - Exhibit A: Data Processing Addendum, s.3.2		* Business providers * Advertising & Analytics partners * DeepSeek Corporate Group (including the hedge-fund funding them) * Third parties in 'corporate transactions' Source: Privacy Policy https://chat.deepseek.com/downloads/DeepSeek%20Privacy%20Policy.html	Subprocessors Cloud DPA S.11	Governed by terms of third party plugins and services. s.1.2 - Business Terms s. 7 - Service Terms https://openai.com/policies/service-terms/
12	Controller or processor of user data?	Processor when using API, Controller when using Claude for work s. A.1 - Service Specific Terms - https://www.anthropic.com/legal/service-specific-terms		Not specified -> presumptively controller.	Controller - Google account terms for Workspace accounts Cloud DPA	?. "This Privacy Policy does not apply to content that we process on behalf of customers of our business offerings, such as our API. Our use of that data is governed by our customer agreements covering access to and use of those offerings." Privacy Policy Logging? s 5.2 - Business Terms
13	Data Retention	"Anthropic will, in any event, within thirty (30) days of the date of termination or expiry of the Agreement... return a copy of all Covered Data... and delete all other copies..." Commercial Terms - Exhibit A: Data Processing Addendum, Clause 9 (Deletion and Return)		Not specified	6.1 Deletion by Customer. Google will enable Customer to delete Customer Data during the Term in a manner consistent with the functionality of the Services. If Customer uses the Services to delete any Customer Data during the Term and that Customer Data cannot be recovered by Customer, this use will constitute an Instruction to Google to delete the relevant Customer Data from Google’s systems. Google will comply with this Instruction as soon as reasonably practicable and within a maximum period of 180 days, unless European Law requires storage, where European Data Protection Law applies, or applicable law requires storage, where any other Applicable Privacy Law applies. Cloud Data Processing Addendum, Section 6.1 https://cloud.google.com/terms/data-processing-addendum?hl=en	Upon termination of this Agreement, we will delete all Customer Content from our systems within 30 days, unless we are legally required to retain it. Section 8.3 - Business Terms
14	Indemnification	"Customer will defend Anthropic and its personnel... from and against any Anthropic Claim... and indemnify them for any judgment... related to Customer’s or its Users’ Prompts or use of Services in violation of the AUP." s.I.2 - Comercial Terms "Anthropic will defend Customer and its personnel... from and against any Customer Claim... alleging that Customer’s paid use of the Services... violates third-party patent, trade secret, trademark, or copyright rights." s.I.1 - Comercial Terms		... For behaviors suspected of violating laws and regulations or involving illegal activities, relevant records will be retained, and reports will be made to the competent authorities in accordance with the law, cooperating with their investigations. You shall be solely responsible for any legal liabilities, claims, demands, or losses asserted by third parties resulting therefrom, and you shall compensate us for any losses incurred, including litigation fees, arbitration fees, attorney fees, notary fees, announcement fees, appraisal fees, travel expenses, investigation and evidence collection fees, compensation, liquidated damages, settlement costs, and administrative fines incurred in protecting our rights. DeepSeek Open Platform Terms of Service; Section 7.1 You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold us and our affiliates and licensors (if any) harmless against any liabilities, damages, and costs (including reasonable attorneys'fees) payable to a third party arising out of a breach by you or any user of your account of these Terms, your violation of all applicable laws and regulations or third party rights, your fraud or other illegal acts, or your intentional misconduct or gross negligence, to the extent permiteed by the applicable law. DeepSeek Open Platform Terms of Service; Section 7.4	Customer will defend Google... and indemnify them against Indemnified Liabilities... to the extent arising from (a) any Customer Application, Project, Customer Data... or (b) Customer’s... use of the Services in breach of the AUP... GCP ToS s.13.2 Google will defend Customer... and indemnify them against Indemnified Liabilities... to the extent arising from an allegation that any Service... infringes the third party’s Intellectual Property Rights. GCP ToS 13.1	Provider indemnifies against allegations IP infringement by servcies. s. 10.1 - Business Terms Customer indemnifies against third party claims realting to customer use of services in violation of terms, customer applications usig services, customer input. s. 10.2 - Business Terms
15	Arbitration / Courts	Arbrtration - Ireland for EEA, Switzerland and UK, California for ROW Commercial Terms s.H		Chinese mainland law, courts "having jurisdiction over the location of the registered office of Hangzhou DeepSeek Artificial Intelligence Co., Ltd" DeepSeek Open Platform Terms of Service; Section 9	California law and courts GCP ToS 15.12(c)	Arbitration - California s.13 Business Terms

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1	The following table identifies actions that are prohibited based on the DeepSeek terms of service and privacy policies:
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3	Action	DeepSeek Open Platform Terms of Service.md	DeepSeek Open Platform Service Agreement.md	DeepSeek User Agreement (Chinese).md	DeepSeek User Agreement (Chinese)	DeepSeek Privacy Policy (Chinese).md	DeepSeek Privacy Policy.md	DeepSeek US Privacy Policy API.md	DeepSeek Terms of Use.md
4	Sharing or leaking API Key	☑	☑
5	Using trademarks, service marks, etc related to DeepSeek without permission.	☑	☑	☑			☑	☑	☑
6	Using DeepSeek to infringe upon the legal rights of others or seek unjust benefits or to disrupt the normal order of the platform.	☑	☑	☑					☑
7	Generating content that is hateful, defamatory, offensive, abusive, tortious, or vulgar.	☑		☑					☑
8	Generating content that is deliberately designed to provoke or antagonize another; content that is bullying or trolling another.	☑		☑					☑
9	Generating content that may harass, intimidate, threaten, harm, hurt, scare, distress, embarrass, or upset another.	☑		☑					☑
10	Generating content that is discriminatory such as discriminating another based on race, gender, sexuality, religion, etc.	☑		☑					☑
11	Generating content that is pornographic, obscene, or sexually explicit (e.g., sexual chatbots)	☑		☑					☑
12	Generating content that facilitates, promotes, incites, or glorifies violence or terrorist/extremism content.	☑		☑					☑
13	Generating content that exploits, harms, or attempts to exploit or harm minors or exposes minors to such content.	☑		☑					☑
14	Generating content designed to specifically appeal to or present a persona of any person under the age of 18.	☑		☑					☑
15	Generating content that constitutes, encourages, or provides instructions for a criminal offense.	☑		☑					☑
16	Generating content that impersonates a celebrity, public figure, or another person without their consent.	☑		☑					☑
17	Using unauthorized data or accessing unauthorized servers or accounts.	☑	☑	☑					☑
18	Forging TCP/IP packet names or partial names.	☑	☑	☑					☑
19	Attempting to probe, scan, or test vulnerabilities in DeepSeek’s software system or network without permission.	☑	☑	☑					☑
20	Intentionally generating and spreading malicious programs or viruses.	☑	☑	☑					☑
21	Entering public computer networks or other people's computer systems without permission.	☑	☑	☑					☑
22	Deleting, modifying, or adding stored information in public computer networks or other people’s computer systems.	☑	☑	☑					☑
23	Causing computer systems or facilities to suffer unreasonable load interference with operations.	☑	☑	☑					☑
24	Reverse engineering, reverse assembly, reverse compilation, or translation of DeepSeek.	☑	☑	☑					☑
25	Attempting to discover the source code, models, algorithms, and system source code or underlying components of DeepSeek.	☑	☑	☑					☑
26	Capturing or copying any content of DeepSeek.	☑	☑	☑					☑
27	Using any robots, spiders, or other automatic setups.	☑	☑	☑					☑
28	Setting mirrors of DeepSeek.	☑	☑	☑					☑
29	Using DeepSeek for any illegal purpose that violates laws and regulations, regulatory policies, or third-party rights.	☑	☑	☑					☑
30	Using DeepSeek for dangerous purposes that may have serious harmful impacts on physical health, psychology, society, or economy.	☑	☑	☑					☑
31	Using DeepSeek for purposes that violate scientific and technological ethics.	☑	☑	☑					☑
32	Engaging in activities that infringe on intellectual property rights, trade secrets, and other violations of business ethics.	☑	☑	☑					☑
33	Using algorithms, data, platforms, etc., to implement monopolistic and unfair competition behaviors.	☑	☑	☑					☑
34	Copying, transferring, leasing, lending, selling, or sub-licensing DeepSeek.	☑	☑	☑					☑
35	Transferring licenses for DeepSeek.	☑	☑	☑					☑
36	Submitting inputs or generating outputs that contain content that infringes on anyone’s intellectual property rights, etc.		☑	☑
37	Using DeepSeek in a way that violates laws and regulations.		☑	☑