Service providers receive data as necessary for their work
DeepSeek shares user-provided, automatically collected and other-source personal data with providers as necessary to provide, support and develop services and understand use. Examples include inquiry support, communications, analytics and safety monitoring. Under DeepSeek’s instructions, these providers may access, process or store the data only while performing their duties for DeepSeek.
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We engage service providers that help us provide, support, and develop the Services and understand how they are used. We share Personal Data You Provide, Automatically Collected Personal Data, and Personal Data From Other Sources with these service providers as necessary to enable them to provide their services. For example:
We use third party vendors to provide necessary information to
responde to your inquiries.
We use communication service providers to send notifications and/or
communications to you.
We use analytics services providers to analyse data.
We use support and safety monitoring services providers to assist us
in ensuring the safety of our Services.
Pursuant to our instructions, these parties will access, process, or store Personal Data only in the course of performing their duties to us.
Sharing & Disclosure · Company practice
Search integrations receive your input keywords
DeepSeek integrates third-party search APIs and shares your input keywords to provide search services. The service-provider restriction says these parties access, process or store personal data under DeepSeek’s instructions only while performing duties for it.
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We integrate third-party APIs to provide search services, and we will
share your input keywords to provide these services.
Pursuant to our instructions, these parties will access, process, or store Personal Data only in the course of performing their duties to us.
Sharing & Disclosure · Company practice
Group entities process data for service functions and model training
Certain DeepSeek group entities process user-provided, automatically collected and other-source data for DeepSeek as necessary for storage, delivery, security, research and development, foundation-model training and optimization, analytics and support. The policy separately lists a training or technology-optimization opt-out depending on residence and applicable legal exceptions.
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The Services are supported by certain entities within our corporate group. These entities process the Personal Data You Provide, Automatically Collected Personal Data, and Personal Data from Other Sources for us, as necessary to provide certain functions, such as storage, content delivery, security, research and development, foundation model training and optimization, analytics, customer and technical support.
Depending on where you live and subject to exceptions provided under applicable data protection laws, you may have certain rights with respect to your Personal Data.
the right to opt-out of using your Personal Data for training our
models or optimizing our technologies.
Sharing & Disclosure · Company practice
Corporate transactions may involve disclosure
In the limited scenarios described by this section, personal data may be disclosed to third parties in connection with a merger, asset or share sale, reorganization, financing, change of control or acquisition of all or part of DeepSeek’s business.
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We share your Personal Data with the following categories of third parties in other limited scenarios as follows:
Parties to a Corporate Transaction. Your Personal Data may be disclosed to third parties in connection with a corporate transaction, such as a merger, sale of assets or shares, reorganization, financing, change of control, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business.
Sharing & Disclosure · Company practice
Legal and safety disclosures require a good-faith necessity belief
DeepSeek may access, preserve and share the data described in its collection section with law enforcement, public authorities, copyright holders or other third parties when it believes in good faith this is necessary to comply with law, legal process or government requests, consistently with internationally recognized standards and legal due process; or to protect rights, property and safety. The safety ground includes protecting life and preventing imminent bodily harm, with IP-address disclosure in an emergency as an example.
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Law Enforcement and Parties with Other Legal Rights. We may access, preserve, and share the Personal Data described in “What Personal Data We Collect” with law enforcement agencies, public authorities, copyright holders, or other third parties if we have good faith belief that it is necessary to:
comply with applicable law, legal process or government requests, as
consistent with internationally recognized standards, in accordance with the due process prescribed by law;
protect the rights, property, and safety of our users, copyright
holders, and others, including protecting life or preventing imminent bodily harm. For example, we may provide Personal Data (such as your IP address) to law enforcement agencies in the event of an emergency where someone’s life or safety is at risk;
Sharing & Disclosure · Company practice
Enforcement and unlawful-activity investigations can involve sharing
On a good-faith belief of necessity, DeepSeek may access, preserve and share the collected personal data with law enforcement, public authorities, copyright holders or other third parties to investigate potential violations and enforce its Terms, Guidelines or other applicable standards, or to detect, investigate, prevent or address misleading activity, copyright infringement or other illegal activity.
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Law Enforcement and Parties with Other Legal Rights. We may access, preserve, and share the Personal Data described in “What Personal Data We Collect” with law enforcement agencies, public authorities, copyright holders, or other third parties if we have good faith belief that it is necessary to:
investigate potential violations of and enforce our Terms, Guidelines,
or any other applicable terms, policies, or standards; or
detect, investigate, prevent, or address misleading activity,
copyright infringement, or other illegal activity.
Not stated here
The referenced Terms, Guidelines and other policies are not supplied here; their substantive requirements and violation criteria are not established by this card.
Sharing & Disclosure · Company practice
Requested social-service connections can share data
Depending on where you live, DeepSeek may share personal data with proper authorization or to provide requested or authorized services. It says choosing social-network login or sharing data to a social-media service will involve sharing that data with the third-party service. This does not make consent the only ground for all disclosures described elsewhere in the policy.
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Depending on where you live, we may share Personal Data with the proper authorization or to provide the Services you have requested or authorized. For example, if you choose to log in to our Services using a social network account, or share Personal Data from our Services to a social media service, we will share that Personal Data with those third parties services. Specifically, you may share the Inputs and Outputs information (together referred to as "Dialogues") by generating a unique URL. When using such feature, any Dialogues you share with others, if subsequently published on public networks, may be at risk of being obtained by third parties through technical means such as web crawlers. We recommend that you take the following precautions when using this feature: (1) avoid sharing your own or others' personal information, especially sensitive personal data; (2) before sharing other individual's personal information, please ensure you have obtained their explicit consent; (3) before publicly publishing any relevant conversation to an open network, carefully review the content to identify any information you would not wish third parties to access.
Sharing & Disclosure · User right or choice
Publicly posted dialogue links can be collected by outsiders
You can share inputs and outputs as a dialogue through a unique URL. If a shared dialogue is subsequently posted on public networks, outsiders may obtain it through tools such as web crawlers. DeepSeek recommends avoiding personal information, particularly sensitive data, obtaining explicit consent before sharing another person’s information, and checking the dialogue before public posting for anything you do not want outsiders to access.
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Depending on where you live, we may share Personal Data with the proper authorization or to provide the Services you have requested or authorized. For example, if you choose to log in to our Services using a social network account, or share Personal Data from our Services to a social media service, we will share that Personal Data with those third parties services. Specifically, you may share the Inputs and Outputs information (together referred to as "Dialogues") by generating a unique URL. When using such feature, any Dialogues you share with others, if subsequently published on public networks, may be at risk of being obtained by third parties through technical means such as web crawlers. We recommend that you take the following precautions when using this feature: (1) avoid sharing your own or others' personal information, especially sensitive personal data; (2) before sharing other individual's personal information, please ensure you have obtained their explicit consent; (3) before publicly publishing any relevant conversation to an open network, carefully review the content to identify any information you would not wish third parties to access.
you use our Services, we may collect your text input, voice input, prompt, uploaded files, photos, feedback, chat history, or other content that you provide to our model and Services (“Prompts” or “Inputs”). We generate responses (“Outputs”) based on your Inputs. Specifically, we will not extract or mine voiceprint or facial recognition information or other unique biological patterns or characteristics used to identify a specific individual from the voice inputs or photos you provided to us.
Sharing & Disclosure · Company commitment
DeepSeek says it does not sell data or run targeted advertising
The policy lists a possible, location-dependent right to opt out of targeted advertising, sale and consequential profiling, subject to legal exceptions. It also expressly says DeepSeek does not engage in targeted advertising, sell personal data, or use personal data for profiling or other automated decisions having legal or similarly significant effects. That statement does not prohibit all the provider, legal and other disclosures described elsewhere.
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Depending on where you live and subject to exceptions provided under applicable data protection laws, you may have certain rights with respect to your Personal Data.
the right to opt-out
of the processing of your Personal Data for the purposes of targeted advertising, sale or profiling that could have legal or similarly consequential impact on you. NOTE WE DO NOT ENGAGE IN TARGETED ADVERTISING, “SELL” PERSONAL DATA OR USE PERSONAL DATA FOR “PROFILING” OR OTHERWISE ENGAGE IN AUTOMATED PROCESSING OF PERSONAL DATA TO MAKE DECISIONS THAT COULD HAVE LEGAL OR SIMILARLY SIGNIFICANT IMPACT ON YOU OR OTHERS.