DeepSeek USA Privacy Policy

Last updated: October 14, 2026

Important Scope: This Policy Covers DeepSeek USA Only

This Privacy Policy applies only to DeepSeek-USA.ai (“DeepSeek USA,” “we,” “us,” “our,” or the “Site”). DeepSeek USA is an independent informational website created for readers in the United States who want educational, editorial, and practical information about DeepSeek-related topics.

This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and protect information when you visit this Site, read our content, use our contact form, interact with cookies, view advertisements, or use features connected to analytics, performance, security, and website measurement tools.

This Privacy Policy does not apply to DeepSeek’s official app, DeepSeek Web, DeepSeek API platform, DeepSeek accounts, prompts, uploaded files, chat history, API keys, billing, downloads, support requests, official documentation, or any official DeepSeek product or service. Those services are governed by DeepSeek’s own privacy policy, terms, app-store disclosures, API terms, and platform policies.

Independent and Unofficial Website

DeepSeek USA is an independent, unofficial informational website. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, operated by, or connected to DeepSeek, Hangzhou DeepSeek Artificial Intelligence Co., Ltd., or any official DeepSeek product, service, model, app, API, account system, trademark owner, or related entity.

All product names, logos, brands, and trademarks mentioned on this Site are the property of their respective owners and are used only for identification, editorial, educational, commentary, and informational purposes.

DeepSeek USA cannot access, manage, recover, delete, export, or modify your official DeepSeek account, prompts, uploaded files, conversations, API usage, API keys, billing records, app telemetry, or support tickets unless you voluntarily send information to us through this Site.

U.S.-Focused Website

This Site is primarily intended for readers in the United States. However, because websites can be accessed from different regions, some privacy rights and disclosures may apply depending on where you are located, the laws that apply to you, and the tools enabled on the Site at the time of your visit.

Information We Collect

We aim to collect only the information reasonably needed to operate, secure, measure, improve, and support this Site. The information we collect generally falls into the categories below.

Information You Provide Through the Contact Form or Email

If you contact us through the contact form or by email, we may receive information such as your name, email address, subject, message content, page URL, correction details, source links, and any other information you choose to include.

Contact form messages may be delivered to us by email and may also be processed or temporarily stored by our website software, form plugin, hosting provider, email provider, security tools, spam-protection tools, or backup systems. We use this information to review your message, respond when appropriate, investigate corrections, improve our content, prevent abuse, and maintain records related to site operations.

Please do not send passwords, API keys, payment details, government identifiers, medical records, confidential business information, private source code, client data, regulated data, official DeepSeek account information, or any other sensitive information through our contact form or email.

You can contact us at [email protected].

Comments

Comments are currently disabled on this Site. If comments are enabled in the future, we may update this Privacy Policy to explain what comment-related information is collected and how it is used.

Information Collected Automatically

When you visit the Site, we and our service providers may automatically collect certain technical and usage information, including:

  • IP address and approximate location, such as country, state, city, or region
  • Browser type, browser version, browser language, and operating system
  • Device type, screen size, and general device settings
  • Pages viewed, links clicked, referring URLs, and exit pages
  • Date and time of visit
  • Approximate session activity, performance information, and error data
  • Cookie identifiers, advertising identifiers, analytics identifiers, and similar technologies where enabled
  • Security, bot-detection, spam-prevention, and abuse-prevention signals

This information may be collected through server logs, cookies, pixels, tags, JavaScript, local storage, analytics tools, advertising tools, hosting systems, Cloudflare services, security tools, and similar technologies.

Cookies and Similar Technologies

A cookie is a small text file stored on your device by your browser. This Site may use cookies, pixels, tags, scripts, local storage, advertising identifiers, analytics identifiers, and similar technologies to operate the Site, protect against abuse, remember preferences, measure performance, understand how visitors use our content, and display or measure advertisements.

Some cookies and similar technologies are necessary for security, performance, fraud prevention, bot detection, or basic website functionality. Other cookies and identifiers may be used for analytics, advertising, ad measurement, content performance, and personalization where those services are enabled.

You can control, block, or delete cookies through your browser settings. Disabling certain cookies may affect how parts of the Site function. Some third-party services may still receive limited technical information when their scripts, resources, or security tools load.

Where required by applicable law, we will seek legally valid consent before using certain non-essential cookies, local storage, analytics technologies, advertising identifiers, or personalized advertising features.

Google AdSense and Advertising

We use Google AdSense to display advertisements on pages where ad placements are active and to help support the Site. We may use other third-party advertising services in the future. Google, its advertising partners, and other vendors involved in ad serving may place or read cookies on your browser, use web beacons, pixels, advertising identifiers, IP addresses, browser or device information, and similar technologies to serve ads, limit ad frequency, measure ad performance, prevent fraud and abuse, and personalize ads where permitted.

  • Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to this Site or other websites.
  • Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to users based on their visit to this Site and/or other sites on the Internet.
  • Depending on our AdSense configuration, other third-party vendors or ad networks may also serve ads and use cookies or similar technologies on this Site.
  • Users may manage or opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google’s Ads Settings.
  • Users may also opt out of some third-party vendors’ use of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info/choices.

Opting out of personalized advertising does not necessarily stop all advertisements. Google may still serve non-personalized or limited ads, and cookies or similar technologies may still be used for purposes such as frequency capping, aggregated ad reporting, security, and fraud prevention, where permitted.

For more information about how Google collects and uses information from websites and apps that use Google services, review Google’s page: How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services.

For more information about Google’s use of cookies, review Google’s page: How Google uses cookies.

Google Analytics and Measurement Tools

We use Google Analytics and may use similar analytics or performance measurement tools to understand how visitors interact with the Site. These tools help us measure traffic, understand content performance, identify technical issues, improve user experience, and make editorial and technical decisions.

Google Analytics and similar tools may process information such as pages viewed, links clicked, referral sources, browser type, device information, approximate location, IP address, visit time, cookie identifiers, and on-site activity. We do not intentionally send names, email addresses, passwords, payment information, government identifiers, or other directly identifying personal information to Google Analytics.

You can opt out of Google Analytics in supported browsers by using the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.

Cloudflare

We use Cloudflare for services such as security, content delivery, performance optimization, traffic management, caching, analytics, bot mitigation, and protection against malicious or abusive traffic.

Cloudflare may process technical information such as IP address, request data, browser information, device information, security signals, performance data, and similar information in order to provide its services. Cloudflare may also set or use certain cookies where necessary for security, bot detection, challenge pages, rate limiting, traffic management, or other Cloudflare features enabled on the Site.

For more information, review Cloudflare’s information about cookies: Cloudflare Cookies.

How We Use Information

We use the information described in this Privacy Policy for the following purposes:

  • To operate, maintain, and improve the Site
  • To publish, organize, and improve editorial content
  • To respond to contact form messages, correction requests, and inquiries
  • To detect, prevent, and investigate spam, abuse, fraud, security issues, and technical problems
  • To measure traffic, performance, and content engagement
  • To display, personalize, limit, and measure advertisements where permitted
  • To understand which topics are useful to readers in the United States
  • To maintain backups, logs, and business records
  • To comply with legal, security, platform, and policy obligations
  • To protect our rights, users, Site, and service providers

How We Share Information

We do not sell personal information for money. However, we may share or allow access to limited information with service providers and third-party tools that help us operate, secure, measure, advertise, host, deliver, and improve the Site.

These service providers may include hosting providers, website software providers, email providers, contact form tools, spam-prevention tools, security providers, analytics providers, advertising partners, Cloudflare, Google Analytics, Google AdSense, and similar technology partners.

Depending on where you live, the use of advertising cookies, analytics cookies, advertising identifiers, device identifiers, or similar technologies may be considered a “sale,” “sharing,” or targeted advertising activity under applicable privacy laws. You can use the choices described in this Privacy Policy to reduce or opt out of certain personalized advertising and analytics activities.

We may also disclose information if required by law, legal process, security investigation, abuse report, or if we believe disclosure is necessary to protect our rights, users, Site, service providers, or the public.

Your Privacy Choices

You may have choices and controls depending on your location, browser, device, and the services enabled on the Site. These may include:

Please note that we cannot access, correct, delete, or export information held by official DeepSeek services because we do not operate those services.

U.S. State Privacy Notice

Depending on your U.S. state of residence and the laws that apply, you may have certain privacy rights, such as the right to know what categories of personal information are collected, the right to request access or deletion of certain information, the right to correct certain information, and the right to opt out of certain targeted advertising, sale, or sharing activities.

We do not sell personal information for money. However, as explained above, advertising and analytics partners may process cookies, identifiers, IP address, device information, and usage information to provide, measure, improve, or personalize ads and analytics. Depending on applicable law, this may be considered “sharing,” “sale,” or targeted advertising.

To make a privacy request related to information you directly provided to this Site, contact us at [email protected]. We may need to verify your request before responding. We cannot process privacy requests for official DeepSeek accounts, prompts, files, API usage, billing, or support tickets.

Visitors from the EEA, United Kingdom, or Switzerland

Although this Site is primarily intended for readers in the United States, visitors from the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, or Switzerland may have additional rights under applicable data protection laws.

Where required by applicable law, we will seek legally valid consent for the use of certain cookies or local storage and for the collection, sharing, and use of personal data for personalized advertising. Where consent is required, you may also have the ability to withdraw or modify your consent through available consent tools, browser settings, device settings, or other privacy controls.

You may have the right to request access, correction, deletion, restriction, objection, or portability of certain personal data, subject to applicable law. To make a request related to information you directly provided to this Site, contact us at [email protected].

Information We Do Not Collect From Official DeepSeek Services

DeepSeek USA does not operate DeepSeek’s official app, website, API platform, login system, account system, billing system, model services, or support channels.

Unless you voluntarily send information to us through this Site, we do not receive your official DeepSeek prompts, uploaded files, chat history, conversations, API keys, API requests, API usage, billing records, account settings, device telemetry, or support tickets.

If you use official DeepSeek services, your information is handled according to DeepSeek’s official privacy notices, terms, app-store disclosures, API terms, and platform policies, not this Privacy Policy.

Third-Party Links

The Site may contain links to external websites, including official DeepSeek pages, app stores, documentation pages, support pages, Google pages, Cloudflare pages, advertiser websites, and other third-party resources.

We do not operate or control those third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy practices, content, security, policies, or data handling. When you leave this Site, the privacy policy and terms of the destination website apply.

Data Retention

We retain information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, including operating the Site, responding to messages, reviewing correction requests, maintaining records, improving content, preventing abuse, resolving technical issues, complying with legal obligations, and protecting our rights.

Different types of information may have different retention periods. For example, contact form messages, email records, server logs, analytics data, advertising data, security logs, backups, and Cloudflare records may be retained for different periods depending on our settings, provider settings, operational needs, and legal requirements.

Data Security

We use reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect the limited information we handle. These measures may include hosting controls, HTTPS, access controls, security monitoring, spam prevention, Cloudflare protection, backups, and other safeguards.

However, no website, transmission method, or electronic storage system is completely secure. We cannot guarantee absolute security. You should not use this Site to send sensitive personal information, passwords, API keys, private files, regulated data, client data, payment information, confidential business information, or official DeepSeek account information.

Children’s Privacy

This Site is not directed to children under the age of 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe a child has provided personal information to us through this Site, please contact us at [email protected], and we will take reasonable steps to delete it.

Do Not Track Signals

Some browsers may send “Do Not Track” signals. Because there is no single industry standard for responding to these signals, the Site may not respond to them in a uniform way. You can use the cookie, browser, advertising, and analytics controls described in this Privacy Policy to manage certain tracking and measurement activities.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our Site, tools, advertising partners, analytics services, legal requirements, or operational practices. When we update the policy, we will change the “Last updated” date at the top of this page.

We encourage you to review this page periodically to stay informed about how DeepSeek USA handles information.

Contact Us

If you have any questions, correction requests, privacy requests, or concerns about this Privacy Policy, contact us: