Terms of Service

Last updated: October 12, 2026

Acceptance of These Terms

These Terms of Service (“Terms”) govern your access to and use of DeepSeek-USA.ai (“DeepSeek USA,” “we,” “us,” “our,” or the “Site”). By accessing or using the Site, you agree to these Terms and to our Privacy Policy.

If you do not agree to these Terms, please do not use the Site.

Independent and Unofficial Website

DeepSeek USA is an independent, unofficial informational website created for readers in the United States who want educational, editorial, and practical information about DeepSeek-related topics.

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.

Nothing on this Site should be understood as official communication from DeepSeek or any related entity. For official DeepSeek accounts, downloads, API access, billing, product support, privacy requests, legal notices, and documentation, you should use DeepSeek’s official websites, apps, documentation, and support channels.

U.S.-Focused Informational Site

This Site is primarily intended for readers in the United States. Our content is provided for general informational and educational purposes only. We do not guarantee that the Site, its content, or any linked resources are appropriate, available, or compliant for use in every country, state, region, industry, or regulated environment.

You are responsible for making sure your use of any AI tool, official DeepSeek service, third-party service, API, app, or linked resource complies with the laws, policies, contracts, and requirements that apply to you.

No Official DeepSeek Support or Account Access

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

We cannot access, manage, recover, delete, export, or modify your official DeepSeek account, prompts, uploaded files, conversations, API keys, API usage, billing records, app telemetry, or support tickets.

Please do not send us DeepSeek passwords, API keys, payment details, private files, confidential business information, client data, regulated data, official account credentials, or sensitive personal information through our contact form or email.

Use of the Site

You may use the Site only for lawful, personal, informational, and non-abusive purposes. You agree not to use the Site in any way that could harm the Site, interfere with other users, violate applicable law, or create security, operational, legal, or reputational risk for us or our service providers.

You agree that you will not:

  • Use the Site for unlawful, deceptive, fraudulent, abusive, or harmful purposes
  • Attempt to access, test, scan, probe, or interfere with systems, servers, accounts, forms, security tools, analytics tools, advertising systems, or networks without authorization
  • Use bots, scrapers, automated tools, or bulk extraction methods in a way that overloads, disrupts, copies, republishes, or misuses the Site
  • Introduce malware, malicious code, spam, fake traffic, or abusive requests
  • Attempt to bypass security, rate limits, Cloudflare protections, bot detection, or other technical controls
  • Misrepresent your identity, affiliation, or purpose when contacting us
  • Submit false, misleading, infringing, confidential, sensitive, illegal, or harmful information through the contact form or email
  • Copy, frame, mirror, republish, or commercially exploit the Site or its content without permission
  • Use the Site in a way that violates the rights of others, including intellectual property, privacy, publicity, or contractual rights

Editorial Content and Accuracy

We work to provide useful, clear, and accurate information. However, AI products, pricing, features, limits, availability, policies, model names, apps, integrations, and documentation can change at any time.

Content on this Site may include summaries, explanations, comparisons, tutorials, editorial opinions, screenshots, links, and references to official or third-party sources. We may update, correct, remove, or reorganize content at any time without notice.

Before relying on any information for an important decision, you should verify the current details with official sources, including official DeepSeek pages, app stores, developer documentation, terms, privacy notices, pricing pages, support channels, and other authoritative sources.

If you believe content on the Site is outdated, inaccurate, incomplete, or misleading, you may contact us at [email protected].

No Professional Advice

The Site is provided for general informational and educational purposes only. Content on the Site does not constitute legal, financial, medical, security, compliance, engineering, procurement, business, or professional advice.

You should consult qualified professionals before making decisions involving legal obligations, regulated data, security architecture, enterprise deployment, procurement, compliance, privacy, confidential information, or other high-risk matters.

AI Tools, APIs, and Third-Party Services

The Site may discuss AI tools, APIs, apps, models, integrations, SDKs, platforms, and third-party services. These services are operated by their respective owners, not by DeepSeek USA.

Your use of any official DeepSeek service or third-party service is governed by that service’s own terms, privacy policy, documentation, pricing, support rules, usage policies, and technical requirements. We are not responsible for third-party services, account decisions, pricing changes, feature changes, API outages, rate limits, data handling, security practices, or support outcomes.

Advertising and Google AdSense

The Site may display advertising, including ads served by Google AdSense or other third-party advertising services. Advertising helps support the Site and keeps the content free to read.

Ads displayed on the Site may be provided, selected, personalized, limited, or measured by Google or other advertising partners. Advertisements do not mean that we endorse the advertiser, product, service, claim, offer, website, or destination page.

You agree not to manipulate, abuse, or interfere with advertising on the Site. You must not click ads repeatedly, click ads for the purpose of generating revenue, encourage others to click ads, use bots or automated tools to create ad impressions or clicks, generate invalid traffic, interfere with ad delivery, or use deceptive methods involving ads.

We may remove, change, limit, or disable advertising placements at any time. We are not responsible for the content, availability, claims, policies, or practices of advertisers or ad destination websites.

For information about cookies, analytics, advertising identifiers, personalized ads, and opt-out choices, please review our Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy.

Google Analytics, Cloudflare, and Technical Services

We use Google Analytics, Cloudflare, hosting services, security tools, caching tools, performance tools, spam-prevention tools, and similar services to operate, secure, measure, and improve the Site.

These services may process technical and usage information such as IP address, device information, browser information, pages viewed, referral sources, approximate location, performance data, security signals, and similar information. These tools help us understand site performance, prevent abuse, improve content, detect errors, protect against malicious traffic, and maintain a better user experience.

You agree not to bypass, disable, disrupt, attack, overload, or interfere with our security, analytics, hosting, Cloudflare, caching, advertising, or performance systems.

Contact Form and User Submissions

The Site may provide a contact form or email address so readers can send questions, correction requests, feedback, source links, or other messages. You are responsible for the information you submit.

By submitting information to us, you represent that you have the right to provide it and that your submission does not violate any law, contract, confidentiality obligation, privacy right, intellectual property right, or other third-party right.

You give us permission to review, store, process, respond to, and use your submission for reasonable site-related purposes, including responding to you, investigating corrections, improving content, preventing abuse, maintaining records, and protecting the Site.

We are not required to respond to every message, publish every correction, make every requested change, or maintain confidentiality for unsolicited feedback, suggestions, ideas, corrections, or source links. Do not send sensitive or confidential information through the contact form or email.

You can contact us at [email protected].

Intellectual Property

The Site, including its original text, layout, design, structure, graphics, editorial organization, and other materials, is owned by DeepSeek USA or its licensors, unless otherwise stated.

You may access and read the Site for personal, informational, and non-commercial purposes. You may link to our pages in a fair and non-misleading manner. You may not copy, reproduce, republish, distribute, sell, license, scrape, mirror, frame, or commercially exploit substantial portions of the Site without our prior written permission.

All trademarks, logos, product names, company names, and brand names mentioned on the Site are the property of their respective owners. References to DeepSeek and other brands are used for identification, commentary, editorial, educational, and informational purposes only. We do not claim ownership of third-party trademarks.

Copyright and Content Complaints

If you believe that content on this Site infringes your copyright or other rights, please contact us at [email protected] with enough information for us to review the issue.

Please include the URL of the page involved, a description of the material at issue, your contact information, proof or explanation of your rights, and the action you are requesting. We may remove, edit, or restrict content when appropriate.

Third-Party Links

The Site may link to external websites, including official DeepSeek pages, app stores, documentation pages, GitHub repositories, Google pages, Cloudflare pages, advertiser websites, support pages, news sources, and other third-party resources.

External links are provided for convenience, citation, reference, or editorial context. We do not control third-party websites and are not responsible for their content, accuracy, availability, security, privacy practices, terms, products, services, advertising, or data handling.

When you leave this Site, the terms and privacy policy of the destination website apply.

Site Availability and Changes

We may update, modify, suspend, restrict, remove, reorganize, or discontinue any part of the Site at any time without notice. We do not guarantee that the Site will always be available, uninterrupted, secure, error-free, or free of harmful components.

We may also limit or block access to the Site if we believe a user, IP address, network, tool, or activity violates these Terms, creates risk, causes technical issues, triggers security controls, generates abuse, or interferes with the Site.

Disclaimer of Warranties

The Site and its content are provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including warranties of accuracy, completeness, reliability, availability, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, and non-infringement.

We do not guarantee that the Site, content, links, ads, third-party resources, technical information, tutorials, comparisons, screenshots, or external references will be current, complete, accurate, secure, uninterrupted, or suitable for your specific needs.

Limitation of Liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, DeepSeek USA and its owners, operators, editors, contributors, service providers, and partners will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, consequential, special, exemplary, punitive, or similar damages arising from or related to your use of the Site.

This includes damages related to loss of data, loss of profits, business interruption, reliance on content, third-party services, advertising, external links, security issues, downtime, technical errors, changes to AI services, account problems, API changes, pricing changes, or actions taken by official DeepSeek services or other third parties.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, our total liability for any claim related to the Site will not exceed the greater of the amount you paid us to use the Site in the twelve months before the claim or one hundred U.S. dollars (US $100). Because the Site is free to read, this limitation is intended to apply to the maximum extent allowed by law.

Indemnification

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless DeepSeek USA and its owners, operators, editors, contributors, service providers, and partners from and against claims, damages, losses, liabilities, costs, and expenses arising from or related to:

  • Your use or misuse of the Site
  • Your violation of these Terms
  • Your violation of any law, policy, contract, or third-party right
  • Information or materials you submit through the contact form or email
  • Your misuse of ads, analytics, Cloudflare-protected systems, forms, content, links, or third-party resources
  • Your reliance on Site content without verifying official or authoritative sources

Privacy

Your use of the Site is also governed by our Privacy Policy, which explains how we handle information connected to site visits, contact forms, Google AdSense, Google Analytics, Cloudflare, cookies, advertising identifiers, and similar technologies.

Our Cookie Policy provides additional information about cookies and similar technologies used for functionality, security, analytics, performance measurement, and advertising.

Children’s Use

The Site is not directed to children under 13. If you are under 13, you should not use the Site or submit information through the contact form. If you are under the age of majority in your location, you should use the Site only with permission from a parent or legal guardian.

Governing Law and Disputes

These Terms are intended to be interpreted under applicable law to the fullest extent permitted. Because this Site is primarily intended for readers in the United States, disputes related to the Site should be handled in a lawful forum with proper jurisdiction over the parties and the dispute.

If you operate the Site through a specific company, state, or legal entity, this section should be reviewed and updated to reflect the correct governing law, venue, and dispute-resolution requirements for that entity.

Changes to These Terms

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

Your continued use of the Site after changes are posted means you accept the updated Terms.

Contact Us

If you have questions about these Terms, want to report an issue, or want to request a correction, contact us: