If someone sues Acorns because of something you did on the platform — including a copyright violation or privacy breach — you have to pay Acorns' legal costs and any damages awarded.
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This indemnification clause establishes a mechanism by which Acorns transfers certain legal and financial defense obligations to users. The clause creates a broad scope of covered claims across four categories: service use, term violations, third-party rights violations, and user content liability. This affects the allocation of legal risk and expense responsibility between the parties.
If a third party files a legal claim against Acorns because of your actions on the platform, you are personally responsible for covering Acorns' legal defense costs and any resulting damages — a financial risk most retail users would not anticipate.
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"You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Acorns and its affiliates, and their respective officers, directors, employees, and agents from and against any and all claims, damages, obligations, losses, liabilities, costs, and expenses (including but not limited to attorney's fees) arising from: (i) your use of the Services; (ii) your violation of these Terms of Use; (iii) your violation of any third party right, including without limitation any copyright, property, or privacy right; or (iv) any claim that your User Content caused damage to a third party.— Excerpt from Acorns's Acorns Terms of Service
(1) REGULATORY FRAMEWORK: Broad consumer indemnification clauses are evaluated under FTC Act Section 5 and state consumer protection statutes as potentially unfair or deceptive. California courts applying the CLRA and UCL (Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 17200) have found certain one-sided indemnification clauses in consumer contracts unenforceable as unconscionable. FINRA also imposes conduct standards for member firms that may limit the enforceability of indemnification provisions against retail customers in securities contexts. (2)
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This indemnification clause establishes a mechanism by which Acorns transfers certain legal and financial defense obligations to users. The clause creates a broad scope of covered claims across four categories: service use, term violations, third-party rights violations, and user content liability. This affects the allocation of legal risk and expense responsibility between the parties.
If a third party files a legal claim against Acorns because of your actions on the platform, you are personally responsible for covering Acorns' legal defense costs and any resulting damages — a financial risk most retail users would not anticipate.
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