“You give us and our third party providers a limited power of attorney, and appoint us and our third party providers as your true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent to act on your behalf and access, transmit, and use your information...”
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Granting a power of attorney to Affirm and its third-party providers authorizes them to act legally on the user's behalf and handle the user's information, which is a significant legal authorization beyond a typical data-sharing consent.
Interpretive note: The excerpt is truncated with ellipsis, suggesting the full scope of permitted uses of the user's information under the power of attorney may not be fully captured in the canonical claim.
The reader legally authorizes Affirm and its third-party providers to act as their attorney-in-fact to access, transmit, and use their information.
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Granting a power of attorney to Affirm and its third-party providers authorizes them to act legally on the user's behalf and handle the user's information, which is a significant legal authorization beyond a typical data-sharing consent.
The reader legally authorizes Affirm and its third-party providers to act as their attorney-in-fact to access, transmit, and use their information.
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