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This provision establishes service usage boundaries by restricting certain transmission activities that may violate federal communications law or cause network harm. The restriction applies to direct use and to facilitation of such activities by other parties.
Users operating under these terms are prohibited from using AWS infrastructure for specified email transmission and network attack activities. The terms apply as written upon continued service use, establishing that such prohibited activities constitute acceptable use policy violations.
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You may not use Shopify's Services to send spam, unsolicited communications, or engage in harassment of any person. This includes using Shopify's email or messaging tools to send bulk unsolicited messages to consumers who have not opted in to receive communications from you.
You may not automatedly crawl or query the Services for any purpose or by any means (including, without limitation, screen and database scraping, spiders, robots, crawlers and any other automated activity with the purpose of obtaining information from the Services) unless you have received prior exp...
relate to transactions involving (f) the promotion of hate, violence, racial or other forms of intolerance that is discriminatory or the financial exploitation of a crime... (i) involve offering or receiving payments for the purpose of bribery or corruption.
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"You may not use the Services to transmit, distribute, or deliver unsolicited bulk email (spam), commercial email, or other messages in violation of applicable laws, including the CAN-SPAM Act; to operate mail bombing or denial-of-service attacks; or to facilitate any of the above.— Excerpt from Amazon's AWS Acceptable Use Policy
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This provision establishes service usage boundaries by restricting certain transmission activities that may violate federal communications law or cause network harm. The restriction applies to direct use and to facilitation of such activities by other parties.
Users operating under these terms are prohibited from using AWS infrastructure for specified email transmission and network attack activities. The terms apply as written upon continued service use, establishing that such prohibited activities constitute acceptable use policy violations.
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