“Our total liability in any matter related to the Services or these Terms is limited to the aggregate amount you paid to us during the 12-month period preceding the event giving rise to the liability.”
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No matter the severity of a claim, Ancestry's maximum financial exposure to a user is bounded by that user's prior 12 months of payments, which may be zero for free-tier users.
Interpretive note: The second what_this_means item is a logical consequence of the cap as stated; the excerpt does not explicitly address the zero-payment scenario, but the canonical claim's terms encompass it without inference beyond the language.
The maximum amount you could recover from Ancestry for any Services- or Terms-related matter is limited to what you paid Ancestry in the 12 months before the triggering event.
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"Our total liability in any matter related to the Services or these Terms is limited to the aggregate amount you paid to us during the 12-month period preceding the event giving rise to the liability.Excerpt from Ancestry's Terms and Conditions
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No matter the severity of a claim, Ancestry's maximum financial exposure to a user is bounded by that user's prior 12 months of payments, which may be zero for free-tier users.
The maximum amount you could recover from Ancestry for any Services- or Terms-related matter is limited to what you paid Ancestry in the 12 months before the triggering event.
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