“You agree to provide Box (as well as agents or service providers acting on Box's behalf to provide the Services) the right to transmit, process, use and disclose Content and other information which we may obtain as part of your use of the Services but only: (i) as necessary for us to provide the Services...”
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The license to handle user Content is bounded by the necessity of providing the Services, which limits but does not eliminate Box's ability to process user data.
Interpretive note: The excerpt is truncated after condition (i). Additional enumerated purposes for data use almost certainly exist in the full clause and are not captured in the canonical claim.
The updated terms establish new billing obligations for consumable service resources. Users are now explicitly responsible for charges related to API calls and AI Units consumed beyond their service entitlements. Box reserves the right to monitor resource usage, report overages to the billing contact, and automatically charge the payment method on file for excess consumption. If usage exceeds entitlements, Box may implement throttling, rate limiting, or temporary service suspension until the overage is remedied and all charges are paid. Additionally, all written notices to Box must now be submitted electronically through Box-provided channels; Box will not process notices sent by mail or delivered in person.
View change record →A reader must grant Box and its agents the right to transmit, process, use, and disclose their Content and related information, limited to what is necessary for Box to provide the Services.
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"You agree to provide Box (as well as agents or service providers acting on Box's behalf to provide the Services) the right to transmit, process, use and disclose Content and other information which we may obtain as part of your use of the Services but only: (i) as necessary for us to provide the Services...Excerpt from Box's Terms of Service
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The license to handle user Content is bounded by the necessity of providing the Services, which limits but does not eliminate Box's ability to process user data.
A reader must grant Box and its agents the right to transmit, process, use, and disclose their Content and related information, limited to what is necessary for Box to provide the Services.
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