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The updated terms establish new account verification procedures that Bumble may initiate to confirm identity, prevent fraud, verify age compliance, and enforce community guidelines. The terms clarify that deleting the Bumble app does not delete your account; you must explicitly request account deletion through the app to permanently remove it. A new BeePitched feature allows users to create personalized pitches about others and invite contributions, but this feature is restricted in Washington State and requires obtaining all necessary permissions from the person being pitched about. Content licensing language is narrowed to specify that your uploaded content may be made available to other app users, rather than the general public. You can request account deletion through the app's deletion process, and you can report any Pitch for review if you are the subject of one.
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Upon receipt of a valid complaint, we will review the reported Content and may remove or disable access to it pending investigation.
we and our designees shall have the right (but not the obligation) to remove in our sole discretion any content that we consider to violate these Terms of Use.
We reserve the right, at any time and without prior notice, to remove or disable access to any Collective Content, including any Registered User Content, that we, in our sole discretion, consider to be objectionable, in violation of these Terms, or otherwise harmful to the Service.
"While we don’t assume any obligation to pre-screen any of Your Content or any Member Content, there may be times where we need to step in to help keep our members safe, and we reserve the right to review, pre-screen, refuse and/or remove any Member Content and Your Content, including content exchanged between users in direct messagesExcerpt from Bumble's Terms and Conditions
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The clause states: “While we don’t assume any obligation to pre-screen any of Your Content or any Member Content, there may be times where we need to step in to help keep our members safe, and we reserve the right to review, pre-screen, refuse and/or remove any Member Content and Your Content, including …”
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