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This prohibition prevents users on the free tier from running payment flows through properties served by Cloudflare's Free Services, effectively requiring an upgrade to paid tiers for any credit card handling.
Interpretive note: The excerpt is a short fragment without surrounding sentence context. The prohibition is clear from the language but the full condition or phrasing of the rule (e.g., 'you will not') is not present in the quoted excerpt, requiring minor inference about its operative framing. Confidence is medium on that basis.
The reader cannot process or collect personal or business credit card information on any web property that receives Cloudflare's Free Services.
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"process or collect personal or business credit card information on any web property that is receiving Free Services— Excerpt from Cloudflare's Cloudflare Terms of Use
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This prohibition prevents users on the free tier from running payment flows through properties served by Cloudflare's Free Services, effectively requiring an upgrade to paid tiers for any credit card handling.
The reader cannot process or collect personal or business credit card information on any web property that receives Cloudflare's Free Services.
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