“IN NO EVENT WILL THE CLOUDFLARE ENTITIES BE LIABLE TO YOU OR ANY THIRD PARTY FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO YOUR ACCESS TO OR USE OF...THE SERVICES...”
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This exclusion removes entire categories of damages—often the largest in a dispute—from any claim a user or third party could bring against Cloudflare relating to Service use.
The reader cannot recover indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages from Cloudflare or its related entities for any claim arising out of or relating to access to or use of the Services.
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THE FOREGOING DISCLAIMER OF PUNITIVE AND EXEMPLARY DAMAGES...SHALL NOT APPLY TO USERS WHO RESIDE IN THE STATE OF NEW JERSEY IN THE UNITED STATES OR THE PROVINCE OF QUÉBEC IN CANADA.
Except where we post, link to, or expressly adopt or refer to this Privacy Policy, this Privacy Policy does not apply to, and we are not responsible for, any personal information practices of third-party websites and online services...
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"IN NO EVENT WILL THE CLOUDFLARE ENTITIES BE LIABLE TO YOU OR ANY THIRD PARTY FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO YOUR ACCESS TO OR USE OF...THE SERVICES...Excerpt from Cloudflare's Terms of Use
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This exclusion removes entire categories of damages—often the largest in a dispute—from any claim a user or third party could bring against Cloudflare relating to Service use.
The reader cannot recover indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages from Cloudflare or its related entities for any claim arising out of or relating to access to or use of the Services.
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