The agreement prohibits users from using the platform to distribute content that violates third-party intellectual property rights, is unlawful, harassing, defamatory, obscene, or otherwise objectionable, or facilitates unlawful activity.
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This provision establishes the content compliance obligations that govern what users may send or publish through Kit, and violations are grounds for account suspension or termination under the termination provisions. The definition of prohibited content includes broad subjective categories such as 'otherwise objectionable,' which gives Kit discretionary enforcement authority.
Interpretive note: The term 'otherwise objectionable content' is undefined and grants Kit discretionary enforcement authority whose scope cannot be determined from the document text alone.
Under this clause, users are contractually prohibited from sending or publishing content that violates intellectual property rights, contains defamatory or obscene material, or facilitates unlawful activity. Violation of these restrictions may result in account suspension or termination without notice as authorized by the termination provision.
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"You agree not to use the Service to collect, upload, transmit, display, or distribute any User Content that (i) violates any third-party right, including any copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, moral right, privacy right, right of publicity, or any other intellectual property or proprietary right; (ii) is unlawful, harassing, abusive, tortious, threatening, harmful, invasive of another's privacy, vulgar, defamatory, false, intentionally misleading, trade libelous, pornographic, obscene, patently offensive, or otherwise objectionable content; (iii) in furtherance of any unlawful activity.Excerpt from ConvertKit's Terms of Service
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This provision establishes the content compliance obligations that govern what users may send or publish through Kit, and violations are grounds for account suspension or termination under the termination provisions. The definition of prohibited content includes broad subjective categories such as 'otherwise objectionable,' which gives Kit discretionary enforcement authority.
Under this clause, users are contractually prohibited from sending or publishing content that violates intellectual property rights, contains defamatory or obscene material, or facilitates unlawful activity. Violation of these restrictions may result in account suspension or termination without notice as authorized by the termination provision.
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