You are not allowed to use bots, scrapers, or automated tools to access Databricks' websites, and you cannot do anything that puts unusual strain on their servers.
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This clause establishes operational boundaries for service access by restricting automated or high-volume access patterns that could degrade service availability. The provision grants Databricks discretionary authority to assess whether a load constitutes unreasonable or disproportionate infrastructure impact.
Removal of specific anti-scraping and automated access restrictions may impact Databricks's ability to enforce technical use policies, though 'Prohibited Uses' clause partially replaces this.
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You agree not to engage in any of the following prohibited activities: (i) copying, distributing, or disclosing any part of the Services in any medium; (ii) using any automated system, including 'robots,' 'spiders,' 'offline readers,' etc., to access the Services; (iii) transmitting spam, chain lett...
You agree not to post, upload, publish, submit or transmit any content that: (i) infringes, misappropriates or violates a third party's patent, copyright, trademark, trade secret, moral rights or other intellectual property rights, or rights of publicity or privacy; (ii) violates, or encourages any ...
You may not automatedly crawl or query the Services for any purpose or by any means (including, without limitation, screen and database scraping, spiders, robots, crawlers and any other automated activity with the purpose of obtaining information from the Services) unless you have received prior exp...
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"You agree not to: use any robot, spider, scraper, or other automated means to access the Sites for any purpose without our express written permission; take any action that imposes, or may impose in our discretion, an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on our infrastructure; interfere with or attempt to interfere with the proper working of the Sites or any activities conducted on the Sites.— Excerpt from Databricks's Databricks Terms of Service
1) REGULATORY FRAMEWORK: The anti-scraping provision directly implicates the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (18 U.S.C. §1030), which prohibits unauthorized access to protected computers. The Ninth Circuit's hiQ Labs v. LinkedIn ruling (9th Cir. 2022) created nuance around scraping publicly available data, but terms-of-service violations can still support CFAA claims for non-public or authenticated areas. The DMCA (17 U.S.C. §1201) may also apply to circumvention of technical access controls. 2)
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This clause establishes operational boundaries for service access by restricting automated or high-volume access patterns that could degrade service availability. The provision grants Databricks discretionary authority to assess whether a load constitutes unreasonable or disproportionate infrastructure impact.
Developers, data scientists, and researchers who use automated tools to interact with Databricks' public websites could face account termination and potential federal CFAA liability, including civil damages and criminal prosecution in extreme cases.
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