The agreement prohibits use of DeepL services in violation of applicable law, third-party rights, or the terms, and reserves to DeepL the unilateral right to suspend or terminate access upon its determination of a violation.
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This provision establishes DeepL's discretionary authority to suspend or terminate account access without specifying a mandatory notice period or appeal mechanism. The 'sole discretion' standard means termination decisions are not subject to a predefined review procedure under the standard terms.
Interpretive note: The practical scope of the 'sole discretion' termination right may be constrained by EU DSA obligations, German mandatory contract law, and applicable consumer protection frameworks; the extent of those constraints depends on user type and jurisdiction.
Removed specific prohibitions on unauthorized access, reverse engineering, and automated access; added 'infringes third-party rights' and 'in its sole discretion' language; separated termination mechanism and changed from 'good cause' requirement to unilateral discretionary suspension/termination.
View full change record →Under this clause, DeepL may suspend or terminate a subscriber's access to paid services based on its own determination of a terms violation, with the terms not specifying a mandatory pre-termination notice or appeal process. Subscribers who rely on DeepL for operational workflows should assess the implications of potential service interruption under this provision.
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You may not use the Service in a manner that violates any applicable laws or regulations, interferes with or disrupts AT&T's network, harms other users, or in ways that AT&T determines in its sole discretion are excessive, abusive, or otherwise inconsistent with AT&T's network management practices.
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"You agree not to use the Services in any manner that violates applicable laws or regulations, infringes third-party rights, or is otherwise prohibited under these Terms. DeepL reserves the right to suspend or terminate your access to the Services at any time if DeepL determines, in its sole discretion, that you have violated these Terms.— Excerpt from DeepL's DeepL Terms and Conditions
(1) REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: Termination and suspension provisions in platform agreements engage the EU Digital Services Act (DSA) for platforms with EU users, which imposes obligations around notice, statement of reasons, and internal complaint handling for account suspensions and terminations. The EU's Platform-to-Business (P2B) Regulation may also apply to business users of the API, imposing requirements around termination notice periods. For consumer subscribers in Germany, BGB provisions on extraordinary termination may impose additional procedural requirements. (2) GOVERNANCE EXPOSURE: Medium. The 'sole discretion' termination standard is common in SaaS terms but may be constrained by the DSA's transparency and due process requirements for EU users and by P2B obligations for API business users. The absence of a specified notice period before suspension is operationally significant for enterprise accounts. (3) JURISDICTION FLAGS: EU users benefit from DSA-mandated procedural protections for account suspensions. Business users of the API in the EU may have additional rights under the P2B Regulation. German mandatory contract law may impose good-faith requirements on the exercise of termination rights that limit the 'sole discretion' standard. (4) CONTRACT AND VENDOR IMPLICATIONS: Enterprise customers and API integrators should assess the business continuity risk created by the discretionary suspension right and consider whether contractual SLA or termination notice provisions can be negotiated for business-tier or enterprise agreements. (5) COMPLIANCE CONSIDERATIONS: Legal teams should assess whether DeepL's termination procedures satisfy DSA and P2B obligations for EU business and consumer users, including the requirement to provide a statement of reasons and access to an internal complaint mechanism prior to or upon account suspension.
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This provision establishes DeepL's discretionary authority to suspend or terminate account access without specifying a mandatory notice period or appeal mechanism. The 'sole discretion' standard means termination decisions are not subject to a predefined review procedure under the standard terms.
Under this clause, DeepL may suspend or terminate a subscriber's access to paid services based on its own determination of a terms violation, with the terms not specifying a mandatory pre-termination notice or appeal process. Subscribers who rely on DeepL for operational workflows should assess the implications of potential service interruption under this provision.
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