“Neither Party shall be liable to the other Party under this Agreement...for any (i) loss of profits, loss of business, depletion of goodwill and/or similar losses, or loss or corruption of data or information, or pure economic loss; or (ii) special, indirect or consequential loss.”
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The mutual exclusion eliminates entire categories of loss that are often the most financially significant in practice, capping recoverable harm to direct losses only.
The updated terms explicitly state that audio files are now included in the definition of 'Content' and that all Content is processed by DeepL's machine learning infrastructure. This formalizes what may have been implicit practice and clarifies the scope of data subject to machine learning processing. The terms also introduce a new access method through third-party AI assistant applications via DeepL's Model Context Protocol endpoint; usage through this pathway counts toward your subscription's usage limits and volumes. You can review the Service Specification for details on how third-party application access operates.
View change record →The customer cannot recover from DeepL for lost profits, lost business, data loss, or other consequential or indirect harm, regardless of the cause of that harm.
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"Neither Party shall be liable to the other Party under this Agreement...for any (i) loss of profits, loss of business, depletion of goodwill and/or similar losses, or loss or corruption of data or information, or pure economic loss; or (ii) special, indirect or consequential loss.Excerpt from DeepL's Terms and Conditions
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The mutual exclusion eliminates entire categories of loss that are often the most financially significant in practice, capping recoverable harm to direct losses only.
The customer cannot recover from DeepL for lost profits, lost business, data loss, or other consequential or indirect harm, regardless of the cause of that harm.
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