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This prohibition prevents users from using DocuSign's Site as a resource for competitive intelligence, product development, or operating rival services.
Interpretive note: The excerpt references item (i) of a list, suggesting additional prohibited purposes exist in the full clause that are not reproduced here. Those are recorded as omitted material.
You are prohibited from using the Site for benchmarking, gathering information for another product or service, or building or running competing products or services.
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"Uses the Site for benchmarking purposes or to compile information for a product or service, or accesses or uses the Site for the purpose of (i) developing or operating products or services in competition with the SiteExcerpt from DocuSign's Terms and Conditions
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This prohibition prevents users from using DocuSign's Site as a resource for competitive intelligence, product development, or operating rival services.
You are prohibited from using the Site for benchmarking, gathering information for another product or service, or building or running competing products or services.
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