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The updated User Agreement incorporates additional policies and terms that were previously referenced separately, making them contractually binding conditions of service use. The agreement now explicitly states that continued use constitutes acceptance of all incorporated policies and additional terms posted on eBay's sites and applications. The updated language emphasizes that disputes are resolved through binding arbitration unless the user opts out according to section 19.B.9, and contains a waiver of class action rights. You can review which eBay entity contracts with you based on your jurisdiction (eBay Inc. for US, eBay UK Limited for UK, eBay GmbH for EU, and others listed) and locate the opt-out mechanism for arbitration in section 19.B.9 of the full agreement.
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you may not: (i) copy, modify or create derivative works based on any Apps; (ii) distribute, transfer, sublicense, lease, lend or rent any Apps to any third party; (iii) reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble any Apps...
Don't do anything that places an unreasonably large load on our Services' infrastructure, use any robots, spiders, scrapers or other automated means to access our Services, try to interfere with the proper working of our Service or attempt to bypass any of our security measures
(iii) remove, obscure, alter, or make invisible, illegible, or indecipherable, any notice, including any notice of intellectual property or proprietary right, appearing on or contained within Creators API, PA API, Data Feeds, Product Advertising Content, or Specifications.
"commercialize any eBay application or any information, data, or software associated with such application, except with the prior express permission of eBayExcerpt from eBay's User Agreement
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The clause states: “commercialize any eBay application or any information, data, or software associated with such application, except with the prior express permission of eBay”
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