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Prohibition on Reverse Engineering Service Software

Medium severity Explicit document language Common · 282 of 352 platforms
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Clause Stability Stable

0
Changes
3
Months Monitored
Jul 10, 2026
First Seen
Jul 10, 2026
Last Seen
This clause type exists across 4244 other provisions on other platforms.

How other platforms handle this

NVIDIA NIM Medium

Customer may not reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble any portion of the output generated using an NVIDIA proprietary software development kit (e.g., NVIDIA CUDA toolkit), including their development tools and compilers.

Tinder Medium

You may not display any personal contact, banking, or peer-to-peer payment information, whether in relation to you or any other person (for example, names, home addresses or postcodes, telephone numbers, email addresses, URLs, credit/debit card...)

ActiveCampaign Medium

Bypass or ignore instructions contained in our robots.txt file that controls automated access to portions of our Services;

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▸ View Original Clause Language DOCUMENT RECORD
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Attempt to decipher, decompile, disassemble, or reverse engineer any of the software used to provide the Service.

Excerpt from GOAT's Terms of Use

Applicable regulations

CFAA
United States Federal

Provision details

Document information
Document
GOAT Terms of Use
Entity
GOAT
Document last updated
May 5, 2026
Tracking information
First tracked
May 10, 2026
Last verified
July 9, 2026
Record ID
CA-P-062913
Document ID
CA-D-00735
Evidence Provenance
Source URL
Wayback Machine
Content hash (SHA-256)
d867c8638b71c988c30639ccdafb908dbcc29c4cd4764b217520f429acec40bb
Analysis generated
May 10, 2026 23:47 UTC
Methodology
Evidence
✓ Snapshot stored   ✓ Hash verified
Citation Record
Entity: GOAT
Document: GOAT Terms of Use
Record ID: CA-P-062913
Captured: 2026-05-10 23:47:54 UTC
SHA-256: d867c8638b71c988…
URL: https://conductatlas.com/platform/goat/goat-terms-of-use/provision/CA-P-062913/prohibition-on-reverse-engineering-service-software/
Accessed: Aug. 5, 2026
Permanent archival reference. Stable identifier suitable for legal filings, compliance documentation, and research citation.
Classification
Severity
Medium
Categories

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Frequently Asked Questions

What does GOAT's Prohibition on Reverse Engineering Service Software clause do?

The clause states: “Attempt to decipher, decompile, disassemble, or reverse engineer any of the software used to provide the Service.”

How many platforms have this type of clause?

ConductAtlas has identified this type of provision across 282 platforms. See the full comparison.

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