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Users bear financial and legal responsibility for defending GOAT against third-party claims that arise from the user's own access or use of the Service.
Interpretive note: The excerpt ends with an ellipsis after 'expenses,' suggesting additional triggering conditions exist in the full clause. The canonical claim is limited to the triggering condition explicitly quoted: access to or use of the Service.
The reader is financially responsible for defending GOAT, its officers, directors, employees, agents, and representatives against any claims, liabilities, damages, losses, and expenses connected to the reader's access to or use of the Service.
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"You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold GOAT and its officers, directors, employees, agents, and representatives harmless from and against any claims, liabilities, damages, losses, and expenses...arising out of or in any way connected with your access to or use of the Service...Excerpt from GOAT's Terms of Use
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Users bear financial and legal responsibility for defending GOAT against third-party claims that arise from the user's own access or use of the Service.
The reader is financially responsible for defending GOAT, its officers, directors, employees, agents, and representatives against any claims, liabilities, damages, losses, and expenses connected to the reader's access to or use of the Service.
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