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Prohibition on excessive or irrelevant repository data

Medium severity Explicit document language Common · 282 of 352 platforms
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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;

Mailchimp Medium

Send content created in Mailchimp through another service.

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Hosting excessive or irrelevant data in repositories.

Excerpt from Hugging Face's Content Policy

Applicable regulations

CFAA
United States Federal
DMCA
United States Federal
DSA
European Union
Trump Executive Order on AI Policy Framework
US

Provision details

Document information
Document
Hugging Face Content Policy
Entity
Hugging Face
Document last updated
May 11, 2026
Tracking information
First tracked
May 11, 2026
Last verified
May 12, 2026
Record ID
CA-P-060066
Document ID
CA-D-00774
Evidence Provenance
Source URL
Wayback Machine
Content hash (SHA-256)
5531d074b3f5051a68db609a09041c220918883b48cd4e84ec751fab1efdcde9
Analysis generated
May 11, 2026 12:56 UTC
Methodology
Evidence
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Citation Record
Entity: Hugging Face
Document: Hugging Face Content Policy
Record ID: CA-P-060066
Captured: 2026-05-11 12:56:50 UTC
SHA-256: 5531d074b3f5051a…
URL: https://conductatlas.com/platform/hugging-face/hugging-face-content-policy/provision/CA-P-060066/prohibition-on-excessive-or-irrelevant-repository-data/
Accessed: Aug. 5, 2026
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Severity
Medium
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What does Hugging Face's Prohibition on excessive or irrelevant repository data clause do?

The clause states: “Hosting excessive or irrelevant data in repositories.”

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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