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The license is explicitly revocable and restricted to personal non-commercial use, meaning users hold no permanent or transferable rights to the services or content.
Interpretive note: The excerpt lists multiple licensed activities; the canonical claim captures the primary ones stated. Streaming and temporary downloading are both included as they appear in the same grant.
The reader receives only a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable right to use the services personally and non-commercially; they cannot transfer, assign, or sublicense that right.
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Wise grants you a revocable, non-exclusive, non-sublicensable, non-transferable, royalty-free limited license to access and/or make personal use of the Wise Materials and Services.
Tinder grants you a personal, worldwide, royalty-free, non-assignable, non-exclusive, revocable, and non-sublicensable license to access and use our Services for purposes as intended by Tinder and permitted by these Terms and applicable laws.
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"we grant you a limited, personal use, non-transferable, non-assignable, revocable, non-exclusive and non-sublicensable right to...Install and make non-commercial, personal use of the Services; and stream or temporarily download copyrighted materials...Excerpt from Hulu's Terms of Use (Site Terms)
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The license is explicitly revocable and restricted to personal non-commercial use, meaning users hold no permanent or transferable rights to the services or content.
The reader receives only a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable right to use the services personally and non-commercially; they cannot transfer, assign, or sublicense that right.
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