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This provision establishes the scope and conditions of service access by specifying permitted uses and defining restricted activities. It protects the platform's technical architecture and operational integrity by prohibiting unauthorized extraction, replication, or manipulation of system functionality and data.
Instacart rewrote its entire Terms of Service, adding 367 new sentences including sections on AI-powered services, updated arbitration procedures, and revised data handling practices. The restructuring makes it harder to compare what changed because the entire document was reorganized.
View change record →Users receive authorization to use Instacart's Services only through Instacart-provided interfaces and for intended purposes, subject to compliance with stated restrictions. Users cannot employ automated means to extract data, replicate system functionality, or access the Services through unauthorized technical methods.
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"Instacart grants you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, and revocable license to use the Services for their intended purposes subject to your compliance with these Terms. You may not copy, modify, distribute, sell, or lease any part of the Services. Unless such restriction is prohibited by law or you have Instacart's written permission, you may not reverse engineer (including tracking the inputs and outputs flowing through our system or application in order to mimic or recreate the system or application) or attempt to extract the source code of the Services. You may only access the Services through the interfaces that Instacart provides for that purpose (for example, you may not 'scrape' or 'data mine' the Services through automated means or 'frame' any part of the Services), and you may not interfere or attempt to disrupt the Services.— Excerpt from Instacart's Instacart Terms of Service
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This provision establishes the scope and conditions of service access by specifying permitted uses and defining restricted activities. It protects the platform's technical architecture and operational integrity by prohibiting unauthorized extraction, replication, or manipulation of system functionality and data.
Users receive authorization to use Instacart's Services only through Instacart-provided interfaces and for intended purposes, subject to compliance with stated restrictions. Users cannot employ automated means to extract data, replicate system functionality, or access the Services through unauthorized technical methods.
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