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Readers bear financial responsibility for defending Instacart and Retailers and covering their losses arising from the reader's own conduct, which can include legal costs and third-party claims.
Interpretive note: The excerpt contains two ellipses, which truncate the specific description of triggering conduct and potentially other conditions on the indemnification obligation. The core indemnification structure is clear, but the precise scope of covered conduct cannot be fully verified from the quoted language alone.
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.
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Readers bear financial responsibility for defending Instacart and Retailers and covering their losses arising from the reader's own conduct, which can include legal costs and third-party claims.
Readers are obligated to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Instacart and Retailers from any losses, claims, actions, damages, penalties, fines, costs, or expenses arising out of or relating to their conduct.
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