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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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Don't do anything that places an unreasonably large load on our Services' infrastructure, use any robots, spiders, scrapers or other automated means to access our Services, try to interfere with the proper working of our Service or attempt to bypass any of our security measures
You will not access or attempt to access the Web Services through any automated means, including scripts or web crawlers, except through APIs or other interfaces specifically provided for this purpose.
We also require that certain popular apps apply for access to certain data.
"This license does not permit automated, programmatic, or agentic access except as expressly authorized under Section 4.4.Excerpt from Instacart's Terms of Service
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The clause states: “This license does not permit automated, programmatic, or agentic access except as expressly authorized under Section 4.4.”
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