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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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if Partner needs to disable or limit such access as a result of security concerns or other exigent circumstances, Partner will promptly notify Plaid and will work in good faith with Plaid to resume such access as soon as possible
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
"Instacart may limit, tier, suspend, or revoke programmatic or automated access (and update or disable interfaces) at any time for security, policy, business, or legal reasons, with or without notice.Excerpt from Instacart's Terms of Service
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The clause states: “Instacart may limit, tier, suspend, or revoke programmatic or automated access (and update or disable interfaces) at any time for security, policy, business, or legal reasons, with or without notice.”
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