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The indemnification clause allocates legal and financial responsibility to users for losses Khan Academy incurs related to user conduct or service usage. This establishes a mechanism by which Khan Academy transfers certain categories of defense costs and damages to users rather than bearing those costs itself.
Users assume an obligation to cover Khan Academy's legal defense and related expenses in disputes involving their own service use, terms violations, or infringement of third-party rights. This obligation applies broadly across three categories of potential claims and applies regardless of whether Khan Academy bears partial responsibility.
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"You agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless Khan Academy and its subsidiaries, agents, licensors, managers, and other affiliated companies, and their employees, contractors, agents, officers and directors, from and against any and all claims, damages, obligations, losses, liabilities, costs or debt, and expenses arising from: (i) your use of and access to the Services; (ii) your violation of any term of these Terms; (iii) your violation of any third party right.— Excerpt from Khan Academy's Khan Academy Terms of Service
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The indemnification clause allocates legal and financial responsibility to users for losses Khan Academy incurs related to user conduct or service usage. This establishes a mechanism by which Khan Academy transfers certain categories of defense costs and damages to users rather than bearing those costs itself.
Users assume an obligation to cover Khan Academy's legal defense and related expenses in disputes involving their own service use, terms violations, or infringement of third-party rights. This obligation applies broadly across three categories of potential claims and applies regardless of whether Khan Academy bears partial responsibility.
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