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The prohibition applies to any of the Software, meaning partial use of Mailchimp's Software in building a competing product is also prohibited, not only wholesale reproduction.
Interpretive note: The excerpt is a noun-phrase item from a prohibited-conduct list without an explicit prohibition verb. The prohibition framing is inferred from AUP list context. 'Competing product' is not defined in the excerpt, which may create interpretive uncertainty in application.
You are prohibited from using any part of Mailchimp's Software to develop a product that competes with Mailchimp.
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Using an anonymizing proxy; use any robot, spider, other automatic device, or manual process to monitor or copy our websites without our prior written permission...
You may not display any personal contact, banking, or peer-to-peer payment information, whether in relation to you or any other person (for example, names, home addresses or postcodes, telephone numbers, email addresses, URLs, credit/debit card...)
Bypass or ignore instructions contained in our robots.txt file that controls automated access to portions of our Services;
"Use any of the Software to create a competing product.Excerpt from Mailchimp's Acceptable Use Policy
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The prohibition applies to any of the Software, meaning partial use of Mailchimp's Software in building a competing product is also prohibited, not only wholesale reproduction.
You are prohibited from using any part of Mailchimp's Software to develop a product that competes with Mailchimp.
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