“If we identify abuse at our sole discretion, we may suspend, throttle, or disable the account or access to the Service.”
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The determination of what constitutes abuse is entirely within Mailchimp's sole discretion, and it may take any one of three distinct enforcement actions without requiring an external standard or prior notice.
Interpretive note: The canonical claim names all three enforcement actions in the single proposition; they are listed together as alternative consequences of the same trigger and are not independent legal effects.
Your account or service access may be suspended, throttled, or disabled if Mailchimp identifies abuse at its sole discretion.
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The determination of what constitutes abuse is entirely within Mailchimp's sole discretion, and it may take any one of three distinct enforcement actions without requiring an external standard or prior notice.
Your account or service access may be suspended, throttled, or disabled if Mailchimp identifies abuse at its sole discretion.
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