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The prohibition is enforced through Mailchimp's sole judgment, meaning Mailchimp alone determines whether content meets the threshold, with no requirement to defer to the user's characterization of their own content.
Interpretive note: The excerpt is truncated after 'race, ethnicity' with ellipsis, indicating additional protected characteristics are listed in the full clause that could not be stated in the canonical claim. The claim references 'other listed characteristics' to signal incompleteness without fabricating specifics.
You are prohibited from submitting Content that Mailchimp, in its sole judgment, could reasonably perceive as harmful, threatening, or promoting harassment of individuals based solely on race, ethnicity, or other listed characteristics.
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"Hateful Content. This means any statement, image, photograph, advertisement, or other Content that in our sole judgment could be reasonably perceived to harm, threaten, promote the harassment of...based solely on race, ethnicity...Excerpt from Mailchimp's Standard Terms of Use
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The prohibition is enforced through Mailchimp's sole judgment, meaning Mailchimp alone determines whether content meets the threshold, with no requirement to defer to the user's characterization of their own content.
You are prohibited from submitting Content that Mailchimp, in its sole judgment, could reasonably perceive as harmful, threatening, or promoting harassment of individuals based solely on race, ethnicity, or other listed characteristics.
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