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Binding arbitration is a final dispute resolution mechanism; its availability only under certain conditions and only for residual claims limits when users can invoke it.
Interpretive note: The phrase 'certain conditions' is not defined in the excerpt, creating ambiguity about when binding arbitration is actually available. The scope of 'some residual claims' is also undefined.
Readers may invoke binding arbitration for some unresolved DPF Principles-related claims, but only under certain conditions and only after other redress channels have been exhausted.
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Binding arbitration is a final dispute resolution mechanism; its availability only under certain conditions and only for residual claims limits when users can invoke it.
Readers may invoke binding arbitration for some unresolved DPF Principles-related claims, but only under certain conditions and only after other redress channels have been exhausted.
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