“We can terminate or suspend your account at any time at our sole discretion. We can also cancel any membership subscriptions and remove any descriptions, posts, offerings, benefits, and other material”
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Users have no guaranteed continuity of access to their accounts, as Patreon retains the right to end or suspend access at any time without external constraint.
Interpretive note: The excerpt contains several additional independent legal propositions—cancellation of membership subscriptions and removal of content and other material—which were not stated in the canonical claim and are recorded in omitted_material.
Your account can be terminated or suspended by Patreon at any time at its sole discretion, without requiring a specific cause.
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"We can terminate or suspend your account at any time at our sole discretion. We can also cancel any membership subscriptions and remove any descriptions, posts, offerings, benefits, and other materialExcerpt from Patreon's Terms of Use
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Users have no guaranteed continuity of access to their accounts, as Patreon retains the right to end or suspend access at any time without external constraint.
Your account can be terminated or suspended by Patreon at any time at its sole discretion, without requiring a specific cause.
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