Users may not use the Pinecone website to distribute malware, send spam, scrape data, gain unauthorized access, or disrupt the site or other users.
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This clause establishes the behavioral boundaries for site use, including prohibitions on scraping, automated data collection, and unauthorized access, and grants Pinecone enforcement discretion including reporting users to law enforcement.
Users who violate the acceptable use policy are subject to account termination and potential reporting to law enforcement at Pinecone's discretion. The scraping and automated query restrictions include a conditional carve-out permitting public search engine operators to use spiders for indexing purposes, subject to the site's robots.txt file.
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we have adopted a policy of terminating, in appropriate circumstances, the accounts of users who repeatedly infringe the intellectual property rights of others.
"You agree not to: (i) upload, transmit, or distribute to or through the Site any computer viruses, worms, or any software intended to damage or alter a computer system or data; (ii) send through the Site unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, promotional materials, junk mail, spam, chain letters, pyramid schemes, or any other form of duplicative or unsolicited messages, whether commercial or otherwise; (iii) use the Site to harvest, collect, gather or assemble information or data regarding other users, including e-mail addresses, without their consent; (iv) interfere with, disrupt, or create an undue burden on servers or networks connected to the Site, or violate the regulations, policies or procedures of such networks; (v) attempt to gain unauthorized access to the Site (or to other computer systems or networks connected to or used together with the Site); (vi) interfere with any other user's use and enjoyment of the Site; or (vi) use software or automated agents or scripts to produce multiple accounts on the Site, or to generate automated searches, requests, or queries to (or to strip, scrape, or mine data from) the Site.Excerpt from Pinecone's Terms of Service
(1) REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: Acceptable use policies engage the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) in the U.S.
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This clause establishes the behavioral boundaries for site use, including prohibitions on scraping, automated data collection, and unauthorized access, and grants Pinecone enforcement discretion including reporting users to law enforcement.
Users who violate the acceptable use policy are subject to account termination and potential reporting to law enforcement at Pinecone's discretion. The scraping and automated query restrictions include a conditional carve-out permitting public search engine operators to use spiders for indexing purposes, subject to the site's robots.txt file.
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