“You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your Account login information and any API Keys you are provided in connection with registration...”
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Placing confidentiality responsibility on the user means that unauthorized access resulting from a user's failure to protect their credentials may be attributed to the user rather than Pinecone.
Interpretive note: The excerpt is truncated with an ellipsis, so additional obligations or consequences tied to the confidentiality requirement may exist in the full clause that are not captured here.
Users bear responsibility for keeping their account credentials and API keys confidential; failure to do so may have consequences that fall on the user.
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"You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your Account login information and any API Keys you are provided in connection with registration...Excerpt from Pinecone's Terms of Service
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Placing confidentiality responsibility on the user means that unauthorized access resulting from a user's failure to protect their credentials may be attributed to the user rather than Pinecone.
Users bear responsibility for keeping their account credentials and API keys confidential; failure to do so may have consequences that fall on the user.
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