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Customer shall immediately inform DeepL if there are reasons to expect a significant increase in the number of API Requests for reasons such as an extraordinary surge in End Users, unusual marketing, promotions or other campaigns.
Don't do anything that places an unreasonably large load on our Services' infrastructure, use any robots, spiders, scrapers or other automated means to access our Services, try to interfere with the proper working of our Service or attempt to bypass any of our security measures
"if Partner needs to disable or limit such access as a result of security concerns or other exigent circumstances, Partner will promptly notify Plaid and will work in good faith with Plaid to resume such access as soon as possibleExcerpt from Plaid's Terms of Use
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The clause states: “if Partner needs to disable or limit such access as a result of security concerns or other exigent circumstances, Partner will promptly notify Plaid and will work in good faith with Plaid to resume such access as soon as possible”
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