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This non-discrimination standard prevents Partners from offering Plaid inferior data access conditions compared to competing services, protecting Plaid's ability to compete on equal terms.
Interpretive note: The excerpt ends at item (1), suggesting additional conditions in items (2) and beyond; those are not present in the excerpt and are not reflected in the canonical claim.
The Partner is prohibited from giving Plaid's Data Access Method lower performance, availability, integrity, reliability, or currentness than it provides to similar third parties or Plaid competitors.
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"Partner will provide the Data Access Method with the degree of performance, availability, integrity, reliability, and currentness that is (1) at least the same as any similar third party working with Partner (including any Plaid competitors)...Excerpt from Plaid's Terms of Use
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This non-discrimination standard prevents Partners from offering Plaid inferior data access conditions compared to competing services, protecting Plaid's ability to compete on equal terms.
The Partner is prohibited from giving Plaid's Data Access Method lower performance, availability, integrity, reliability, or currentness than it provides to similar third parties or Plaid competitors.
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