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Denying property rights and refundability means customers who purchase prepaid credits have no legal claim to recover their monetary value if credits go unused or the service changes.
Interpretive note: The excerpt appears to be a partial list; additional characteristics of prepaid credits (beyond items (a) and (b)) may exist in the full agreement but are not stated in the quoted language and are therefore omitted from the canonical claim.
The reader holds prepaid credits with no personal property right in them and no ability to convert them to money or obtain a refund, except where law requires otherwise.
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"Prepaid Credits: (a) do not constitute or confer upon you any personal property right; (b) are not redeemable, refundable, or exchangeable for any sum of money or monetary value (except where required by law)Excerpt from Replicate's Terms of Service
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Denying property rights and refundability means customers who purchase prepaid credits have no legal claim to recover their monetary value if credits go unused or the service changes.
The reader holds prepaid credits with no personal property right in them and no ability to convert them to money or obtain a refund, except where law requires otherwise.
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