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This clause shifts significant financial risk to users, requiring them to personally fund Snap's legal defense and pay damages in scenarios where user-generated content or behavior causes third-party claims against Snap.
If a third party sues Snap because of content you posted or actions you took on Snapchat, you are personally obligated to cover Snap's legal costs and any resulting damages, creating potentially significant personal financial liability.
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"You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Snap and its affiliates, and their respective officers, directors, agents, and employees, from and against any and all claims, damages, obligations, losses, liabilities, costs, and expenses (including attorneys' fees) arising from: (i) your use of the Services; (ii) your violation of these Terms; (iii) your violation of any third-party right, including any intellectual property right or privacy right; or (iv) any claim that your content caused damage to a third party.— Excerpt from Snapchat's Snap Terms of Service
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This clause shifts significant financial risk to users, requiring them to personally fund Snap's legal defense and pay damages in scenarios where user-generated content or behavior causes third-party claims against Snap.
If a third party sues Snap because of content you posted or actions you took on Snapchat, you are personally obligated to cover Snap's legal costs and any resulting damages, creating potentially significant personal financial liability.
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