By using Spotify, you grant Spotify and its business partners the right to use your device's processor, network bandwidth, and storage to operate the service and to deliver advertising to you.
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This provision authorizes Spotify and its named business partners to use device hardware resources, including processor, bandwidth, and storage, beyond what is strictly necessary to play audio, which may have implications for device performance and data usage.
Interpretive note: The identity and scope of 'business partners' authorized to access device resources is not defined in the document, making the operational extent of this grant uncertain.
Spotify's terms authorize the use of the user's device processor, bandwidth, and storage by both Spotify and its business partners for service operation and advertising delivery, which may affect device performance and data consumption on metered connections.
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"You also grant to us the right (1) to allow the Spotify Service to use the processor, bandwidth, and storage hardware on your Device in order to facilitate the operation of the Spotify Service, and (2) to provide advertising and other information to you, and (3) to allow our business partners to do the same.Excerpt from Spotify's Terms and Conditions
REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: The grant of device resource access to business partners for advertising delivery may engage GDPR and ePrivacy Directive requirements in the EU/EEA regarding consent for accessing information stored on or related to terminal …
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This provision authorizes Spotify and its named business partners to use device hardware resources, including processor, bandwidth, and storage, beyond what is strictly necessary to play audio, which may have implications for device performance and data usage.
Spotify's terms authorize the use of the user's device processor, bandwidth, and storage by both Spotify and its business partners for service operation and advertising delivery, which may affect device performance and data consumption on metered connections.
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