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The updated terms establish a non-compete restriction prohibiting sellers from using Square's Services to build or support competing products or services, with account termination and indefinite fund holds stated as potential consequences for violations. Square now authorizes collection of your business brand assets (names, logos, menus, photos) from publicly available sources and grants itself and its subsidiaries broad rights to use, modify, and prepare derivative works of those assets for Block's business purposes, including developing, training, testing, and improving products and services. The revised payment terms require you to select a primary payment method at signup, and authorize Square to collect fees from that method or, if collection fails, from your transaction proceeds or Square account balance; you represent and warrant that any linked bank account was not established for personal purposes and that you are an authorized user on it.
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In order to prevent an unauthorized takeover of your account or unauthorized access to your personal data, we may decline deletion of, access to, or recovery of your account via an authorized agent at our sole discretion.
We may refuse to process or continue to process the minor's personal information, or provide or continue to provide the Services to the minor until we receive this evidence of consent or authorization.
Booking.com reserves the right to make the sole determination regarding a customer's eligibility to receive the price match.
"in the event of any dispute between two or more parties as to account ownership, we will be the sole arbiter of such dispute in our sole discretion. Our decision (which may include termination or suspension of any Square Account subject to dispute) will be final and binding on all parties.Excerpt from Square's Terms of Service
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The clause states: “in the event of any dispute between two or more parties as to account ownership, we will be the sole arbiter of such dispute in our sole discretion. Our decision (which may include termination or suspension of any Square Account subject to dispute) will be final and binding on all …”
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