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This provision establishes Squarespace's enforcement mechanism for content moderation and network protection. By reserving sole discretion to determine violations, the clause creates a framework under which Squarespace can unilaterally enforce restrictions without requiring prior notice or independent review, which affects the operational predictability of platform access.
Users are required to comply with specified content and usage restrictions as a condition of service access. The terms authorize Squarespace to remove content or suspend accounts based on its determination of violations, which occurs through the unilateral discretion standard stated in the provision.
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You agree not to post, upload, publish, submit or transmit any content that: (i) infringes, misappropriates or violates a third party's patent, copyright, trademark, trade secret, moral rights or other intellectual property rights, or rights of publicity or privacy; (ii) violates, or encourages any ...
You agree not to engage in any of the following prohibited activities: (i) copying, distributing, or disclosing any part of the Services in any medium; (ii) using any automated system, including 'robots,' 'spiders,' 'offline readers,' etc., to access the Services; (iii) transmitting spam, chain lett...
You agree not to engage in any of the following prohibited activities: (i) copying, distributing, or disclosing any part of the Service in any medium, including without limitation by any automated or non-automated 'scraping'; (ii) using any automated system, including without limitation 'robots,' 's...
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"You may not use the Services in any manner that could damage, disable, overburden, or impair Squarespace's servers or networks. You may not use the Services to upload, post, or transmit any content that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, or otherwise objectionable. Squarespace reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to determine what constitutes a violation of these restrictions and to remove any content or suspend any account accordingly.— Excerpt from Squarespace's Squarespace Terms of Service
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This provision establishes Squarespace's enforcement mechanism for content moderation and network protection. By reserving sole discretion to determine violations, the clause creates a framework under which Squarespace can unilaterally enforce restrictions without requiring prior notice or independent review, which affects the operational predictability of platform access.
Users are required to comply with specified content and usage restrictions as a condition of service access. The terms authorize Squarespace to remove content or suspend accounts based on its determination of violations, which occurs through the unilateral discretion standard stated in the provision.
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