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This prohibition prevents automated scraping, crawling, or bulk access to Starbucks platforms and content, restricting programmatic use of the Sites.
Interpretive note: The excerpt appears to be one item (f) from a broader list of prohibited conduct; other items in the list are not reflected here.
You are prohibited from using automated tools of any kind to access Starbucks or its Content.
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"(f) uses or launches any automated system, including without limitation, "robots," "spiders," or "offline readers," to access Starbucks or ContentExcerpt from Starbucks's Terms of Use
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This prohibition prevents automated scraping, crawling, or bulk access to Starbucks platforms and content, restricting programmatic use of the Sites.
You are prohibited from using automated tools of any kind to access Starbucks or its Content.
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