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Don't do anything that places an unreasonably large load on our Services' infrastructure, use any robots, spiders, scrapers or other automated means to access our Services, try to interfere with the proper working of our Service or attempt to bypass any of our security measures
You will not systematically retrieve data or content from the Web Services to create a collection, compilation, database, or directory, except through APIs or other interfaces specifically provided for this purpose.
Because these services are operated by third parties, we don't control them or what information they collect.
"Use any robot, crawler, site search/retrieval application, proxy or other manual or automatic device, method or process to access, retrieve, index, "data mine," or in any way reproduce or circumvent the navigational structure or presentation of our Services...Excerpt from Tinder's Terms of Use
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The clause states: “Use any robot, crawler, site search/retrieval application, proxy or other manual or automatic device, method or process to access, retrieve, index, "data mine," or in any way reproduce or circumvent the navigational structure or presentation of our Services...”
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