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This exclusion eliminates entire categories of damages that users might otherwise seek to recover, significantly restricting the remedies available for harms connected to WhatsApp's Terms.
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View change record →The reader cannot recover lost profits or consequential, special, punitive, indirect, or incidental damages from the WhatsApp Parties for matters connected to WhatsApp's Terms.
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This exclusion eliminates entire categories of damages that users might otherwise seek to recover, significantly restricting the remedies available for harms connected to WhatsApp's Terms.
The reader cannot recover lost profits or consequential, special, punitive, indirect, or incidental damages from the WhatsApp Parties for matters connected to WhatsApp's Terms.
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