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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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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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"THE WHATSAPP PARTIES WILL NOT BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR ANY LOST PROFITS OR CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL, PUNITIVE, INDIRECT, OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES RELATING TO, ARISING OUT OF, OR IN ANY WAY IN CONNECTION WITH OUR TERMS...Excerpt from WhatsApp's Terms of Service
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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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