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Prohibition on Circumventing Technical Limitations or Reverse Engineering

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Clause Stability Stable

0
Changes
5
Months Monitored
Jul 10, 2026
First Seen
Jul 10, 2026
Last Seen
This clause type exists across 4244 other provisions on other platforms.

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NVIDIA NIM Medium

Customer may not reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble any portion of the output generated using an NVIDIA proprietary software development kit (e.g., NVIDIA CUDA toolkit), including their development tools and compilers.

Atlassian Medium

interfere with or circumvent Product usage limits or Scope of Use restrictions

Tinder Medium

You may not display any personal contact, banking, or peer-to-peer payment information, whether in relation to you or any other person (for example, names, home addresses or postcodes, telephone numbers, email addresses, URLs, credit/debit card...)

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▸ View Original Clause Language DOCUMENT RECORD
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You agree that you will not work around any technical limitations in the software provided to you as part of the Services, or reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble the software, except and only to the extent that applicable law expressly permits.

Excerpt from X's Terms of Service

Applicable regulations

CFAA
United States Federal
DMCA
United States Federal
DSA
European Union

Provision details

Document information
Document
X Terms of Service
Entity
X
Document last updated
May 5, 2026
Tracking information
First tracked
May 7, 2026
Last verified
Aug. 5, 2026
Record ID
CA-P-019419
Document ID
CA-D-00029
Evidence Provenance
Source URL
Wayback Machine
Content hash (SHA-256)
436b3f9c4cdebe0406beb518cf02d7e97323b5f95cd1df78627d8891102b7279
Analysis generated
May 7, 2026 22:56 UTC
Methodology
Evidence
✓ Snapshot stored   ✓ Hash verified
Citation Record
Entity: X
Document: X Terms of Service
Record ID: CA-P-019419
Captured: 2026-05-07 22:56:42 UTC
SHA-256: 436b3f9c4cdebe04…
URL: https://conductatlas.com/platform/x/x-terms-of-service/provision/CA-P-019419/prohibition-on-circumventing-technical-limitations-or-reverse-engineering/
Accessed: Aug. 6, 2026
Permanent archival reference. Stable identifier suitable for legal filings, compliance documentation, and research citation.
Classification
Severity
High
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Frequently Asked Questions

What does X's Prohibition on Circumventing Technical Limitations or Reverse Engineering clause do?

The clause states: “You agree that you will not work around any technical limitations in the software provided to you as part of the Services, or reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble the software, except and only to the extent that applicable law expressly permits.”

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ConductAtlas has identified this type of provision across 282 platforms. See the full comparison.

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