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Except as set forth below, or as otherwise approved by us, the services are for your personal, non-commercial use unless you enter into a separate agreement with us for your commercial use.
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...)
The Services are intended for business use by corporate or business entities, and you agree that you will not use the Services for any personal or individual use.
"You may view or listen to Content for your personal, non-commercial use. You may also show YouTube videos through the embeddable YouTube player.Excerpt from YouTube Ads's YouTube Terms of Service
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The clause states: “You may view or listen to Content for your personal, non-commercial use. You may also show YouTube videos through the embeddable YouTube player.”
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