Effective as of December 9, 2016
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This Acceptable Use Policy (“AUP”) describes actions that Contentful prohibits when Customer uses its Services. BY USING THE SERVICES, YOU CONSENT TO THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THIS ACCEPTABLE USE POLICY. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THIS ACCEPTABLE USE POLICY, PLEASE DO NOT USE THE CONTENTFUL SERVICES.
Customer agrees not to use, and not to encourage or allow any other person or entity to use, the Contentful Services in prohibited manners, including but not limited to the following:
Transmitting any material that infringes the intellectual property rights or other rights of third parties, including but not limited to trademarks, copyrights or rights of publicity, or otherwise violating, infringing, or misappropriating the rights of any third party.
Transmitting any material that contains viruses, trojan horses, worms, or any other malicious, harmful, or deleterious programs or code.
Engaging in activities or transmitting through the Services any information that is libelous or defamatory or otherwise malicious or harmful to any person or entity, or discriminatory based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, or age.
Adversely impacting the availability, reliability, or stability of any Contentful Services.
Launching or facilitating, whether intentionally or unintentionally, a denial-of-service attack on any Contentful Services or on any third party.
Attempting to bypass or break any security mechanism on any of the Contentful Services or using the Services in any other manner that poses a security or service risk to Contentful, to any user of the Services, to any of our customers, or to their customers.
Testing or reverse-engineering the Contentful Services in order to find limitations, vulnerabilities, or evade filtering capabilities.
Using the Contentful Services in any manner that may subject Contentful or any third party to liability, damages, or danger.
Using the Contentful Services in any manner that violates any applicable third-party policies or requirements that Contentful has communicated to Customer.
Using the Contentful Services to engage in or in connection with fraudulent activity.
Using your account to engage in fraudulent activity with respect to third parties.
Promoting or engaging in illegal activities.
Harvesting or otherwise collecting information about others without their express consent.
Interfering with or disrupting networks connected to the Services or violating the regulations, policies, or procedures of such networks.
Violating or facilitating the violation of any local, state, federal, or foreign law or regulation.
Registering with the Contentful Services using a throw-away email address provider or any other publicly accessible email address.
Using the Contentful Services, or a component of the Services, in a manner not authorized by Contentful.
Using the Contentful Services to transmit or store personally identifiable information (PII) (excluding the provision of account information to Contentful for the purpose of receiving the Services).
Creating a Contentful account for the purpose of competitive evaluation or research.
Revealing your account password to others or allowing use of your account by others.
Failing to make a reasonable effort to protect your passwords and to secure resources against unauthorized use or access, including configuring hardware and software in a way that reasonably prevents unauthorized users from accessing your account.
This list of prohibited uses is provided by way of example and should not be considered exhaustive. All determinations related to violations of this Acceptable Use Policy will be made by Contentful in its sole discretion.
We reserve the right to change this Acceptable Use Policy from time to time without notice by posting changes to Contentful’s website. When we do, we will also revise the “Last Updated” date of this AUP.
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