Acceptable Use Policy Customer represents, warrants and covenants that Customer will comply with Markforged’s acceptable use policy, as set forth in clauses (a)-(d) below (the “Acceptable Use Policy”).
(a) Customer will not use the Markforged Technology to collect, upload, transmit, display, or distribute any of Customer Content (i) that violates any third-party right, including any copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, moral right, privacy right, right of publicity, or any other intellectual property or proprietary right;
(ii) that is unlawful, harassing, abusive, tortious, threatening, harmful, invasive of another’s privacy, vulgar, defamatory, false, intentionally misleading, trade libelous, pornographic, sexually explicit, obscene, patently offensive, promotes racism, bigotry, hatred, or physical harm of any kind against any group or individual, promotes illegal activities or contributes to the creation of weapons, illegal materials, or is otherwise objectionable; (iii) that is harmful to minors in any way; (iv) to engage in fraudulent activity (including impersonating another person or entity, or submitting misleading or false declarations concerning Customer’s affiliation with a person or entity, or use proxy or anonymizing servers, or falsify headers or manipulate identifiers or addresses in any other way for the purpose of concealing the origin of any data sent via the Markforged Technology) or perpetrate a hoax or engage in phishing schemes or forgery or other similar falsification or manipulation of data; or (v) that is in violation of any law, regulation, or obligations or restrictions imposed by any third party.
(b) Customer will not (i) modify, alter, tamper with, repair, translate, transmit, adapt, arrange, or create derivative works based on the Markforged Technology, except as expressly permitted herein; (ii) decompile, disassemble, disassociate, decrypt, extract, reverse compile or otherwise reverse engineer the Markforged Technology or any component thereof, or otherwise attempt to decipher the source code, algorithms, methods, structure, interfaces, protocols, messaging or techniques used or embodied in the Markforged Technology or any component thereof, except and only to the extent required by applicable law; (iii) distribute, rent, loan, lease, sell, resell, sublicense, convey, publicly display, publicly perform, exploit or otherwise make the Markforged Technology available for use by others in any time-sharing, service bureau or similar arrangement; (iv) remove, alter, or obscure any copyright, trademark, confidentiality or other proprietary notices, labels or marks from, on or pertaining to the Markforged Technology; or (v) use the Markforged Technology for any other benchmarking or competitive purposes or attempt to create similar products or services through use of the Markforged Technology.
(c) Customer will not use the Markforged Technology to: (i) upload, transmit, or distribute any computer viruses, worms, or any software intended to damage or alter a computer system or data; (ii) utilize any equipment, device, software, or other means to (or designed to) circumvent or remove any form of technical protection used by Markforged in connection with the Markforged Technology; (iii) interfere with or disrupt the Markforged Technology or servers or networks used by Markforged to provide the Markforged Technology; (iv) use the Markforged Technology to perform any stress, vulnerability, penetration, availability, or performance testing on, or otherwise attempt to access in a manner not expressly permitted by Markforged, any network, system, server, or computer hosting the Markforged Technology; (v) interfere with, disrupt, or create an undue burden on servers or networks connected to the Markforged Technology or violate the regulations, policies, or procedures of such networks; (vi) attempt to gain unauthorized access to the Markforged Technology, other computer systems or networks connected to or used together with the Markforged Technology, through password mining or other means; or (vii) access or use the Markforged Technology.
(d) Customer will not use the Markforged Technology (i) in connection with any military operations or the operation of nuclear facilities, aircraft navigation, communication systems, medical devices, air traffic control devices, real time control systems or other situations in which the failure of the Markforged Technology could lead to death, personal injury, or physical property or environmental damage; (ii) to experiment with ordnance or collect, upload, transmit, display, print, extrude, deposit or distribute any of Customer Content that contributes to the creation or modification of any firearm slide, lower, upper, upper receiver, lower receiver, barrel, bolt, or any other firearm or ordnance component, in whole or in part, that is capable of containing pressures in excess of 500 PSI; or (iii) in any manner or for any purpose other than for the Intended Use and as expressly permitted by this Agreement and any Documentation.
Acceptable Use You agree that you are independently responsible for complying with all applicable laws in all of your activities related to your use of the Service, regardless of the purpose of the use, and for all communications you send through the Service. We and our Service Providers have the right but not the obligation to monitor and remove communications content that we find in our sole discretion to be objectionable in any way. In addition, you are prohibited from using the Service for communications or activities that: (a) violate any law, statute, ordinance or regulation; (b) promote hate, violence, racial intolerance, or the financial exploitation of a crime; (c) defame, abuse, harass or threaten others; (d) include any language or images that are bigoted, hateful, racially offensive, vulgar, obscene, indecent or discourteous; (e) infringe or violate any copyright, trademark, right of publicity or privacy or any other proprietary right under the laws of any jurisdiction; (f) impose an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on our infrastructure; (g) facilitate any viruses, trojan horses, worms or other computer programming routines that may damage, detrimentally interfere with, surreptitiously intercept or expropriate any system, data or information; (h) constitute use of any robot, spider, other automatic device, or manual process to monitor or copy the Service or the portion of the Site through which the Service is offered without our prior written permission; (i) constitute use of any device, software or routine to bypass technology protecting the Site or Service, or interfere or attempt to interfere, with the Site or the Service; or (j) may cause us or our Service Providers to lose any of the services from our internet service providers, payment processors, or other vendors. We encourage you to provide notice to us by the methods described in Section 6 of the General Terms above of any violations of the General Terms or the Agreement generally.
