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Verified official sourceCanonical URL: https://www.instructure.com/policies/acceptable-use
What changedMaterial language shifts detected around privacy, share your. 44 new line(s), 43 removed line(s).
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The Acceptable Use Policy allows Instructure to suspend or terminate your access and remove your content at any time without notice. The service is provided "as is" without any warranties, meaning you use it at your own risk. You are responsible for all equipment costs and your content. However, the policy does state that your content remains yours.
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Critical terms that create risk or harm for users. These often involve significant loss of rights, difficult to recover losses, or one-sided unavoidable conditions.
Instructure may remove content from the Service at any time and without notice.
Why it matters: Your content stored on the service can be deleted or made unavailable without any prior notification.
We may review your conduct and content for compliance with this Acceptable Use Policy and remove content from the Service at any time and without notice.
The service is provided "as is" and Instructure disclaims any warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, and non-infringement.
Why it matters: You are accepting the service without any guarantees regarding its quality, suitability for a particular purpose, or that it won't infringe on intellectual property rights. Any content accessed is at your own risk.
WE DISCLAIM ANY WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. ANY CONTENT DOWNLOADED OR ACCESSED FROM THE SERVICE IS ACCESSED AT YOUR OWN RISK.
How the company collects, uses, shares, and protects your data. This includes policies on personally identifiable information, aggregation, and anonymization.
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No data-use concerns flaggedTerms related to how your service can be canceled or renewed, including notice periods, refund eligibility, and consequences of termination.
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No hidden gotchasProvisions designed to protect users or offer them benefits, such as data export tools, privacy controls, or clear notice for changes.
When you use the Service, you provide us with Your Content, and Your Content is yours. This Acceptable Use Policy does not give us any rights to Your Content except for the limited rights that enable us to offer the Service.
Why it helps: This clause confirms that your files, content, and messages provided to the service remain your property, and Instructure only has limited rights to use them to operate the service.
When you use the Service, you provide us with things like your files, content, messages, etc. (“ Your Content ”). Your Content is yours. You represent that you have all necessary right, power, and authority to use the Service and share Your Content and will comply with all applicable laws when doing so. This Acceptable Use Policy does not give us any rights to Your Content except for the limited rights that enable us to offer the Service.
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