Your Home Country is the country or territory where you created your account, and Services are offered for use there
The Services are available for your use in your country or territory of residence, which the Agreement calls your "Home Country". By creating an account for the Services in a particular country or territory, you specify it as your Home Country. The Home Country later decides which Apple entity you contract with, which terms apply to you, and which Content and Services you can use.
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Our Services are available for your use in your country or territory of residence (“Home Country”).
By creating an account for use of the Services in a particular country or territory you are specifying it as your Home Country.
Qualifications & exceptions
Section J adds that Services available in your Home Country may not be available while traveling outside it.
Using the Services may require an Apple Account, and Game Center also needs its own Game Center account
Using the Services and accessing your Content may require an Apple Account, the account (previously called an Apple ID) you use across Apple's ecosystem, which is subject to this Agreement. Game Center use is subject to this Agreement and also requires a Game Center account.
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Using our Services and accessing your Content may require an Apple Account.
An Apple Account (previously called an Apple ID) is the account you use across Apple’s ecosystem and subject to this Agreement.
Use of Game Center is subject to this Agreement and also requires a Game Center account.
Account & Service Control · Restriction or exception
You must be 13 (or your country's minimum age); a parent or school creates accounts for younger children
You must be at least 13, or the equivalent minimum age in your Home Country as stated in the account creation process, to create an account and use the Services. A parent or legal guardian can create an Apple Account for a younger child using Family Sharing, or an approved educational institution can create one, though some devices may block such accounts from certain Services. A parent or guardian creating a minor's account should review this Agreement with the minor so both understand it. Family Sharing adds that the Organizer must be the parent or legal guardian of any member under 13, and Ask to Buy is on by default for members under 13 until the parent or guardian turns it off.
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You must be age thirteen (13) (or equivalent minimum age in your Home Country, as set forth in the Apple Account creation process) to create an account and use our Services.
Apple Accounts for persons under this age can be created by a parent or legal guardian using Family Sharing or by an approved educational institution, though certain devices may prevent such Apple Accounts from accessing certain Services on the device.
A parent or legal guardian who is creating an account for a minor should review this Agreement with the minor to ensure that they both understand it.
The organizer of a Family (“Organizer”) must be eighteen (18) years (or the equivalent age of majority in their Home Country) or older and the parent or legal guardian of any Family member under age thirteen (13) (or the equivalent minimum age in their Home Country as set forth in the registration process).
Ask to Buy is enabled by default for any Family member under the age of thirteen (13) (or the equivalent minimum age in their Home Country) and stays on until deactivated by the parent or legal guardian.
Qualifications & exceptions
The minimum age can differ by Home Country as shown during account creation.
Review with the minor is phrased as "should", not "must".
Account & Service Control · User right or choice
You can add, notify or remove a Legacy Contact, whose access to your account is limited
You may add, notify or remove a Legacy Contact for your Apple Account as described on an Apple support page. The Legacy Contact's access to your account is limited as described on a second support page.
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You may add, notify, or remove a Legacy Contact for your Apple Account as described in
access to your Apple Account is limited as described in
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The linked support pages that define the process and the limits of a Legacy Contact's access are not supplied.
Account & Service Control · Restriction or exception
Up to five Apple Accounts per device; up to ten devices (five computers) per account; switching every 90 days
You can use Content from up to five different Apple Accounts on each device. For any Service, you can have up to ten devices signed in with your Apple Account at one time, but no more than five of them may be computers; simultaneous streams or downloads may be capped lower, as set out for Apple Music and Apple TV content. Each computer must also be authorized with the same Apple Account. A device can be associated with a different Apple Account once every ninety days.
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You can use Content from up to five (5) different Apple Accounts on each device.
For any Service, you can have up to ten (10) devices (but only a maximum of five (5) computers) signed in with your Apple Account at one time, though simultaneous streams or downloads of Content may be limited to a lower number of devices as set out below under Apple Music and Apple TV content.
Each computer must also be authorized using the same Apple Account
Devices can be associated with a different Apple Account once every ninety (90) days.
Qualifications & exceptions
Apple Music and Apple TV set lower simultaneous-stream limits.
Account & Service Control · Permission or license
If you breach, or Apple suspects you breached, Apple may terminate your account or access without notice
If you fail to comply with any provision of the Agreement, or Apple suspects that you have, Apple may, without notice: terminate the Agreement and/or your Apple Account, with you remaining liable for all amounts due under the account up to and including the termination date; terminate your license to the software; and/or block your access to the Services.
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If you fail, or Apple suspects that you have failed, to comply with any of the provisions of this Agreement, Apple may, without notice to you: (i) terminate this Agreement and/or your Apple Account, and you will remain liable for all amounts due under your Apple Account up to and including the date of termination; and/or (ii) terminate your license to the software; and/or (iii) preclude your access to the Services.
Qualifications & exceptions
Suspicion alone is enough under the text; no notice is required.
You stay liable for amounts due through the termination date.
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The Agreement does not describe an appeal or review process for termination.
Account & Service Control · Restriction or exception
A Family Organizer must be an adult and the parent or guardian of members under 13; up to six can share
The organizer of a Family ("Organizer") must be at least eighteen, or the age of majority in their Home Country, and must be the parent or legal guardian of any Family member under thirteen (or the Home Country's minimum age). Apple devices are required to access all Family Sharing features. Family Sharing lets eligible Subscriptions be shared among up to six Family members. Under Purchase Sharing, the Organizer also agrees to pay for all Transactions that Family members initiate.
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The organizer of a Family (“Organizer”) must be eighteen (18) years (or the equivalent age of majority in their Home Country) or older and the parent or legal guardian of any Family member under age thirteen (13) (or the equivalent minimum age in their Home Country as set forth in the registration process).
Apple devices are required for access to all of the Family Sharing features.
Family Sharing allows eligible Subscriptions to be shared among up to six (6) members of a Family.
The Organizer invites other members to participate, and agrees to pay for all Transactions initiated by Family members.
Qualifications & exceptions
Only eligible Subscriptions can be shared.
Age thresholds can differ by Home Country.
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The linked Family Sharing support page is not supplied.
Account & Service Control · User right or choice
Ask to Buy lets the Organizer approve purchases by members under 18; it is on by default under 13
Ask to Buy lets the Organizer approve Transactions started by a Family member under eighteen (or the age of majority in their Home Country). Content shared by Family members or acquired with content codes generally is not subject to Ask to Buy, but content codes that give access to Subscriptions are. The Organizer must be the parent or legal guardian of any member for whom Ask to Buy is on. It is enabled by default for members under thirteen (or the local minimum age) and stays on until the parent or guardian turns it off. If it is turned off after the member turns eighteen (or reaches the age of majority), it cannot be turned on again. Ask to Buy does not require Purchase Sharing.
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Ask to Buy: Ask to Buy is a feature that allows an Organizer to approve Transactions initiated by a Family member under age eighteen (18) (or the equivalent age of majority in their Home Country).
Content shared by Family members or acquired via content codes generally is not subject to Ask to Buy; content codes facilitating access to Subscriptions are subject to Ask to Buy.
The Organizer must be the parent or legal guardian of any Family member for whom Ask to Buy is activated.
Ask to Buy is enabled by default for any Family member under the age of thirteen (13) (or the equivalent minimum age in their Home Country) and stays on until deactivated by the parent or legal guardian.
If Ask to Buy is turned off after the Family member turns eighteen (18) years old (or reaches the age of majority in their Home Country), it cannot be turned on anymore.
Ask to Buy does not require Purchase Sharing to be enabled.
Qualifications & exceptions
The exclusion for shared Content and content codes is stated as "generally".
Age thresholds can differ by Home Country.
Account & Service Control · Restriction or exception
One Family at a time, joined at most twice a year, same Home Country for all; not all Content can be shared
You can belong to only one Family at a time and may join a Family no more than twice per year. You can change the Apple Account associated with a Family no more than once every ninety days. All Family members must share the same Home Country. Not all Content is eligible for Purchase Sharing, including some In-App Purchases, Subscriptions and some previously acquired Apps, and Subscriptions shared by a Family may carry per-subscription usage limits. Apple devices are required to use all Family Sharing features.
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Family Sharing Rules: You can only belong to one (1) Family at a time, and may join any Family no more than twice per year.
You can change the Apple Account you associate with a Family no more than once every ninety (90) days.
All Family members must share the same Home Country.
Not all Content, including In-App Purchases, Subscriptions, and some previously acquired Apps, are eligible for Purchase Sharing.
Subscriptions shared by a Family may be subject to Content usage limitations on a per subscription basis.
Apple devices are required for access to all of the Family Sharing features.
Account & Service Control · Company practice
Apple may suspend or terminate accounts of repeat infringers, or users repeatedly accused of infringing
Apple has a policy to disable or terminate, in appropriate circumstances, the accounts of users found to repeatedly infringe, or repeatedly claimed to infringe, others' copyrights. Under that policy Apple may, in its sole discretion, suspend, disable or terminate accounts of users identified as repeatedly engaging in infringing activities, or for other related reasons.
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Apple has adopted a policy to disable and/or terminate in appropriate circumstances the accounts of users who are found repeatedly to infringe or are repeatedly claimed to infringe the copyrights of others.
As part of implementing such policy, Apple may in its sole discretion suspend, disable and/or terminate the accounts of users who have been identified as repeatedly engaging in infringing activities or for other related reasons.
Qualifications & exceptions
Repeated claims of infringement, not only findings, can trigger the policy; action is in Apple's sole discretion.
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"Other related reasons" is not defined.
Account & Service Control · Procedure
Apple may give notices by email, mail or posting, effective immediately, and may send push notifications
Apple may give you notices about the Services by email to your email address, by postal mail to your mailing address, or by posting on the Services. Notices become effective immediately. Apple may also contact you by email or push notification to send additional information about the Services.
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Apple may notify you with respect to the Services by sending an email message to your email address or a letter via postal mail to your mailing address, or by a posting on the Services.
Notices shall become effective immediately.
Apple may also contact you by email or push notification to send you additional information about the Services.
Qualifications & exceptions
A posting on the Services counts as notice, so a change may take effect without a message sent to you.