Apple Website Terms of Use

Apple · agreement dated November 20, 2009 · Official agreement

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Content & IP Rights · Context

Apple owns or licenses the Site's content and its look and feel

All text, graphics, interfaces, photos, trademarks, logos, sounds, music, artwork and computer code on the Site (called "Content"), including its design, structure, arrangement and "look and feel", is owned, controlled or licensed by or to Apple. The terms say this Content is protected by trade dress, copyright, patent and trademark laws and other intellectual property and unfair competition laws.

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All text, graphics, user interfaces, visual interfaces, photographs, trademarks, logos, sounds, music, artwork and computer code (collectively, "Content")
contained on the Site is owned, controlled or licensed by or to Apple, and is protected by trade dress, copyright, patent and trademark laws, and various other intellectual property rights and unfair competition laws.

Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception

No copying, republishing or mirroring the Site or its content without Apple's written consent

Unless these terms expressly allow it, no part of the Site and no Content may be copied, reproduced, republished, uploaded, posted, publicly displayed, encoded, translated, transmitted or distributed in any way, including "mirroring", to another computer, server, website or medium for publication or distribution or for any commercial enterprise, without Apple's express prior written consent. One express exception in these terms lets you use certain downloadable product information under four conditions.

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Except as expressly provided in these Terms of Use, no part of the Site and no Content may be copied, reproduced, republished, uploaded, posted, publicly displayed, encoded, translated, transmitted or distributed in any way (including "mirroring")
to any other computer, server, Web site or other medium for publication or distribution or for any commercial enterprise, without Apple’s express prior written consent.

Qualifications & exceptions

  • The ban is framed around copying to another computer, server, website or medium for publication, distribution or a commercial enterprise.
  • Apple's express prior written consent lifts the restriction.
  • The downloadable-information permission in the same section is an express exception.

Content & IP Rights · Permission or license

You may use Apple's downloadable product documents only for personal, non-commercial information, under four conditions

Information about Apple products and services that Apple purposely makes available for download from the Site (such as data sheets and knowledge base articles) may be used, provided that you: (1) keep any proprietary notice language in all copies; (2) use it only for your personal, non-commercial informational purpose and do not copy or post it on any networked computer or broadcast it in any media; (3) do not modify it; and (4) make no additional representations or warranties about the documents.

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You may use information on Apple products and services (such as data sheets, knowledge base articles, and similar materials) purposely made available by Apple for downloading from the Site
(1) not remove any proprietary notice language in all copies of such documents
(2) use such information only for your personal, non-commercial informational purpose and do not copy or post such information on any networked computer or broadcast it in any media
(3) make no modifications to any such information
(4) not make any additional representations or warranties relating to such documents

Qualifications & exceptions

  • The permission covers only materials Apple purposely made available for downloading.
  • All four conditions apply together.

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Content & IP Rights · Restriction or exception

No scraping, robots, spiders or deep-linking to pull material from the Site

You may not use a "deep-link", "page-scrape", "robot", "spider" or any other automatic device, program, algorithm or methodology, or an equivalent manual process, to access, acquire, copy or monitor any part of the Site or Content, or to reproduce or get around the Site's navigational structure or presentation, in order to obtain materials, documents or information through any means not purposely made available through the Site. Apple reserves the right to bar such activity.

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You may not use any "deep-link", "page-scrape", "robot", "spider" or other automatic device, program, algorithm or methodology, or any similar or equivalent manual process, to access, acquire, copy or monitor any portion of the Site or any Content
to obtain or attempt to obtain any materials, documents or information through any means not purposely made available through the Site.
Apple reserves the right to bar any such activity.

Qualifications & exceptions

  • The ban also covers equivalent manual processes, not only automated tools.
  • The sentence ties the ban to obtaining material through means the Site did not purposely make available.

Not stated here

  • The terms do not define "deep-link" or say whether ordinary links to Site pages fall within it.

Content & IP Rights · Permission or license

Feedback you give is non-confidential and Apple can use it without restriction

Any feedback you provide at the Site is treated as non-confidential, and Apple is free to use that information on an unrestricted basis. The terms do not mention payment or credit for feedback.

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Any feedback you provide at this site shall be deemed to be non-confidential. Apple shall be free to use such information on an unrestricted basis.

Not stated here

  • How this relates to the incorporated Unsolicited Idea Submission Policy, which is not supplied, is unknown here.