Apple Website Terms of Use

Apple · agreement dated November 20, 2009 · Official agreement

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Security & Safeguards · Restriction or exception

No hacking or other illegitimate attempts to get into the Site or connected systems

You may not try to gain unauthorized access to any part or feature of the Site, any systems or networks connected to it or to any Apple server, or any services offered through the Site, by hacking, password "mining" or any other illegitimate means.

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You may not attempt to gain unauthorized access to any portion or feature of the Site, or any other systems or networks connected to the Site or to any Apple server, or to any of the services offered on or through the Site, by hacking, password "mining" or any other illegitimate means.

Qualifications & exceptions

  • Attempts are prohibited, not only successful access.

Security & Safeguards · Restriction or exception

No probing, scanning or testing the Site's security

You may not probe, scan or test the vulnerability of the Site or any network connected to it, and you may not breach its security or authentication measures. This document states no exception for security research.

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You may not probe, scan or test the vulnerability of the Site or any network connected to the Site, nor breach the security or authentication measures on the Site or any network connected to the Site.

Not stated here

  • Whether any separate Apple program permits security testing is not addressed in this document.

Security & Safeguards · Restriction or exception

No tracing other users or using the Site to uncover other people's information

You may not reverse look-up, trace or try to trace information about any other user or visitor of the Site, or any other Apple customer, including any Apple account you do not own, back to its source. You also may not exploit the Site or anything offered through it for the purpose of revealing any information, including personal identification, other than your own information as the Site provides.

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You may not reverse look-up, trace or seek to trace any information on any other user of or visitor to the Site, or any other customer of Apple, including any Apple account not owned by you, to its source
or exploit the Site or any service or information made available or offered by or through the Site, in any way where the purpose is to reveal any information, including but not limited to personal identification or information, other than your own information, as provided for by the Site.

Qualifications & exceptions

  • Your own information as provided by the Site is carved out.

Security & Safeguards · Restriction or exception

No overloading Apple's infrastructure

You agree not to take any action that puts an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on the infrastructure of the Site, on Apple's systems or networks, or on any systems or networks connected to the Site or to Apple.

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You agree that you will not take any action that imposes an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on the infrastructure of the Site or Apple’s systems or networks, or any systems or networks connected to the Site or to Apple.

Not stated here

  • The terms give no measure of what load is "unreasonable or disproportionately large".

Security & Safeguards · Restriction or exception

No interfering with the Site, its transactions or other people's use

You agree not to use any device, software or routine to interfere, or try to interfere, with the proper working of the Site, any transaction being conducted on it, or anyone else's use of the Site.

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You agree not to use any device, software or routine to interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper working of the Site or any transaction being conducted on the Site, or with any other person’s use of the Site.

Security & Safeguards · Restriction or exception

No forging message origins or impersonating anyone

You may not forge headers or otherwise manipulate identifiers to disguise where a message or transmittal you send to Apple through the Site or its services comes from. You also may not pretend to be, or to represent, someone else, or impersonate any other person or entity.

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You may not forge headers or otherwise manipulate identifiers in order to disguise the origin of any message or transmittal you send to Apple on or through the Site or any service offered on or through the Site.
You may not pretend that you are, or that you represent, someone else, or impersonate any other individual or entity.

Security & Safeguards · Context

You accept that messages you send to the Site may be read or intercepted, even if marked encrypted

By using the Site you acknowledge that Internet transmissions are never completely private or secure. You understand that any message or information you send to the Site may be read or intercepted by others, even where there is a special notice that a particular transmission, such as credit card information, is encrypted.

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Additionally, by using the Site, you acknowledge and agree that Internet transmissions are never completely private or secure.
You understand that any message or information you send to the Site may be read or intercepted by others, even if there is a special notice that a particular transmission (for example, credit card information) is encrypted.