Spotify User Guidelines

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Security & Safeguards · Restriction or exception

No getting around technology used by Spotify or others, including territorial content restrictions

You may not circumvent any technology used by Spotify, its licensors or any third party. This expressly includes territorial and other content-access restrictions that Spotify or its licensors apply.

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circumventing any technology used by Spotify, its licensors, or any third party, including any territorial or other content access restrictions applied by Spotify or its licensors;

Qualifications & exceptions

  • Territorial restrictions are named as one example; other content-access restrictions and technologies are also covered.

Not stated here

  • The page does not name the specific technologies or restrictions covered.

Security & Safeguards · Restriction or exception

No giving your password to anyone else, or using someone else's username and password

You may not give your password to any other person, and you may not use any other person's username and password.

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providing your password to any other person or using any other person's username and password.

Security & Safeguards · Restriction or exception

No posting your password, others' passwords or third parties' personal data, or trying to collect such data

Your activity, posts and usernames must not include your own password. They also must not purposely include any other user's password or third parties' personal data, or be intended to solicit that personal data.

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includes your password or purposely includes any other user's password or purposely includes personal data of third parties or is intended to solicit such personal data;

Qualifications & exceptions

  • Your own password is covered without any intent requirement; others' passwords and third parties' personal data are covered when included "purposely".

Security & Safeguards · Restriction or exception

No malware, viruses or anything else that interferes with other users' access to Spotify

Your activity, posts and usernames must not include malicious content such as malware, Trojan horses or viruses, and must not otherwise interfere with any user's access to the Spotify Service.

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includes malicious content such as malware, Trojan horses, or viruses, or otherwise interferes with any user's access to the Spotify Service;

Qualifications & exceptions

  • This is one of the items in the list of material that your activity, posted User Content or username must not be or include.
  • Malware, Trojan horses and viruses are examples; anything that otherwise interferes with a user's access is also covered.

Not stated here

  • "Spotify Service" is a capitalized term this page does not define, and it differs from the "Services" defined at the top of the page.

Security & Safeguards · Restriction or exception

No disrupting Spotify or probing, scanning or testing its systems for security vulnerabilities

Your activity must not interfere with or disrupt the Spotify Service in any way. You also may not tamper with or breach, or attempt to probe, scan or test for vulnerabilities in, the Spotify Service, Spotify's computer systems, network or usage rules, or any of its security components, authentication measures or other protection measures that apply to the Spotify Service or its content.

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interferes with or in any way disrupts the Spotify Service, tampers with, breaches, or attempts to probe, scan, or test for vulnerabilities in the Spotify Service or Spotify's computer systems, network, usage rules, or any of Spotify's security components, authentication measures or any other protection measures applicable to the Spotify Service, the Content or any part thereof;

Qualifications & exceptions

  • This is one of the items in the list of material that your activity, posted User Content or username must not be or include.
  • Attempts to probe, scan or test for vulnerabilities are prohibited, not only successful breaches.

Not stated here

  • This page states no exception for authorized security testing.
  • "Spotify Service" is a capitalized term this page does not define.