Protect account access and immediately report unauthorized access
You must handle account access carefully, protect credentials against unauthorized access using current technology, keep them safe, and immediately notify Wire of unauthorized access to credentials or the account. The account clause assigns you full liability for direct or indirect damage caused by third-party account misuse and/or negligent handling of access data.
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2.2. The use of our Services requires that you register for the Services and that you have a user account. You must correctly and completely provide the data we request during the registration process. For more information about how we transfer, store or process your information, please see our privacy policy. In addition, you must give your consent to these ToU during the registration process. Through your registration a use agreement between you and our Company is concluded. There is no entitlement to the conclusion of such use agreement. You must treat the access to your user account with the necessary care and are fully liable for any direct or indirect damage caused by misuse of your account by third parties and/or negligent handling of the access data.
2.4. You are obliged to protect your access data in line with the current state of technology against unauthorized access by third parties and to keep them safe. You have to immediately notify us of any unauthorized accesses to your access data and/or your user account.
Security & Safeguards · Company practice
You own stored data and must safeguard it yourself
Wire says it has taken reasonable, state-of-the-art measures to protect stored data, but accepts no custodial or safekeeping duties. You remain the owner of data stored on its servers and are responsible for adequate safeguarding. The separate privacy policy contains further information-handling details.
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2.3. In accordance with the technical state-of-the-art we have taken reasonable measures to protect any data stored. However, we are not subject to any custodial or safekeeping obligations. You yourself are responsible for adequate safeguarding. You always remain the owner of your data stored on the servers. For more information about how we transfer, store or process your information, please see our privacy policy.
Not stated here
The separate privacy policy is not supplied.
Security & Safeguards · Restriction or exception
Use authorized access routes and comply with the law
The terms prohibit accessing services outside the designated website or apps and specifically prohibit automated access or attempted access through scripts, bots, unauthorized third-party apps, spiders or crawlers. Services may not be used unlawfully. This must be read with the express allowance for independent apps that connect to Wire's servers while complying with these terms; the clause is not a ban on every independent app.
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6.4. The following uses of our Services are prohibited:
Access to the Services by any means other than via the Website or the Apps provided for this purpose is prohibited. You must, in particular, not access, or attempt to access, the Services through any automated means (including, without limitation, through the use of scripts, bots, unauthorized third-party apps, spiders or web crawlers).
The Services may not be used to violate applicable law.
1.3. You may compile our open source software to develop your own mobile, desktop or web application ("Independent App"). These ToU do not apply to Independent Apps. You are free to utilize and exploit your Independent App in any way you choose and that is permitted by the license under which the source code was published. However, if you wish to use your Independent App to utilize and connect to our servers for any purposes, then, as a condition to your use of our servers and network infrastructure, your Independent App must comply with and may only be used in accordance with our ToU. Any reference in these ToU to an App also refers to any Independent Apps that connect to our servers for any purposes.
Security & Safeguards · Restriction or exception
Attacks and interfering software are prohibited
You must not initiate, support or join attacks on Wire's apps, website, services or connected servers, systems or networks, including attacks that disrupt service. The list also prohibits attempts to disrupt or interfere with services, using the wording 'other than as listed in (j)', and software designed for fraudulent, unauthorized access, tampering, deletion or interference. That cross-reference is not treated here as permission to attack or disrupt services.
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6.5. You are further prohibited from
initiate, support or participate in attacks, including, without limitation, attacks that cause service disruptions, on the Apps, the Website and Services or on the servers, systems or networks connected to our Services; or
attempt to disrupt or interfere with our Services other than as listed in (j); or
use types of software designed to fraudulently and unauthorizedly access, tamper with, delete or interfere with the Apps, Website or Services.
Not stated here
The supplied list does not identify a lettered (j) target; the scope of that cross-reference is not established.
Security & Safeguards · Restriction or exception
Harassment, threats, child harm, phishing and impersonation are barred
The terms prohibit activities that harass or invade others' privacy, threaten people or groups, harm children in any way, constitute phishing or pharming, impersonate another person, or violate applicable law.
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6.5. You are further prohibited from
engage in activities that
harass or invade the privacy of others; or
threaten other persons or groups of persons; or
are harmful to children in any way; or
constitute phishing or pharming; or
impersonate another person; or
violate applicable law; or
Security & Safeguards · Restriction or exception
Connected independent apps must preserve server behavior and security
Independent apps generally follow the source-code license outside these terms. If you connect one to Wire's servers, additional rules apply: do not change how it connects or interacts with those servers, restrict its security features, store data for purposes outside the source code's intended original functionality, or harm Wire's apps, services or users.
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7.5. If you wish to utilize and connect your Independent App to our servers, the following additional restrictions apply to any such Independent App:
You must not change the way the Independent App connects and interacts with our servers;
You must not restrict any of the security features of the Independent App;
You must not use our servers to store data for purposes other than the intended and original functionality of our source code underlying your Independent App;
Independent Apps must not harm the Apps, our Services or Wire users.
1.3. You may compile our open source software to develop your own mobile, desktop or web application ("Independent App"). These ToU do not apply to Independent Apps. You are free to utilize and exploit your Independent App in any way you choose and that is permitted by the license under which the source code was published. However, if you wish to use your Independent App to utilize and connect to our servers for any purposes, then, as a condition to your use of our servers and network infrastructure, your Independent App must comply with and may only be used in accordance with our ToU. Any reference in these ToU to an App also refers to any Independent Apps that connect to our servers for any purposes.
Security & Safeguards · Restriction or exception
Check transmitted material for harmful components
You are responsible for content you communicate. Before communicating, distributing or uploading data through Wire, you must check for viruses and other harmful components using state-of-the-art measures such as antivirus programs.
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10.3. You are responsible for the content that you communicate through the Services. You are obligated to check data that you communicate, disseminate or upload via our Services (collectively: "transmit") for viruses or other harmful components before transmitting them and to use state of the art measures (e.g., virus protection programs) for this purpose.