Nintendo Terms of Use (US)

Nintendo · agreement dated May 24, 2016 · Official agreement

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Security & Safeguards · Restriction or exception

You may not reverse engineer, bypass access controls, scrape, or build apps on the Services without consent

You agree not to try to reverse engineer any aspect of the Services, discover source code, or bypass or circumvent measures that prevent or limit access to any area, content or code, except as otherwise expressly permitted by law. You also agree not to develop third-party applications that interact with User Content or the Services without Nintendo's prior written consent, and not to use any robot, iframe, spider, crawler, scraper or other automated means or interface not provided by Nintendo to access the Services, including to copy, extract, aggregate, display, publish or distribute content or data made available through them. You may not post or send viruses, corrupted data or other harmful, disruptive or destructive files.

Supporting quotations

Attempt to reverse engineer any aspect of the Services or do anything that might discover source code or bypass or circumvent measures employed to prevent or limit access to any area, content or code of the Services (except as otherwise expressly permitted by law)
Post, upload to, transmit, distribute, store, create or otherwise publish or send through the Services viruses, corrupted data or other harmful, disruptive or destructive files
Develop any third-party applications that interact with User Content or the Services without our prior written consent
Use any robot, iframe, spider, crawler, scraper or other automated means or interface not provided by us to access the Services, including, without limitation, for the purpose of copying, extracting, aggregating, displaying, publishing or distributing any content or data made available via Services.

Qualifications & exceptions

  • The reverse engineering ban has an exception where the law expressly permits it.
  • Third-party applications need Nintendo's prior written consent.