Roku Website Terms of Use

Roku · agreement dated October 17, 2020 · Official agreement

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Security & Safeguards · Restriction or exception

Users may not interfere with, compromise or damage the Roku website, including five listed examples

When accessing or using the Roku website, you may not take any action that interferes with the proper working of the site, compromises its security, or otherwise damages the site or any materials and information available through it. The document lists five examples: using automated means such as robots, spiders or scrapers to collect information or content without Roku's prior permission; attempting unauthorized access to any portion or feature of the site, connected systems or networks, or services offered through it; probing, scanning or testing vulnerability, or bypassing authentication measures; interfering with or disrupting operation of the site, servers or connected networks, or disobeying connected networks' requirements, procedures, policies or regulations; and forging headers or manipulating identifiers to disguise yourself or any service offered through the site.

Details
Who
you, in accessing or using the Roku website
What it does
may not interfere with proper working, compromise security, or damage the site or its available materials and information
Exception
automated collection or access is prohibited without our prior permission

Supporting quotations

In accessing or using the Roku website, you may not take any action that interferes with the proper working of the Roku website, compromises the security of the site, or otherwise damages the site or any materials and information available through the site, such as (1) using automated means to collect information or content from or to access the site (such as using technical tools known as robots, spiders, or scrapers, without our prior permission), (2) attempting to gain unauthorized access to any portion or feature of the site, to other systems or networks connected to our site or servers, or to any of the services offered on or through our site (such as by hacking, password “mining”, or any other unauthorized means), (3) probing, scanning, or testing the vulnerability of the Roku website or any network connected to our site or bypassing any authentication measures on our site or any network connected to the site, (4) interfering with or disrupting the operation of the Roku website, our servers, or the networks connected to the site, or disobeying any requirements, procedures, policies, or regulations of the networks connected to our site, or (5) forging headers or otherwise manipulating any identifiers (such as to disguise yourself) or any service offered on or through the Roku website.

Qualifications & exceptions

  • The examples are introduced by "such as", so they are presented as examples of the general prohibition rather than a closed list.
  • Automated collection or access without Roku's prior permission is the specific form of the first example.
  • The prohibition is framed by accessing or using the Roku website.

Not stated here

  • The document does not describe how prior permission for automated access is requested or granted.
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