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Acceptable Use Policy

Bolt is democratizing ecommerce by making online buying easy, trusted, and consistent for millions of shoppers! Bolt is an end to end checkout platform that makes the buying experience safe, secure, and easier than ever with a one-click, passwordless login. While we believe the free and open exchange of ideas and products is a key tenet of commerce, there are some activities that are incompatible with Bolt’s mission to make ecommerce better for everyone. This Acceptable Use Policy (“AUP”) describes activities that are prohibited in connection with your use of the Services (as defined in our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy).Bolt may modify this AUP, at any time by posting a revised version at <a href="https://bolt.com/acceptable-use/">https://bolt.com/acceptable-use/</a>. By continuing to use the Services or access your Account after a revised version of the AUP has been posted, you agree to comply with the latest version of the AUP. In the event of a conflict between the AUP and the Terms, this AUP will take precedence, but only to the extent required to resolve such conflict. Capitalized terms used but not defined in this AUP shall have the meanings set forth in the Terms.We may, at any time and without notice, remove any Materials, and suspend or terminate your Account or your access to the Services if you engage in activities that violate the letter or spirit of this AUP, including activities outside of your use of the Services.Bolt has the right, but not the obligation, to monitor or investigate any Materials and your use of the Services at any time for compliance with this AUP and the Bolt Terms of Use, or any other agreement between you and Bolt governing your use of the Services (collectively, the “Terms”). Our determination of whether a violation of this AUP has occurred will be final and binding, and any action taken with respect to enforcing this AUP, including taking no action at all, will be at our sole discretion.As part of Bolt’s Acceptable Use Policy, you agree not to use the information, Services or any other part of Bolt to take any action(s) that:<ol style="list-style-type:decimal;"><li>are contrary to Bolt’s public image, goodwill or reputation;</li><li>promote any illegal activity or content, including without limitation child or animal exploitation or abuse, violence, illegal drug use, and underage drinking;</li><li>infringe on our or any third party’s copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret or other proprietary rights or rights of publicity or privacy;</li><li>express or imply that any of your statements, activities or causes are endorsed by us, without our prior written consent in each instance;</li><li>violate any applicable law, statute, ordinance or regulation, or encourage any conduct that could constitute a criminal offense or give rise to civil liability;</li><li>are libelous, defamatory, threatening, harassing, abusive, tortious, pornographic or obscene;</li><li>promote or condone hate or violence against people based on race, ethnicity, color, national origin, religion, age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, medical condition, veteran status or other forms of discriminatory intolerance. Promote or support organizations, platforms or people that: (i) promote or condone such hate; or (ii) threaten or condone violence to further a cause;</li><li>offer goods or services, or post or upload Materials, that contravene or that facilitate or promote activities that contravene, the laws of the jurisdictions in which you operate or do business. “Materials” means any photo, image, video, graphic, written content, audio file, code, information, data or other content uploaded, collected, generated, stored, displayed, distributed, transmitted or exhibited on or in connection with your Account;</li><li>transmit any trade secret or other material, non-public information about any person, company or entity without the authorization to do so;</li><li>restrict or inhibit any other visitor from using the Bolt Services, including, without limitation, by means of “hacking” or defacing any portion of the Bolt Services;</li><li>modify, adapt, sub-license, translate, sell, reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble any portion of the Bolt Services;</li><li>remove any copyright, trademark, or other proprietary rights notices contained in the Bolt Services;</li><li>sublicense, sell, rent, lease, transfer, assign, or convey any rights under the Terms of Use to any third party, or otherwise commercially exploit or profit from the information or content of the Bolt Services, or any portion thereof, in any manner whatsoever, except as expressly permitted herein;</li><li>“frame” or “mirror” any part of the Bolt Services;</li><li>distribute any virus, worm or other similar or deleterious files, scripts or programming routines;</li><li>transmit malware or host phishing pages, perform activities or upload or distribute Materials that harm or disrupt the operation of the Services or other infrastructure of Bolt or others, including Bolt’s third party providers. You may not use the Services for deceptive commercial practices or any other illegal or deceptive activities;</li><li>interfere with or disrupt any services or equipment with the intent of causing an excessive or disproportionate load on the infrastructure of Bolt or its licensors or suppliers;</li><li>involve the preparation or distribution of junk mail, spam, chain letters, pyramid schemes, or other deceptive or unsolicited bulk or commercial email, or violate in any way the Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act (CAN-SPAM Act of 2003) or equivalent applicable, foreign law or to publish or distribute content that is not related to home remodeling or design;</li><li>offer goods or services, or post or upload Materials, that imply or promote support or funding of, or membership in, a terrorist organization;</li><li>use any robot, spider, site search/retrieval application, or other manual or automatic device or process to retrieve, index, “data mine,” crawl or scrape the Bolt Services or in any way reproduce or circumvent the navigational structure or presentation of the Bolt Services or its contents, authentication and security measures;</li><li>forge headers or otherwise manipulate identifiers in order to disguise the origin of any submission;</li><li>execute any form of network monitoring or run a network analyzer or packet sniffer or other technology to intercept, decode, mine or display any packets used to communicate between Bolt’s servers or any data not intended for you;</li><li>use the Services to collect, store, or process any protected health information subject to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (“HIPAA”), any applicable health privacy regulation or any other applicable law governing the processing, use, or disclosure of protected health information;</li><li>harvest or collect information about any Bolt visitors or members without their express consent; and/or</li><li>contains any reference to or likeness of any identifiable third parties, unless consent has been obtained from all such individuals and their parent/legal guardian if they are under the age of majority in their jurisdiction of residence;</li><li>use or access the Services to build a competing service.</li></ol>