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  "description": "Licence and acceptable use terms for accessing Scrubnet feeds under /feed/*. Read this before consuming Scrubnet data.",
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              "text": "Licence & acceptable use for "
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                      "text": "Read-only access to public feeds under "
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                      "text": "Feeds are built for bots and agents; traditional web search indexing of raw feeds is discouraged."
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                      "text": "Keep provenance: attribute Scrubnet and the Brand when you surface feed-derived information publicly."
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              "text": "This summary is for convenience only. The legal terms below govern."
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              "text": "These Feed Terms (“Terms”) apply to any access to machine-readable resources hosted by Scrubnet Ltd at or under "
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                          "text": "“Feeds”"
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              "text": "The Feeds are provided “as is” and “as available” without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied. To the maximum extent permitted by law, Scrubnet disclaims all implied warranties including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement."
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