General Terms of Service

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11**General**
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33**_These terms apply if you signed up for Square on or after March 1, 2023 and shall become effective and apply to all Square Sellers on April 11, 2023. For terms that apply until then, see [here](https://squareup.com/us/en/legal/general/ua-archive-2022)._**
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5**Last updated March 1, 2023**
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77We've included annotations in the gray boxes below to emphasize certain portions of our terms and help guide you as you read them. The annotations aren't summaries, so please take the time to read everything!
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99This page describes the general terms that apply to your use of any of our services. By using our services you agree to these terms on top of any other terms that apply to a specific service you are using (like Team Management, for example). If you use our services on behalf of your company, your company agrees to them too.
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1111These General Terms of Service ("General Terms") are a legal agreement between you, as a current or prospective customer of Square's services ("you," "your") and Block, Inc. Square Capital, LLC, and/or Square Financial Services, Inc., ("Square," "we," "our" or "us") and govern your use of Square's services, including mobile applications, websites, software, cloud-based solutions, hardware, and other products and services in the United States of America (collectively, the "Services"). By using any of the Services, you agree to these General Terms and any policies referenced within ("Policies"), including our Privacy Notice (see Section 8) and terms that limit our liability (see Section 19) and require individual arbitration for any potential legal dispute (see Section 22), which are collectively incorporated herein by reference. You also agree to any additional terms specific to Services you use ("Additional Terms"), such as those listed below, which become part of your agreement with us (collectively, the "Terms"). If you are using the Services on behalf of a business, you represent to us that you have authority to bind that business or entity to these Terms, and that business accepts these Terms. You should read all of our Terms carefully.
3636You agree to [Square's E-Sign Consent](https://squareup.com/legal/sign). We may provide disclosures and notices required by law and other information about your Square Account to you electronically, by posting it on our website, pushing notifications through the Services, or by emailing it to the email address listed in your Square Account or that you otherwise provided to Square. Electronic disclosures and notices have the same meaning and effect as if we had provided you with paper copies. Such disclosures and notices are considered received by you within twenty-four (24) hours of the time posted to our website, or within twenty-four (24) hours of the time emailed to you unless we receive notice that the email was not delivered. If you wish to withdraw your consent to receiving electronic communications, contact [Square Support](https://squareup.com/help/us/en/). If we are not able to support your request, you may need to terminate your Square Account.
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3838#### 3\. Restrictions
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4040If you want to use our services, you can't do certain bad things. If we think you are doing these bad things, we have the right to share your information with law enforcement.
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42You may not, nor may you permit any third party, directly or indirectly, to:
42Except where prohibited by law, you may not, nor may you permit any third party, directly or indirectly, to:
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44441. export the Services, which may be subject to export restrictions imposed by US law, including US Export Administration Regulations (15 C.F.R. Chapter VII);
45452. engage in any activity that may be in violation of regulations administered by the United States Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Asset Control (31 C.F.R. Parts 500-599). Prohibited activity includes but is not limited to the provision of Services to or for the benefit of a jurisdiction, entity, or individual blocked or prohibited by relevant sanctions authorities, including but not limited to activities in Iran, Cuba, North Korea, Syria, or the Crimean Region of the Ukraine. If found to be in apparent violation of these restrictions, your account could be terminated and your funds could be held for an indefinite period of time;
46463. access or monitor any material or information on any Square system using any manual process or robot, spider, scraper, or other automated means;
47474. except to the extent that any restriction is expressly prohibited by law, violate the restrictions in any robot exclusion headers on any Service, work around, bypass, or circumvent any of the technical limitations of the Services, use any tool to enable features or functionalities that are otherwise disabled in the Services, or decompile, disassemble or otherwise reverse engineer the Services;
48485. perform or attempt to perform any actions that would interfere with the proper working of the Services, prevent access to or use of the Services by our other customers, or impose an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on our infrastructure;