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What Amazon's terms say

D privacy grade · amazon.com · Shopping

Amazon's terms of service and privacy policy have 34 rated points: 1 serious, 13 bad, 10 worth knowing and 10 good. 29 apply whenever you use the site, signed in or not; 5 only once you have an account.

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Whenever you use Amazon

Bad 11

  • Terms may be changed any time at their discretion, without notice to you

    Terms may be changed any time at their discretion, without notice to the user

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  • Information is gathered about you through third parties

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  • Your personal data may be disclosed to comply with government requests without notice to you

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  • Your biometric data is collected

  • Your personal information is used for many different purposes

  • Your personal data may be sold or otherwise transferred as part of a bankruptcy proceeding or other type of financial transaction

  • Your personal data may be used for marketing purposes

  • Your personal data is used to employ targeted third-party advertising

  • Third-party cookies are used for advertising

  • App required for this service requires broad device permissions

  • You may be tracked on other websites

    This service tracks you on other websites

Worth knowing 9

  • This service gives your personal data to third parties involved in its operation

    This service can share your personal information to third parties

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  • Invalidity of any portion of the Terms of Service does not entail invalidity of its remainder

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  • Third parties are involved in operating the service

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  • The service can stop being provided at any time

    They may stop providing the service at any time

    Amazon can cancel your account and remove content at any time.

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  • The service assumes no liability for any damages the user incurs

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  • Blocking first-party cookies may limit your ability to use the service

    Blocking first party cookies may limit your ability to use the service

  • First-party cookies are used

  • Your personal data may be aggregated into statistics

    Your personal data is aggregated into statistics

  • Your IP address is collected, which can be used to view your approximate location

Good 9

  • This service claims that your personal data is not being sold

    Your personal data is not sold

  • A free help desk is provided

  • Information is provided about security practices

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  • A complaint mechanism is provided for the handling of personal data

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  • Information is provided about how your personal data is used

  • You can opt out of targeted advertising

  • You can request access, correction and/or deletion of your data

  • The service reviews its Privacy Policy on a regular basis

    The service reviews its privacy policy on a regular basis

  • Information is provided about what kind of personal information is collected

    Information is provided about what kind of information they collect

With an account

If you have a Amazon account

Serious 1

  • Content you post may be edited by the service for any reason

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Bad 2

  • Your account can be deleted or permanently suspended without prior notice and without a reason

    The service can delete your account without prior notice and without a reason

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  • Your provided identifiable information is actively checked by the service

Worth knowing 1

  • Political discussions or campaining are prohibited

    Prohibits political discussions or campaigning

    Full Quote: "You may post reviews, comments, photos, videos, and other content. send e-cards and other communications. and submit suggestions, ideas, comments, questions, or other information, so long as the content is not illegal, obscene, threatening, defamatory, invasive of privacy, infringing of intellectual property rights (including publicity rights), or otherwise injurious to third parties or objectionable, and does not consist of or contain software viruses, political campaigning, commercial solicitation, chain letters, mass mailings, or any form of "spam" or unsolicited commercial electronic messages."

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Good 1

  • You can opt out of receiving promotional communications

    You can opt out of promotional communications

The documents

Ratings by ToS;DR volunteers; they can lag behind the current terms. Not legal advice.