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No Special Incidental or Consequential Damages Liability

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Why it matters (compliance & governance perspective)

This exclusion removes categories of damages that are often the most significant in practice—such as lost profits or data loss—leaving users with a substantially narrowed set of recoverable losses.

Clause Stability Stable

0
Changes
3
Months Monitored
Jul 10, 2026
First Seen
Jul 10, 2026
Last Seen
This clause type exists across 4406 other provisions on other platforms.

Consumer impact (what this means for users)

You cannot recover special, incidental, indirect, consequential, moral, exemplary, or punitive damages from Adobe's Covered Parties, regardless of the cause of those damages.

How other platforms handle this

ActiveCampaign Medium

If you knowingly misrepresent that any activity or material on our Services is infringing, you may be liable to ActiveCampaign for certain costs and damages.

Leonardo AI Medium

A party's liability for any Liability under these Terms will be reduced proportionately to the extent the relevant Liability was caused or contributed to by the actions (or inactions) of the other party...

Netflix Medium

The Netflix service and/or some of the Netflix content may not be available at any time as a result of events beyond our reasonable control...we will not be held liable should such events occur.

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▸ View Original Clause Language DOCUMENT RECORD
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in no event shall the Covered Parties be liable to you or anyone else for any special, incidental, indirect, consequential, moral, exemplary or punitive damages whatsoever, regardless of cause...

— Excerpt from Adobe's Adobe Terms of Use

Applicable regulations

FTC Act Section 5
United States Federal

Provision details

Document information
Document
Adobe Terms of Use
Entity
Adobe
Document last updated
May 5, 2026
Tracking information
First tracked
March 20, 2026
Last verified
May 11, 2026
Record ID
CA-P-029672
Document ID
CA-D-00199
Evidence Provenance
Source URL
Wayback Machine
Content hash (SHA-256)
9cc2260378e6e0dd747c9fd82223c925a9726b28cc700b53d17dd54f1e17eb04
Analysis generated
March 20, 2026 04:51 UTC
Methodology
Evidence
✓ Snapshot stored   ✓ Hash verified
Citation Record
Entity: Adobe
Document: Adobe Terms of Use
Record ID: CA-P-029672
Captured: 2026-03-20 04:51:07 UTC
SHA-256: 9cc2260378e6e0dd…
URL: https://conductatlas.com/platform/adobe/adobe-terms-of-use/provision/CA-P-029672/no-special-incidental-or-consequential-damages-liability/
Accessed: July 13, 2026
Permanent archival reference. Stable identifier suitable for legal filings, compliance documentation, and research citation.
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Frequently Asked Questions

What does Adobe's No Special Incidental or Consequential Damages Liability clause do?

This exclusion removes categories of damages that are often the most significant in practice—such as lost profits or data loss—leaving users with a substantially narrowed set of recoverable losses.

How does this clause affect you?

You cannot recover special, incidental, indirect, consequential, moral, exemplary, or punitive damages from Adobe's Covered Parties, regardless of the cause of those damages.

How many platforms have this type of clause?

ConductAtlas has identified this type of provision across 288 platforms. See the full comparison.

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