An American multinational technology company that operates e-commerce marketplaces, cloud computing services (Amazon Web Services), digital streaming platforms, and artificial intelligence services, serving hundreds of millions of consumers and businesses globally. The company's policies significantly impact user privacy, data handling, and acceptable use across its vast ecosystem of services, making it a critical platform for policy monitoring due to its extensive reach in digital commerce, cloud infrastructure, and consumer technology services.
Higher = more protective of you, the user/customer — a deliberately user-protective lens, not a universal “good vs bad” score. Computed algorithmically from Amazon’s cited governance stances; no dimension we haven’t confidently read is ever counted against the score. Free, reproducible, and never purchasable.
Access by any Agent that fails to identify itself or deviates from section 3 requirements is prohibited, creating a hard compliance condition on all automated interactions with Amazon Services.
Users are barred from recovering any category of damages from Amazon in connection with use of Amazon Services, including damages that would ordinarily be recoverable at law.
Users cannot rely on any warranty protection regarding Amazon Services; all implied and express warranties are disclaimed, eliminating standard consumer warranty remedies.
The license is perpetual and irrevocable, meaning users cannot withdraw Amazon's rights to submitted content, and fully sublicensable, meaning Amazon may extend those rights to third parties.
Users have no guaranteed continuity of access to Amazon Services; Amazon may terminate or restrict access without limitation on its discretion.
This policy sets out the rules for using AWS services and the AWS website. You are bound by the current version of the rules whenever you use AWS, and Amazon …
This document sets the rules for using Amazon's services: you get a limited, personal-use-only license, and you are responsible for everything that happens under your account. Amazon can refuse service, …
Amazon replaced its court-based dispute resolution system with mandatory binding arbitration for all disputes related to Amazon Services and products sold through Amazon.com. Previously, disputes were adjudicated in King County, …
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Companies change their terms without announcing it. We capture governance documents, compare each new version with the last, and publish what changed, with the source text behind it. One email a week on what we found and what we could not reach.
ConductAtlas tracks 2 Amazon documents including terms of service, privacy policy, and other governance documents. Every document is captured daily with cryptographic verification.
Amazon has made 1 policy changes in the past 12 months across the documents ConductAtlas tracks, including 1 classified as high severity.
ConductAtlas has classified 39 provisions across Amazon's tracked documents.
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