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Prohibition on Data Mining and Scraping Tools

High severity Medium confidence Explicitdocumentlanguage Common · 285 of 352 platforms
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ConductAtlas Analysis

Why it matters (compliance & governance perspective)

The prohibition applies to any such use, covering a broad range of automated data collection methods and closing standard technical avenues for extracting Amazon content at scale.

Interpretive note: The excerpt is a fragment without the surrounding sentence establishing the prohibition or its scope. The canonical claim infers from the excerpt that this is a prohibition on such tools in connection with Amazon Services, consistent with standard acceptable-use framing, but the governing verb and full syntactic context are not quoted. Confidence is medium because the excerpt is incomplete.

Clause Stability Stable

0
Changes
4
Months Monitored
Jul 10, 2026
First Seen
Jul 10, 2026
Last Seen
This clause type exists across 4369 other provisions on other platforms.

Consumer impact (what this means for users)

The reader is prohibited from using data mining tools, robots, or similar automated data gathering or extraction tools in connection with Amazon Services.

How other platforms handle this

Whatnot Medium

Make any automated use of the App...Use any software, technology, or device to scrape, spider, or crawl the App or harvest or manipulate data

NVIDIA NIM Medium

Customer may not indicate that a product or service developed with the Software is sponsored or endorsed by NVIDIA unless expressly authorized in writing by NVIDIA.

Glassdoor Medium

Send messages in violation of the USA CAN-SPAM Act or any other applicable anti-spam law.

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▸ View Original Clause Language DOCUMENT RECORD
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any use of data mining, robots, or similar data gathering and extraction tools.

— Excerpt from Amazon's Amazon Conditions of Use

Applicable regulations

CFAA
United States Federal
DMCA
United States Federal
DSA
European Union

Provision details

Document information
Document
Amazon Conditions of Use
Entity
Amazon
Document last updated
May 5, 2026
Tracking information
First tracked
July 9, 2026
Last verified
July 9, 2026
Record ID
CA-P-018441
Document ID
CA-D-00026
Evidence Provenance
Source URL
Wayback Machine
Content hash (SHA-256)
00887bf5d67454220b3aa6afde03f4422ba9d53ffe333387fdae687aab595279
Analysis generated
July 9, 2026 03:27 UTC
Methodology
Evidence
✓ Snapshot stored   ✓ Hash verified
Citation Record
Entity: Amazon
Document: Amazon Conditions of Use
Record ID: CA-P-018441
Captured: 2026-07-09 03:27:53 UTC
SHA-256: 00887bf5d6745422…
URL: https://conductatlas.com/platform/amazon/amazon-conditions-of-use/provision/CA-P-018441/prohibition-on-data-mining-and-scraping-tools/
Accessed: July 12, 2026
Permanent archival reference. Stable identifier suitable for legal filings, compliance documentation, and research citation.
Classification
Severity
High
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Frequently Asked Questions

What does Amazon's Prohibition on Data Mining and Scraping Tools clause do?

The prohibition applies to any such use, covering a broad range of automated data collection methods and closing standard technical avenues for extracting Amazon content at scale.

How does this clause affect you?

The reader is prohibited from using data mining tools, robots, or similar automated data gathering or extraction tools in connection with Amazon Services.

How many platforms have this type of clause?

ConductAtlas has identified this type of provision across 285 platforms. See the full comparison.

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