A cryptocurrency exchange platform that allows users to buy, sell, and store digital currencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum. The platform serves as a financial intermediary handling sensitive personal and financial data while facilitating monetary transactions. Policy changes significantly impact user privacy rights, transaction fees, and the legal terms governing access to cryptocurrency holdings and trading services.
High — provisions that significantly limit your legal rights, authorize broad data collection, or create material financial exposure. Medium — provisions worth knowing about but with partial protections or limited scope. Low — standard terms with minimal consumer impact.
The policy states disclosure may occur based on Coinbase's good faith belief, not solely on legally compelled orders, and may proceed without notifying the user, which means users may not know when t…
The collection of biometric data for identity verification is subject to specific state laws including Illinois BIPA, which imposes strict notice, consent, and deletion requirements, and the policy's…
This provision establishes that participation in Coinbase staking services authorizes asset lockup for unspecified periods, that rewards are not guaranteed, and that Coinbase takes a commission from …
This clause establishes that Coinbase retains broad operational authority to restrict or terminate account access, which may affect users' ability to access, withdraw, or transfer digital assets duri…
This provision discloses a material custodial risk: users holding digital assets on the Coinbase platform may not have segregated asset protection in a Coinbase insolvency, which could result in part…
This is the Coinbase User Agreement for U.S. users, covering buying, selling, storing, transferring, and staking cryptocurrency on the Coinbase platform. The agreement requires users to resolve virtually all disputes …
This document establishes Coinbase's practices for collecting, using, and sharing personal information from users of its cryptocurrency exchange and related products. Coinbase collects government-issued identification documents, bank account details, transaction …
This is Coinbase's fee disclosure page for cryptocurrency purchases, sales, and conversions on Coinbase.com, covering transaction fees charged by payment method, including bank accounts, debit cards, PayPal, and the Coinbase …
Coinbase updated its User Agreement on May 15, 2026 to introduce provisions for 'Secured USDC,' a new feature tied to the Coinbase One Card. Under the previous terms, Coinbase could …
View change record →Coinbase removed references to Secured USDC (a digital asset holding mechanism tied to its One Card product) from its core asset protection language. The previous terms explicitly permitted transfers of …
View change record →Coinbase updated its User Agreement on May 1, 2026 to explicitly permit the transfer of digital assets to third parties under a new 'Secured USDC' feature tied to the Coinbase …
View change record →Coinbase updated its Individual User Agreement on April 19, 2026 to add Connecticut-specific disclosures about virtual currency risks. The new language warns that virtual currency is not government-backed or insured, …
View change record →Coinbase removed 48 sentences from its User Agreement on March 6, 2026, primarily eliminating the entire Direct Deposit feature section that previously allowed users to receive paychecks and government benefits …
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Coinbase's User Agreement includes a mandatory arbitration clause that most users may not have reviewed. Here is what the clause states and…
ConductAtlas tracks 3 Coinbase documents including terms of service, privacy policy, and other governance documents. Every document is captured daily with cryptographic verification.
Coinbase has made 22 policy changes in the past 12 months across the documents ConductAtlas tracks, including 1 classified as high severity.
ConductAtlas has classified 82 provisions across Coinbase's tracked documents. 35 are rated high severity, 41 medium, and 6 low.
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