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Prohibition on Competitive Benchmarking Use

High severity High confidence Explicitdocumentlanguage Common · 284 of 352 platforms
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ConductAtlas Analysis

Why it matters (compliance & governance perspective)

This prohibition prevents users from using DocuSign's Site as a resource for competitive intelligence, product development, or operating rival services.

Interpretive note: The excerpt references item (i) of a list, suggesting additional prohibited purposes exist in the full clause that are not reproduced here. Those are recorded as omitted material.

Clause Stability Stable

0
Changes
3
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)

You are prohibited from using the Site for benchmarking, gathering information for another product or service, or building or running competing products or services.

How other platforms handle this

Affirm Medium

You will not use the Services to accomplish a cash advance, wire or money transfer.

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

Robinhood Medium

if you do choose to upload your photograph to our Service, please note that all images must adhere to our App Use Standards which you are required to comply with to use any of the Robinhood Services.

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▸ View Original Clause Language DOCUMENT RECORD
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Uses the Site for benchmarking purposes or to compile information for a product or service, or accesses or uses the Site for the purpose of (i) developing or operating products or services in competition with the Site

— Excerpt from DocuSign's DocuSign Terms and Conditions

Applicable regulations

CFAA
United States Federal

Provision details

Document information
Document
DocuSign Terms and Conditions
Entity
DocuSign
Document last updated
May 5, 2026
Tracking information
First tracked
April 27, 2026
Last verified
July 9, 2026
Record ID
CA-P-031560
Document ID
CA-D-00197
Evidence Provenance
Source URL
Wayback Machine
Content hash (SHA-256)
231f424e90ee7b2719b976375742d52055fede74be2930a6eebf8335c372967c
Analysis generated
April 27, 2026 14:12 UTC
Methodology
Evidence
✓ Snapshot stored   ✓ Hash verified
Citation Record
Entity: DocuSign
Document: DocuSign Terms and Conditions
Record ID: CA-P-031560
Captured: 2026-04-27 14:12:49 UTC
SHA-256: 231f424e90ee7b27…
URL: https://conductatlas.com/platform/docusign/docusign-terms-and-conditions/provision/CA-P-031560/prohibition-on-competitive-benchmarking-use/
Accessed: July 13, 2026
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Classification
Severity
High
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Frequently Asked Questions

What does DocuSign's Prohibition on Competitive Benchmarking Use clause do?

This prohibition prevents users from using DocuSign's Site as a resource for competitive intelligence, product development, or operating rival services.

How does this clause affect you?

You are prohibited from using the Site for benchmarking, gathering information for another product or service, or building or running competing products or services.

How many platforms have this type of clause?

ConductAtlas has identified this type of provision across 284 platforms. See the full comparison.

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