An online marketplace platform that enables individuals and businesses to buy and sell goods through auction-style and fixed-price listings. The platform facilitates transactions between buyers and sellers worldwide, providing payment processing, dispute resolution, and seller protection services. Its policies are significant for consumers as they govern transaction terms, fee structures, seller conduct standards, data collection practices, and the resolution process for disputes between marketplace participants.
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 collection and retention of credit card numbers and bank account details by eBay and its payment affiliates creates significant financial data security obligations and exposure risk for users if …
Sellers are required to submit highly sensitive identity data including government IDs, social security numbers, and selfie photos, which represents a significant privacy commitment and creates eleva…
This provision grants eBay discretionary authority to withhold seller proceeds under broadly defined conditions including anticipated disputes and risk assessments, without specifying a maximum hold …
This provision establishes the procedural framework for all dispute resolution between US users and eBay, requiring individual arbitration as the exclusive remedy for most claims and foreclosing clas…
The provision delineates financial data as a distinct category within eBay's data collection scope, which determines how such information is handled under the privacy notice's security, retention, an…
This document establishes eBay's data collection, use, and sharing practices for buyers and sellers on its platform. eBay collects personal information including purchase history, browsing behavior, location data, device identifiers, …
eBay's User Agreement governs all buying, selling, listing, and payment activity on the eBay platform, including fees, content rights, account suspension, and dispute resolution for users worldwide. The agreement requires …
eBay updated its User Agreement effective June 28, 2026, adding approximately 293 new sentences and removing 273 existing sentences, representing a substantial rewrite of the terms. The updated agreement explicitly …
View change record →eBay's privacy notice was substantially reorganized and expanded on May 1, 2026, adding over 580 sentences. The old notice included basic verification language; the new version provides a structured table …
View change record →ConductAtlas tracks 2 eBay documents including terms of service, privacy policy, and other governance documents. Every document is captured daily with cryptographic verification.
eBay has made 6 policy changes in the past 12 months across the documents ConductAtlas tracks.
ConductAtlas has classified 48 provisions across eBay's tracked documents. 14 are rated high severity, 29 medium, and 5 low.
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