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Exclusion of Indirect and Consequential Damages

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Key Facts

Are Instacart and its retail partners, licensors, and suppliers liable for indirect, incidental, special, punitive, exemplary, or consequential damages?
Instacart and its retail partners, licensors, and suppliers are not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, punitive, exemplary, or consequential damages, or for any damages relating to physical injuries.
Are Instacart and its retail partners, licensors, and suppliers liable for damages relating to physical injuries?
Instacart and its retail partners, licensors, and suppliers are not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, punitive, exemplary, or consequential damages, or for any damages relating to physical injuries.
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ConductAtlas Analysis

Why it matters (compliance & governance perspective)

This exclusion means that losses beyond direct damages—including physical injury damages—cannot be recovered from Instacart or the named parties under this clause.

Recent Activity

This document changed recently

Medium May 9, 2026

Instacart rewrote its entire Terms of Service, adding 367 new sentences including sections on AI-powered services, updated arbitration procedures, and revised data handling practices. The restructuring makes it harder to compare what changed because the entire document was reorganized.

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Clause Stability Stable

0
Changes
4
Months Monitored
Jul 10, 2026
First Seen
Jul 10, 2026
Last Seen
This clause type exists across 4260 other provisions on other platforms.

Consumer impact (what this means for users)

Readers cannot recover indirect, incidental, special, punitive, exemplary, or consequential damages, or damages relating to physical injuries, from Instacart or its retail partners, licensors, and suppliers.

How other platforms handle this

Tinder Medium

TINDER ASSUMES NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANY CONTENT THAT YOU OR ANOTHER USER OR THIRD PARTY POSTS, SENDS, RECEIVES, AND/OR ACTS ON THROUGH OUR SERVICES, NOR DOES TINDER ASSUME ANY RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE IDENTITY, INTENTIONS...

Perplexity AI Medium

we do not warrant that Offering descriptions are accurate, complete, reliable, current, or error-free.

Skillshare Medium

Please note that these third parties are responsible for their own privacy practices.

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Instacart and its retail partners, licensors, and suppliers are not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, punitive, exemplary, or consequential damages, or for any damages relating to physical injuries...

Excerpt from Instacart's Terms of Service

Applicable regulations

FTC Act Section 5
United States Federal

Provision details

Document information
Document
Instacart Terms of Service
Entity
Instacart
Document last updated
May 5, 2026
Tracking information
First tracked
May 10, 2026
Last verified
May 12, 2026
Record ID
CA-P-026195
Document ID
CA-D-00135
Evidence Provenance
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Content hash (SHA-256)
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Analysis generated
May 10, 2026 00:03 UTC
Methodology
Evidence
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Citation Record
Entity: Instacart
Document: Instacart Terms of Service
Record ID: CA-P-026195
Captured: 2026-05-10 00:03:25 UTC
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URL: https://conductatlas.com/platform/instacart/instacart-terms-of-service/provision/CA-P-026195/exclusion-of-indirect-and-consequential-damages/
Accessed: Aug. 26, 2026
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Frequently Asked Questions

What does Instacart's Exclusion of Indirect and Consequential Damages clause do?

This exclusion means that losses beyond direct damages—including physical injury damages—cannot be recovered from Instacart or the named parties under this clause.

How does this clause affect you?

Readers cannot recover indirect, incidental, special, punitive, exemplary, or consequential damages, or damages relating to physical injuries, from Instacart or its retail partners, licensors, and suppliers.

How many platforms have this type of clause?

ConductAtlas has identified this type of provision across 287 platforms. See the full comparison.

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