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Users who accept Unattended Delivery relinquish, to the maximum extent permitted by law, the ability to bring any claims against Instacart and the named parties arising from that delivery method.
Interpretive note: The excerpt contains an ellipsis between 'claims' and 'arising out of or related to Unattended Delivery,' which may omit additional qualifying language describing the scope of claims covered. The core waiver and release structure is clear from the quoted text.
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.
View change record →Readers who use Unattended Delivery accept that they have waived and released, to the maximum extent permitted by law, all claims against Instacart, its affiliates, and Third-Party Providers arising out of or related to that delivery.
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"To the maximum extent permitted by law, you waive, release, and discharge Instacart, its affiliates, and Third-Party Providers from any and all claims...arising out of or related to Unattended Delivery...Excerpt from Instacart's Terms of Service
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Users who accept Unattended Delivery relinquish, to the maximum extent permitted by law, the ability to bring any claims against Instacart and the named parties arising from that delivery method.
Readers who use Unattended Delivery accept that they have waived and released, to the maximum extent permitted by law, all claims against Instacart, its affiliates, and Third-Party Providers arising out of or related to that delivery.
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