A financial technology company that provides APIs and infrastructure enabling applications to connect with users' bank accounts and financial data. The company acts as an intermediary between consumer banking institutions and third-party financial apps, processing sensitive financial information including account balances, transaction history, and personal banking credentials. Their privacy and terms policies are significant because they govern how personal financial data is collected, shared, and protected across a wide ecosystem of connected financial 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.
Higher = more protective of you, the user/customer — a deliberately user-protective lens, not a universal “good vs bad” score. Computed algorithmically from Plaid’s cited governance stances; no dimension we haven’t confidently read is ever counted against the score. Free, reproducible, and never purchasable.
The specific numerical threshold and defined calculation method give Plaid an objective, measurable standard against which Partner performance can be assessed.
Express consent is required as a precondition for each individual End User before their data from Bank Intelligence products can be used for marketing, preventing broad or inferred consent.
This non-discrimination standard prevents Partners from offering Plaid inferior data access conditions compared to competing services, protecting Plaid's ability to compete on equal terms.
Plaid controls the implementation deadline, and failure to meet it for security, legal, or exigent updates could expose the Partner to enforcement action.
The restriction covers even anonymized or aggregated data and requires written Plaid approval for each permitted use case, giving Plaid direct control over how End User data is exploited.
These terms govern how businesses and developers may use Plaid's Services. Clients must get proper user consents, may only use End User data for Plaid-approved purposes, and bear full responsibility …
Plaid's Terms of Use govern how Plaid collects, uses, and shares your financial data when you connect your accounts through apps that use Plaid. By providing your login credentials, you …
This document describes how Plaid collects, uses, and shares your personal and financial data when you connect accounts through apps built on Plaid's platform. Plaid may use your data to …
Plaid updated its Developer Policy on April 21, 2026, making substantial changes to how developers must manage accounts and user data access. The policy now explicitly requires developers to be …
View change record →Plaid updated its Developer Policy on April 21, 2026, making significant changes to how developers must manage account access and handle end user data. The policy now explicitly requires developers …
View change record →Plaid updated its terms on April 19, 2026 to clarify that it now offers a direct consumer account and monitoring service, not just connection services for third-party apps. The updated …
View change record →Plaid restructured its account terms to clarify the role of the Plaid Account and introduced a new Plaid Monitoring Service. The updated language shifts focus from helping you connect to …
View change record →Plaid restructured how it describes its core service and introduced a new direct-to-consumer monitoring feature. The updated terms now emphasize that Plaid connects your financial accounts to Plaid itself (rather …
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ConductAtlas tracks 4 Plaid documents including terms of service, privacy policy, and other governance documents. Every document is captured daily with cryptographic verification.
Plaid has made 9 policy changes in the past 12 months across the documents ConductAtlas tracks, including 1 classified as high severity.
ConductAtlas has classified 42 provisions across Plaid's tracked documents. 17 are rated high severity, 20 medium, and 5 low.
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