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.
Objective measurements
Counted directly from the archive for Snowflake — documents, captured versions, and detected changes.
3
Documents tracked
43
Versions captured
25
Changes · 12 mo
25
Changes · all-time
3.2 d
Avg between changes
12
Days since change
21 d
Longest stable stretch
ConductAtlas User-Protection Index
Provisional · scored on 3 of 6
31.9/100
Consumer tier · provisional until more dimensions are known
Baseline31.9 here · corpus average 31.4 across 191 scored platformsMiddle 50%Q1 18.4 · median 30.8 · Q3 42.3
Higher = more protective of you, the user/customer — a deliberately user-protective lens, not a universal “good vs bad” score.
Computed algorithmically from Snowflake’s cited governance stances; no dimension we haven’t confidently read is ever counted against the score. Free, reproducible, and never purchasable.
Consumer tier · 31.9/100 · provisional · scored on 3 of 6
HighProhibition on reselling or sublicensing Snowflake technology
The prohibition prevents customers from commercialising or redistributing Snowflake's technology in any form, including allowing third parties to access it, which limits how customers can build and o…
HighSub-processor objections handled per DPA terms
The substantive rights and remedies available to a customer upon objecting to a sub-processor are entirely determined by the customer's individual DPA, not by this document.
HighDPA customers may object to new sub-processor within 28 days
The 28-day window is a hard deadline; a DPA customer who does not object within that period may lose the ability to challenge the new sub-processor.
HighSnowflake Affiliates authorized to provide technical and support services
Authorizing a broad category of affiliates—rather than named third parties—for core service functions means customer data may be accessed by multiple related entities for operational purposes.
HighGCP authorized as cloud hosting sub-processor
As the foundational infrastructure sub-processor, Google Cloud Platform may process all customer data stored or handled on the Snowflake platform where the customer has selected GCP as their cloud pr…
This document lists the third-party companies and Snowflake affiliates that Snowflake is permitted to use to process customer data as part of its service. The three major cloud providers—AWS, Azure, …
This is Snowflake's legal resources index page, which provides links to all of Snowflake's operative governance documents including its Privacy Notice, Terms of Service, Data Processing Addendum, AI Terms, Acceptable …
Last updated May 5, 2026
· Privacy policy
8 provisions23 versions captured1 significant changeVersion history →
This document sets the rules for using Snowflake's service, including what you can and cannot do with it, how disputes are handled, and what you owe if things go wrong. …
Snowflake's Privacy Notice was updated on May 23, 2026 with three changes: the pronoun in a form submission disclosure changed from 'its' to 'their' Privacy Notice, a sentence stating users …
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ConductAtlas tracks 3 Snowflake documents including terms of service, privacy policy, and other governance documents. Every document is captured daily with cryptographic verification.
How many policy changes has Snowflake made in the past year?
Snowflake has made 25 policy changes in the past 12 months across the documents ConductAtlas tracks.
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ConductAtlas has classified 48 provisions across Snowflake's tracked documents. 7 are rated high severity, 32 medium, and 9 low.
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