A consumer review platform that allows users to search for, review, and rate local businesses including restaurants, services, and retail establishments. The platform collects significant personal data from users including location information, search history, and review content, while also serving as a marketplace where businesses can advertise and respond to customer feedback. Its policies govern how user-generated content is moderated, how personal data is collected and shared with third parties, and the terms under which businesses and consumers can participate on the platform.
Higher = more protective of you, the user/customer — a deliberately user-protective lens, not a universal “good vs bad” score. Computed algorithmically from Yelp’s cited governance stances; no dimension we haven’t confidently read is ever counted against the score. Free, reproducible, and never purchasable.
Account closure is not a mechanism for removing business-related content from Yelp, meaning ratings and reviews persist independently of account status.
Account closure does not result in full deletion of a user's information; Yelp retains the right to keep data beyond what is publicly visible.
This establishes that user data or interactions processed by Yelp's AI technologies may feed into the training or refinement of AI models, with potential ongoing data use implications.
User-generated content and behavioral interactions are subject to AI-driven analysis, meaning automated systems process personal contributions for personalization and targeting.
Yelp's threshold for disclosing user information to law enforcement is its own good faith belief of reasonable necessity, not a confirmed legal obligation or court order.
This document explains what data Yelp collects about you, how it uses that data, and who it shares it with. Yelp may collect your location continuously in the background, use …
By using Yelp, you permanently give Yelp the right to use anything you post — including to train its AI — for any purpose, and that right cannot be taken …
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ConductAtlas tracks 2 Yelp documents including terms of service, privacy policy, and other governance documents. Every document is captured daily with cryptographic verification.
Yelp has made 1 policy changes in the past 12 months across the documents ConductAtlas tracks.
ConductAtlas has classified 6 provisions across Yelp's tracked documents.
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