Amazon Terms Scorecard

Grade A — Highly protective (score 93/100)

Amazon profiles users across Stores, Alexa, Devices, and Entertainment to personalize ads on Amazon and third-party sites, but each category can be toggled off. No sale, arbitration, or biometric language appears.

Cross-service ad profiling with opt-outs; no sale or arbitration claims.

Terms at a glance

Sells your data
UNCLEAR
Forced arbitration
NO
Trains AI on your content
UNCLEAR
Collects biometric data
NO
Shares data with government
UNCLEAR
Easy to cancel
UNCLEAR
Tells you before changes
UNCLEAR
Deletes data on request
LIKELY

What the terms actually say

Personal information from Amazon services

Allows us to use personal information from any Amazon service to personalize the ads we show you on other services (both Amazon and third-party services).

Amazon pools data from Stores, Alexa, Devices, Entertainment, Business, Shopbop, and AbeBooks to target ads at you on Amazon and on third-party sites.

Third Party Advertising Cookies

Approved third parties also use cookies for limited ads-related purposes described below.

Third-party companies can place advertising cookies on Amazon; the page exposes a customize control.

Amazon Entertainment Services

Includes your watch history and other interactions across our entertainment services, such as Video, Music & Podcasts, Audible, Games, and Kindle eBook

Your viewing, listening, gaming, and reading activity across Amazon's entertainment services is folded into your ad profile.

Personal information from Amazon services

You can change your preferences at any time by returning to this page which is accessible through Your account, the Cookies notice, and the Interest-based ads notice.

Amazon lets you turn these advertising preferences on or off whenever you want via your account.

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Delete Ad Data

Amazon exposes a control to clear your advertising data.

Personal information from third-party advertisers

Allows us to personalize the ads we show you using demographic information (such as age range) or other personal information we may receive from third parties.

Amazon also accepts demographic and personal data from third-party advertisers and uses it to refine the ads you see.

Last reviewed 2026-07-26 under rubric v3.5.

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