Cointelegraph Terms Scorecard

Grade B — Fair terms (score 79/100)

Cointelegraph requires broad user indemnification and allows for unilateral policy changes, though it provides clear mechanisms for data access and deletion.

Broad indemnification and unilateral changes. Good privacy rights.

Terms at a glance

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

What the terms actually say

Section 7 — User Representations and Indemnification

Any party that breaches these obligations may be required to indemnify Cointelegraph against resulting claims or liabilities.

You are responsible for paying the company's legal costs if your actions lead to a lawsuit against them.

Section 11.1 — Changes to the Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy may be updated periodically and without prior notice to you to reflect changes in our personal information policies.

The company reserves the right to change privacy terms without giving you advance warning.

Section 3.3 — How we use the information we obtain

We may share your information with... e) our advertising and promotional agencies... to advertise their own products or services that may be of interest to you.

The company shares your personal data with third-party advertisers for their own marketing use.

Section 14.1 — Law And Harm

we may preserve or disclose your information if we believe that it is reasonably necessary to comply with a law, regulation, legal process, or governmental request.

The company may share your data with government bodies or law enforcement.

Section 13.1 — Your Rights

You are entitled... to request that your personal data is amended, corrected or deleted from our systems.

You have the right to request the deletion of your personal data.

Section 3 — Content Usage Rights

Use of the Platform Content for training... of artificial intelligence systems... is strictly prohibited without the prior written consent of Cointelegraph.

The company protects its content from being used to train AI models without permission.

Last reviewed 2026-08-07 under rubric v3.5.

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