Etherscan Terms Scorecard

Grade B+ — Fair terms (score 82/100)

Etherscan reserves broad rights to terminate accounts and modify terms without notice, but does not force arbitration or waive class action rights.

Broad termination rights and indemnification. No forced arbitration.

Terms at a glance

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

What the terms actually say

Section 12 — Suspension; Termination

We may terminate your access to the Services in our sole discretion, immediately and without prior notice, and delete or deactivate your Account and all related information and files in such account without liability to you

The company can delete your account and all associated data at any time for any reason without telling you first.

Section 19.2 — Amendment

Amended Terms will become effective immediately on the date they are posted to the Services unless we state otherwise via our notice of such amended Terms.

The company can change the rules at any time, and those changes apply immediately upon posting.

Section 18 — Indemnity

you agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless our Company ... from any claim, demand, action, damage, loss, cost or expense, including without limitation reasonable attorneys’ fees, arising out or relating to ... your violation of these Terms

If the company gets sued because of something you did, you have to pay their legal bills.

Section 8 — Acceptable Use

You may not use Etherscan data ... for any AI, machine learning, automated data collection, or dataset creation purposes ... No “fair use” or similar exceptions apply.

The company explicitly forbids using their data to train AI models.

Section 3 — Discontinuance of Services

We may, in our sole discretion and without liability to you, with or without prior notice and at any time, modify or discontinue, temporarily or permanently, any portion of our Services.

The company can shut down features or the entire service whenever they want without warning.

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

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