Hi Guys,
Due to significant factors discussed in
this thread. I believe it needs a separate thread to aware the community about "What is hiding behind Centralized Exchanges User Agreement". Literally, I had no idea what was written on their User Agreement page until today. It's almost impossible to read all terms and conditions when we sign up on every website. But, regarding exchanges, casinos or where we will spend our money. It is worth reading before you sign up. I am pretty much sure 95% of users of these exchanges don't know what is written on their user agreement page. Because they are too long articles and we miss the critical part where they reported that they could seize user funds for any reason without any explanation. Would you deal with such platforms when they say they can seize your funds for any reason without giving you an explanation?
Here I gathered up the Top five centralized exchanges
[1] Important part of the User Agreement.
1. Binance;You agree that Binance shall have the right to immediately suspend your Binance Account (and any accounts beneficially owned by related entities or affiliates), freeze or lock the Digital Assets or funds in all such accounts, and suspend your access to Binance for any reason including if Binance suspects any such accounts to be in violation of these Terms, our Privacy Policy, or any applicable laws and regulations. You agree that Binance shall not be liable to you for any permanent or temporary modification of your Binance Account, or suspension or termination of your access to all or any portion of Binance Services. Binance shall reserve the right to keep and use the transaction data or other information related to such Binance Accounts. The above account controls may also be applied in the following cases:
2. Kraken;In the event of any Force Majeure Event (as defined in Section 23.5), breach of these Terms, or any other event that would make provision of the Services commercially unreasonable for Payward, we may, in our discretion and without liability to you, with or without prior notice, suspend your access to all or a portion of our Services. We may terminate your access to the Services in our sole discretion, immediately and without prior notice, and delete or deactivate your Kraken Account and all related information and files in such account without liability to you, including, for instance, in the event that you breach any of these Terms. In the event of termination, Payward will attempt to return any Assets stored in your Kraken Account not otherwise owed to Payward, unless Payward believes you have committed fraud, negligence or other misconduct.
3. Coinbase;6.10. Suspension, Termination, and Cancellation. Coinbase may suspend, restrict, or terminate your access to any or all of the Coinbase Services, and/or deactivate or cancel your Coinbase Account(s), with immediate effect for any reason at its sole discretion and is under no obligation to disclose the details of its decision to take such action with you. You acknowledge that Coinbase's decision to take certain actions, including limiting access to, suspending, or closing your account for any reason in our sole discretion, may be based on confidential criteria that are essential to Coinbase's risk management and security protocols. You agree that Coinbase is under no obligation to disclose the details of its risk management and security procedures to you.
4. KuCoin;Article 35 Where the Platform deems on its unilateral and independent judgement that any event that undermines the security of trading may arise, the Platform shall have the right to suspend, interrupt or terminate all or part of the User services (including fee-based services) provided to a User under this Agreement, remove or delete registration information of such a User, seize illicit profits that the User may gain, without notifying such User and without assuming any responsibility to such User or any third party. The aforementioned events include other circumstances under which the Platform, based on its sole judgment, needs to suspend, interrupt or terminate all or part of the User services (including fee-based services) provided to Users under this Agreement and remove or delete the registration information on the ground of transaction security and other reasons.
5. BitFinex;Right to Use the Site: If you (i) have an Account, (ii) are not a Prohibited Person, (iii) do not operate your Account, any subaccount or Digital Tokens Wallet for the benefit of a Prohibited Person and (iv) comply with these Terms of Service, Bitfinex grants you the limited right to use the Services. The right to use the Services is a personal, restricted, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, revocable, limited license, and it is subject to the limitations and obligations in these Terms of Service. Nothing in these Terms of Service gives you any license (other than as set out in this paragraph), right, title, or ownership of, in, or to the Site, any of the Services, the Copyrights or the Marks. Bitfinex may suspend or terminate the provision of Services to you, your Account or any subaccount or Digital Tokens Wallet, or to any of your Digital Tokens Addresses, or to freeze or terminate your Account or any subaccount or Digital Tokens Wallet, or your Fiat or Digital Tokens, at its sole discretion, as required by applicable Laws, where Bitfinex determines that you have violated, breached, or acted inconsistent with any of these Terms of Service or exposed Bitfinex or its Associates to the possibility of sanctions, restrictions or Losses pursuant to applicable Laws, or in connection with an investigation regarding any of the foregoing.
For more detailed information. I recommend you visit the sources below.
Sources:
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https://coinmarketcap.com/rankings/exchanges/2.
https://www.binance.com/en/terms3.
https://www.kraken.com/legal4.
https://www.coinbase.com/legal/user_agreement/united_states5.
https://www.kucoin.com/news/en-terms-of-use6.
https://www.bitfinex.com/legal/exchange/terms