Archer Daniels Midland
Consumer Staples
46
out of 100. Number 247 of 512, counting from the worst.
Where Archer Daniels Midland does well
- Renewals 0 of 20. Nothing found.
- ADM states plainly 'does not sell your Personal Information and has not sold it in the last 12 months' and 'does not share Personal Information with third parties for their own marketing purposes' — better than many consumer sites. It offers non-discrimination for exercising privacy rights and gives a direct channel (dataprivacy@adm.com, 1-800-637-5843). It does not target or knowingly collect data from children under
- Its arbitration clause has a 'poison pill': if the class-action waiver is found unenforceable, the entire arbitration provision becomes null and void rather than sending claims back to arbitration — slightly unusual, balanced drafting. No auto-renew, subscription, or cancellation traps exist (there is nothing to subscribe to), and no forced data-retention-for-profit scheme was found.
Simply visiting ADM's website means you agree you can never sue them in court and can never join a class action — every dispute goes to a private arbitrator, one person at a time.
The fine print
6 clauses and findings from the draft archive, dated 1 October 2026. The plain English comes first; the small print is the company's own words. None of these has been checked yet.
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Simply visiting ADM's website means you agree you can never sue them in court and can never join a class action — every dispute goes to a private arbitrator, one person at a time. No opt-out is offered.
By using this website, you acknowledge and agree that any dispute, claim or controversy arising out of or relating to these Terms of Use, your use of the website, or any services provided shall be resolved exclusively through final and binding arbitration. ... any arbitration or proceeding shall be conducted only on an individual basis and not in a class, consolidated, collective, or representative action. You expressly waive any right to participate in or bring class-wide, collective, or representative claims.
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ADM can rewrite the deal at any moment without telling you, and the new rules take effect the instant they're posted — just browsing the site again counts as agreeing.
ADM may modify, amend, update, or discontinue any part of this Agreement or the Service at any time, with or without notice, in its sole discretion. Any such modifications will be effective immediately upon posting, unless otherwise stated. ... Your continued use of the Service following any modification constitutes your binding acceptance of those changes.
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Anything you submit through the site — including business ideas or know-how — becomes ADM's to use forever, anywhere, for any purpose (even making and selling products with it), and you get nothing.
By submitting or posting information or material on, to or through the Service, you grant ADM a worldwide, royalty free, perpetual, irrevocable and non-exclusive right (including any moral rights) and license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform and display such content anywhere, for any purpose, and in any form, media or technology now known or later developed. No compensation will be paid with respect to the use of your posting. ADM is free to use any ideas, concepts, know-how, or techniques contained in any communication you send for any purpose whatsoever including, but not limited to, developing, manufacturing and marketing products using such information.
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If ADM misuses or leaks content you submitted, you have already agreed you can't hold them responsible — you waive those claims up front.
You further agree that ADM shall not be liable for any use or disclosure of any content you submit, and you waive any claims against ADM arising from such use or disclosure.
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ADM's privacy rights (access and deletion) are carved out for the two categories that matter most in its business: anything related to job applications/employment, and nearly all business-to-business interactions — which is most of what a B2B company processes.
If we collected Employment Information, the access and deletion rights described in this Notice do not apply. ... The access and deletion rights described in this Notice do not apply to B2B Information.
California Resident Privacy Notice (Your Rights — Exemptions), Last Updated December 16, 2019
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ADM ignores your browser's Do Not Track requests entirely — a choice most consumer-facing sites have also made, but still a refusal of a privacy signal.
We do not currently take actions to respond to Do Not Track signals and similar signals because a uniform technological standard has not yet been developed.
California Resident Privacy Notice (Personal Information Processing), Last Updated December 16, 2019
How these were found
Documents relied on: (1) ADM General Website Terms of Use, 'Date last modified: October 10, 2025', read live from adm.com on Oct 1, 2026. (2) ADM California Resident Privacy Notice, 'Last Updated: December 16, 2019' (pre-CCPA-regulations version, ~7 years old), read from ADM's own dev mirror dev.admis.com; it may be superseded by a newer notice not publicly indexed. A direct fetch of the current global Online Privacy Policy at adm.com/privacy timed out and could not be re-attempted, so findings on current data practices rest on the 2019 CA notice. No OpenTermsArchive/Difficode mirror of adm.com was found. ADM is a B2B agribusiness with a thin consumer surface: its site has no consumer accounts, subscriptions, or shopping cart, so auto-renew and data-sale clauses simply do not exist to evaluate; the score reflects only what actually exists.
These notes come from the original draft and are not independent verification.