Albemarle Corporation
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out of 100. Number 227 of 512, counting from the worst.
Where Albemarle Corporation does well
- Renewals 0 of 20. Nothing found.
- Actual product buyers are governed by their own Sale Agreements, which override these website terms in any conflict (Sec. 10(a)) — the sneaky site terms mostly affect casual visitors.
- The arbitration clause has a small-claims-court carveout and a 60-day good-faith negotiation step before arbitration can start.
- Term changes are prospective only, not retroactive.
- The privacy policy states Albemarle does not sell or share California 'consumers'' data outside cookie-based advertising and provides a 'Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information' footer link plus a dedicated privacy-request phone line (1-800-461-9330); it does not knowingly collect data from anyone under 16, and email marketing has a free one-click unsubscribe. The investor-alert signup explicitly promises data 'will not [be] share[d] with any third party.'
Anyone using the site gives up their right to sue in court or get a jury trial; disputes go to private AAA arbitration instead, after a mandatory 60-day negotiation window.
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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Anyone using the site gives up their right to sue in court or get a jury trial; disputes go to private AAA arbitration instead, after a mandatory 60-day negotiation window.
If the Dispute cannot be resolved within sixty (60) days, you agree that it shall be resolved exclusively by final binding arbitration... You and Albemarle are each giving up the right to have Disputes resolved in court before a judge and/or jury (except as stated otherwise in this Section 9).
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No class actions or group lawsuits — every dispute is fought one person at a time, which kills most small claims before they start.
You and Albemarle each agree that resolution of any Disputes, whether in court or in arbitration, will be conducted and resolved only on an individual basis and not in a class, consolidated or representative action.
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Your name, employer, work email and phone can be sold or shared for targeted advertising across the web — unusual for a B2B chemicals site. (Same wording covers browsing history and marketing data.)
Contact information, including your name, title, affiliated company name, email address, telephone numbers and physical address... We may sell or share this information for cross-contextual advertising.
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Albemarle openly builds psychological profiles of site visitors — preferences, predispositions, even 'intelligence and aptitudes' — for profiling on a site where you came to look up lithium specs.
Inferences, we use your information to create a profile reflecting the consumer's preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes.
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Albemarle can rewrite the terms whenever it wants, and simply visiting the site after a change means you agreed to it — no email required, just a posting on page one.
EACH TIME YOU SIGN IN TO OR OTHERWISE USE THE SITE, YOU ARE ENTERING INTO A NEW AGREEMENT WITH US ON THE THEN APPLICABLE TERMS AND YOU AGREE THAT YOUR USE OF THE SITE AFTER SUCH NEW TERMS HAVE BEEN POSTED CONSTITUTES YOUR AGREEMENT TO THE NEW TERMS FOR YOUR NEW USE AND TRANSACTIONS ON THE SITE.
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If the site harms you, the most you can ever recover is $500 — regardless of what happened.
TO THE EXTENT ANY ASPECTS OF THE FOREGOING LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY ARE NOT ENFORCEABLE, THE MAXIMUM AGGREGATE LIABILITY OF ALBEMARLE TO YOU WITH RESPECT TO YOUR USE OF THE SITE IS $500 (FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS).
How these were found
Terms of Use last updated July 18, 2024; Privacy Policy effective September 8, 2020, last updated July 18, 2024. A TermsOfService link at albemarle.com/us/en/legal (referenced in third-party metadata) now returns 404; the live Terms of Use were found at albemarle.com/global/en/terms-use and read in full directly from the official domain — no mirrors were needed. Albemarle is a B2B specialty-chemicals/lithium producer; the site is business-information-only with no consumer accounts, no e-commerce checkout, and no subscriptions, so several sneaky categories (auto-renew traps, consumer data retention) have little to latch onto — the score reflects only what exists on the public site. B2B sale agreements with actual customers override these website terms (Section 10(a)).
These notes come from the original draft and are not independent verification.