Alexandria Real Estate Equities
Real Estate
28
out of 100. Number 411 of 512, counting from the worst.
Where Alexandria Real Estate Equities does well
- Arbitration 0 of 20. Nothing found.
- Renewals 0 of 20. Nothing found.
- No forced arbitration and no class-action waiver: disputes go to California state and federal courts (Terms §11) — unusually consumer-friendly versus peers.
- The Privacy Policy explicitly states 'We do not sell or share personal information as those terms are defined in the CCPA,' and they publish a separate Privacy Notice for California Candidates with opt-out intake forms.
- Marketing emails have a working unsubscribe path plus a dedicated privacy email (privacycorrespondence@are.com); the cookie section links Google Analytics opt-out tools and allaboutcookies.org instructions.
- The security section is honest rather than overpromising ('we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information').
- No consumer subscription or auto-renew mechanism exists — the site is informational, so auto-renew traps are structurally absent.
Alexandria can rewrite its website terms at any time without telling you directly — just posting a new version counts as your agreement to it.
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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Alexandria can rewrite its website terms at any time without telling you directly — just posting a new version counts as your agreement to it. Your only obligation is to keep checking the page yourself.
Alexandria may at any time revise these Terms of Use by posting the revised version on this Site. All amended terms shall automatically become effective once they are posted on the Site. By using the Site, you agree to be bound by any such revisions and therefore you should periodically review this page to examine the then-current Terms of Use.
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Anything you submit — an idea, a document, feedback on a property — instantly becomes theirs to use forever, royalty-free, and to pass on to others, with no confidentiality obligation. Don't send them anything proprietary.
Alexandria will treat any feedback, suggestions, data, comments, or concepts (collectively, 'Submissions') that you provide as non-confidential and non-proprietary. You hereby grant to Alexandria a perpetual, fully-paid, royalty-free, irrevocable, worldwide, transferable, sublicenseable (through multiple tiers) right and license to use such Submissions in any manner Alexandria deems appropriate.
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No matter what goes wrong on their site — even data loss — the most you can ever recover from Alexandria is $50.
ALEXANDRIA'S TOTAL CUMULATIVE LIABILITY IN CONNECTION WITH THESE TERMS OF USE, THE SITE, AND THE CONTENT IS LIMITED TO $50.00.
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Once your data is anonymized, Alexandria can share or disclose it to third parties for purposes that include marketing the business — and anonymized data can't be pulled back.
We may use this anonymous, aggregated or de-identified data and disclose it with third parties for our lawful business purposes, including to analyze and improve the Service and promote our business.
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A real estate company collects fingerprints, face scans, health-screening results, building video/audio footage, and even driver's license numbers. Much of this is tied to campus access control, but the breadth goes well beyond what a website visitor would expect.
Biometric information, such as your fingerprint, retinal, or facial scans from which an identifier template, such as a faceprint or minutiae template can be extracted... Medical data, such as information regarding an individual's medical history, or mental or physical condition, including your body temperature, health symptoms and other health screening information... Security data, such as video footage, audio information, and images at our physical locations... Identity data, such as a national identification number (e.g., tax identification number) and state or local identification number (e.g., driver's license or state ID number).
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If you set your browser to ask websites not to track you, Alexandria ignores it.
Some Internet browsers may be configured to send 'Do Not Track' signals to the online services that you visit. We currently do not respond to 'Do Not Track'.
How these were found
Alexandria is a B2B life-science office REIT; its consumer surface is a thin informational website with no accounts, purchases, or subscriptions, so arbitration and auto-renew categories are structurally 0 and the score is correspondingly modest. Documents read directly from are.com (no mirrors needed): Terms of Use at http://www.are.com/terms-of-service.html (no publication/last-updated date stamped on the document) and Privacy Policy at http://www.are.com/privacy.html, stated as 'Last Updated September 1, 2025.' Lease-level terms with actual tenants (where the real commercial obligations live) are negotiated individually and not public, so this research covers only the public-facing website/visitor documents.
These notes come from the original draft and are not independent verification.