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Analog Devices

Information Technology

31

out of 100. Number 380 of 512, counting from the worst.

  • Arbitration 4 of 20, good
  • Renewals 4 of 20, good
  • Data sharing 5 of 20
  • Price & terms 8 of 15
  • Data retention 4 of 15
  • Other findings 6 of 10

Where Analog Devices does well

  • Arbitration 4 of 20. Few problems found.
  • Renewals 4 of 20. Few problems found.
  • No forced arbitration for website users or non-PRC buyers — disputes go to Massachusetts courts.
  • Explicit 'We do not sell personal data' plus no sharing for targeted/cross-context behavioral advertising without consent.
  • Targeting cookies are disabled by default when a browser sends Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control.
  • Customer Data uploaded to ADI's Circuit Explorer cloud service remains the customer's property.
  • Changes to the B2B sale terms require a written, signed agreement (not continued-use acceptance).
  • Named data-protection officers per region with direct email contacts.

They can raise the price of your order any time before it ships.

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.

  1. They can raise the price of your order any time before it ships. They only promise 'reasonable efforts' to tell you about it.

    At any time prior to delivery, ADI reserves the right to adjust prices, in which event, ADI will use reasonable commercial efforts to notify You of the adjustment.

    Terms and Conditions of Sale §2 Prices

  2. If anything on analog.com goes wrong for you — bad data, broken tools — the most you can ever recover is $100, no matter the harm.

    TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, THE TOTAL AGGREGATE LIABILITY OF ADI AND ITS AFFILIATES ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THESE TERMS OR YOUR USE OF THE WEBSITE SHALL NOT EXCEED ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS ($100.00).

    Terms of Use, Disclaimers of Warranties and Limitation of Liability

  3. Anything you submit to the site — feedback, comments, support posts — can be reused to build their products, and nothing you submit is treated as confidential.

    ADI and its service providers may use User-Generated Material to provide, maintain, and improve the Website and to develop other products and services. ADI shall have no obligation of confidentiality with respect to any User-Generated Material.

    Terms of Use, User-Generated Material

  4. Once you're inside 45 days of shipment you can't cancel or reschedule, and custom/non-cancellable orders can never be cancelled at all — ADI can, however, cancel your order for force majeure or insolvency.

    Except for orders for NCNR products, no cancellations or reschedules will be accepted within 45 days of the estimated shipping date... and (ii) no cancellations or reschedules will be accepted on orders for NCNR products. ... LTB orders cannot be cancelled nor rescheduled.

    Terms and Conditions of Sale §§6-7

  5. They can change the website's rules unilaterally whenever they want; just by visiting the site afterward, you've 'agreed.'

    ADI may update or modify these Terms at any time. Continued use of the Website after any such changes constitutes your acceptance of the revised Terms.

    Terms of Use, Acceptance

  6. Website disputes go to Massachusetts courts but you give up your jury-trial right; buyers in China must arbitrate in Singapore under ICC rules.

    You agree to waive any right to a jury trial in connection with any action or litigation arising out of or related to these Terms. ... [for PRC orders] the parties agree to settle the dispute through arbitration ... the seat of the arbitration shall be Singapore City, Singapore.

    Terms of Use, Governing Law and Dispute Resolution + Terms and Conditions of Sale §18 — and https://www.analog.com/en/support/terms-and-conditions.html

How these were found

Documents read directly from analog.com on 2026-10-01 (no mirrors needed; nothing blocked): Terms of Use (Legal and Risk page) last updated May 12, 2026; Privacy Policy effective April 2, 2025 (includes California §17, China §18, EEA+ §19 statements); Terms and Conditions of Sale — current page revision (not date-stamped; supersedes the 2016 PDF). Thin consumer surface: Analog Devices is a B2B semiconductor maker with no subscriptions, so auto-renew could not be evaluated — category scored on order cancellation rigidity only. Score kept modest to reflect what actually exists; no access to account/purchase checkout flows was possible.

These notes come from the original draft and are not independent verification.