Baker Hughes
Energy
35
out of 100. Number 348 of 512, counting from the worst.
Where Baker Hughes does well
- Arbitration 0 of 20. Nothing found.
- Renewals 0 of 20. Nothing found.
- No forced arbitration clause and no class-action waiver anywhere in the Terms — unlike most consumer tech companies, Baker Hughes does not take away your right to sue.
- They explicitly state they do not knowingly sell or share personal information under California law.
- There are no consumer subscriptions, so there are no auto-renewal or cancellation traps to score.
- Sensitive personal information (government ID, citizenship, birth date, marital status, gender) is only processed in narrow due-diligence circumstances with 'additional safeguards,' not bulk-harvested.
Anything you send through the site — ideas, documents, know-how, your name — can be used, repurposed, and sublicensed by Baker Hughes forever, worldwide, with no royalties and no take-back.
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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Anything you send through the site — ideas, documents, know-how, your name — can be used, repurposed, and sublicensed by Baker Hughes forever, worldwide, with no royalties and no take-back.
If you do submit material, and unless we indicate otherwise, you grant BHC and its affiliates an unrestricted, nonexclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable and fully sublicensable right to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute and display such material throughout the world in any media.
Terms and Conditions (Section 8 - License to Submitted Materials)
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The terms can be rewritten unilaterally at any time by posting a new version; you are bound by them automatically just by continuing to visit the site, and they explicitly put the burden of spotting changes on you.
BHC reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to change, modify, add or remove any portion of these Terms of Use, in whole or in part, at any time, by posting revised terms on the site. It is your responsibility to check periodically for any changes we make to the Terms of Use. Your continued use of the site after any changes to the Terms of Use or other policies means you accept the changes.
Terms and Conditions (Section 18 - Changes to These Terms of Use)
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Any legal claim related to the site must be filed within one year — half of the typical multi-year window you would otherwise have — after which your claim is permanently dead, no exceptions for when you discovered the harm.
YOU AND BHC AGREE THAT ANY CAUSE OF ACTION ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THE SITE MUST COMMENCE WITHIN ONE (1) YEAR AFTER THE CAUSE OF ACTION ACCRUES OR THE CAUSE OF ACTION IS PERMANENTLY BARRED.
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They promise not to 'sell' your data as California law defines that word, but in the same breath say they hand your personal information to ad-tech vendors for personalized advertising via third-party cookies and pixels.
Baker Hughes does not knowingly sell or share (as those terms are defined [by] the California Consumer Privacy Act) personal information collected from California residents of any age... We may disclose personal information to our vendors to facilitate personalized advertising and other advertising and marketing, including through the use of Cookies on our websites.
Privacy Notice (Section 9 - Additional Information for California Residents)
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No matter where you live, disputes must be litigated under Texas law in Harris County, Texas courts — an irrevocable forum choice imposed on every visitor.
The laws of the State of Texas govern these Terms of Use and your use of the site, and you irrevocably consent to the jurisdiction of the courts located in the County of Harris, Texas for any action arising out of or relating to these Terms of Use.
Terms and Conditions (Section 17 - Jurisdiction and Applicable Law)
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No concrete deletion timeline exists — your personal data can be kept indefinitely under the elastic 'as long as necessary' standard or simply 'as otherwise permitted under applicable law.'
Baker Hughes retains your personal information for as long as necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Notice or to achieve the purposes for which the information was collected, or as may otherwise be permitted under applicable law.
How these were found
Both documents were read directly from the official bakerhughes.com domain (no mirrors needed). Terms and Conditions: https://www.BakerHughes.com/terms — no 'Last Updated' date is displayed on the page; search metadata indicated it was re-crawled recently. Privacy Notice: https://www.bakerhughes.com/privacy, Effective Date 28 Jun 2023 ('Removed outdated language from our last update in 2019'). Baker Hughes is a B2B oilfield-services company with a thin consumer surface — there is no consumer e-commerce, no subscriptions, and no consumer app in these documents, so several categories could not be meaningfully scored; the score reflects what actually exists and is intentionally modest.
These notes come from the original draft and are not independent verification.