Ball Corporation
Materials
26
out of 100. Number 443 of 512, counting from the worst.
Where Ball Corporation does well
- Arbitration 0 of 20. Nothing found.
- Renewals 0 of 20. Nothing found.
- Data sharing 3 of 20. Few problems found.
- No forced arbitration, no class-action waiver, and no jury-trial waiver anywhere in the Terms — disputes fall under ordinary UK law, unlike most US consumer sites.
- Explicit anti-sale promise stated repeatedly: 'Ball does not share, sell, or lease personal data about you to third party processing for their marketing use' (Privacy Policy – General, Customers/Vendors/Suppliers, and Employees policies).
- Minimal data collection by design: for general browsing the company 'will not require that you provide information about yourself or your identity,' collecting only aggregated domain names, IP addresses, visit times and pages viewed; the site is not intended for children under 13 and the company says it does not knowingly collect from children.
- Real privacy rights are spelled out — correction, erasure, and update requests via a 'Personal Data Inquiry' form — plus regional data-protection contacts in North America, South America, EMEA, and Asia Pacific, and the right to complain to a supervisory authority.
Ball can rewrite the terms at any time and doesn't even promise to tell you in advance — just using the site afterward counts as you agreeing to the new rules.
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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Ball can rewrite the terms at any time and doesn't even promise to tell you in advance — just using the site afterward counts as you agreeing to the new rules.
Ball reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to change, modify, add, or remove any portion of these Terms of Use in whole or in part, at any time with or without advance notice. Changes in these Terms of Use will be effective when notice of such change is posted. Your continued use of the Site after any changes to these Terms of Use are posted will be considered acceptance of those changes.
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Anything you type into Ball's site forms — ideas, know-how, attachments — becomes theirs to use forever, worldwide, for free. The same section declares nothing you send is confidential, and if you accidentally send confidential info you must indemnify Ball against claims arising from it.
By providing any information or materials to Ball through the Site, whether or not it is confidential or proprietary, you grant to Ball an unrestricted, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free licence to use, reproduce, display, publicly perform, transmit, and distribute such information and materials, and you further agree that Ball is free to use any idea, concepts, or know-how that you or individuals acting on your behalf provide to Ball.
Terms of Use – General, Section 8d: Information Provided by You – Licence to Use
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If Ball's site harms you, you have only one year to start legal action — shorter than the limitation period many states would otherwise give you.
Any cause of action you may have with respect to your use of the Site must be commenced within one (1) year after the claim or cause of action arises.
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You are technically in breach of the terms if you link to ball.com without first getting written permission — a rare and aggressive anti-linking clause.
Creating external links to this Site is prohibited without the express, written permission from an authorised representative of Ball.
Terms of Use – General, Section 6: External Links to the Site
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No retention period is given at all — Ball keeps your personal data as long as 'local laws' allow, with no commitment to a maximum duration or to deleting it when it's no longer needed.
Your personal data will be stored as permitted or determined by local laws.
Privacy Policy – General, Section 9: How long will my data be stored?
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Ball still cites Privacy Shield certifications as the safeguard for moving your data to the US — but Privacy Shield was invalidated by the EU Court of Justice in July 2020, so this looks like stale language. (Whether Ball has since certified under the replacement EU-US Data Privacy Framework is not addressed in these documents.)
Ball Corporation has taken steps to provide adequate organizational and technical safeguards to protect your personal data, including by certifying under the EU-US and Swiss-US Privacy Shield programs, as well as entering into appropriate agreements with Ball entities and external organizations.
How these were found
Source: official 'Ball Corporation Terms of Use and Privacy Policies' English-UK combined PDF (26 pages), downloaded Oct 1, 2026 from ball.com via the download link on the official hub page https://www.ball.com/terms-of-use-and-privacy-policies. No mirror was used; the document prints no last-updated or effective date, and the site shows no version stamp. The standalone Cookie Policy PDF could not be retrieved (server returned HTML instead of PDF), so cookie specifics were not verified. Ball Corporation is a B2B beverage-packaging company (aerospace business sold to BAE Systems in 2024); it has no consumer subscriptions, accounts, or shopping flow, so the auto-renew and arbitration categories score on what actually exists. On the Privacy Shield finding: the document's EU-US/Swiss-US Privacy Shield certification language was verified in the text, but whether Ball has since re-certified under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework (which replaced Privacy Shield after its July 2020 invalidation in Schrems II) could not be verified from the documents read.
These notes come from the original draft and are not independent verification.