Becton Dickinson
Health Care
22
out of 100. Number 483 of 512, counting from the worst.
Where Becton Dickinson does well
- Arbitration 2 of 20. Few problems found.
- Renewals 0 of 20. Nothing found.
- Data retention 2 of 15. Few problems found.
- No forced arbitration or class-action waiver anywhere in the website Terms of Use — disputes go to New Jersey courts instead.
- BD's Surgi-Pal product privacy notice states 'BD does not sell consumers' personal information' (snippet-sourced). The live chat requires explicit consent before it collects personal data, and marketing emails can be stopped via an unsubscribe link in each message. CA residents are promised no discrimination (different pricing/quality) for exercising their privacy rights.
BD can change the rules at any time without telling you; simply visiting the site afterward counts as agreeing to the new terms.
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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BD can change the rules at any time without telling you; simply visiting the site afterward counts as agreeing to the new terms.
BD reserves the right to update or modify this Agreement at any time without prior notice. Your use of this Site following any such change constitutes your agreement to follow and be bound by this Agreement as revised.
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Anything you send BD as feedback — including product ideas, bug reports, or suggestions — is treated as BD's property to use however it wants, with no confidentiality obligation to you.
If, despite our request that you not send us your ideas and materials, you still send them, and in the event you post Public Information on our Site, all such Public Information and all such Unsolicited Information will be considered NON-CONFIDENTIAL and NON-PROPRIETARY and BD and its affiliates are free to use such information for any purpose and in any manner whatsoever.
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If BD gets sued because of your use of its website (or content you submitted), you must cover BD's legal and accounting bills with no stated limit.
You agree to defend, indemnify, hold harmless and pay any reasonable legal and accounting fees without limitation incurred by BD, its affiliates, its and their directors, officers, employees, agents, investors or licensors.
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BD scrapes public social media posts, photos, and videos about its products — including to identify influencers — and can merge that with other data it holds about you.
We may also monitor conversations on public social media platforms about our products and services, and collect information, such as comments, photos, videos, blogs, etc, to the extent necessary to better understand how consumers and healthcare professionals experience our products, and BD's reputation, and to identify social media influencers.
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You lose the right to sue over anything related to the site after one year — a shorter window than many legal claims normally allow.
Any claims arising in connection with your use of the Site or any Content must be brought within one (1) year of the date of the event giving rise to such action occurred.
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BD disclaims essentially all liability for its own website's errors; even if the cap is ruled invalid, your maximum recovery is $100.
UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES, SHALL BD, ITS AFFILIATES OR ANY OF THEIR RESPECTIVE DIRECTORS, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, OR AGENTS, BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT OR INDIRECT LOSSES OR DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH YOUR USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE THIS SITE ... AGGREGATE LIABILITY ... SHALL NOT EXCEED, ONE HUNDRED ($100.00) DOLLARS.
How these were found
BD is a B2B/institutional medical-device company with almost no direct consumer surface; this scoring reflects only its public website legal docs and is deliberately modest. Documents read via browser_open: full Terms of Use at eu.bd.com/iv-news/terms-conditions/ (a BD-branded site presenting Becton, Dickinson and Company's Terms of Use Agreement; states 'last revised on June 23, 2020'); Terms of Use at www.bd.com/en-us/about-bd/policies/terms-of-use (the text fetcher only rendered the 'Unsolicited Information' accordion section, the rest did not extract); Privacy Policy Statement at www.bd.com/en-no/about-bd/policies/privacy-policy-statement (read sections 1 through 1.2; sections 2-8 on disclosure, transfers, retention and rights did not extract — the fetcher returned only the first 155 lines; en-no locale shown because BD auto-redirects by IP, content is the global statement). The Surgi-Pal mobile app privacy notice quote ('BD does not sell consumers' personal information') comes from a search-result snippet of www.bd.com/en-us/about-bd/policies/surgi-pal-mobile-application-privacy-notice, not a full page read. No explicit data-retention schedule was found in the extractable text. No OpenTermsArchive or other mirror was needed.
These notes come from the original draft and are not independent verification.