Berkshire Hathaway
Financials
10
out of 100. Number 510 of 512, counting from the worst.
Where Berkshire Hathaway does well
- Arbitration 0 of 20. Nothing found.
- Renewals 0 of 20. Nothing found.
- Data sharing 0 of 20. Nothing found.
- Data retention 0 of 15. Nothing found.
- Zero forced arbitration, zero class-action waivers, zero auto-renew traps: the corporate site offers no accounts, subscriptions, or purchases of any kind, so there is nothing to sign away or be locked into.
- No privacy policy exists because the parent site appears to collect nothing (no forms, no logins, no checkout).
- The disclaimer's honesty is notable: rather than hiding behind legalese, it openly tells investors the information may be wrong or out of date and that outdated SEC reports carry no duty to update — refreshingly blunt compared to peers who bury disclaimers.
- The whole legal footprint is one short page instead of dozens.
You are technically forbidden from even linking to the Berkshire website without written permission — an unusually strict rule that most of the web ignores and that is far broader than a normal copyright notice.
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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You are technically forbidden from even linking to the Berkshire website without written permission — an unusually strict rule that most of the web ignores and that is far broader than a normal copyright notice.
Reproduction or distribution of any materials obtained on this website or linking to this website without written permission is prohibited.
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Berkshire tells you upfront that the information on its own official website may be wrong, incomplete, or stale — including, by implication, the SEC reports and shareholder letters it hosts.
However, no representation is made as to the completeness or accuracy of the information it contains. In particular, you should be aware that this information may be incomplete, may contain errors or may have become out of date.
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SEC filings hosted on the site speak only as of their filing dates, and the company explicitly says it has no obligation to correct or update them there — so a dated report can sit silently without warning.
Berkshire makes no commitment, and disclaims any duty, to update any of those reports.
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Any content on the site can be changed or removed at any moment with no notice to visitors; there is no user agreement being changed, but the unilateral right is stated plainly.
Berkshire reserves the right to add, modify or delete any information at this website at any time.
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Everything on the site is offered with zero warranty — no implied promise that it works, is fit for a purpose, or doesn't infringe anything.
This publication and any references to products or services are provided "as is" without any warranty or implied term of any kind.
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The corporate site offers no email, form, or chat channel for visitors — and warns you in advance that if you write in, you won't get a reply.
If you have any comments about our WEB page, you can write us at the address shown above. However, due to the limited number of personnel in our corporate office, we are unable to provide a direct response.
How these were found
Only legal document found on berkshirehathaway.com is the 'Disclaimer' page (http://berkshirehathaway.com/disclaimer.html), read in full Oct 1, 2026 via browser fetch; no version date or last-updated stamp is published on it. The corporate homepage is a famously minimal static page with no footer legal links, no Terms of Use, and no Privacy Policy. A third-party scan (guard.report) claimed Google Analytics/Tag Manager tracking on the site with no privacy policy, but this could not be verified from any company-published document, so it is not scored as a clause. Scored as a thin-surface parent company: operating subsidiaries (GEICO, Berkshire Hathaway Energy, BH HomeServices, etc.) each publish their own separate terms and privacy policies and were not evaluated here.
These notes come from the original draft and are not independent verification.