Bio-Techne
Health Care
37
out of 100. Number 329 of 512, counting from the worst.
Where Bio-Techne does well
- Arbitration 0 of 20. Nothing found.
- Renewals 0 of 20. Nothing found.
- No forced arbitration or class-action waiver exists in the public-facing customer terms — unlike many peers, they don't funnel customer disputes into mandatory arbitration.
- No subscriptions, auto-renewals, or cancellation traps: it's a straight purchase model.
- They offer real opt-outs: you can stop marketing emails and stop them sharing your data with unaffiliated third parties for their own marketing (via privacy@bio-techne.com).
- They ask users not to send sensitive info, don't knowingly collect data from anyone under 16, publish regional privacy contacts (EEA/UK) and tell you how to complain to data-protection regulators — basics many companies skip.
Even though this is a lab-reagent company, it admits to selling and sharing your personal data (identity, purchase history, browsing history, location, job info, and profiles built from your data) with advertising networks and marketing partners for targeted advertising.
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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Even though this is a lab-reagent company, it admits to selling and sharing your personal data (identity, purchase history, browsing history, location, job info, and profiles built from your data) with advertising networks and marketing partners for targeted advertising.
The chart also details the categories of Personal Information that we “sell” and “share” for purposes of cross-context behavioral or targeted advertising, including in the preceding twelve (12) months. ... Identifiers ... Commercial Information ... Internet or network activity information ... Geolocation Data ... Employment Information ... Inferences drawn from any of the Personal Information listed above ... sold to or shared with: ad networks; joint marketing partners
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They hand your personal information to third-party marketing partners so those companies can send you marketing messages, and to contest sponsors — standard data-sharing, but with no named limits on who gets it.
We may disclose Personal Information: ... To third parties, including joint marketing partners, to permit them to send you marketing communications, consistent with your choices ... To third party sponsors of sweepstakes, contests, and similar promotions
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If you turn on your browser's Do Not Track setting, they ignore it — they keep collecting your data anyway.
We do not currently respond to browser do-not-track signals.
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They can change the privacy policy at any time, and the changes take effect the moment they post them — no requirement to notify you or get your consent first.
The “LAST UPDATED” legend at the top of this Privacy Policy indicates when this Privacy Policy was last revised. Any changes will become effective when we post the revised Privacy Policy on the Services.
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Their cookie policy tracks extremely granular behavior: your exact cursor position, every mouse click, how far you scroll, and your precise location — classic session-recording and fingerprinting territory.
In this context we may collect, use, and combine the following information related to you: ... Geolocation (latitude/longitude based on IP address); ... Mouse cursor position; Mouse clicks; and/or Page scroll position.
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They can cut off your supply instantly, with no notice and no liability, based on their own awareness of a sanctions list. And if their products fail, they disclaim all warranties and cap their liability at what you paid — no consequential damages, not even the cost of replacing the product.
Bio-Techne may terminate this Agreement and discontinue any ongoing supply to or business with Purchaser immediately, without notice and without liability, upon Bio-Techne becoming aware that Purchaser, or any party associated with Purchaser, is named on any restricted party list. ... THE ABOVE WARRANTIES ARE EXCLUSIVE, AND BIO-TECHNE MAKES NO OTHER WARRANTY OR REPRESENTATION OF ANY KIND WHATSOEVER, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ... BIO-TECHNE'S TOTAL LIABILITY TO PURCHASER ... SHALL BE LIMITED TO THE TOTAL AMOUNT PAID BY PURCHASER TO BIO-TECHNE FOR THE APPLICABLE PRODUCTS. IN NO EVENT WILL BIO-TECHNE BE LIABLE FOR THE COST OF PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS.
How these were found
Privacy Policy was read in full via browser_open (last updated March 24, 2026). The Terms and Conditions page (bio-techne.com/terms-and-conditions) timed out on the one fetch attempt, so T&C findings trace to verbatim search-result snippets from the official bio-techne.com domain rather than a full page read; a verbatim mirror (e.g., OpenTermsArchive) was not found. The cookies policy was read only via search snippets. Bio-Techne is a B2B life-sciences reagent supplier with a thin consumer surface: no consumer website terms of use, subscriptions, or account agreements were found beyond the sales T&C and privacy/cookie policies, so categories like arbitration and auto-renew were scored 0 by absence, not by virtue. Binding-arbitration clauses exist in its executive employment agreements (investors.bio-techne.com) but concern employees, not customers, and were not scored.
These notes come from the original draft and are not independent verification.