Boston Scientific
Health Care
23
out of 100. Number 479 of 512, counting from the worst.
Where Boston Scientific does well
- Arbitration 0 of 20. Nothing found.
- Renewals 0 of 20. Nothing found.
- No forced arbitration or class-action waiver anywhere: disputes are handled in Massachusetts state/federal courts, which is consumer-friendlier than the mandatory-arbitration boilerplate most companies use. No subscription or auto-renewal traps — this is a B2B medical-device company with no consumer billing at all. The privacy notice explicitly says personal data is not sold 'for money in the traditional sense' and states the company has no actual knowledge of selling or sharing data of minors under
- It honors the Global Privacy Control (GPC) browser signal as a valid opt-out of non-essential cookies, and provides a real rights-request process: a OneTrust Consumer Data Request Form plus a toll-free line (1-888-914-9661 with PIN 554 415), with rights to know, access, delete, correct, and opt out, and a no-retaliation promise for exercising them.
Even while denying they sell data 'for money,' the policy admits it legally counts as selling/sharing your browsing/device data (and your email address, if you opted in once) with ad companies, marketing partners, and social media platforms for targeted advertising — and says this happened within the last 12 months.
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 while denying they sell data 'for money,' the policy admits it legally counts as selling/sharing your browsing/device data (and your email address, if you opted in once) with ad companies, marketing partners, and social media platforms for targeted advertising — and says this happened within the last 12 months.
We do not sell your personal data for money in the traditional sense. However, we may “sell” or “share” certain personal data for cross-context behavioral advertising with third parties, as those terms are defined and permitted by applicable state laws. In particular, in the preceding twelve (12) months, we may have sold or shared (a) your Device and Browsing Information collected through cookies and tracking technologies for targeted advertising, and/or (b) your email address if you specifically consented to such disclosure for targeted advertising, with ... Third party advertising and analytics providers ... Joint marketing partners ... Social media platforms.
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Boston Scientific can change the rules at any time with no notice beyond posting — changes take effect instantly, and the burden is on you to re-read the terms on every visit.
BSC also may make changes to these Terms, which will be posted to this page and will become effective immediately upon posting. For this reason, we urge you to read these Terms each time you visit our Site.
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If you contact them with an idea (even just feedback on the site), you hand over every intellectual-property right in it, worldwide, for free — and they can use it for anything without ever paying or crediting you.
Please be advised, however, that BSC and its employees do not accept or consider unsolicited ideas... If, despite this request, you still send BSC your ideas and materials, please understand that by submitting the information through this Site, you assign BSC, free of charge, all worldwide rights, title and interest in all copyrights and other intellectual property rights in the information or materials you submit. We will be entitled to use any information and materials you submit through this Site for any purpose whatsoever without restriction and without compensating you in any way.
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There is no fixed deletion timeline — your data can be kept indefinitely after you stop doing business with them, including for 'internal research' and analytics, not just legal obligations.
We will retain your personal data for as long as necessary or appropriate for the purposes for which it was collected or as set out in this Privacy Notice and to comply with any applicable laws, contracts or legal requirements. Once our relationship with you has come to an end, we may retain your personal data for a period of time that enables us to: Maintain business records for analysis and/or audit purposes. Perform internal research to assess and improve our business. ... Defend or bring any existing or potential legal claims.
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If you chat with their AI assistant, the conversation is recorded and kept — including to train their systems — so anything you type into the chat (even health-related questions) becomes training material.
Chatbot interactions may be recorded and retained for quality assurance, training, analytics, and compliance purposes.
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Merely visiting the site means you agree to cover their legal bills if anything goes wrong because of your visit — while they disclaim responsibility for any harm to you, even damage they knew was likely.
You agree to indemnify, defend and hold BSC, its parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, shareholders, directors, officers, employees and agents, harmless from any claim, demand, liability, expense, or loss, including reasonable attorneys' fees, made by any third party due to or arising out of, or in any way connected with your use of or access to the Site or your violation of these Terms. IN NO EVENT SHALL BSC BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, PUNITIVE, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ... EVEN IF BSC WAS ADVISED THAT SUCH DAMAGES WERE LIKELY OR POSSIBLE.
How these were found
Terms of Use page states 'These Terms were last updated January 30, 2007' (stale; ~19 years old). The page read was the general Terms of Use rendered at bostonscientific.com/en-US/crm-portal-terms-of-use.html. The US Privacy Policy has no stated effective date in the fetched version; its CCPA section confirms practices within the preceding 12 months. Boston Scientific is a B2B medical-device company with a thin consumer surface (no consumer accounts, subscriptions, or e-commerce), so there is little consumer-facing material to score — the score is modest by design. All documents read directly via browser_open on bostonscientific.com; no mirrors needed. Key clause-bearing sections (e.g., the privacy notice's Sections 1-4 referenced by the state-rights section) were read as part of the full-page fetches.
These notes come from the original draft and are not independent verification.