Broadcom
Information Technology
38
out of 100. Number 315 of 512, counting from the worst.
Where Broadcom does well
- Arbitration 3 of 20. Few problems found.
- No forced arbitration on the consumer website surface: the Terms of Use are simply governed by California law with no arbitration clause.
- The mandatory confidential arbitration clause lives only in the B2B End User Agreement, a negotiated company-to-company contract with a three-arbitrator panel and a right to appeal an award to a court — not a one-sided consumer trap.
- The Privacy Policy states Broadcom does not sell Personal Data for money, honors Global Privacy Control / Do Not Track signals to disable non-essential cookies, and its GPS-chip geolocation service logs are purged on a rolling 24-hour basis with no ability to identify individuals.
- The End User Agreement requires mutual written agreement for amendments (Section 12.1).
Anything you upload or post on broadcom.com — comments, reviews, files, feedback — is treated as non-confidential, and Broadcom grants itself the right to copy, publish, and use it for any commercial purpose, forever.
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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Anything you upload or post on broadcom.com — comments, reviews, files, feedback — is treated as non-confidential, and Broadcom grants itself the right to copy, publish, and use it for any commercial purpose, forever.
Any material, information or other communication you transmit or post to this Site will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary ("Communications"). Broadcom will have no obligations with respect to the Communications. Broadcom and its designees will be free to copy, disclose, distribute, incorporate and otherwise use the Communications and all data, images, sounds, text, and other things embodied therein for any and all commercial or non-commercial purposes.
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Broadcom can change its website terms — and the products and prices listed there — whenever it wants, with no notice; the new terms apply to you automatically and it's your job to keep checking the page.
Broadcom may make changes to the materials at this Site, or to the products and prices described in them, at any time without notice. [...] Broadcom may revise these Terms at any time by updating this posting. You should visit this page from time to time to review the then-current Terms because they are binding on you.
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Support/maintenance contracts auto-renew and Broadcom will just bill you — you must give at least 30 days' written notice before the anniversary to opt out, or you're on the hook for another term.
If a renewal fee for Maintenance is identified on a Transaction Document, then Broadcom may automatically invoice Customer for such renewal unless Broadcom receives not less than thirty (30) days written notice from Customer prior to the anniversary of the applicable Term that such Maintenance is not desired.
Broadcom End User Agreement (Foundation Agreement, v05112026, via third-party PDF mirror)
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Your personal data flows to Broadcom's many affiliates/subsidiaries, third-party resellers/distributors, and service providers. Broadcom says it doesn't sell data for cash — but admits some cookies count as "selling or sharing" your data under California law.
Data Broadcom collects about you may be disclosed to Broadcom's affiliates or subsidiaries. [...] Certain data about you may be disclosed to select resellers and/or distributors, particularly if you or your company have purchased through a third party before. [...] Broadcom does not sell your Personal Data for money, however use of some cookies may constitute "selling" or "sharing" Personal Data under the California Privacy Rights Act.
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Any feedback or suggestions a customer gives Broadcom — even paid enterprise customers — become Broadcom's property to use, modify, and distribute for any business purpose, no permission needed and no compensation.
Customer agrees that Broadcom may use any feedback provided by Customer related to any Broadcom Offering for any Broadcom business purpose, without requiring consent including reproduction and preparation of derivative works based upon such feedback, as well as distribution of such derivative works.
Broadcom End User Agreement (Foundation Agreement, v05112026, via third-party PDF mirror)
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Broadcom gives no concrete deletion timeline — your data is kept for as long as Broadcom decides is "necessary" for its (broad) purposes, with no stated maximum.
Broadcom will retain your Personal Data for the period necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Notice and/or in applicable supplemental notices, unless a longer retention period is required by law.
How these were found
Broadcom is overwhelmingly B2B (semiconductors, VMware/CA/Symantec enterprise software) with a thin consumer surface — no consumer accounts, subscriptions, or cancellation flows exist to score, so the score is deliberately modest. Terms of Use footer reads 'Revised August 2024'; Privacy Policy is 'Effective August 7, 2026' (current). The End User Agreement quotes come from a third-party PDF mirror (images.examples.com, uploaded 2026-06, document version No.05112026), not fetched from broadcom.com directly — treat as a verbatim mirror. Its arbitration/auto-renew/feedback clauses apply to negotiated enterprise customer contracts, not consumer interactions. Official Terms of Use and Privacy Policy were read live on broadcom.com via text fetch on 2026-10-01.
These notes come from the original draft and are not independent verification.