CF Industries
Materials
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out of 100. Number 400 of 512, counting from the worst.
Where CF Industries does well
- Renewals 0 of 20. Nothing found.
- Data sharing 4 of 20. Few problems found.
- Data retention 1 of 15. Few problems found.
- CF explicitly says it doesn't collect personally identifiable info unless you volunteer it, and that it won't use or share it in ways unrelated to the purpose you gave it.
- It promises to honor your browser's do-not-track setting.
- The site is not directed at children under 13 and says it knowingly collects nothing from them.
- The cookie banner also discloses the arbitration agreement up front (many companies hide it entirely).
- No consumer accounts, auto-renewing purchases, or data broker activity exist on the thin consumer surface.
Anything you email them unsolicited — an idea, feedback, a business proposal — they can use however they want, forever, royalty-free, with no obligation to you.
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 email them unsolicited — an idea, feedback, a business proposal — they can use however they want, forever, royalty-free, with no obligation to you.
If you voluntarily email CF, you grant CF a perpetual, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to use, copy, modify, distribute, and otherwise exploit any and all information in such unsolicited communication.
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Simply visiting their website signs you up for binding arbitration — no court, and effectively no class actions — for any dispute tied to the site.
You agree that any dispute, controversy or claim arising out of or relating in any way to your use of this website shall be exclusively resolved by binding arbitration.
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If something goes wrong, you have one year to file — even where the law would give you longer — or you lose the right to complain at all.
Regardless of any statute or law to the contrary, any claim or cause of action arising out of or related to use of this website or these Terms and Conditions must be filed within one (1) year after such claim or cause of action arose or be forever barred.
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Paired with a blanket disclaimer of all direct, indirect, incidental, and consequential damages, this means: your only recourse if the site harms you is to stop visiting.
If you are dissatisfied with any portion of this website or with any of these Terms and Conditions, your sole and exclusive remedy is to discontinue using this website.
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Beyond legal compulsion, CF reserves a judgment call to hand over your info whenever it 'believes' disclosure is 'necessary or advisable' — a broad, undefined carve-out.
CF may disclose personal information you provided to us if CF is required to do so by law, court order, or as requested by a governmental or law enforcement authority, or in the good faith belief that disclosure is otherwise necessary or advisable.
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They can change the privacy terms unilaterally; there's no promise of notice to you — it's your job to keep checking.
CF may, from time to time, make changes to this Privacy Policy. We encourage you to reread this Privacy Policy periodically to learn of any updates and changes we have made to this Policy.
How these were found
Read directly via browser fetch on Oct 1, 2026 from cfindustries.com — no mirror needed, no block encountered. Neither page showed a visible 'last updated' date. Note: the site's cookie banner says 'You may opt-out of the arbitration agreement within 60 days as described in the Terms,' but the full Terms of Use text fetched describes no opt-out mechanism — a discrepancy worth flagging. CF Industries is a B2B fertilizer/chemicals producer with no consumer products or accounts; scores reflect the website terms only, hence the modest total.
These notes come from the original draft and are not independent verification.