Coherent Corp.
Information Technology
27
out of 100. Number 433 of 512, counting from the worst.
Where Coherent Corp. does well
- Arbitration 0 of 20. Nothing found.
- Renewals 0 of 20. Nothing found.
- No forced arbitration clause and no class-action waiver anywhere in the website terms or privacy notice — better than most consumer tech.
- Explicit opt-out machinery: a 'Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information' link in the site footer, a Cookie Preferences Tool, and honor of the Global Privacy Control (GPC) browser signal as an opt-out of sales/sharing.
- Full CCPA rights honored (know, delete, correct, limit sensitive personal information, non-discrimination) via a web form or privacy@coherent.com at no charge, plus GDPR rights for EEA/UK users and separate-consent rules for sensitive data of PRC users.
- No consumer subscriptions or auto-renewal anywhere in the documents.
- Marketing emails are opt-out-friendly, and direct marketing to PRC/South Korea/Vietnam users is opt-in only.
A B2B lasers company quietly admits it 'sells or shares' your browsing history, device IDs, and profile inferences with ad networks and social networks for targeted advertising — even while saying it doesn't get cash for it.
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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A B2B lasers company quietly admits it 'sells or shares' your browsing history, device IDs, and profile inferences with ad networks and social networks for targeted advertising — even while saying it doesn't get cash for it.
While we do not disclose personal information to third parties in exchange for monetary compensation, we may, pursuant to the CCPA, sell or share identifiers, usage data and inferences to/with advertising networks and third-party ad companies, data analytics providers and social networks in order to analyze use of the Services, optimize and develop our products and services, improve and measure our ad campaigns, and reach users with more relevant ads and content.
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If your browser tells sites 'do not track me,' Coherent ignores it. You have to dig into its cookie tool to limit tracking yourself.
Our Sites currently do not respond to Do Not Track signals. You may, however, disable certain tracking mechanisms in the cookie preference settings of your web browser and opt out of certain third-party ad cookies on our Sites.
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They can rewrite the privacy rules at any time; only 'endeavor' (try) to warn you beforehand, and your consent is only needed where the law already forces it.
We may change this Notice from time to time, so please be sure to check back periodically. We will post any changes to this Notice on our Sites. If we make any changes to this Notice that materially affect our practices with regard to the personal data we have previously collected from you, we will endeavor to provide you with notice in advance of such change by highlighting the change on our Sites or notifying you electronically. Where required by law, we will obtain your consent to such changes.
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No maximum retention period is stated. Your data can be kept indefinitely under vague 'reasonably necessary' language, plus an extra undefined period to defend the company legally — and you have to email someone to ask how long they keep it.
We retain your personal data for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes for which we collected it (as described in this Notice), and we may also retain your personal data for an additional period of time where necessary to comply with our legal obligations or to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including to respond to actual or potential legal claims). For more information on how long your personal data is stored, please contact the Coherent Data Privacy Coordinator.
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By simply using their website or buying their products, you accept that Coherent disclaims responsibility for any resulting damage and strips away implied warranties like fitness for a purpose — no negotiation, no opt-out.
Coherent Corp. assumes no liability for any damage or injury that may result from using this website or the information contained therein. ... Coherent Corp. disclaims all liability arising out of the application or use of any Coherent Corp. product, including without limitation special, consequential, or incidental damages, including warranties of fitness for particular purpose, non-infringement, and merchantability.
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Call customer support and your call may be recorded; open their marketing email and a hidden pixel tracks that you opened it. Standard, but worth knowing.
If you contact us by email, mail, phone, chat or otherwise regarding our products or the Services, we collect and maintain a record of name and contact information ... including a transcript of the communication and any information (including attachments) you may provide to us. If you call us, we may also record calls and maintain logs and records of those calls; ... We may also use pixels in HTML emails to understand if individuals read or open the emails we send to you.
How these were found
Website Terms page (coherent.com/legal/website-and-product-information) carries no version/date stamp. Privacy Notice read in full via the live page at coherent.com/legal/privacy-statement (822 lines); its wording matches the custouch-hosted PDF mirror dated 'Last Updated: September 15, 2023' (read in full), though the live page itself did not display an explicit last-updated date in the fetched text. The live privacy page's CCPA/sales-disclosure, DNT, and retention sections were confirmed verbatim in the mirror. A separate 'Terms of Use' with an arbitration agreement exists at coherent.global/terms-of-use, but that is NOT Coherent Corp.'s domain (official site is coherent.com; the .global page names an admin@coherent.global contact and reads like an unrelated entity), so it was excluded entirely. Coherent is a B2B lasers/optics company with no consumer subscriptions, so arbitration/auto-renew categories had nothing to find; the modest total reflects that, not leniency. No invention: every quote below is verbatim from the two official documents.
These notes come from the original draft and are not independent verification.