ConocoPhillips
Energy
28
out of 100. Number 419 of 512, counting from the worst.
Where ConocoPhillips does well
- Arbitration 0 of 20. Nothing found.
- Renewals 0 of 20. Nothing found.
- No forced arbitration or class-action waiver anywhere in the documents — disputes go to Texas courts under normal rules.
- The privacy policy explicitly states 'We do not sell your Personal Information/Data for monetary gain or other consideration' and does not share it for targeted or cross-context behavioral advertising, with a California 'Do Not Sell or Share' request path.
- It grants deletion, access, portability, correction, and consent-withdrawal rights plus a right to non-discrimination, honors DNT-style cookie opt-outs via a Privacy Portal, and promises to delete data of children under 18 found on the services.
- Country addenda cover the EEA, UK, Canada, Australia, China and others rather than a US-only policy.
- As a B2B oil producer there are no consumer subscriptions, so there are no auto-renewal or cancellation traps.
ConocoPhillips can rewrite its website Terms at any time without telling you, and simply visiting the site afterward counts as you agreeing to the new terms — a pure browsewrap unilateral-change clause.
The fine print
7 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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ConocoPhillips can rewrite its website Terms at any time without telling you, and simply visiting the site afterward counts as you agreeing to the new terms — a pure browsewrap unilateral-change clause.
ConocoPhillips reserves the right to modify them at any time and without actual notice to you. You should check these Terms periodically for changes. ... By entering and/or using this website following any modifications to the Terms, you agree to be bound by any such modifications to the Terms.
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The privacy policy can be changed at ConocoPhillips' discretion with no direct notice, and continuing to use the site afterward means you legally accepted the changes.
We reserve the right to amend this Privacy Policy at any time at our discretion ... your use of our Service(s) linked to this Privacy Policy after such changes have been posted constitutes your agreement to such terms.
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Visiting this informational website requires you to waive any privacy rights your own state or country gives you beyond Texas/federal law, and you can only sue ConocoPhillips in Texas courts — an unusually aggressive waiver for a public website.
By accessing or visiting our websites, you expressly waive any and all rights, including those related to privacy, to the extent such rights are different and/or in conflict with those rights protected by federal or Texas laws. ... exclusive jurisdiction for any claim, dispute or cause of action with ConocoPhillips ... resides in the courts of the State of Texas.
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You may only link to ConocoPhillips with a plain-text link to one page; any other link — even a normal hyperlink — requires prior written permission, and 'unauthorized deep linking' is threatened with legal action.
If you choose to link to ConocoPhillips through any mechanism, you are permitted to link only through a plain-text link to this Web page. ... Any unauthorized deep linking to our websites shall operate to void any and all rights permitted under this agreement and may subject you to legal action and liability under all applicable laws.
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If anything on the site harms you — even if they were told it could — the most you can recover is what you paid to access the site, which is $0 for a free website.
IN NO EVENT SHALL CONOCOPHILLIPS' TOTAL LIABILITY TO YOU HEREIN, FOR ANY CLAIM OR ACTION ARISING FROM USE OF THE WEBSITE ... EXCEED THE AMOUNT PAID BY YOU, IF ANY, FOR ACCESSING THIS SITE.
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Your personal data can be sold or transferred as a corporate asset in a merger or even in mere 'contemplation' of a deal. The policy also lists sensitive categories it may collect (nationality, race/ethnic origin, political or religious beliefs, SSN, driver's license numbers), and its contact forms add Google as a co-processor of your name, email, phone, IP address, device/browser details and on-site behavior.
If we undertake or are involved in any merger, acquisition, reorganization, sale of assets, financing due diligence, bankruptcy, receivership, transition of service to another provider, or other business transfer event, then we may sell, transfer, or share some or all our assets, including your Personal Information/Data, in connection with such transaction or in contemplation of such transaction.
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Retention has no stated time limit — just 'reasonably necessary' — and data left in backups 'will not be removed or changed' unless an internal retention schedule (not published) says so, so deletion requests likely won't purge everything.
As a general matter, we only retain Personal Information/Data for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected ... There may also be residual information that will remain within our backup files, databases, and other records, which will not be removed or changed, except in accordance with our records retention policy and schedules.
How these were found
B2B oil producer: public-facing legal surface is limited to an informational website — no consumer accounts, purchases, or subscriptions exist to score for auto-renew traps, so that category is genuinely 0. Terms and Conditions page (https://www.conocophillips.com/terms-and-conditions/) carries no version date; read in full via browser_open on Oct 1, 2026. Global Privacy Policy PDF (Last Modified: August 2023, ~3 years old) read in full via browser_open on Oct 1, 2026. No mirrors or verbatim archives were needed — the official site and its static CDN allowed direct fetching. The contact-form 'ConocoPhillips and Google processing' consent notice was taken from official-domain search-result snippets (contact-us pages) rather than a full page fetch. Score is modest by design: most clauses are standard corporate-website boilerplate, and the data-protection posture is better than typical consumer tech.
These notes come from the original draft and are not independent verification.