Cooper Companies (The)
Health Care
41
out of 100. Number 284 of 512, counting from the worst.
Where Cooper Companies (The) does well
- Renewals 0 of 20. Nothing found.
- No forced arbitration or class-action waiver anywhere — disputes go to real courts (California).
- No monetary sale of personal information; medical, financial, and sensory data are explicitly excluded from ad-partner sharing.
- Honors Global Privacy Control (GPC) and offers a cookie opt-out for targeted ads plus a toll-free rights line ((855) 526-6737).
- No auto-renewal or cancellation-trap language found (the site is informational/pay-per-order, not subscription-based).
Just visiting the corporate site means you give up any claim for damages against Cooper — the release of all claims is buried in the first paragraph of the terms.
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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Just visiting the corporate site means you give up any claim for damages against Cooper — the release of all claims is buried in the first paragraph of the terms.
These Terms of Use include a release by you of all claims for damage against us that may arise out of your use of this Site. By using this site, you agreeing to this release.
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Cooper can rewrite the terms whenever it wants with no promise to notify you; just continuing to visit the site counts as agreeing to the new terms.
We can amend these Terms of Use at any time and will update these Terms of Use in the event of any such amendments. If you continue to use the Site, you signify your agreement to our revisions to these Terms of Use, so be sure to check back frequently for the current terms.
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Cooper admits that the ad-tech services on its sites count as 'selling' or 'sharing' your personal data under California and Virginia privacy laws — even though it insists it doesn't 'sell' data in the everyday sense.
Note that our use of services that help deliver interest-based ads to you may be classified under the State Privacy Laws as 'selling' or 'sharing' your Personal Information, however we do not otherwise 'sell' Personal Information.
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Despite the promise not to share your data outside the company group, Cooper carves out a blanket exception: your personal information may be shared for direct marketing and advertising, no permission required.
We will not share your personal information with a third party outside our corporate group, except: ... when we share your personal information for direct marketing and advertising purposes.
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Anything you post or send to CooperVision — photos, feedback, suggestions — becomes theirs to copy, publish, modify, or build products with, with no payment or credit owed to you.
You grant to CooperVision the right to use all content you upload or otherwise transmit to this Site, in any reasonable manner that CooperVision chooses, including, but not limited to, copying, displaying or publishing it, modifying it, or incorporating it into other material.
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Cooper gives no fixed deletion schedule — your data is kept for as long as it decides it needs it, and your posts can be retained for an undefined 'period of time.'
It is our policy to retain your personal information for the length of time required for the specific purpose or purposes for which it was collected... we may be obliged to store some personal information for a longer time. ... We may retain certain information and certain comments or posts for a period of time.
How these were found
All documents read directly from official domains (coopercos.com and coopervision.com) on Oct 1, 2026 — no mirrors needed; sites did not block fetching. Privacy Policy carries an EFFECTIVE DATE of 1 January 2023 and may not reflect later revisions. Neither Terms of Use document states a last-updated date. Consumer-facing consumer accounts, subscriptions, and e-commerce checkout terms were not found; the documents are website-use terms plus a privacy policy. No arbitration clause found in any document read.
These notes come from the original draft and are not independent verification.