Corning Inc.
Information Technology
25
out of 100. Number 452 of 512, counting from the worst.
Where Corning Inc. does well
- Arbitration 0 of 20. Nothing found.
- Renewals 0 of 20. Nothing found.
- Explicit no-sale pledge: 'Corning does not and will not sell personal information' (Cookie Policy, Rights of California Residents).
- Honors Do-Not-Track: if a browser sends DNT, all non-essential cookies are disabled until the user explicitly enables them (Cookie Policy) — better than many peers.
- No forced arbitration anywhere: complaints can go to data protection supervisory authorities and courts, and BCR rights are enforceable by individuals as third-party beneficiaries (Global Data Protection Policy; Internet Data Protection Notice).
- Global policy is GDPR-aligned with Binding Corporate Rules applied worldwide, access/deletion/portability rights, a privacy office contact (privacy@corning.com), and retention principles limiting storage to what's necessary — a comparatively strong framework for a B2B company.
Anything you send Corning through its websites that isn't 'personal data' — ideas, feedback, documents, designs — gets zero confidentiality protection, and Corning grants itself an unlimited free license to reuse, distribute, or commercially exploit it, even in ways identical to your own plans or products.
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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Anything you send Corning through its websites that isn't 'personal data' — ideas, feedback, documents, designs — gets zero confidentiality protection, and Corning grants itself an unlimited free license to reuse, distribute, or commercially exploit it, even in ways identical to your own plans or products.
Non-personal data you may supply to Corning through Corning websites will not be treated as proprietary or as confidential and Corning assumes no obligation to protect such information from disclosure. Corning may use any such information you supply to respond to inquiries or as part of its marketing activities. Further, the submission of such information to Corning shall not restrict the purchase, manufacture, or use of similar products, services, plans, and ideas by Corning for any purpose whatever and Corning shall be free to reproduce, use, disclose, and distribute the information to others without restriction.
Corning Incorporated Internet Data Protection Notice (Miscellaneous)
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Third-party ad companies can place their own trackers on Corning's site to build a profile of what you're interested in and follow you with targeted ads on other websites.
These cookies may be set through our site by our advertising partners. They may be used by those companies to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant advertisements on other sites.
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Corning tracks your browsing behavior, turns it into remarketing audiences, and hands that data to Google so you can be targeted with Corning ads across Google's ad network.
Based on behavior on the website, profiles are created with remarketing lists, in order to be able to show relevant advertisements to visitors on other sites based on previously displayed behavior on the website, which is stored in targeting cookies. ... This aggregated data is shared with Google, so that these advertisements can be shown in the Google network.
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If Corning (or one of its business units) is bought or merged, your personal data can be handed to the new owner as part of the deal — no separate consent or opt-out required.
However, Corning may have to disclose personal data it considers necessary in order to comply with court orders, subpoenas, governmental or law enforcement requests, or to a third party to which ownership of Corning or a Corning affiliate is transferred via an acquisition, merger, sale of assets, etc.
Corning Incorporated Internet Data Protection Notice (Disclosure)
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Corning can change its privacy terms on its own whenever it wants; the only promise is a 'reasonable effort' to post the new version on the site, and it's your job to keep checking — continued use means you've accepted whatever's new.
From time to time, we may make changes to this notice to reflect changes in our business or to serve you better. Corning will make reasonable efforts to publish any such changes in this notice, such as posting on this website. You should review this notice periodically to stay informed of any changes.
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Even when you exercise your right to be deleted, Corning keeps a record of your request and what kind of data was deleted — 'deletion' doesn't mean all traces of you disappear.
In the event you choose to delete or thoroughly anonymize your personal data from our database, we may retain a record of your deletion request as well as records indicating the type of information deleted as evidence of our compliance with this Internet Protection Notice.
Corning Incorporated Internet Data Protection Notice (Your rights)
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Every email you send Corning can be kept and logged — including your device's IP address, your address, and the timestamp — under a broad 'legitimate interest' fraud-detection justification.
Corning reserves the right to retain electronic communications sent by visitors based on its legitimate interest to detect and interrupt rogue emails. For this purpose, Corning also uses specific technology to forward e-mail and to log e-mail transactions. Logs of e-mail transactions include: date and time of message; name and IP address of the device used to send the e-mail; e-mail address of message originator; and Corning address of recipient.
Corning Incorporated Internet Data Protection Notice (Collection and Use)
How these were found
Documents read directly from corning.com (no mirrors needed): (1) Corning Incorporated Internet Data Protection Notice, last revised April 2026, at http://www.corning.com/worldwide/en/privacy-policy.html; (2) Corning Cookie Policy, read at http://www.corning.com/au/en/cookies.html on Oct 1, 2026 (AU edition of the global cookie policy; content consistent with the US privacy page); (3) Global Data Protection Policy PDF, last revised April 2026, at https://www.corning.com/media/worldwide/global/documents/Global_Data_Protection_Policy.pdf. Corning publishes no consumer-facing website Terms of Use for corning.com, and as a B2B glass/materials company has no consumer checkout or subscription flows, so the arbitration (0/20) and auto-renew (0/20) categories score zero from absence of consumer traps rather than from affirmative good behavior. The Privacy Notice for Customers page (privacy-notice-for-customers.html) rendered only its header and was not relied upon. Social Media Terms of Use appeared only as search-result snippets and no clauses were drawn from them.
These notes come from the original draft and are not independent verification.