Corteva
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out of 100. Number 285 of 512, counting from the worst.
Where Corteva does well
- Renewals 0 of 20. Nothing found.
- Data retention 3 of 15. Few problems found.
- No forced arbitration or class-action waiver was found in the website-facing terms visible; the only binding-arbitration clause found applies to Canadian seed purchases and carves out IP/use-restriction disputes and non-payment collection claims.
- The privacy policy offers cookie consent options, a behavioral-advertising opt-out (including a US targeted-advertising opt-out button), and EEA/UK rights to access, correct, delete, restrict, object to, and port personal data.
- Payment card data is collected by a third-party processor under that processor's own privacy policy, which Corteva says it has 'no control over' — i.e., Corteva itself does not handle card numbers.
- TUA marketing texts are strictly opt-in ('consent is not a condition of purchase'), and growers may opt out of SMS Update Notifications.
- The TUA's license revocation requires at least 30 days' written notice (180 days in Minnesota, 90 in Wisconsin), and right-of-entry visits require 3 days' advance written notice plus a reasonable attempt to discuss the visit first.
- The privacy statement explicitly asks users not to submit sensitive personal information unless Corteva requests it.
Corteva can hand your personal information to agents, retailers, distributors and other business partners — a broad commercial distribution network, not just vendors providing a contracted service 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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Corteva can hand your personal information to agents, retailers, distributors and other business partners — a broad commercial distribution network, not just vendors providing a contracted service to you.
To third-parties such as agents, retailers, distributors and business partners to provide products and services to our customers and in connection with licensing, joint development or similar arrangements.
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Your physical location and ad-viewing history can be shared with marketing partners for targeted advertising — you have to opt out rather than opting in.
We may also share your device's physical location, combined with information about what advertisements you viewed and other information we collect, with our marketing partners to enable them to provide you with more personalized content and to study the effectiveness of advertising campaigns.
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Corteva can rewrite its privacy policy at any time and your continued use of the site counts as agreeing to the new version — no affirmative consent or advance notice required.
Any changes will become effective when We post the revised Privacy Statement on the Services. Your use of the Services following these changes means that you accept the revised Privacy Statement.
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New terms posted on Corteva's stewardship website become binding on the grower the moment they are posted, and simply planting the already-purchased seed counts as accepting the changed terms — the grower must even keep their contact info current just to receive the change notices.
Each Update Notification is hereby incorporated into this TUA and deemed a material part of the Agreement once posted on www.traitstewardship.com... Grower's use of Seed after Corteva posts an update on www.traitstewardship.com which updates of this TUA, the Agreement, an Update Notification or a Guide, or a new Update Notification or a new Guide, constitutes Grower's acceptance of and agreement to be bound by the provisions of such updated or new documents.
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A grower who spots a possible seed-performance problem has just 15 days to notify Corteva or loses the right to make any claim at all. And if a claim survives, the grower's exclusive remedy is limited to a refund of the seed price or replacement seed — at Corteva's choice — with all indirect, incidental, special, punitive and consequential damages barred.
Because Corteva must have sufficient time to investigate any Claim regarding the performance or nonperformance [of] the Seed, no Claim can be asserted against Corteva unless Grower gives notice to Corteva within fifteen (15) days after Grower first observes or has knowledge of indications that the performance of the Seed may be subject to a valid warranty Claim.
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Signing the seed agreement grants Corteva and its designees the right to enter the grower's land, photograph/video farming operations, and take soil and crop samples — lasting a full year after the agreement ends. Visits require only 3 days' advance written notice.
For the term of this TUA and for one year following its termination, Grower hereby grants Corteva, the Representatives and their respective employees, contractors, subcontractors, agents and designees ... the complete and unencumbered right, at all times, to (i) observe and/or take video and/or pictures of the crop or Seed, farming activities, spray or other applications, and harvesting activities; and/or (ii) enter upon and have reasonable ingress to and egress from ... the property where Grower has planted or is storing or growing Seed ... for purposes of data collection, field and crop inspection, testing and examining the land and Grower's crop and taking samples of soil, crops, crop residue or seeds located thereon.
How these were found
Documents read Oct 1, 2026, all on official Corteva domains: (1) Corteva global Privacy Statement via https://www.corteva.com/za/privacy-policy.html (same global statement as the corteva.com privacy page per search snippets; US-state addendum link redirected to the Indonesian homepage, so US-specific rights details were not captured). (2) US Terms of Use at https://www.corteva.com/us/terms-of-use.html rendered only partially (restrictions/monitoring sections, ~23 lines); the full ToU body was not retrievable, so no arbitration/dispute-resolution language in the website ToU was verified. (3) US Technology Use Agreement PDF ('2026 Growing Season / Document valid through December 2026, Revision date: June 2025') at corteva.com content/dam path — this is a grower seed-license contract, public-facing but B2B. (4) 2025 Corteva Terms and Conditions of Purchase, a Canadian document (corteva.ca, crop season 2025) — its binding-arbitration clause applies to Canadian purchases, not US website users. Corteva is a B2B agribusiness with no consumer subscriptions, auto-renewals, or consumer data monetization; the score is kept modest to reflect that limited consumer exposure. No mirrors needed; no automated-fetch blocks encountered.
These notes come from the original draft and are not independent verification.