Danaher Corporation
Health Care
17
out of 100. Number 506 of 512, counting from the worst.
Where Danaher Corporation does well
- Arbitration 0 of 20. Nothing found.
- Renewals 0 of 20. Nothing found.
- Data sharing 4 of 20. Few problems found.
- Data retention 3 of 15. Few problems found.
- Other findings 2 of 10. Few problems found.
- No forced arbitration or class-action waiver anywhere in the terms - disputes are simply governed by Delaware law, which is far better than consumer-tech norms.
- No consumer accounts, purchases, auto-renewal, or cancellation traps of any kind - it is a corporate brochure site, so none of the classic subscription dark patterns exist.
- No evidence of selling visitor data or ad-targeting data brokerage; Danaher's business is B2B instruments, not attention monetization, and the terms contain no data-broker clauses.
- The site runs a OneTrust cookie-consent tool and has a dedicated Cookie Notice page (per third-party audits of danaher.com), suggesting at least a consent layer for EU visitors.
Anything you send through the site (a contact form message, a file, feedback) loses confidentiality protection; Danaher claims the right to reuse it however it wants with no compensation or duty 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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Anything you send through the site (a contact form message, a file, feedback) loses confidentiality protection; Danaher claims the right to reuse it however it wants with no compensation or duty to you. That is a broad grab for material the visitor might have assumed was private.
Any information or other communication you transmit to this Website will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary, and Danaher will be free to use such materials for any purpose whatsoever without obligation to you.
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Your personal data can be kept in printouts, on disks, and in databases in another (unnamed) country. For a brochure website, that is an expansive storage right, and there is no mention of when any of it gets deleted.
In particular, Danaher may store your personally identifiable information in hard copy format and electronic media, and in Danaher's databases that may be located in another country, subject to our Privacy Policy.
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Danaher can change the rules unilaterally at any time with no direct notice to you; the burden is on you to keep re-reading the page, and the new terms bind you automatically.
Danaher may revise these Terms at any time by updating this posting. You should visit this page from time to time to review the then-current Terms because they are binding on you.
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Danaher can change any product or service information on the site without notice and has no obligation to keep it current - but will still hold visitors to the ever-changing terms above.
The materials at this Website may be out of date, and except as required by law Danaher makes no commitment to update the materials at this Website. In addition, Danaher may make changes to the materials at this Website at any time without notice.
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No warranties at all and a total liability waiver, including for lost data - so if something on the site (or a download from it) goes wrong, you have no recourse under these terms.
THE MATERIALS PROVIDED AT THIS WEBSITE ARE PROVIDED 'AS IS' WITHOUT ANY WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND... IN NO EVENT WILL DANAHER... BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES WHATSOEVER (INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THOSE RESULTING FROM LOST PROFITS, LOST DATA OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) ARISING OUT OF THE USE, INABILITY TO USE, OR THE RESULTS OF USE OF THIS WEBSITE...
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Mere browsing counts as acceptance of the terms, and any breach instantly revokes your right to use the site - with an unusual instruction that you 'must immediately destroy' anything you downloaded or printed.
Using this Website indicates that you accept these Terms; if you do not accept these Terms, do not use this Website. If you breach any of the Terms, your authorization to use this Website will immediately terminate and you must immediately destroy all downloaded or printed materials.
How these were found
Documents relied on: Danaher's 'Terms and Conditions' at https://www.danaher.com/terms-and-conditions, read in full via text fetch on Oct 1, 2026 (page is stamped 'Revised November 2020' - nearly six years old, a staleness problem in itself). Danaher's 'Data Privacy Notice' (https://www.danaher.com/data-privacy-policy) and 'Cookie Notice' (https://www.danaher.com/cookie-notice) exist on danaher.com but are rendered client-side (Drupal JS) and returned only header text to automated fetching, so their bodies could not be read; no verbatim mirror was found on OpenTermsArchive, PrivacyTracker, Difficode, or web.archive.org. Danaher is a B2B life-sciences conglomerate: danaher.com is a corporate brochure/investor site with no consumer accounts, purchases, subscriptions, or ad targeting, so several categories (arbitration, auto-renew, data selling) have genuinely little to score. Each Danaher operating company (Beckman Coulter, Cepheid, Leica, etc.) publishes its own separate product terms and privacy notices, which were not researched here.
These notes come from the original draft and are not independent verification.