DaVita
Health Care
49
out of 100. Number 218 of 512, counting from the worst.
Where DaVita does well
- Arbitration 3 of 20. Few problems found.
- Renewals 2 of 20. Few problems found.
- The Terms of Use contain NO forced arbitration clause and NO class-action waiver — disputes go to Colorado state or federal courts.
- DaVita recognizes the Global Privacy Control signal, offers opt-outs for sale/sharing of personal data, and promises no discrimination for exercising privacy rights.
- A separate HIPAA Notice of Privacy Practices (effective February 16,
- covers actual patient-care health data, and the privacy notice explicitly carves PHI out of the general site policy.
- DaVita states it does not purchase personal information from data brokers and does not sell or share SMS/mobile numbers with third parties for their independent marketing.
DaVita admits it sells or shares your IP address, device ad IDs, and browsing/search history with ad networks for behavioral advertising across the internet.
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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DaVita admits it sells or shares your IP address, device ad IDs, and browsing/search history with ad networks for behavioral advertising across the internet.
When we engage in digital advertising, we may sell the following categories of personal information (according to the broad definition of "sell" under select state privacy laws), share them for purposes of cross-context behavioral advertising, or use them for targeted advertising: personal identifiers (IP address and mobile ad identifiers), and internet or other electronic activity information. These categories of personal information are sold to or shared for cross-context behavioral advertising or targeted advertising with advertising networks and other companies that facilitate digital advertising.
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Your patient status, kidney-disease connection, treatment interests, race, ethnicity, and gender can be handed to vendors that help DaVita advertise and market its services.
Health information: Patient status, connection to kidney disease, interest in treatment options* | Service providers that ... assist with advertising and marketing our Services, and provide analytics information ... Protected class information – Race*, ethnicity*, national origin, gender | Service providers that assist with advertising and marketing our Services and analytics
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DaVita allows third-party trackers that can record your keystrokes, clicks, and screen touches as you browse its sites and apps.
this may include technologies that record your interactions with the Services, including without limitation, your keystrokes, mouse clicks, screen touches, and information about when, how and from where you accessed our Services.
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DaVita can use your sensitive personal information to build marketing inferences about you by default; you have to opt out to stop it.
We may use certain types of personal information, known as sensitive personal information, to infer information about you that we use to market our Services to you. You have the right to ask us to not use your sensitive personal information for such marketing or advertising purposes.
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Anything you submit on the site becomes DaVita's to keep, reuse, modify, and repurpose forever — for purposes beyond the site itself.
For all information and material you provide to us through the Site, you grant DaVita, its affiliates and related entities, a royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive right and license to use, copy, modify, display, archive, store, distribute, reproduce and create derivative works from such information, in any form, media, software or technology of any kind now existing or developed in the future, including, without limitation, in printed or electronic form and for purposes other than the Site.
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If you ever sue over the site terms, you have only one year from when the problem happened — a much shorter window than standard limitation periods.
You agree that any cause of action you may have under these Terms of Use must be brought within one year of the date when such claim arose.
How these were found
Terms of Use read directly from https://davita.com/terms-of-use/, page stamped 'Revised June 3, 2019' (stale, 7+ years old). Privacy Notice read directly from https://davita.com/privacy-policy, 'Last Updated: July 15, 2026'. Wireless Subscriber Terms and Conditions read directly from https://davita.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/09/davita-terms-conditions_total-renal-care.pdf (Total Renal Care is a DaVita brand; contains broad 'as-is' liability waiver and zero-liability for failed medical text reminders). No mirrors were needed; no access blocks encountered. Did NOT read the full HIPAA Notice of Privacy Practices (privacy-practices page) or any logged-in patient-portal terms, which may contain additional clauses.
These notes come from the original draft and are not independent verification.