Dover Corporation
Industrials
29
out of 100. Number 402 of 512, counting from the worst.
Where Dover Corporation does well
- Arbitration 0 of 20. Nothing found.
- Renewals 0 of 20. Nothing found.
- No forced arbitration or class-action waiver anywhere — disputes simply go to Illinois courts.
- No auto-renew or cancellation traps exist because Dover's site has no consumer subscriptions or billing.
- They state they do not sell personal information for money and do not sell or share sensitive personal information under California law.
- They honor Global Privacy Control (GPC) opt-out signals, and the privacy notice grants deletion/correction/access rights to California plus 18 other states' residents and the EEA/UK, with an appeals process and no discrimination for exercising rights.
Dover can rewrite the rules of the site whenever it wants, with no obligation to warn you first.
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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Dover can rewrite the rules of the site whenever it wants, with no obligation to warn you first. Simply continuing to use the site counts as agreeing to whatever the new terms say.
Use of the Site is subject to these Terms of Use as they may be modified from time to time at our sole discretion without prior notice.
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Anything you send them through the site — feedback, questions, comments, ideas — becomes theirs to reuse forever, for any purpose, and they explicitly strip it of any confidentiality.
All User Content submitted to us will be treated as non-proprietary and non-confidential. We may reproduce, republish, distribute, or otherwise use User Provided Content for any purpose whatsoever.
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Dover says it doesn't 'sell' your data, but admits its ad-tracking cookies likely count as 'sharing' your data with third parties under California-style privacy law — the distinction is semantic.
We do not sell Personal Information for monetary consideration. However, our use of certain website tracking-technologies may meet the definition of "sharing" as that term is defined by applicable law.
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Dover hands your personal details to marketing-automation vendors specifically to identify who is visiting its website.
Additionally, your personal information may be provided to marketing automation platforms that we use to assist us in understanding who is visiting our website.
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There's no fixed deletion timeline. They can keep your data indefinitely under the open-ended justification of 'protecting ourselves as a business.'
We will retain your personal information for as long as: We have a relationship with you; We are required by law; We need to in order to protect ourselves as a business or protect any other third party.
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If anything goes wrong from your use of the site — even their content being wrong or infected — you foot the legal bills for them, their affiliates, and their shareholders. Combined with the clause that excludes them from liability for any damages even if they knew they were possible, the deal is one-sided.
You agree to defend us, indemnify us, and hold us harmless (as well as our affiliated entities together with our/their respective employees, agents, directors, officers and shareholders) from and against all the liabilities, claims, damages and expenses (including reasonable attorney fees and costs) arising out of your use of the Site.
How these were found
Terms of Use effective date is November 10, 2011 — a 15-year-old document that may be stale. Privacy Policy is 'Last Updated: June 2025' and was read in full on Oct 1, 2026 via browser_open (no mirror needed; site fetched fine). Dover is a B2B industrial manufacturer; the scored categories were limited by what exists — no consumer checkout, subscriptions, or arbitration clause to find — so the modest score reflects limited material rather than exemplary behavior.
These notes come from the original draft and are not independent verification.