Dow Inc.
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out of 100. Number 453 of 512, counting from the worst.
Where Dow Inc. does well
- Arbitration 0 of 20. Nothing found.
- Renewals 0 of 20. Nothing found.
- No forced-arbitration or class-action waiver found anywhere in Dow's public terms; the Terms of Use is a short bulletin-board policy with no dispute-resolution trap.
- Dow states plainly that it 'does not provide or sell your personal information to third parties' outside the purposes described.
- It requires sharing vendors to use 'adequate privacy protections' and use data only for Dow's purposes.
- The AI-features notice explicitly forbids using user prompts and chats to train public or general-purpose AI models, chatbot session history is cleared when the session ends, and use of the AI features is voluntary.
- Minors' data is handled strictly (18+ to register; prompt removal on request) and a dedicated Data Privacy Office email plus a privacy portal are provided for exercising rights.
Your business contact details can be passed to distributors, marketing vendors, and any company that might buy a Dow business.
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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Your business contact details can be passed to distributors, marketing vendors, and any company that might buy a Dow business. So if Dow sells a division, your contact info can travel with the deal.
We share your personal data with other Dow Companies or third parties as necessary for the purposes described in this table below: ... DOW business partners, distributors, and agents ... Service providers ... Potential or actual acquirers of DOW businesses or assets ... Recipients as required by applicable law or legal process
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Dow can rewrite its privacy rules whenever it wants without telling you in advance, and just by visiting the site afterward you are deemed to agree.
We reserve the right to modify this Online Privacy Policy and related business practices at any time by posting updated text on this site and updated effective date at the bottom of this page... at any time and without prior notice, by posting a revised version on our website. ... Your use of one of our websites following any such change constitutes your consent to the terms of the revised Online Privacy Policy.
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Dow automatically profiles you — how many pages you viewed, which emails you opened, which webinars you joined — to send you personalized marketing. You can object, but only by filing a data-subject request.
In furtherance of these purposes (particularly: to confirm the accuracy of your contact information, to provide you with tailored marketing communication and advertisement, and to send you personalized messages), we will use automated methods to build a profile based on data that we have obtained as described in this Notice such as the number of Dow webpage views, opened emails, your webinar registrations and the recent interaction and activities with Dow.
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If someone else gets into your Dow account with your password — even without your permission — everything they do is legally treated as your doing.
You will be solely responsible for the activities of anyone accessing our website using a password assigned to you, even if the individual is not, in fact authorized by you.
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There is no fixed deletion deadline — Dow keeps your data for as long as it says it needs it, plus whatever legal and accounting retention periods apply. Separately, its AI-search vendor Coveo keeps usage analytics for up to three years, plus one more year in backups.
Dow will retain your personal information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which we collect it, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.
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Visiting dow.com gets you followed around the web with ads on Google, Facebook, and LinkedIn, driven by cookies those ad platforms set about your past visits.
This website uses Google AdWords, Facebook, LinkedIn, AddThis and Turn remarketing services and possibly other services to advertise on third party websites (including Google) to previous visitors to our site. ... Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on someone's past visits to the Dow website.
How these were found
Documents read on Oct 1, 2026, all on official Dow domains: (1) 'Dow Values Privacy' Online Privacy Policy PDF at dow.com, effective November 1, 2016 with © 2017 footer — this is the current online policy displayed by Dow but is a decade old; (2) Terms of Use page at legal.dow.com/en-us/terms-of-use.html, a sparse page covering only bulletin-board conduct; (3) Global Customer Privacy Notice (Marketing & Sales) PDF at legal.dow.com, undated version; (4) Privacy Notice: Dow Website AI Features at legal.dow.com, last updated August 21, 2026, Form No. 473-00240-01 0826. No mirrors needed — all fetched directly from dow.com/legal.dow.com. Dow is a B2B chemical manufacturer with no consumer subscriptions, e-commerce checkout, or membership terms found; accordingly arbitration, auto-renew, and retention categories reflect genuinely sparse consumer-facing terms rather than proven good behavior. Quotes are close paraphrases with formatting normalized from PDF text extraction.
These notes come from the original draft and are not independent verification.