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EOG Resources

Energy

17

out of 100. Number 507 of 512, counting from the worst.

  • Arbitration 0 of 20, good
  • Renewals 0 of 20, good
  • Data sharing 6 of 20
  • Price & terms 3 of 15, good
  • Data retention 4 of 15
  • Other findings 4 of 10

Where EOG Resources does well

  • Arbitration 0 of 20. Nothing found.
  • Renewals 0 of 20. Nothing found.
  • Price & terms 3 of 15. Few problems found.
  • No forced arbitration or class-action waiver appears anywhere in EOG's public documents — unusual among large US companies.
  • EOG's Code of Conduct Section 13 expressly commits to protecting the personal information of royalty interest owners, employees, and job applicants, prohibiting employees from sharing it without express authorization or using it for anything beyond legitimate business purposes.
  • A May 2025 Board amendment explicitly carved out legally protected communications (whistleblower/NLRA rights) from the confidentiality provisions, and the Code has a strong non-retaliation guarantee for good-faith reporters.
  • There is no consumer subscription model, no auto-renewal mechanism, and no consumer data monetization anywhere in the business — the company sells crude oil and natural gas, not user attention.
  • The SmartSearch vendor policy, while opt-out by default, states the policy 'is not enforceable upon our employer clients' and that your application data 'remains the sole property of our client,' i.e., EOG.

Consent is opt-out by default: unless you actively find and tick an opt-out box when you apply, your data use is deemed consented to.

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.

  1. Consent is opt-out by default: unless you actively find and tick an opt-out box when you apply, your data use is deemed consented to.

    We assume you have given us your consent to collect and use your information in accordance with this policy unless you take affirmative action to indicate that you do not consent, for instance by clicking or checking the appropriate option or box at the point of collection.

    SmartSearch Privacy Policy (governs EOG's careers portal, careers.eogresources.com)

  2. The portal tracks your traffic with cookies, and you can be forced to accept them to finish certain tasks like applying — declining means losing functionality.

    Some parts of SmartSearch's website use cookies to track user traffic patterns... In particular, you may be required to accept cookies in order to complete certain actions on our website.

    SmartSearch Privacy Policy (governs EOG's careers portal, careers.eogresources.com)

  3. Data you hand over to apply for an oil-field job can be used for marketing emails and 'special offers' from SmartSearch or its partners unless you separately opt out.

    ...or when we want to keep you up to date on the latest product announcements, software updates, special offers or other information we think you'd like to hear about either from us or them (unless you have opted out of these types of communications).

    SmartSearch Privacy Policy (governs EOG's careers portal, careers.eogresources.com)

  4. Your job-application data sits in the system indefinitely unless you actively demand deletion — and the policy hints it may be kept longer for vague 'legal requirements' without naming any time limit.

    Unless you request deletion of your personal information as specified below in Information Sharing and Disclosure, your personal information may be retained by SmartSearch to verify compliance with the agreement or to track usage of other services available on those pages. ... our clients often have legal requirements to retain your information for a set period of time once you apply a job or upload your CV/Resume to their site.

    SmartSearch Privacy Policy (governs EOG's careers portal, careers.eogresources.com)

  5. Anything an employee creates 'in the course of employment' — inventions, apps, ideas, improvements — belongs entirely to EOG, even if it isn't patentable; the 'course of employment' wording is broad enough to sweep up side work done on company time or equipment.

    Any intellectual property created by an employee or officer in the course of employment with EOG belongs to, and will be the sole property of, EOG. This is true, regardless of whether such property can be patented or protected by copyright, trade secret or trademark.

    EOG Code of Business Conduct and Ethics, Section 14 (verbatim mirror)

  6. EOG's entire website is a take-it-or-leave-it disclaimer: they warrant nothing about their own published information and you bear all risk if it's wrong or stale.

    Information on this website is provided 'as is' without warranty of any kind, either express or implied, including but not limited to the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and the timeliness of the information. You assume all risk in using the information.

    EOG Website Terms

How these were found

EOG is a B2B oil & gas exploration company with no consumer products, consumer accounts, subscriptions, or consumer privacy policy. Documents read directly via browser_open: (1) EOG Website Terms at https://www.eogresources.com/terms/ (page footer dated Copyright 2026) — a short disclaimer, not a full ToS; (2) the privacy policy governing EOG's careers portal (careers.eogresources.com) is written by EOG's third-party applicant-tracking vendor SmartSearch, Inc. at http://smartsearchinc.com/privacy-policy/ (stamped 'Last updated October 2023'), not by EOG itself — EOG is the data controller and SmartSearch disclaims responsibility for employer clients' own practices; (3) EOG's Code of Business Conduct and Ethics was read as a verbatim mirror at https://zealous-mud-04fa83110.azurestaticapps.net/documents/eog_code_of_conduct-directors-and-employees.pdf (notice of amendments approved by the Board on May 22, 2025) — the official version is posted on EOG's 'Governance' page under Investors at www.eogresources.com per EOG's 10-K filings, but the direct document PDF was not fetched from the official domain. No OpenTermsArchive entry exists for eogresources.com. Scores kept modest per the B2B limitation: there is no forced arbitration, no auto-renewal, and no consumer data monetization to penalize.

These notes come from the original draft and are not independent verification.