Expand Energy
Energy
25
out of 100. Number 454 of 512, counting from the worst.
Where Expand Energy does well
- Arbitration 0 of 20. Nothing found.
- Renewals 0 of 20. Nothing found.
- Data retention 2 of 15. Few problems found.
- No forced arbitration and no class-action waiver: the Terms contain no arbitration clause at all — disputes go to real courts (the only catch is the exclusive Oklahoma forum).
- The Privacy Policy explicitly promises that automatically collected non-identifying browsing data (IP address, browser type, visit counts) 'is not sold or otherwise disclosed to third parties for any purposes.'
- The company states it does not seek sensitive personal information (race, health, political opinions, etc.) and asks visitors not to provide it.
- The Terms include a state-law carveout: 'Certain state laws do not allow limitations on implied warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain damages. If these laws apply to you, some or all of the above disclaimers, exclusions, or limitations may not apply to you.'
- The Cookie Policy offers a 'Consent Preferences' banner letting visitors revisit and withdraw cookie consent at any time.
Anything you send them through the site — ideas, suggestions, feedback — they can use for free forever, without paying you or even telling 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 them through the site — ideas, suggestions, feedback — they can use for free forever, without paying you or even telling you.
Expand Energy has the right to use, without any payment or accounting to you or others, any concepts or ideas which you (and those on your behalf) transmit to or through this Website.
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You get only one year to file any lawsuit over the website, cutting off longer legal deadlines you might otherwise have.
Any cause of action you may have with respect to your use of the site must be commenced within one (1) year after the claim or cause of action arises.
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Ad networks and other third parties on the site can track you across different websites to build an ad profile, and Expand Energy says it has no control over what those companies do with your data.
Some content or applications, including advertisements, on the Website are served by third-parties, including advertisers, ad networks and servers, content providers and application providers. These third parties may use cookies or other tracking technologies to collect information about you when you use our website. The information they collect may be associated with your personal information or they may collect information, including personal information, about your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services. They may use this information to provide you with advertising or other targeted content. We do not control these third parties' tracking technologies or how they may be used.
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They can rewrite the rules any time without telling you; just visiting the site afterward counts as agreeing to the new terms.
Expand Energy reserves the right to modify the Terms at any time, and without actual notice to you. You should check the Terms periodically for changes. All such changes to the Terms will appear on this Website. By entering and/or using this Website following any modifications to the Terms, you agree to be bound by any such modifications to the Terms.
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The same trick for your privacy: they can change what data they collect and share without notice, and your next visit is treated as consent.
You are responsible for periodically visiting our Website and this privacy policy to check for any changes. Your continued use of this Website after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates.
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If your use of their website gets them into legal trouble, you foot the bill — including their lawyers — and they can run the legal defense on your dime.
You agree to indemnify, hold harmless and defend Expand Energy, its affiliates, officers, directors, employees and agents from and against any and all losses, claims, damages, demand, cause of action, debt, loss or liability, including reasonable attorneys' fees and accounting fees that Expand Energy may become obligated to pay arising or resulting from your use of the Website and contents therein or your breach of these Terms. Expand Energy further reserves the right to assume or participate, at your expense, in the investigation, settlement and defense of any such action or claim.
How these were found
All three documents (Terms of Use, Privacy Policy, Cookie Policy) were fetched directly from the official domain expandenergy.com via text fetch on Oct 1, 2026; no mirror was needed. Search metadata showed the pages were last crawled ~3 days prior; the Terms page footer reads 'Copyright Notice: ©2024 Expand Energy Corporation'. The Privacy Policy text states the revision date is 'identified at the top of the page' but the date was not visible in the text fetch, so the exact version date could not be confirmed. Expand Energy is a B2B natural-gas producer (Chesapeake Energy + Southwestern Energy merger); the public website has no consumer accounts, billing, subscriptions, or e-commerce, so the zero scores for arbitration and auto-renew reflect an absence of consumer terms rather than consumer-friendly design. The Cookie Policy is generic vendor boilerplate (CookieYes-style, mentioning browser-cookie help links and a consent-preferences banner) and contributed no substantive findings. All quotes were copied verbatim from the fetched pages.
These notes come from the original draft and are not independent verification.