Fortive
Industrials
28
out of 100. Number 422 of 512, counting from the worst.
Where Fortive does well
- Arbitration 0 of 20. Nothing found.
- Renewals 0 of 20. Nothing found.
- No forced arbitration or class-action waiver anywhere in the Terms of Use — a genuinely cleaner posture than most consumer sites.
- They honor the Global Privacy Control opt-out signal and provide a 'Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information' link in the footer (though they do not honor generic Do Not Track signals).
- As a B2B conglomerate with no consumer subscriptions, there are zero auto-renew or cancellation traps.
- The privacy notice grants deletion, correction, and access rights and explicitly promises not to discriminate against people who exercise them.
Fortive outright admits it 'sells' your IP address, online identifiers, and browsing behavior to ad companies when it runs digital ads — and lets third-party trackers follow your activity across other websites to serve you employment-ad targeting.
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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Fortive outright admits it 'sells' your IP address, online identifiers, and browsing behavior to ad companies when it runs digital ads — and lets third-party trackers follow your activity across other websites to serve you employment-ad targeting.
When we engage in digital advertising, we sell the following categories of Personal Information (according to the broad definition of the word 'sell' under certain US state laws) and share them for purposes of crosscontext behavioral advertising: personal identifiers (including IP address and online identifiers) and internet or other electronic activity information... We do so by allowing third parties to place cookies or other trackers on our websites that may collect information about your online activities over time and across different websites or applications.
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They can change the rules whenever they want just by editing the page, and you're automatically bound — no email, no notice, and they put the burden on you to keep checking.
Fortive may revise these Terms at any time by updating this posting. You should visit this page from time to time to review the then-current Terms because they are binding on you.
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Anything you send through the site is deemed not confidential — Fortive can use it for anything, owe you nothing, and may store your personal data in databases in other countries.
Any information or other communication you transmit to this Website will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary, and Fortive will be free to use such materials for any purpose whatsoever without obligation to you. In particular, Fortive may store your personally identifiable information in hard copy format and electronic media, and in Fortive's databases that may be located in another country.
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For a global company, their headline 'global' privacy notice explicitly opts out the entire EU, UK, and Switzerland — and if you live anywhere without a qualifying privacy law, no privacy notice applies to you at all.
If you are a resident of the European Economic Area, United Kingdom, or Switzerland... this Privacy Notice does not apply to you... If none of the above apply to you... this Privacy Notice does not apply to you.
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The Terms still claim Safe Harbor certification — a data-transfer framework the EU's highest court invalidated in 2015, before these 2016-updated Terms were even written. It's a stale, misleading compliance claim that's been sitting there a decade.
Fortive Corporation ('Fortive') complies with the U.S.-EU Safe Harbor Framework and the U.S.-Swiss Safe Harbor Framework... Fortive has certified that it adheres to the Safe Harbor Privacy Principles of notice, choice, onward transfer, security, data integrity, access and enforcement.
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No time limits at all — they keep your personal data for however long they deem 'reasonably necessary,' which could be indefinite.
We retain Personal Information for as long as is reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this Notice and to comply with our legal obligations under applicable local, state, and federal laws.
How these were found
Documents relied on: Fortive 'Terms of Use' page at fortive.com/terms-use ('Revised June 2016' — ~10 years stale at time of research, Oct 1, 2026) and 'Global Privacy Policy' page at fortive.com/global-privacy-policy ('NOTICE LAST UPDATED: NOVEMBER 13, 2024'). Both read in full directly from fortive.com via text fetch; no mirrors needed. The Global Privacy Policy explicitly applies only to residents of certain regions (California/other US states with privacy laws); it states it does NOT apply to EEA/UK/Switzerland residents (directed to a separate Fortive GDPR Privacy Notice, which was not publicly linked in the text read) nor to employees/contractors/job applicants (covered by separate notices, e.g. the Global Fortive Recruitment Privacy Notice). Fortive is a B2B industrial conglomerate; fortive.com is a thin corporate site with no consumer accounts, subscriptions, or checkouts, so autorenew and retention categories have little to evaluate — the score is kept modest accordingly. Terms of Use contains no forced-arbitration or class-action-waiver clause.
These notes come from the original draft and are not independent verification.