GE HealthCare
Health Care
40
out of 100. Number 299 of 512, counting from the worst.
Where GE HealthCare does well
- Arbitration 2 of 20. Few problems found.
- Renewals 2 of 20. Few problems found.
- No forced arbitration clause or class-action waiver anywhere in the website Terms of Use — disputes go to real courts, not private arbitration (even if those courts are in Paris).
- The Privacy Policy states an explicit 'we do not sell or otherwise disclose personal information' position, and service providers are contractually restricted to using data only to perform services for GE HealthCare.
- GE HealthCare has approved Binding Corporate Rules for Processors (BCR-P) for EU data and complies with the APEC Cross Border Privacy Rules, with a named Chief Privacy Officer contact and a free US-based third-party dispute resolution provider (TRUSTe) listed in the policy.
- A California CCPA notice is provided with rights to access, delete, and opt out of sale/sharing, and the policy says 'providing personal information to us is voluntary.'
- Children's data collected inadvertently will be promptly deleted.
- Product pages carry a blunt accuracy disclaimer ('Specifications for products and services are subject to change without notice') — standard but transparent.
GE HealthCare can rewrite the rules of its own website at any time without telling you, and simply by continuing to visit the site you are treated as having agreed to whatever they changed.
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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GE HealthCare can rewrite the rules of its own website at any time without telling you, and simply by continuing to visit the site you are treated as having agreed to whatever they changed. The Privacy Policy does the same: 'This Privacy Policy may be updated periodically and without prior notice to you.'
These Terms of Use may be changed from time to time in whole or in part and without further notice so please check these Terms of Use frequently: Your continued use of the Site after any such changes constitutes your acceptance of the new terms.
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Anything you send GE HealthCare through the site — including purchase orders, quotes, account information, specs and drawings — is deemed non-confidential, and you hand them a permanent, worldwide, royalty-free license to use and distribute it for any purpose. On a B2B procurement site, this reaches commercially sensitive business documents.
you agree that any communications you transmit to anyone through the Site or copyrighted works you post on the Site, including, without limitation, questions, comments, suggestions, ideas, plans, notes, drawings, configurations, specifications, purchase orders, quotes or requests for quotes, performance data, account information, or other material, data or information (collectively, "Information"), are non-confidential and nonproprietary and upon transmission of such Information to GEHC via email or other means you grant to GEHC an unrestricted, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sub licensable, world wide license (including but not limited to a copyright license) to use, reproduce, display, publicly perform, transmit and distribute such Information in any media for any purpose
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They can cut off your access to the site at any time, for any reason, with no notice — and when they do, you are required to destroy everything you ever downloaded from it.
GEHC may terminate, change, suspend or discontinue any aspect of the Site, including the availability of any features, at any time. GEHC may ... restrict your access to parts or to the entire Site without notice or liability. GEHC may terminate the authorisation and rights given below and your use of the Site at any time in its sole discretion and upon such termination, you shall immediately destroy all materials that you have downloaded from the Site.
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These are global website terms, but any dispute must be heard under French law in the courts of Paris — even for a US hospital or visitor using the US-facing site. There is no forced arbitration, but home-court advantage is thoroughly denied.
In the absence of mutual agreement, any dispute arising from the interpretation and/or performance of the present Terms of Use shall be submitted to the exclusive jurisdiction of the competent courts of Paris. These Terms of Use shall be governed by French law
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Despite saying 'we do not sell' personal information, they share it with joint marketing and business partners, pull in data from ad networks and lead brokers, merge your online and offline profiles, build inferences about your preferences, and run retargeting ads that follow you around the web. They even collect contact details of other people you name.
We may share personal information with our joint marketing partners and other business partners for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy... We use third-party web analytics services in connection with the Online Channels, including Google Analytics, Adobe Analytics, N.Rich and Marketo... Marketing and Personalization Cookies track visitor activity and sessions so that we can deliver a more personalized experience. We use marketing cookies to display personalized advertisements on other websites you may visit... We may combine personal information we obtain through Online Channels with information we obtain through Offline Channels, as well as other information... inferences about you, including about your preferences; contact information you provide about friends or other people you would like us to contact.
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There is no fixed retention period. They keep your data as long as it is 'needed' — or longer, whenever they can point to 'another lawful basis.' It is a wide-open retention clause with no deadline.
To the extent permitted by applicable law, we retain personal information we obtain about you as long as (1) it is needed for the purposes for which we obtained it, in accordance with the provisions of this Privacy Policy or (2) we have another lawful basis, stated in this Privacy Policy or at the point of collection, for retaining that information beyond the period for which it is necessary to serve the original purpose for obtaining the personal information.
How these were found
Documents relied on: (1) GE HealthCare website Terms of Use, read via the Norway locale page https://www.gehealthcare.no/about/terms-and-conditions (identical global text also mirrored on the en-sg locale page https://www.gehealthcare.com/en-sg/about/terms-and-conditions; no last-updated date is shown on the page and some wording, e.g. copyright 2000-2009, looks dated, so the terms may not have been recently refreshed); (2) GE HealthCare US Privacy Policy, https://www.gehealthcare.com/en-us/about/privacy/privacy-policy, effective date Aug 2025, read in full on Oct 1, 2026. No mirrors or archives were needed; both pages loaded directly. GE HealthCare is a B2B medical-device company: there are no consumer subscriptions, prices, or accounts with auto-renewal on the corporate site, so the autorenew category has almost nothing to score against — kept low by design, not by evidence. The Terms of Use apply French law and Paris courts globally, including to US visitors, which is why the 'other' finding on jurisdiction appears instead of an arbitration finding.
These notes come from the original draft and are not independent verification.