GE Vernova
Industrials
32
out of 100. Number 376 of 512, counting from the worst.
Where GE Vernova does well
- Arbitration 0 of 20. Nothing found.
- Renewals 0 of 20. Nothing found.
- No forced arbitration and no class-action waiver anywhere in the public terms — disputes go to New York state courts under New York law.
- No auto-renewal, subscription billing, or cancellation traps exist in any public-facing document (B2B brochure site).
- The Privacy Policy explicitly states 'We do not sell or otherwise disclose personal information about you except as described here.' Material changes to the Terms of Use require a homepage notice and take effect only 30 days after publication — better than the silent-change norm.
- Children's privacy is handled: no knowing collection under age 13 and prompt deletion if discovered.
- The company holds TRUSTe/Global CBPR privacy certifications and Binding Corporate Rules for EU data transfers, which is above-average governance for an industrial firm.
Anything you submit through the site — feedback, ideas, files — becomes GE Vernova's to use, modify, and sublicense forever, worldwide, even after you leave.
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 submit through the site — feedback, ideas, files — becomes GE Vernova's to use, modify, and sublicense forever, worldwide, even after you leave. They explicitly claim free use of your 'ideas, concepts, know-how.'
If you do submit material, and unless we indicate otherwise, you grant GE Vernova and its affiliates an unrestricted, nonexclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable and fully sublicensable right to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute and display such material throughout the world in any media. You further agree that GE Vernova is free to use any ideas, concepts, know-how that you or individuals acting on your behalf provide to GE Vernova.
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You get only one year to bring a legal claim related to the site — shorter than the normal 3–6 year window under New York law. Miss that deadline and your claim is gone forever.
You and GE Vernova agree that any cause of action arising out of or related to the site must commence within one (1) year after the cause of action accrues or the cause of action is permanently barred.
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If your ordinary use of the website causes GE Vernova any legal trouble or expense, you foot the bill — including their attorneys' fees.
You agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless GE Vernova and its affiliates and their officers, directors, employees, contractors, agents, licensors, service providers, subcontractors and suppliers from and against any and all losses, liabilities, expenses, damages and costs, including reasonable attorneys' fees and court costs, arising or resulting from your use of the site and any violation of these Terms of Use.
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Despite saying they 'do not sell' data, they can hand your personal information to marketing and business partners and merge your web activity with offline records — effectively the same outcome under a different label.
We may share personal information with our joint marketing partners and other business partners for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy... We may combine personal information we obtain through Online Channels with information we obtain through Offline Channels, as well as other information, for the purposes described above... We may anonymize or aggregate personal information and use it for the purposes described above and for other purposes to the extent permitted by applicable law.
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There is no fixed deletion timeline. A vague 'another lawful basis' loophole lets them keep your data indefinitely past its original purpose.
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.
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They can rewrite the privacy rules at any time without telling you; the only notice is a date stamp at the top of the page.
This Privacy Policy may be updated periodically and without prior notice to you to reflect changes in our information practices. We will indicate at the top of this Privacy Policy when it was most recently updated.
How these were found
Documents read directly from gevernova.com via browser_open (no mirrors needed). Terms of Use last updated July 16, 2024; Privacy Policy last updated April 2, 2024 — both ~2 years old as of Oct 1, 2026, so clauses may lag current practice. GE Vernova is a B2B energy-equipment company; its site is a marketing/investor brochure with no consumer accounts, e-commerce, or subscription flows, so the arbitration and autorenew categories score near zero by nature of thin public docs rather than by demonstrated good behavior. Only the consumer-facing Terms of Use and Privacy Policy were scored; supplier purchase terms and the Binding Corporate Rules page were excluded from scoring (B2B procurement docs, not consumer-facing). The Privacy Policy states that business-specific privacy notices may supersede parts of it, so individual GE Vernova businesses may have different practices than scored here.
These notes come from the original draft and are not independent verification.