Gilead Sciences
Health Care
29
out of 100. Number 404 of 512, counting from the worst.
Where Gilead Sciences does well
- Arbitration 0 of 20. Nothing found.
- Renewals 0 of 20. Nothing found.
- No forced arbitration or class-action waiver appears anywhere — rare and consumer-friendly. There is no consumer storefront or subscription, so no auto-renew or cancellation traps exist. The privacy statement explicitly says Gilead does not sell or share Sensitive Personal Information or knowingly sell/share data of anyone under
- It offers opt-out paths (cookie settings manager, email to privacy@gilead.com) and says it deletes children's data if discovered. Privacy Statement changes are at least marked by updating the effective date, with notice promised for material changes as required by law.
Gilead can change the site's terms whenever it wants and does not have to tell you — just posting the new version counts.
The fine print
7 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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Gilead can change the site's terms whenever it wants and does not have to tell you — just posting the new version counts. Merely continuing to use the site means you accept the changes.
Gilead may revise these Terms of Use from time to time without further notice by updating this posting.
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Anything you email or submit through the website is treated as non-confidential, and Gilead reserves the right to reuse it for any purpose at all — copying, publishing, broadcasting, posting — with no promise otherwise.
Any communication or material you transmit to Gilead via this Gilead website or Internet electronic mail is transmitted by you on a non-confidential basis. Gilead makes no promise, express or implied, not to use such communication or material for any purpose whatsoever, including reproduction, publication, broadcast and posting.
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Gilead admits that under US state privacy laws it "sells" or "shares" your browsing data, profiles, and identifiers with ad-tech and analytics companies for targeted advertising — opting out requires you to email them or dig through cookie settings.
While we do not disclose Personal Information to third parties in exchange for monetary compensation, we may "sell" or "share" internet and electronic network activity information, profiles and inferences, and identifiers to third-party ad companies and analytics providers.
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Gilead can hand your name and email to third parties so they can follow you around other websites with ads and "target content" at you.
We may also disclose or make available certain customer list information (such as your name, email address and other contact information) to third parties so that we can better target ads and content to you across third party sites, platforms and services.
Privacy Statement (Canada PDF, effective Jan 1, 2024; same corporate statement family)
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Your data can be moved to countries with weaker privacy protections, where foreign governments, courts, or police could access it under local law — and Gilead openly warns you of this.
To the extent that any personal information is sent outside of an individual's country, it is subject to the laws of the country in which it is, and may be subject to disclosure to the governments, courts, or law enforcement or regulatory agencies of such other country, pursuant to the laws of such country, which may not provide an equivalent level of protection to the laws of your home country.
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No actual time limits are given for how long Gilead keeps your data — retention is judged against undisclosed internal policies, so deletion timing is effectively up to them.
We retain the Personal Information we collect only as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Statement, in accordance with our records retention policies, as required under applicable law, or as otherwise disclosed to you at the time of collection.
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A sweeping liability waiver: if the site's information is wrong, stale, or harmful to rely on, Gilead disclaims responsibility for any damages — all use is "at the user's own risk."
Neither Gilead nor any of its agents or affiliates shall be liable for any direct, incidental, consequential, indirect, or punitive damages arising out of user's access, use, or inability to use this Gilead website, or any errors or omissions in the content of this Gilead website.
How these were found
All clauses were read directly from gilead.com on Oct 1, 2026 (no mirrors or blocking encountered). Sources: US Terms of Use (https://www.gilead.com/terms-of-use, no version date shown) and US Privacy Statement (https://www.gilead.com/privacy-statement, no effective date visible in fetched text). Cross-checked against the Australian Terms of Use (near-identical text) and the Canadian Privacy Statement PDF (effective January 1, 2024, http://www.gilead.ca/-/media/gilead-canada/pdfs/privacy_en.pdf). Gilead is a B2B biopharma with a thin informational corporate site: no consumer accounts, no subscriptions, no e-commerce. Score is kept modest accordingly; the 'autorenew' category scored zero because there is simply no consumer product to auto-renew.
These notes come from the original draft and are not independent verification.