Honeywell Technologies
Industrials
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out of 100. Number 163 of 512, counting from the worst.
Where Honeywell Technologies does well
- Renewals 0 of 20. Nothing found.
- No-sale commitment: the Privacy Statement says 'Honeywell is committed to not selling personal data of users to third parties for profit' — stronger than most industrial peers (though it concedes some sharing 'may be considered a sale' under certain state privacy laws).
- Meaningful data-subject rights: access, correct, update, request deletion, object to or restrict processing, portability, withdraw consent, and opt out of solely automated decisions/profiling.
- Illinois biometric data is capped at a 1-year retention after last interaction, with documented permanent-destruction protocols — an unusually specific limit.
- B2B context: no consumer subscription products exist on the public site, so there are no auto-renew or cancellation dark patterns to find; automatic software updates are scoped to device security/compatibility checks. Source: Honeywell Privacy Statement — https://www.honeywell.com/us/en/legal/privacy-statement
Simply by using honeywell.com, you agree to binding arbitration and give up your right to a jury trial and to join any class action — only individual claims are allowed.
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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Simply by using honeywell.com, you agree to binding arbitration and give up your right to a jury trial and to join any class action — only individual claims are allowed. Before formal dispute resolution, a mandatory informal resolution process must be followed first.
YOU AGREE THAT BY ENTERING INTO THESE TERMS YOU ARE WAIVING THE RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY OR TO PARTICIPATE IN A CLASS ACTION AND THAT YOU MAY BRING CLAIMS AGAINST HONEYWELL ONLY IN YOUR INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY, AND NOT AS A PLAINTIFF OR CLASS MEMBER IN ANY PURPORTED CLASS OR REPRESENTATIVE PROCEEDING. ANY ARBITRATION OR OTHER ACTION WILL TAKE PLACE ON AN INDIVIDUAL BASIS; CLASS ARBITRATIONS AND CLASS ACTIONS ARE NOT PERMITTED.
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Anyone whose main reason for using the site is to investigate whether Honeywell is breaking the law is banned from using it — a transparency-hostile clause aimed at researchers and auditors.
You are prohibited from using our Services if you are a 'Tester'. For purposes of these Terms, a Tester is defined as 'an individual whose primary purpose of using, or attempting to use, the Services is to seek to identify legal violations in connection with the Services'.
Honeywell International Inc. Website Terms of Use (Section 16)
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If your use of the site leads to any claim against Honeywell, you must pay for Honeywell's defense — including its lawyers' fees. The obligation is one-sided: Honeywell owes you no reciprocal indemnity.
You agree to fully and completely defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Honeywell, its affiliates, licensors, and service providers, and its and their respective officers, directors, employees, contractors, agents, licensors, suppliers, successors, and assigns from and against any claims, liabilities, damages, judgments, awards, losses, costs, expenses, or fees (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising out of or relating to your violation of these Terms or your use of the Services.
Honeywell International Inc. Website Terms of Use (Indemnification)
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Honeywell can hand your personal data to distributors and 'trusted business partners' so they can market to you directly, and your data can be transferred to a buyer if Honeywell sells or reorganizes part of its business.
Distributors and other trusted business partners. We may share your personal information with third parties that distribute our products and other trusted business partners for purposes that include allowing those third parties to send marketing communications to you... Disclosures in connection with acquisitions or divestitures... We may disclose information we maintain about you to the extent reasonably necessary to proceed with the negotiation or completion of a merger, acquisition, divestiture or sale of all or a portion of Honeywell's assets.
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Honeywell can rewrite its software agreement at any time with no advance notice; just keep using the software and you're deemed to have accepted the new terms. Your only way out is to stop using the product entirely.
HONEYWELL reserves the right to modify and/or change any of the terms and conditions of this AGREEMENT at any time and without prior notice... By continuing to use the HONEYWELL SOFTWARE after HONEYWELL has posted a modification of this AGREEMENT, you agree to be bound by the modified AGREEMENT. If the modified AGREEMENT is not acceptable to you, your only recourse is to uninstall or to not use the HONEYWELL SOFTWARE.
Honeywell End-User License Agreement (Section 2, Modification of this Agreement; B2B product terms)
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Honeywell can change prices and terms without notice — the only protection is a promise to 'endeavor' (not guarantee) 30 days' written notice, in a B2B sales document.
Prices, terms, conditions, and Product or service specifications are subject to change without notice; provided, however, that Honeywell will endeavor to provide at least thirty (30) days' written notice of any changes.
How these were found
Document versions relied on: Honeywell International Inc. Website Terms of Use, 'Last Updated: May 18th, 2026'; Honeywell Privacy Statement, 'Last updated September 1st, 2025'. IMPORTANT ACCESS LIMITATION: direct browser fetches of honeywell.com pages timed out (RECV_TIMEOUT on two independent attempts), so every clause was read from indexed search-result snippets of the official documents (verbatim crawl text from honeywell.com and official Honeywell subdomains), not from a live page read. Snippets may omit surrounding context (e.g., whether any arbitration opt-out or notice procedure exists elsewhere in the documents), so clause readings are limited to the sections the crawl surfaced. Honeywell is a B2B industrial company: the public-facing documents govern website visitors, while actual business purchases are covered by separately negotiated B2B terms (some findings below cite those B2B documents and are labeled as such). honeywellstore.com is operated by a separate licensee and its terms were not attributed to Honeywell. No mirrors (OpenTermsArchive/PrivacyTracker) were needed or used.
These notes come from the original draft and are not independent verification.