Illinois Tool Works
Industrials
28
out of 100. Number 423 of 512, counting from the worst.
Where Illinois Tool Works 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 Terms of Use — disputes go to real courts (exclusive jurisdiction in Chicago, Illinois), which is notably better than most large consumer brands.
- The Privacy Statement explicitly says "We do not sell your personal information," includes a CCPA rights section with a toll-free number (1-844-676-0349), and its amendment clause is non-retroactive: modifications apply only to personal information collected after the revised statement is posted.
- The cookie policy discloses Google Analytics use by name and links Google's own opt-out tool.
ITW can change the rules at any time just by posting a new version; if you keep visiting the site, you've silently agreed to whatever changed, with no direct notice required.
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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ITW can change the rules at any time just by posting a new version; if you keep visiting the site, you've silently agreed to whatever changed, with no direct notice required.
ITW may revise and update these Terms of Use at any time by posting the amended terms to this Website. Your continued use of the Website means that you accept and agree to the revised Terms of Use.
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Anything you submit — feedback, suggestions, comments — becomes ITW's property outright, and anything you upload to the site can be reused, modified, published, or turned into derivative works by ITW however it likes.
To the extent permitted under applicable law, all comments, suggestions, or other information sent by you to this Website will become ITW's property and you agree that all intellectual property rights therein are transferred to ITW. ... You grant to ITW the right to use all content you upload or otherwise transmit to the Website in any manner ITW chooses, including, but not limited to, copying, displaying, or publishing it in any format whatsoever, modifying it, incorporating it into other material, or making a derivative work based on it.
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You get only one year to file any claim about the website, or you lose it — shorter than the statute of limitations many states would otherwise give you.
Any cause of action you may have with respect to the Website must be commenced within one (1) year after the claim or cause of action arises or such claim or cause of action is barred.
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If ITW has to defend anything arising from your use of the site, you pay their legal bills — a one-sided indemnity covering ITW's attorneys' fees.
You agree to indemnify and hold harmless ITW and its officers, directors, employees, agents, affiliates, third-party information providers, licensors, and others involved in the ITW Website ... from and against any and all liabilities, expenses, damages, and costs, including reasonable attorney's fees, arising from any violation by you of these Terms of Use or your use of the Website.
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ITW buys data about you from data brokers and public databases — including your LinkedIn info, social media activity, and even shopping behavior — and merges it with what you gave them directly.
We may also receive information from other sources and combine it with information we collect through our Website and Online Services. For example, we may obtain information about you from commercially available sources such as data aggregators and public databases (for example, job applicant information received from LinkedIn in connection with our hiring decisions). This information may include your name, demographic information, interests, and public data (such as social media and shopping behavior).
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To exercise your California privacy rights (see, correct, or delete your data), ITW demands you email them a scan of your government-issued ID — a steep identity hurdle that hands them even more sensitive data just to ask what they have on you.
if you exercise your right to notice, access, or deletion, we must first verify your identify to make sure that you are the person about whom we have collected personal information. We verify every request carefully and ask that you provide a scanned copy of a government ID along with your request for verification purposes.
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ITW ignores your browser's Do Not Track setting — tracking via cookies, pixels, and analytics proceeds regardless.
DO NOT TRACK: Some web browsers may transmit "do-not-track" signals to websites with which the browser communicates. Our Website and Online Services do not currently respond to these "do-not-track" signals.
How these were found
Both core documents are old but current as published on itw.com: Terms of Use effective February 28, 2020; Privacy Statement last revised March 9, 2020. No mirrors needed — both pages were read directly via browser_open on www.itw.com on October 1, 2026. ITW is a B2B industrial manufacturer with no consumer accounts or subscriptions, so the auto-renew category does not apply; the corporate site is informational (investor/careers/contact), which naturally limits what the terms can demand. Individual ITW divisions (e.g., Performance Polymers) publish their own separate terms; only the main corporate documents were scored.
These notes come from the original draft and are not independent verification.