Lam Research
Information Technology
36
out of 100. Number 345 of 512, counting from the worst.
Where Lam Research does well
- Renewals 0 of 20. Nothing found.
- Lam explicitly states 'We do not sell or share for cross-context behavioral advertising any personal information of California residents' (stated twice), offers full CCPA rights (know, delete, correct, non-discrimination) with a dedicated privacy@lamresearch.com contact, provides a cookie preference center with opt-in/out categories, does not knowingly collect data from children under 16, deletes EU job-applicant data within one year of a rescinded application, and - being a B2B company - has no consumer subscriptions, accounts, or pricing to trap anyone with auto-renew or hidden fees.
Every visitor to lamresearch.com, even a casual reader, must settle any dispute through private binding arbitration in Santa Clara/Alameda County, CA - no court option, and no opt-out is offered.
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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Every visitor to lamresearch.com, even a casual reader, must settle any dispute through private binding arbitration in Santa Clara/Alameda County, CA - no court option, and no opt-out is offered.
In the case of any dispute arising from your access to this website, that dispute will be resolved by binding arbitration in Santa Clara or Alameda County, California.
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They can rewrite the terms whenever they like with no notice, and the burden is on you to re-read the page on every single visit because the new terms automatically bind you.
Lam Research may amend or revise these terms at any time. You should visit this page every time you access the website to review the current terms, because they are binding upon you.
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They can change what they use your personal data for - adding entirely new purposes - at any time and without telling you.
We reserve the right to update or amend this Policy at any time, without notice, to update, add, or remove the purposes for which the Company uses personal information.
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Anything you send them through the site - support requests with product keys and order numbers, product inquiries, contact forms - is legally treated as non-confidential and they can do whatever they want with it.
Any information that you communicate to Lam Research through this website shall be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary. Lam Research will have no obligation of any kind with respect to such information and may use such information as it deems fit.
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Your data is kept for whichever is longest of three open-ended windows - the vague 'prospective customer' relationship can mean indefinitely, and the other two have no fixed limit at all.
In general, we retain each of the categories of personal information and sensitive personal information described in this notice for the longer of (i) your relationship with us as a current or prospective customer, vendor, investor, or partner; (ii) any duration necessary for compliance with laws; or (iii) for as long as necessary for the exercise or defense of legal rights and archiving, back-up, and deletion processes.
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They can retroactively revoke your permission to use anything you downloaded from the site, without notice, and you are then required to delete your copies.
Lam Research may, at any time and without notice, terminate your right to access or use this information. In the event of such termination of rights, you are obligated to cease use of that information and destroy any copies you may have of the information.
How these were found
Researched Oct 1, 2026 directly on the official domain via browser_open. Documents relied on: 'Terms of Use' (https://www.lamresearch.com/terms/ - no dated version published; search-engine crawl ~5 days old) and 'Privacy Statement' (https://www.lamresearch.com/?p=287 - odd WordPress permalink; main policy last updated February 23, 2022, CCPA supplement last updated June 29, 2023). Cookie Statement (https://www.lamresearch.com/cookies-statement/, last updated Nov 1, 2022) was reviewed via search snippets only, not full fetch. Lam Research is a B2B semiconductor equipment maker - its public-facing terms cover website visitors only; customer agreements are negotiated privately and are not publicly available, so real commercial sneakiness (warranty, payment, liability terms in sales contracts) cannot be scored from public sources. Limitation noted: scores are deliberately modest where evidence is thin.
These notes come from the original draft and are not independent verification.