Marvell Technology
Information Technology
32
out of 100. Number 378 of 512, counting from the worst.
Where Marvell Technology does well
- Arbitration 2 of 20. Few problems found.
- Renewals 0 of 20. Nothing found.
- No forced arbitration or class-action waiver anywhere in the Terms of Use — disputes go to federal/state courts in Santa Clara County, California, which is unusually fair for a tech company of this size (the one-sided venue choice keeps arbitration at 2 rather than 0).
- The privacy policy states outright, for California residents, that Marvell does 'not sell or share the personal information in exchange for money,' and sharing with advertisers/marketers is gated on consent.
- Marvell names real data protection officers by region (EU/UK/Israel, Germany, Americas, Asia Pacific, India), honors CCPA deletion/correction/know requests, GDPR rights, and China PIPL requests within 15 working days — including a right to de-register a Marvell account and have personal information deleted.
- It also does not knowingly collect data from children under 13 (under 14 in China) and promises to remove such data if discovered.
Anything you send Marvell through the site — form entries, uploads, messages — loses all confidentiality, and Marvell claims the right to copy, disclose, distribute, and use it commercially or otherwise, forever, with zero obligations to you.
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 send Marvell through the site — form entries, uploads, messages — loses all confidentiality, and Marvell claims the right to copy, disclose, distribute, and use it commercially or otherwise, forever, with zero obligations to you.
Any material, information or other communication you transmit or post to this Web site will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary ("User Content"). Marvell will have no obligations with respect to the User Content. Marvell will be free to copy, disclose, distribute, incorporate and otherwise use the User Content and all data, images, sounds, text, and other things embodied therein for commercial or non-commercial purposes.
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Marvell can rewrite the Terms whenever it wants and the new version binds you the moment it is posted — no notice, no email, no opt-in; the burden is on you to re-check the page.
Marvell and each of its affiliates (collectively "Marvell") reserve the right to change these Terms at any time, effective immediately upon posting on the Web site. You should visit this page from time to time to review the then-current Terms.
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The privacy policy can be changed at Marvell's sole discretion, and simply visiting the site counts as accepting whatever the newest version says — your data practices can be downgraded without you ever being told.
We reserve the right to change, modify, add, or remove this Privacy Policy at any time in our sole discretion but will indicate that changes have been made. When you visit the Site, you are accepting the current version of this Privacy Policy as posted on the Site at that time.
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Your personal data can be shared with a very wide circle — all present and future subsidiaries, business partners, customers, suppliers, subcontractors, advertisers/marketers, and authorities — with sharing permitted for reasons as loose as enforcing Marvell's own terms.
We may share your personal data with any of the following categories of recipients: Any member of the Marvell Group, which includes our present and future subsidiaries and our affiliates; Business partners, customers, suppliers, service providers, sub-contractors, and other third parties we use to support our business; Advertisers or marketers, to the extent you have given us your consent; and Law enforcement and regulators or other authorities to protect our legal rights or to comply with legal obligations.
Marvell Website Privacy Policy, section 8 (Third-Party Disclosures)
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Marvell lets third-party ad companies and social media sites track which pages you visit and what links you follow so they can target advertising at you; the privacy policy separately admits 'the use of some cookies may constitute selling or sharing personal information under California Data Protection Laws.'
Targeting cookies: These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. They may be used by advertising companies, including social media websites, to understand a user's interests and direct marketing activities. [...] Our third-party partners may use cookies or similar technologies to provide you with advertising based on your browsing activities and interests.
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By merely continuing to use the site you 'agree' that Marvell may move your data to countries with weaker privacy protections — a blanket consent inferred from browsing, not a separate opt-in.
The Marvell Group includes locations where consent may be required to transfer personal data. We may process, store, and transfer the personal data we collect, in and to a country outside the country in which you reside, with different privacy laws that may or may not be as comprehensive as the country in which you reside. Where permissible, by continuing to use this Site you agree to these transfers.
Marvell Website Privacy Policy, section 9 (Consent to Transfer)
How these were found
Documents read directly from marvell.com via automated fetch on 2026-10-01, with no login wall or blocking encountered: 'Marvell Internet Terms of Use' at https://www.marvell.com/terms-of-use.html (no effective date shown in the page text) and 'Legal - Marvell Website Privacy Policy' at https://www.marvell.com/privacy-statement.html, stamped 'Effective January 2025'. All quotes below are verbatim from those fetched texts; 'translation' entries are paraphrases. Marvell is a B2B semiconductor company — it sells chips to OEMs, not consumer subscriptions or accounts — so the auto-renew category is 0 by the nature of the business (there are no recurring consumer plans to trap), which keeps the overall score modest. Scoring reflects only the public website terms and privacy policy, not negotiated enterprise contracts.
These notes come from the original draft and are not independent verification.