Micron Technology
Information Technology
39
out of 100. Number 309 of 512, counting from the worst.
Where Micron Technology does well
- Arbitration 0 of 20. Nothing found.
- Renewals 0 of 20. Nothing found.
- No forced arbitration: Micron's Terms of Use send disputes to state or federal courts in Idaho — visitors keep their court rights, and there is no class-action or jury-trial waiver found.
- No subscription products or auto-renewal traps exist on Micron's consumer-facing surfaces.
- Micron explicitly pledges it 'will not take any negative actions against you for asserting your rights' under privacy law.
- Marketing communications have real opt-outs (unsubscribe links, account settings, SMS 'STOP'), cookie preferences are user-controllable via a settings icon, and the privacy notice is certified under the EU-U.S., UK Extension, and Swiss-U.S.
- Data Privacy Frameworks (FTC oversight).
- Micron also states it does not market commercial products to children and asks under-16s not to supply personal data.
Micron can rewrite the rules whenever it wants and doesn't have to tell you.
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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Micron can rewrite the rules whenever it wants and doesn't have to tell you. Simply visiting the site counts as agreeing to whatever the current version says — so it's on you to keep re-checking.
Micron may revise these Terms of Use for Micron's Websites at any time without notice. By using any of the Micron Websites you are agreeing to be bound by the then-current version of these Terms of Use.
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Privacy policy edits take effect the moment they're posted. For material changes Micron only says it 'may' email you — otherwise, just keeping the site open or coming back counts as agreeing to the new privacy terms.
All changes to our Privacy Notice are effective immediately upon posting and, except to the extent prohibited by law, your continued interaction with us after posting an updated Privacy Notice shall constitute your acceptance of all changes.
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Nearly every category of your personal data — name, email, phone, what you bought, your card details, your browsing/device data — is kept for a full 10 years. That's a blanket decade, not a minimum tied to a purpose.
Identifiers (such as name, email address, telephone number...), Commercial information, Financial data (such as payment information, account or credit card information), Internet or other network or device activity — Retention of personal data: 10 years
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Closing your account doesn't end the relationship. Micron can keep marketing to you and keep using your data for its business purposes after you leave — you have to actively opt out of marketing to stop the sales pitches.
When you close your account, we may continue to communicate with you about our products and services... and let you know about products and services that may interest you, unless you have elected to not receive marketing communications from us. ... We may also continue to use some of your information for business purposes and to improve our offerings.
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Anything you post or submit — even things you submitted in the past — is declared non-confidential, and Micron gets a forever, worldwide, free license to use, sell, modify, and sublicense your content for anything it wants, commercially included. You can't revoke it.
Any information... you transmit, submit or post (or which you transmitted, submitted or posted in the past) to any Micron Website... will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary... you hereby grant to Micron, and its subsidiaries and affiliates, a worldwide, non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, sublicenseable and transferable license to make, sell, have made, disclose, distribute, display, perform, copy, reproduce, incorporate, prepare derivative works of, and/or otherwise use the Submitted Information for any and all commercial and non-commercial purposes.
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If Micron harms you via the site, you have just one year to file a claim — miss it and your right is gone forever (many legal claims allow longer). And no matter where you live, you must sue in Ada County, Idaho — Micron's hometown courts.
YOU FURTHER AGREE THAT ANY CAUSE OF ACTION YOU MAY HAVE ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THE MICRON WEBSITES MUST COMMENCE WITHIN ONE (1) YEAR AFTER THE CAUSE OF ACTION ACCRUES. OTHERWISE, YOUR CAUSE OF ACTION WILL BE PERMANENTLY WAIVED. ... Any action brought by you and arising out of or related to your use of the Micron Websites shall be brought, prosecuted and defended... in the state or federal courts located in Ada County, Idaho.
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Your data flows to marketing and ad-personalization vendors so ads can be tailored to you. Third parties enrich and expand what Micron knows about you. And if Micron is ever sold or merged, your data goes with the business.
We may share your information, including personal data, with third party service providers... preparing and delivering advertising and marketing content, providing content services, personalizing ads, studying the effectiveness of our ad campaigns... We may use third party services to supplement, validate or increase the accuracy of personal data we hold about you. ... If we sell, merge, or transfer any part of our business, information about you may be shared, sold or transferred as part of that transaction.
How these were found
Terms of Use read in full from https://in.micron.com/legal/terms-of-use (the same Terms of Use document linked from www.micron.com); the page shows no visible 'last updated' date. Privacy Notice read in full from https://micron.com/privacy, dated 'Last Updated: May 15, 2024' — two years old, so current practice may differ. No mirrors were needed; both official domains loaded directly. Consumer storefront shop.crucial.com is operated by Digital River (per Micron's own notice, Digital River is the data controller there), so Digital River's checkout terms were not separately scored; no Crucial-specific consumer terms were found on crucial.com proper. Findings are limited to what exists: Micron is primarily a B2B chipmaker with a thin consumer web surface, hence the modest score. The privacy notice's retention chart applies the 10-year figure to all data categories uniformly.
These notes come from the original draft and are not independent verification.