Monolithic Power Systems
Information Technology
37
out of 100. Number 337 of 512, counting from the worst.
Where Monolithic Power Systems does well
- Renewals 0 of 20. Nothing found.
- The main Privacy Policy explicitly states 'MPS does not rent, sell or share Personally Identifiable Information it collects about you to or with third parties' in normal operations — a stronger baseline promise than many peers.
- The forum privacy policy commits to delete server logs within 90 days and user-IP records within 5 years ('good faith effort' retention caps), which is more concrete than most retention language.
- The myMPS Terms bar unilateral changes entirely: 'No unilateral amendment, cancellation, modification, or waiver of any provision of this Agreement shall be effective.'
- The forum Terms of Service grant no ownership over user content: 'Nothing in these terms gives the company any ownership rights in intellectual property that you share with the forum.'
- No consumer subscription or auto-renew trap exists anywhere — MPS is a B2B chipmaker and we found no recurring-billing consumer surface.
Anyone who uses MPS's technical forum gives up the right to sue in court or join a class action.
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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Anyone who uses MPS's technical forum gives up the right to sue in court or join a class action. All disputes must go through binding arbitration in SFO, with no way to pool claims with other users.
Other than to seek an injunction or for claims under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, you and the company will resolve any dispute by binding American Arbitration Association arbitration. Arbitration will follow the AAA's Commercial Arbitration Rules and Supplementary Procedures for Consumer Related Disputes. Arbitration will happen in SFO. You will settle any dispute as an individual, and not as part of a class action or other representative proceeding, whether as the plaintiff or a class member. No arbitrator will consolidate any dispute with any other arbitration without the company's permission.
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No matter what goes wrong on MPS's technical forum — even something serious — the most you can ever recover from the company is $50.
As far as the law allows, the total liability to you for claims of any kind that are related to the forum or content on the forum will be limited to $50.
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Your personal data can be sold off as an asset if MPS goes bankrupt, or handed to whoever buys the company in a merger — with no consent step and no deletion option in the clause.
If MPS should ever file for bankruptcy or merge with another company, we may sell the information you provide to us on the Website to a third party or share your Personally Identifiable Information with any company with whom we merge.
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MPS keeps your data indefinitely on its own judgment; the burden is on you to affirmatively tell them to stop, and even then there is no stated deletion deadline.
Please note that unless you instruct us otherwise, we will retain your information for as long as we deem necessary to provide you with our services, process and complete transactions, comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes and enforce our policies.
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If you use MPS's free DC DC Designer simulation tool, you are forbidden from publishing or even privately sharing what you measured with it — a gag on benchmarking or reviewing the tool.
MPS does not grant any permission for the performance or results obtained by You in using this Software to be shared with or sold to others via any copy, duplication, or distribution method such as, but not limited to, printing, photocopying, emailing, or mailing.
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Anyone with a myMPS customer account accepts confidentiality obligations that last forever, and MPS reserves the right to get a court order against you without putting up security — the obligations never expire even after the relationship ends.
You shall hold all Confidential Information in strict confidence and shall not disclose it to any third party. You shall not use any Confidential Information for the benefit of yourself or any third party or for any purpose other than in accordance with your Relationship. The obligations in this Paragraph 1 shall survive and continue into perpetuity. ... MPS, in addition to any other available remedies, shall have the right to seek an immediate injunction and other equitable relief enjoining any breach or threatened breach of this Agreement, without the necessity of posting any bond or other security.
How these were found
monolithicpower.com serves a 'Client Challenge' (bot screen) to automated fetches, so the main Privacy Policy (https://www.monolithicpower.com/privacy-policy) and DC DC Designer Terms of Service (https://www.monolithicpower.com/en/dc-dc-designer-terms-of-service) could not be read directly; their quotes are taken verbatim from search-index snippets of the official pages crawled ~5–59 days ago and are marked as such by URL. Fully read: forum Terms of Service (http://forum.monolithicpower.com/tos, last updated July 12, 2018) and forum Privacy (http://forum.monolithicpower.com/privacy, boilerplate Discourse, last updated May 31, 2013), plus the myMPS Terms and Conditions PDF (https://media.monolithicpower.cn/mps_cms_document/m/y/mymps_terms_and_conditions.pdf, undated in the document). No general 'Terms of Use' page for the main site was found in search; MPS is a B2B power-semiconductor vendor with minimal consumer-facing legal surface, which is why auto-renew scores 0 by absence and the overall score is modest.
These notes come from the original draft and are not independent verification.