Quanta Services
Industrials
25
out of 100. Number 461 of 512, counting from the worst.
Where Quanta Services does well
- Arbitration 4 of 20. Few problems found.
- Renewals 0 of 20. Nothing found.
- The privacy policy is explicit that Quanta does not sell personal information for money or other consideration, and the investors' email-alerts page states 'We do not sell, rent, or loan any information to any third party.' Text-message opt-in data is treated strictly: 'such information will remain strictly confidential and will not be shared with any third parties under any circumstances.' The site honors Global Privacy Control (GPC) opt-out preference signals, treating a browser GPC flag as a request to opt out of targeted-advertising sharing and 'selling' of personal information. The policy is recently updated (Sept 2026), detailed, and gives California residents a real privacy-request form plus a toll-free line (1-888-914-9661) rather than a dead-end contact. There is no forced arbitration, no auto-renewal trap, and no consumer account or subscription in the parent company's public terms at all — expected for a B2B contractor, but still less sneaky than most S&P 500 consumer brands. The subsidiary QuantaCred terms also state they do not knowingly collect data from children under 13.
Just visiting quantaservices.com means third parties (YouTube, Vimeo, Google Analytics) collect your IP address, device IDs, and browsing behavior automatically — the policy admits the site shares your activity with these partners by design.
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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Just visiting quantaservices.com means third parties (YouTube, Vimeo, Google Analytics) collect your IP address, device IDs, and browsing behavior automatically — the policy admits the site shares your activity with these partners by design.
we and our third-party partners, such as content feed providers (e.g., Vimeo and YouTube), and analytics providers including Google Analytics, collect information by automated means. Such means include the use of cookies, web beacons, and web server logs... collect personal identifiers (such as your IP address), information about your device (such as your browser characteristics, device IDs and characteristics, and operating system version) and information concerning your usage of our Website
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Quanta says it doesn't sell data for money, but it concedes that cookie-based sharing with partners may count as 'selling' or 'sharing' under privacy law — and puts the burden on you to find and use their opt-out link.
we do not sell your personal information for money or other consideration... To opt-out of 'selling' or 'sharing' personal information (as defined by applicable law) in connection with cookies and similar technologies, please use the 'Your Privacy Choices' link on our website homepage
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Anything you post on Quanta's social media pages also flows to the social media companies themselves, and Quanta disclaims responsibility — their policies, not Quanta's, govern what happens to it.
the third-party operators of social media websites also receive such information, and their use of your personal information is governed by their own privacy policies
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There's no fixed deletion schedule — Quanta can keep your data indefinitely as long as it might be useful for potential future legal claims or fraud investigations, at their discretion.
We use the following criteria to determine the length of time for which we retain personal information... whether we are required to retain the category of personal information in order to: (i) comply with legal or contractual obligations; (ii) assert or defend against potential legal claims or as necessary to investigate theft, fraud, or other activities
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For this Quanta subsidiary's site/services, any dispute goes only to binding arbitration — no court, no jury — with no opt-out offered and the clause surviving termination. (Subsidiary terms; the parent site's own terms contain no such clause.)
such dispute shall be resolved only by final and binding arbitration pursuant to the Federal Arbitration Act, conducted by a single neutral arbitrator and administered by the American Arbitration Association... The entire dispute, including the scope and enforceability of this arbitration provision shall be determined by the Arbitrator. This arbitration provision shall survive the termination of these Terms
Terms of Use, Quanta Credit Services, Inc. (Quanta subsidiary)
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This Quanta subsidiary can rewrite the rules of using its site at any time without telling you first — continued use is your only 'consent'.
Quanta reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to change the Terms under which the Site is offered without providing any prior notice to you
Terms of Use, Quanta Credit Services, Inc. (Quanta subsidiary)
How these were found
Primary source is Quanta Services' official Privacy Policy at quantaservices.com/privacy-policy/ (search crawl showed it was updated ~26 days before Oct 1, 2026, i.e. early Sept 2026). The page is JavaScript-rendered, so browser_open returned only the footer; all parent-policy quotes are from the search engine's crawled text of that official page, not a verbatim mirror. The forced-arbitration and unilateral-change quotes come from the publicly posted Terms of Use of Quanta Credit Services, Inc. (a Quanta Services subsidiary, quantacred.com, last updated Jan 3, 2024) — NOT the parent company, which has no standalone website Terms of Use I could find. No 'changes to policy' notification clause was located for the parent privacy policy, so the changes score rests on the subsidiary terms plus absence of an affirmative notice promise. Score kept modest because Quanta is a B2B infrastructure contractor with no consumer accounts, subscriptions, or consumer-facing data business; categories arbitration/autorenew reflect actual documents, not speculation.
These notes come from the original draft and are not independent verification.