Solventum
Health Care
54
out of 100. Number 182 of 512, counting from the worst.
Where Solventum does well
- Renewals 0 of 20. Nothing found.
- Solventum honors the Global Privacy Control (GPC) browser signal as an opt-out of data sales and sharing for US users, deactivating non-essential cookies on detection.
- It states plainly that it does 'not sell or share Sensitive Personal Information, nor do we sell or share any Personal Data about individuals who we know are under sixteen
- Privacy Statement changes are prospective only: 'Any modifications will apply only to the Personal Data we collect after the posting' — fairer than the Terms of Service version.
- A dedicated HIPAA Notice of Privacy Practices governs protected health information from its Advanced Wound Care business, with explicit patient rights (access, correction, accounting of disclosures).
- Explicit privacy rights include deletion, correction, and opt-out of sales/sharing, plus an appeal process if a request is denied, with a stated non-discrimination commitment.
- Quebec residents get an opt-in (not opt-out) requirement for tracking and profiling technologies.
You can't sue Solventum in court or join a class action over website use — disputes go to private binding arbitration in Delaware, and even the arbitrator (not a judge) decides whether the arbitration clause itself is enforceable.
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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You can't sue Solventum in court or join a class action over website use — disputes go to private binding arbitration in Delaware, and even the arbitrator (not a judge) decides whether the arbitration clause itself is enforceable. The one escape hatch is opting out by email — but the document literally still says '[INSERT EMAIL ADDRESS]', so there is no usable address and the opt-out is effectively broken.
Other than claims relating to trade secrets, patents, copyright, or trademarks, you and Solventum agree to submit all disputes between you relating to your access and use of the Website on an individual basis and through binding arbitration. ... You may optout of this arbitration section by sending an email to [INSERT EMAIL ADDRESS]. ... you may only bring disputes against Solventum in court or arbitration on an individual basis, and not as a plaintiff or class member in any purported class or representative proceeding.
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Solventum can rewrite the rules whenever it wants with no notification at all — just visiting the site again after a change counts as agreeing to it.
Unless required by law, these Terms and Conditions ('Terms') may be changed from time to time and without further notice. Your continued use of the Website after any such changes constitutes your acceptance of the new Terms.
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Solventum openly admits it sells/shares (in the CCPA legal sense) your identifiers and browsing activity to advertising networks, analytics firms and social networks for targeted advertising — from a healthcare company whose visitors may be researching medical conditions and wound-care products.
We may 'sell' or 'share' Identifiers and Internet and Electronic Network Activity Usage Information to advertising networks, data analytics providers and social networks. We do so to improve and evaluate our advertising campaigns and better reach customers and prospective customers with more relevant ads and content.
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Anything you submit through their site — including content you created using their images and videos — can be used by Solventum forever, in any way, without paying you or crediting you.
Solventum reserves a perpetual right to use, in any matter whatsoever, and without compensation or attribution, any content submitted via the Website.
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Even if something on their site harms you — up to and including personal injury or death — Solventum caps its total payout at $100, and disclaims all warranties about the accuracy of any content on its own website.
IN NO EVENT SHALL SOLVENTUM'S LIABILITY TO YOU OR ANY OTHER PERSON OR ENTITY FOR ALL DIRECT DAMAGES OR LIABILITIES EXCEED IN THE AGGREGATE THE AMOUNT OF ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS (USD $100.00). ... THIS PROTECTION COVERS ALL LOSSES INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION, AND TO THE EXTENT PERMISSIBLE BY LAW, DIRECT OR INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, AND PUNITIVE DAMAGES, PERSONAL INJURY OR WRONGFUL DEATH, LOSS OF PROFITS OR DAMAGES RESULTING FROM DATA LOSS OR BUSINESS DISRUPTION.
Terms of Service, Section 5 (Warranties and Limitation of Liability)
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Browsing behavior including keystrokes and mouse clicks is logged (including via session-replay-style tech), ad partners track you across websites and devices, retention periods are vague ('as long as reasonably necessary'), and once your data is de-identified Solventum can keep it indefinitely and use it for any purpose, including product development and research.
We automatically collect ... information about your viewing, features used, links clicked, keystrokes and mouse clicks. ... these third parties may collect your information over time and across our Websites (and third party sites) in order to associate different devices you use and further gain insights into the goods and services that may interest you. ... We will retain your Personal Data for as long as reasonably necessary or permitted in light of the purposes for which it was collected. ... Solventum may anonymize, aggregate or deidentify any of the information we collect from you and, where permitted by applicable law, use it for any purpose, including for research, product development.
How these were found
Documents read 2026-10-01 via direct browser_open of official Solventum PDFs (no mirrors needed): Terms of Service, undated PDF from the 2024 launch-era DAM folder (path /content/dam/public/language-masters/en/entp/document/2024/Terms-of-Service-entp-en-us.pdf); Global Website Privacy Statement 'Last Revised: April 1, 2024'. The en-US Privacy Statement PDF is served from www.solventum.cn (Solventum's official China domain / content-delivery host — the /content/dam/public/language-masters/en/entp/document/2024/website-privacy-policy-entp-en-us.pdf path is Solventum's canonical DAM copy). Access limitations: none — both PDFs fetched cleanly. Notable vestigial 3M-era artifacts: the privacy contact email is still privacyresolution@mmm.com, and the HIPAA notice is issued by 'KCI USA, Inc. ... doing business as Solventum'. These findings cover the public website/docs only (solventum.com); B2B portals, product-specific notices, and country-specific terms of sale were not scored. Solventum spun out of 3M in 2024; no post-2024 revisions of these documents were found.
These notes come from the original draft and are not independent verification.