Stanley Black & Decker
Industrials
59
out of 100. Number 138 of 512, counting from the worst.
Where Stanley Black & Decker does well
- Renewals 0 of 20. Nothing found.
- Honors Global Privacy Control browser signals where legally required, opting you out of sale/sharing for advertising.
- Commits to maintaining de-identified information only in de-identified form and never attempting re-identification.
- Warranty terms are generous where they apply: DEWALT mechanics tools carry a FULL LIFETIME warranty with NO proof of purchase required, plus a 90-day money-back guarantee and 1-year free service contract on most power tools.
- Includes a New Jersey Truth-in-Consumer-Contract notice carving out terms that state law would not enforce (e.g., the liability limits and arbitration time-bar don't apply to NJ residents where negligent).
- Privacy rights requests can be made three ways — web form, email, or a toll-free phone number (+1
- 997-6648) — and CA/CO members can opt out of sale/sharing without losing incentive-program benefits.
You cannot sue Stanley Black & Decker in court over their websites or anything on them — not even a jury trial.
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 cannot sue Stanley Black & Decker in court over their websites or anything on them — not even a jury trial. Your only remedy is binding arbitration, and the company carves out an exception for itself: it may still sue YOU in court for IP infringement.
Any dispute between you and Stanley Black & Decker concerning this site or the materials located on this site shall be submitted to final and binding arbitration as the sole and exclusive remedy for such controversy or dispute... By agreeing to arbitrate, each party is giving up its right to go to court and have any dispute heard by a judge or jury.
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Your dispute rights come with strings: you must file within one year (shorter than many statutes of limitations), you split the arbitrator's fees, and the arbitrator is forbidden from awarding punitive damages no matter how egregious the conduct. There is no opt-out of arbitration at all.
Any claim required to be submitted to arbitration shall be made by filing a demand for arbitration within one (1) year following the occurrence first giving rise to the claim... Each party shall bear all of its own costs of arbitration, except that the fees of the arbitrator shall be divided equally between the parties. The arbitrator shall have no authority to amend or modify these terms or to award punitive or exemplary damages.
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SBD openly admits it 'sells' your personal information (as state laws define sale) to third parties for targeted advertising, and may hand your info to other companies so they can market their own products to you — unless you go through the opt-out process.
We 'sell,' as the term is defined under the CCPA and the CPA, Personal Information of both members and non-members to third parties to personalize online advertising content, as described below in the U.S. State Consumer Privacy Supplement. ... We may share your Personal Information with third parties for their direct marketing purposes, where allowed by applicable law.
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Your physical location, tied to which ads you've seen, gets shared with marketing partners — precise-geolocation data is collected (IP, GPS, connected products) and used to target you.
We may also share your device's physical location, combined with information about what advertisements you viewed and other information we collect, with our marketing partners to enable them to provide you with more personalized content and to study the effectiveness of advertising campaigns.
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SBD can rewrite the rules of the game whenever it wants, and simply visiting the site afterward counts as your agreement — no notice promised for Terms changes. Product prices and descriptions can be changed without notice, and they can refuse to serve you at any time, for any reason.
We reserve the right to make changes to this Site, our policies and these Terms at any time in our sole discretion... Your use of the Site after changes are made to the Terms signifies your agreement to such changes. ... We reserve the right to make changes in information about price, description, or availability without notice. We reserve the right, without prior notice, to limit the order quantity on any product and/or refuse service to any customer.
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Post a product review, photo, or video on their sites and SBD gets a forever, worldwide, royalty-free, fully sublicensable license to do anything with it — including derivative works — with no payment and no further permission needed from you.
By posting or submitting User Submissions, and unless we indicate otherwise, you grant us an unrestricted, nonexclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, and fully sublicensable license and right... to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, display, perform, exhibit, broadcast, or otherwise exploit the User Submissions, in whole or in part, throughout the world in any media or technology now known or hereafter developed for any purpose whatsoever without any payment to or further authorization by you.
How these were found
All documents read live on 2026-10-01 via browser_open on official domains (dewalt.com, stanleyblackanddecker.com) — no third-party mirrors needed. DEWALT Terms of Use page states 'Effective as of: March 13, 2017' — that is the version currently published on dewalt.com; no newer revision was found. Global Privacy Policy states 'Last updated: October 2025'. DEWALT warranty page fetched live with no stated effective date. No auto-renewal or subscription terms were found on any of the three documents, so autorenew scores 0. Terms of Use covers all SBD-owned brand sites (Stanley, DEWALT, Craftsman) that link to it.
These notes come from the original draft and are not independent verification.