Steel Dynamics
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44
out of 100. Number 267 of 512, counting from the worst.
Where Steel Dynamics does well
- Renewals 0 of 20. Nothing found.
- Steel Dynamics explicitly states 'We do not sell or lease your Personal Information to any third party' and 'WE DO NOT SELL OR SHARE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION,' and promises to update the policy with an opt-out link if that ever changes.
- The arbitration clause has a genuine 30-day opt-out right (mail a written notice to their Fort Wayne legal department), which many companies don't offer.
- The privacy policy grants real consumer rights (access, deletion, correction, portability, non-discrimination) under CCPA/CPA/VCDPA plus Mexico ARCO rights, and they commit to not collecting minors' info under 18 without parental consent. Contact paths are clear: legal@steeldynamics.com and a phone number (260-969-3500). No auto-renewal or subscription traps were found — the public site is informational (B2B steel sales happen via contracts, not the website).
Just by visiting the company's website, you give up your right to sue Steel Dynamics 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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Just by visiting the company's website, you give up your right to sue Steel Dynamics in court or join a class action. Disputes must be decided by a private arbitrator, not a judge or jury. (There is a 30-day opt-out if you mail a written notice, which is better than most.)
You and Steel Dynamics agree (a) to waive your and Steel Dynamics' respective rights to have any and all Disputes arising from or related to this Agreement, or the Site, resolved in a court, and (b) to waive your and Steel Dynamics' respective rights to a jury trial. Instead, you and Steel Dynamics agree to arbitrate Disputes through binding arbitration... No Class Arbitrations, Class Actions or Representative Actions. You agree that any Dispute arising out of or related to the Terms or the Site is personal to you and Steel Dynamics, and that such Dispute will be resolved solely through individual arbitration and will not be brought as a class arbitration, class action, or any other type of representative proceeding.
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Steel Dynamics can change its website terms whenever it wants, with no email notice or warning — and you're automatically bound by the new version. It's your job to keep checking the page.
We may at any time revise these Terms by updating this posting. You are bound by such revisions and should therefore periodically visit this page to review the current Terms.
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The same trick in the privacy policy: keeping using the site counts as agreeing to whatever new privacy rules they post, without any direct notice to you.
Your continued use of our Platform after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the Policy periodically for updates.
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The site comes with zero guarantees — not even that it works or is secure — and even if their site causes you real losses, you can't recover indirect or consequential damages from them.
THE SITE AND RELATED MATERIALS ARE PROVIDED 'AS IS' WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, AND STEEL DYNAMICS HEREBY DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE... In no event shall Steel Dynamics be liable to you or any third party for any special, punitive, incidental, indirect, or consequential damages of any kind, or any damages whatsoever... whether or not Steel Dynamics has been advised of the possibility of such damages.
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If anything you do on the site gets Steel Dynamics sued — even just by visiting or posting something — you agree to pay their legal bills and cover the claim.
You agree to indemnify and hold Steel Dynamics, and its subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, agents, co-branders, or other partners, and employees, harmless from any claim or demand, including reasonable attorneys' fees, made by any third party due to or arising out of content you submit, post to, or transmit through the Site, your connection to the Site, your use of the Site, your violation of these Terms, or your violation of any rights of another person or entity.
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There is no actual time limit on how long Steel Dynamics keeps your personal data — it decides what counts as 'reasonably necessary' for its own business purposes, and that's the whole policy.
The length of time Company intends to retain Personal Information, including sensitive personal information, if any, is for as long as reasonably necessary to carry out Company's intended business purpose for such information.
How these were found
Terms of Use read live on 2026-10-01 at https://www.steeldynamics.com/terms-of-use/ (no revision date visible in the fetched text). Privacy Policy read live on 2026-10-01 at https://stld.steeldynamics.com/privacy-policy/, marked 'Last Revised: March 1, 2024'. A separate, older Privacy Notice (effective 7/21/2020) exists at https://customer.steeldynamics.com/Resource/Privacy and subsidiary policies exist at omnisource.com, newmill.com, and copperworks.com — this review covers only the main corporate Terms and Privacy Policy. Steel Dynamics is a B2B steel producer; the public website is mostly informational, so the modest score reflects genuinely thin findings, not a quota. All quotes verified via browser_open, not search snippets.
These notes come from the original draft and are not independent verification.