Stryker Corporation
Health Care
28
out of 100. Number 429 of 512, counting from the worst.
Where Stryker Corporation does well
- Arbitration 0 of 20. Nothing found.
- Renewals 0 of 20. Nothing found.
- No forced arbitration anywhere: neither the Terms of Use nor the Standard Terms of Sale contain a mandatory arbitration or class-action waiver — disputes are resolved in Michigan courts.
- The California notice treats targeted-advertising cookies as opt-in rather than opt-out, honors browser opt-out preference signals (e.g.
- Global Privacy Control) automatically, and grants deletion, correction, and non-discrimination rights; sensitive personal information is used only for purposes California law permits.
- Section 9 of the Terms of Sale goes beyond many B2B contracts by expressly requiring service providers to keep Stryker data confidential and barring them from selling it to third parties or using it for benchmarking.
- And unlike the website terms, the Standard Terms of Sale themselves require any amendment to be in writing and signed by both parties.
When a hospital uses Stryker equipment, Stryker can watch how the devices are used, claim ownership of all usage data generated, and keep a permanent, irrevocable, worldwide license to reuse the hospital's content embedded in that data — with no end date and no way to revoke it.
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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When a hospital uses Stryker equipment, Stryker can watch how the devices are used, claim ownership of all usage data generated, and keep a permanent, irrevocable, worldwide license to reuse the hospital's content embedded in that data — with no end date and no way to revoke it.
Customer agrees that Stryker may monitor use of the Products, and services provided through the Products, by Customer and users and collect and use Stryker Data... Stryker owns Stryker Data, and Customer grants Stryker a nonexclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, transferable, sublicensable, royalty-free, fully-paid up, worldwide license to reproduce, distribute, modify, and otherwise use and display Customer's Content incorporated within the Stryker Data.
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Even for website visitors, Stryker collects an unusually broad sweep: biometrics, photos/video/voice recordings, criminal background history, health info, and precise geolocation — categories far beyond what an informational med-device site typically needs.
In the last 12 months, Stryker collected the following categories of personal information from Consumers: Identifiers... Inferences... Protected Characteristics... Sensory Details... Biometric information... Sensitive Personal Information. This includes information such as your health information, login credentials, government identification, payment information, and precise geolocation.
Privacy Notice for California Residents (effective July 1, 2023)
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Stryker admits that if you accept targeting cookies, it lets ad partners collect your browsing data to serve targeted ads — which California law classifies as selling or sharing your personal information.
We 'sell' or 'share' your information, as those terms are defined under California's privacy law, in limited circumstances. Specifically, when you opt-in to targeting cookies, we allow our partners to collect (using cookies) limited personal information in order to provide you more relevant advertising.
Privacy Notice for California Residents (effective July 1, 2023)
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Stryker can rewrite its website terms whenever it likes, and merely continuing to use the site counts as agreeing to whatever the new terms say — no notice or explicit acceptance required.
Stryker may change the Terms of Use at any time. By using a Stryker web site, you represent and warranty that you accept these and any future version of the Terms of Use.
Terms of Use (last updated May 21, 2010; verbatim archive mirror)
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Hospitals have only 15 days to spot and challenge a bad invoice before it is legally treated as accepted, late payments face an 18% annual fee, and Stryker can change payment terms on its own say-so.
Customer must notify Stryker in writing of any disputed invoice within fifteen (15) days of its receipt... If Customer does not dispute an invoice within fifteen (15) days of its receipt, such invoice will be deemed to have been approved and accepted by Customer. Any amount not paid on time may be subject to a late fee of 1.5% per month prorated (18% per annum)... Stryker, in its sole discretion, reserves the right to change terms of payment.
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You can be bound by Stryker's software license simply by receiving or using the device — no signature or click-through required. The terms attach automatically.
If Customer accepts a Product without agreeing to any additional license agreement, Customer is still bound by the license terms set forth herein. If Customer receives a Stryker Product without executing a license, the Customer is still bound by the applicable license.
How these were found
Terms of Use (last updated May 21, 2010) read via a verbatim archive mirror on cloudfront.net because the live stryker.com legal page could not be fetched; it is a dated copy and the live version may differ. Privacy Notice for California Residents (effective July 1, 2023) and Standard Terms of Sale (US) V.5 dated 2.20.2026 were read directly from stryker.com PDFs/pages. Stryker is overwhelmingly B2B (hospitals/surgeons), so no consumer auto-renew or subscription traps were found. No forced-arbitration or class-action waiver language was found in any document reviewed; no myMako patient-app or product-specific privacy notices were reviewed in depth.
These notes come from the original draft and are not independent verification.