Targa Resources
Energy
24
out of 100. Number 475 of 512, counting from the worst.
Where Targa Resources does well
- Arbitration 0 of 20. Nothing found.
- Renewals 0 of 20. Nothing found.
- Price & terms 0 of 15. Nothing found.
- No forced-arbitration or class-action waiver was found anywhere in Targa's public legal documents.
- The recruiting statement gives applicants a real opt-out: clicking 'Decline' terminates the process with 'no personal information... captured in the system.' Protected-status data (race, gender, ethnicity) is collected for legally required government reporting and the document explicitly states it 'is not reviewed in connection with consideration for employment,' and the EEO statement bars retaliation for complaints.
- The site is pure B2B investor brochureware — no accounts, no checkout, no marketing data harvesting machinery — so there was simply little to be sneaky about.
- Third-party sharing is at least constrained to parties who 'agree to similar restrictions on disclosure and use.'
To even apply for a job at Targa, you must agree in advance never to sue them over violations of their own privacy terms — and to defend them if anyone else does.
The fine print
5 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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To even apply for a job at Targa, you must agree in advance never to sue them over violations of their own privacy terms — and to defend them if anyone else does. This is a condition of submitting a job application, not a negotiated contract.
I agree that I will not sue or otherwise attempt to recover against Targa or any of its Affiliate(s) based on any alleged violation of the terms above, and I agree to hold harmless, defend and indemnity such as affiliates against any such claim or suit, except to the extent that this provision is prohibited by applicable law.
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Your resume and all personal details you submit can be shipped to any country in the world — including countries with far weaker data-protection laws than the US — simply by applying.
If you submit any data or information, you will be giving your permission for Targa Resources LLC and its Affiliates to process, store, and transfer (to any country) your information, including all personal information, as set out below.
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Applicant data can be shared with outside third parties whenever Targa decides it has a 'legitimate business purpose' — a broad, undefined standard — as long as the recipient promises similar confidentiality.
Targa does not provide the information it collects to other third parties unless it is required to do so by a valid court order, governmental agency order or information request, or unless it has a legitimate business purpose for doing so and the third party agrees to similar restrictions on disclosure and use of the information.
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If you get hired, Targa keeps your application data indefinitely and may use or share it for any personnel or administrative purpose — with no stated time limit and no deletion path.
If Targa employs you within any of its affiliates, it will retain this information and may use it and disclose it to others for personnel, administrative or other purposes related to your employment with Targa.
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Non-US applicants are specifically flagged that the no-sue waiver applies to them too — the heaviest burden in the document lands on the applicants with the least US legal protection.
If you are in or are submitting personal information from a jurisdiction outside of the United States, note in particular the waiver of rights provision below in the final section of this statement.
How these were found
Only one official legal document was found and read in full: the Recruiting Data Privacy Statement hosted on Targa's official recruiting domain (targaresources.taleo.net, Oracle Taleo). It carries no version/effective date. No general Terms of Use or site Privacy Policy was found on www.targaresources.com: the homepage fetched Oct 1, 2026 was a bare investor overview page, /privacy-policy and /terms-of-use returned HTTP 404, and sitemap.xml was unreachable (500). No mirrors of Targa documents exist on OpenTermsArchive/Difficode. The score therefore reflects only the recruiting privacy statement; as a B2B midstream company with no consumer accounts, arbitration, auto-renew, and unilateral-change terms were not found and are scored 0 rather than inflated.
These notes come from the original draft and are not independent verification.