TE Connectivity
Information Technology
36
out of 100. Number 347 of 512, counting from the worst.
Where TE Connectivity does well
- Arbitration 0 of 20. Nothing found.
- Renewals 0 of 20. Nothing found.
- No forced arbitration and no class-action waiver — disputes are settled in Pennsylvania courts, so users keep full litigation rights (rare among large corporates).
- No auto-renew or cancellation traps of any kind; the public site is mostly a B2B catalog with no consumer subscriptions.
- TE promises to ask for prior consent before using your data for a materially different purpose, and you can opt out of data collection/processing and onward transfers at any time via privacyoffice@te.com.
- Children's privacy is handled: no knowing collection under 16, and data about a child will be deleted if discovered.
- Data deletion requests are honored, and TE states residual archive copies will not be used for business purposes.
TE can rewrite the rules of its site whenever it wants, with no notice to you.
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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TE can rewrite the rules of its site whenever it wants, with no notice to you. Just continuing to visit the site counts as you agreeing to whatever changed.
TE reserves the right to add, change, or remove any part of these Terms at any time without notice. Any changes in these Terms will be prospective unless retroactive effect is required by applicable laws. By continuing to use the Website, you are indicating your acceptance of any changes to these Terms.
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TE runs Microsoft Clarity, which records your clicks, page visits, scrolling, mouse movements, location, IP address, and device details, and builds a behavioral profile of you from it.
We use the Microsoft Clarity (Clarity) analytics tool for the needs-based design of our websites. Clarity creates usage profiles on the basis of pseudonyms. In particular, pseudonymized usage data (e.g., clicks, access times, pages visited), movement data (e.g., scrolling movements, mouse movements), location data and metadata (e.g., IP address, device information) are processed for this purpose.
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The profile Clarity builds about you is used for behavioral advertising, remarketing, and tracking you across your phone and laptop — by Microsoft and its sub-processors, including outside the EU/US.
The purpose of the processing is tracking (e.g., interest/behavioral profiling, use of cookies), remarketing, conversion measurement (measurement of the effectiveness of marketing measures), interest-based and behavioral marketing, profiling (creation of user profiles), reach measurement (e.g., access statistics, recognition of returning users), cross-device tracking (cross-device processing of user data for marketing purposes).
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Third-party ad companies put cookies on your browser while you're on TE's site and show you targeted ads based on what you browsed; opting out only stops the targeting, not the ads.
We partner with third-parties to manage our advertising on other sites. Our third party partners may use cookies or similar technologies in order to provide you advertising based upon your browsing activities and interests. If you wish to opt out of interest-based advertising, visit https://www.youronlinechoices.com/. Please note you will continue to receive generic ads.
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TE can cut off your access to the site — including your registered account — at any time, for no stated reason, with no notice and no liability.
TE reserves the right to restrict or terminate any person's access or use of the Website or a part of the Website without notice at any time without liability in its sole discretion.
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If anything about your use of the site goes wrong, you're on the hook for TE's legal costs — while TE itself disclaims liability for virtually everything, including viruses from its own site.
You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold TE and its subsidiaries, affiliates, and representatives harmless from and against any and all liability and costs (including fees and expenses) incurred in relation to or arising from any breach by you of these Terms of Use or from your violation of applicable law, regulation, or rights of any third party in connection with your access or use of the Website.
How these were found
Documents read directly via browser_open on October 1, 2026: Terms of Use for TE.com (footer shows 'Updated 2023') at https://www.te.com/en/policies-agreements/terms-of-use-te-com.html, and Privacy Policy (dated August 1, 2024) at https://www.te.com/en/policies-agreements/privacy-policy.html (fetched with legacy campaign query parameters; base URL is the same page). Both are official te.com documents — no mirrors needed. Separate commerce Terms & Conditions of Sale for the TE Store and region-specific distributor GTCs were not reviewed; this scoring covers only the public site's Terms of Use and global Privacy Policy.
These notes come from the original draft and are not independent verification.