Teradyne
Information Technology
25
out of 100. Number 463 of 512, counting from the worst.
Where Teradyne does well
- Arbitration 0 of 20. Nothing found.
- Renewals 0 of 20. Nothing found.
- No forced arbitration and no class-action waiver appear anywhere in the site Terms of Use — a genuinely cleaner stance than most consumer tech companies.
- There are no auto-renewal or cancellation traps because the public site is informational with no paid consumer subscriptions.
- The privacy policy grants real, stated rights: free access/deletion/correction/opt-out-of-sale requests answered within one month, and explicit non-discrimination for exercising CCPA rights.
- The CCPA chart says biometric information is NOT collected from consumers and no behavioral inferences/profiles are drawn.
- Marketing data is supposed to be collected only after 'valid marketing consent' through an online form.
Teradyne reserves the right to sell your personal information for money or other value — including to ad networks and social media companies that can resell it again — unless you proactively opt out.
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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Teradyne reserves the right to sell your personal information for money or other value — including to ad networks and social media companies that can resell it again — unless you proactively opt out. It's opt-out, not opt-in, so your data is sellable by default.
Unless a Data Subject has exercised its right to opt-out of Personal Information sales, Teradyne may sell Personal Information to third parties for monetary or other valuable consideration. The third parties may use such information for their own purposes in accordance with their own privacy statements, which may include reselling this information to additional third parties. These third parties may include business partners, third party advertising networks, social media companies and other third parties.
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Your browser's Do Not Track privacy signal is ignored outright on Teradyne's site; each third-party tracker is left to its own devices.
Teradyne's website does not support 'Do Not Track' requests. To determine whether Teradyne's third-party service providers honor 'Do Not Track' requests, please read the providers' respective privacy policies.
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Teradyne can rewrite the rules whenever it likes. Only 'material' changes get any notice (undefined what counts as material), and simply keeping browsing means you agree to the new version.
TERADYNE may, in its sole discretion, modify or update this Agreement from time to time, and so you should review this page periodically. When we change the Agreement in a material manner, we will notify you that material changes have been made to the Agreement. Your continued use of the Service after any such change constitutes your acceptance of the new Terms of Use.
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The privacy policy can be changed at any time with no direct notice to you — the burden is on you to keep checking back.
Teradyne reserves the right to amend this Privacy Policy. The latest edition will always be available on the Teradyne website, and we strongly recommend that you monitor and become familiar with our Privacy Policy.
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The site, portals, or software access can be shut off or changed at any moment, for any reason, with zero notice and no compensation.
TERADYNE may alter, suspend, or discontinue the Service at any time for any reason, without notice or cost.
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If you enroll in their SMS alerts, Teradyne's texts and robocalls can override your Do Not Call registration — one consent wipes out a federal privacy protection you signed up for.
By consenting to TERADYNE's call and text messaging service, you expressly consent and agree that TERADYNE can contact you using written, electronic, or verbal means, including by manual dialing, leaving prerecorded/artificial voice messages or using an automatic telephone dialing system to call or text your mobile/cellular telephone number with service, transaction, account-related, and alerts from TERADYNE, even if your mobile number is registered on any state or federal Do Not Call list.
How these were found
Both documents were read directly from teradyne.com on 2026-10-01 (no blocking, no mirrors needed). Terms of Use (https://www.teradyne.com/investor-relations/terms-of-use) carries no revision/effective date (footer copyright 1994-2024); Privacy Policy (https://www.teradyne.com/privacy-policy/) shows no explicit 'last updated' date in its text. Note: the legacy investor-subdomain policy at https://investors.teradyne.com/privacy-policy/ is a separate, apparently older document answering 'Is Your Personal Information Shared? No.' — inconsistent with the main policy's data-sale disclosure; findings here rely on the main site documents only. Teradyne is a B2B semiconductor-test-equipment maker; the public site is informational with no consumer subscriptions, so autorenew/arbitration findings are simply absent rather than scored. All quotes are verbatim from the documents as fetched.
These notes come from the original draft and are not independent verification.