Textron
Industrials
25
out of 100. Number 464 of 512, counting from the worst.
Where Textron does well
- Arbitration 0 of 20. Nothing found.
- Renewals 0 of 20. Nothing found.
- No forced arbitration or class-action waiver — disputes go to real Delaware courts, unlike most consumer tech terms.
- Privacy policy states outright: 'We are not in the business of selling your Personal Data to others.'
- Cookies are explicitly limited: 'we do NOT use cookies to examine your surfing behavior before or after you leave our Site.'
- GDPR-style rights are honored in practice: free access, rectification, erasure, direct-marketing opt-out, and data portability on request to privacy@textron.com.
- Retention is bounded: data is 'routinely deleted' after statutory retention periods, and Contact Us log data is deleted after 12 months.
Anything you send Textron through the site — an idea, feedback, a design — becomes theirs to use forever, anywhere, for any purpose, without paying 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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Anything you send Textron through the site — an idea, feedback, a design — becomes theirs to use forever, anywhere, for any purpose, without paying you. Even if you don't attach a formal submission, just sending it counts as granting this license.
Please note that any unsolicited information or material sent to the Company will be deemed not to be confidential or proprietary. By submitting information and material to this Site, you grant to the Company (or warrant that the owner of such information and material has expressly granted to the Company) a royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, unrestricted, right and license to use, reproduce, display, perform, modify, adapt, publish, translate, transmit and distribute or otherwise make available to others such information and material (in whole or in part and for any purpose) worldwide and/or to incorporate it in other works in any form, media, or technology now known or hereafter developed. You also agree that the Company is free to use any ideas, concepts, know-how or techniques that you send to either of them for any purpose.
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Textron can rewrite the rules whenever it wants, and the new rules take effect the instant they are posted — no email, no click-to-accept. Simply visiting the site afterwards counts as you agreeing to the new terms.
The Company reserves the right to change or modify the terms and conditions applicable to the use of this Site at any time. Such changes, modifications, additions, or deletions to the terms and conditions of use shall be effective immediately upon notice thereof, which may be given by any means including, but not limited to, posting new terms and conditions on the Site. Any use of the Site after such change or modification shall be deemed to constitute acceptance by you of such changes, modifications, additions, or deletions.
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If the privacy policy promises you one thing but the Terms of Use say another, the Terms win. The privacy protections are explicitly the weaker document.
In the event of any conflict between the terms of this Privacy Policy and the Terms of Use, then the Terms of Use shall control.
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Textron hands your personal data to outside vendors — including marketing helpers — and if the company or its assets are sold, your data can transfer to the buyer as an asset. They say they don't 'sell' data, but these carve-outs are broad.
We do not reveal Personal Data about you to unaffiliated third parties, unless: ... 4. The disclosure is done as part of a purchase, transfer or sale of services or assets (e.g., in the event that substantially all of our assets are acquired by another party, customer information may be one of the transferred assets); or 5. The information is provided to our agents, outside vendors or service providers to perform functions on our behalf (e.g., analyzing data, providing marketing assistance, providing customer service, etc.).
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If you want to sue, you have only one year to file (shorter than the usual statute of limitations), and you must do it in Delaware courts no matter where you live.
You must commence any claim or cause of action that you may have with respect to the Disputes by filing only in these courts within one (1) year after the claim or cause of action arises. ... The state and federal courts located in Delaware shall have primary and exclusive jurisdiction and be the exclusive venue for the Disputes and you consent to the personal and exclusive jurisdiction and venue of these courts in connection with the Disputes.
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Textron disclaims essentially all liability for the site — errors, viruses, anything — and your only remedy if something goes wrong is to delete your content and leave.
YOUR USE AND BROWSING OF THE SITE IS AT YOUR RISK. IF YOU ARE DISSATISFIED WITH ANY OF THE SOFTWARE, MATERIALS, PRODUCTS OR SERVICES CONTAINED IN THE SITE, OR WITH ANY OF THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS, YOUR SOLE AND EXCLUSIVE REMEDY IS TO REQUEST THE REMOVAL OF YOUR CONTENT FROM THE SITE AND/OR TO DISCONTINUE ACCESSING AND USING THE SITE.
How these were found
Documents were read directly from textron.com via browser_open on 2026-10-01 (no mirrors or verbatim archives needed; neither page displayed a visible 'last updated' date). All quotes are verbatim from the live documents. Textron is a B2B aerospace/defense/industrial conglomerate whose public site is informational, so auto-renew traps do not apply and scoring was kept modest per methodology.
These notes come from the original draft and are not independent verification.