Thermo Fisher Scientific
Health Care
35
out of 100. Number 353 of 512, counting from the worst.
Where Thermo Fisher Scientific does well
- Renewals 0 of 20. Nothing found.
- No data selling: the AppsLab Library privacy statement says 'we will not, without your specific prior consent, sell, trade or transfer your information to unaffiliated third parties other than authorized third parties.'
- No unilateral contract changes: the May-2026 General Terms and Conditions of Sale state 'The Contract cannot be amended or modified unless you and we agree in writing' — changes need mutual written agreement.
- Marketing is opt-in, not opt-out: every lead form carries an unchecked 'Please check the box above if you would like to receive marketing and promotional emails' box with unsubscribe links in each message.
- People can request access, correction, or deletion of their data via dataprivacy@thermofisher.com, and the privacy notice commits to anonymizing data kept past its retention need 'whenever possible.'
If you use Thermo Fisher's cloud / connected-care services, you give up the right to take disputes to court — every claim must go through binding arbitration instead.
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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If you use Thermo Fisher's cloud / connected-care services, you give up the right to take disputes to court — every claim must go through binding arbitration instead.
Any claim, dispute or controversy of whatever nature between you and Life arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Services will be resolved by final and binding arbitration in accordance with Section 16 below.
LIFE TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION THERMO FISHER CLOUD TERMS OF USE (Last Updated December 12, 2018)
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What you paid — the prices, discounts, even transaction details — is legally confidential: you may not disclose it to anyone else without Thermo Fisher's written permission.
Customer agrees that all pricing, discounts and technical information that Thermo Fisher provides to Customer are the confidential and proprietary information of Thermo Fisher. Customer agrees to (i) keep such information confidential and not disclose such information to any third party, and (ii) use such information solely for Customer's internal purposes and in connection with the Products or Services supplied hereunder. / You agree to keep confidential any technical information, commercial information (including, without limitation, transaction details, transaction terms and prices) ... and not to disclose such information to any third party or use such information for any purpose other than performance of the Contract without our prior written consent.
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Entering a Thermo Fisher promotion hands them a forever, worldwide, royalty-free right to use your name, photo, voice and likeness in advertising — with no notice, approval or payment.
each participant grants (and agrees to confirm such grant in writing) permission for Sponsor and those acting under its authority to use participant's name, photograph, voice and/or likeness, for advertising, trade and/or publicity purposes without additional compensation in any and all media now known or hereafter discovered, worldwide and on the internet, in perpetuity, in any manner, without notice, review or approval.
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Just requesting a quote or product info on the site means consenting to your personal data being transferred to other countries, including places with weaker privacy protections.
By submitting this form you agree to Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. Terms of Use and Privacy Notice, including transfer of your personal data to countries outside your country of residence.
AST Information Request lead form (wording also appears on other thermofisher.com lead forms)
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Personal data you hand over for a campaign can be passed along to any third party Thermo Fisher chooses — no further consent or limits stated.
My Personal Information may be shared by Thermo Fisher with any designated third party(ies), as deemed fit, in connection with the Campaign.
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Even after Thermo Fisher quotes you a price for a custom product or service, it can raise that price unilaterally if its own suppliers charge more.
Custom Products or Custom Services which include Specified Components may be subject to price increases at any time, before or after the issuance of a Quote due to changes in the Specified Component supplier's prices.
How these were found
Direct browser fetching of thermofisher.com pages/PDFs timed out repeatedly (4 attempts, all RECV_TIMEOUT on the fetch layer: privacy-policy.html, terms-and-conditions-of-sale-na.pdf, tfss-terms-and-conditions-en-202605.pdf, Connected-Care-Portal-Terms-of-Use.pdf), so findings are grounded in search-engine verbatim snippets of official thermofisher.com-domain documents, not full document reads. No verbatim mirrors (OpenTermsArchive/PrivacyTracker/Difficode) were found for these documents. Document versions: Thermo Fisher Cloud Terms of Use dated Dec 12, 2018 (may be superseded); BPD Logan/Cramlington T&Cs dated 2016 (older custom-product terms; the newer May-2026 General Terms and Conditions of Sale, tfss-terms-and-conditions-en-202605.pdf, requires mutual written agreement to amend); NA Terms and Conditions of Sale snippet last crawled ~49 days before 2026-10-01; privacy notice snippets last crawled ~3 days before 2026-10-01. Thermo Fisher is B2B (product catalog, transactional orders); no consumer auto-renew or subscription mechanics were found, so autorenew is scored 0 as not-applicable rather than 'clean.' Category scores sum exactly to 35.
These notes come from the original draft and are not independent verification.