Grade D — Sign with caution (score 56/100)
Caterpillar's Terms of Use impose significant restrictions on user rights, including mandatory arbitration, class action waivers, and a perpetual, irrevocable license to all user-submitted content.
Forced arbitration, class action waiver, and perpetual content license.
YOU AND CATERPILLAR ACKNOWLEDGE THAT ALL DISPUTES... WILL BE RESOLVED BY BINDING ARBITRATION... WE EACH AGREE THAT ANY DISPUTE RESOLUTION PROCEEDINGS WILL BE CONDUCTED ONLY ON AN INDIVIDUAL BASIS AND NOT IN A CLASS, CONSOLIDATED OR REPRESENTATIVE ACTION.
Users are forced into individual arbitration and waive the right to participate in class action lawsuits.
You grant Caterpillar and its sublicensees a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive, transferable, perpetual and irrevocable license to use, distribute, transmit, reproduce, modify, publish, translate, publicly perform and display and create derivative works of your User Materials.
Caterpillar claims a permanent, irrevocable right to use, modify, and profit from anything you post, which survives even if you delete your account.
IN NO EVENT SHALL THE CATERPILLAR PARTIES’ TOTAL LIABILITY TO YOU FOR ALL DAMAGES EXCEED ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS (US$100.00).
The company caps its total financial responsibility to you at $100, regardless of the actual damages you suffer.
We reserve the right, in our sole discretion, to change any and all Sites and Content at any time without notice.
The company can modify the terms or the service at any time without providing you any advance notice.
YOU AGREE THAT... ANY CLAIM OR CAUSE OF ACTION... MUST BE FILED WITHIN 12 MONTHS AFTER THE CLAIM OR CAUSE OF ACTION AROSE OR BE FOREVER BARRED.
You are forced to bring any legal claim within one year, which is significantly shorter than most statutory limits.
Last reviewed 2026-08-08 under rubric v3.5.