October 02 2026

AeroVironment, Inc. and its subsidiaries, (collectively, “AV”, “we”, “us,” or “our”), is dedicated to protecting your privacy. This Online Privacy Policy (this “Policy”) (together with our CCPA Privacy Policy and Cookies Policy) explains the bases on which we collect, use, and process information about you when you subscribe to our services or when you visit our websites. Internal policies and procedures govern our internal networks and IT systems, as well as the storage and processing of Personal Information (as defined below) for our employees and other authorized users of our networks and IT systems.

Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your Personal Information and how we will treat it.

This Policy explains our practices in the following areas:

1. The nature of the information we collect about you and the way such information is used.
2. The nature, frequency, and purpose of any disclosure of information that we may make, including the types of persons or entities to whom the disclosure may be made.
3. If you are a California resident, please see CCPA Privacy Policy here.

I.    TYPES OF INFORMATION WE COLLECT AND HOW WE COLLECT IT

Personal data, customer, or personal information (collectively, “Personal Information”), means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified, including, but not limited to name, postal address, phone number, email address, and Social Security Number. We collect Personal Information from users of our websites who provide such information to us and by observing your use of our products, services and websites.

The following are specific types of Personal Information that we collect from customers and visitors to our websites:

• “Account Information” means information about your account, including, but not limited to, your name, address, email address, telephone number, credit card information, and appointment scheduling information. We collect Account Information directly from you when you activate or change your account, or purchase and/or subscribe to products or services from us. We may combine information we obtain from third parties with Account Information we collect.

• Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies: As you interact with our websites, we will also automatically collect the technical and usage data noted above about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns. We collect this Personal Information by using cookies and other similar technologies. Please see Cookies Policy for further details.

II.   USE OF Personal INFORMATION WE COLLECT

We use Personal Information to deliver the most suitable products and services, to operate our business and improve our product and service offerings. For example, we may use your postal address, email address, or telephone number to:

• Provide customer support; and
• Solicit your feedback about the products and services you received.

We may also use Personal Information to:

• Fulfill the reason you provided such information;
• resolve disputes and troubleshoot problems;
• contact a customer regarding administrative matters or notices;
• send promotional materials, newsletters or other communications;
• respond to inquiries;
• evaluate potential suppliers, subcontracts or vendors and manage our relationships with them
• process employment applications, including by assessing qualifications, verifying information, and conducting reference or other employment-related check
• data analysis (including anonymization and aggregation of Personal Information)
• prevent, identify and respond to cybersecurity and other security events, espionage, fraud and other unlawful activity, claims and other liabilities
• help maintain the safety, security, and integrity of our websites, products and services, databases and other technology assets, and business
• comply with and enforce applicable laws, regulations and legal processes and our policies and procedures

We also may use the Personal Information in other ways for which we provide specific notice at the time of collection.

We only process your Personal Information when it is lawful for us to do so. For purposes of the GDPR, we rely on the following lawful grounds to process your Personal Information:

• consent of the data subject;
• performance of a contract to which the data subject is party or in order to take steps at the request of the data subject prior to entering into a contract;
• compliance with a legal obligation to which the controller is subject;
• legitimate interests pursued by the controller or by a third party.

III.        WHEN WE SHARE Personal INFORMATION WITH THIRD PARTIES

We do not share your Personal Information with third parties, except as described below, which is shared only with those employees, volunteers, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a need to know. In the circumstances described below, we limit the information we provide to the information necessary to perform the function or provide the service for which it is shared. We share Personal Information with third parties who help manage our business and deliver services. Third parties are permitted to use the Personal Information which is provided by us to provide the contracted service to us and not for any purposes other than as authorized by us.

In addition, we may disclose information about you (i) if we are required to do so by law or legal process, (ii) to law enforcement authorities or other government entities, (iii) when we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to prevent harm or financial loss, or (iv) in connection with an investigation of suspected or actual espionage, cybersecurity or security events or other fraudulent or illegal activity. We also reserve the right to transfer Personal Information we have about you in the event we sell or transfer all or a portion of our business or assets (including in the event of a reorganization, spin-off, dissolution or liquidation).

We do not sell or otherwise disclose Personal Information we collect about you, except as described in this Policy. We may share Personal Information with service providers who perform services on our behalf based on our instructions. We may share certain Personal Information with our affiliates for the purposes described in this Policy.

We may share with third parties certain pieces of non-Personal Information and aggregated non-Personal Information, for example, the number of customers located in a certain geographic area. Such information will not identify you individually. We may also make Personal Information available to third parties for the purpose of marketing such products or services.

IV. HOW LONG WE KEEP Personal INFORMATION

We will only retain your Personal Information for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, regulatory, tax, accounting or reporting requirements. We may retain your Personal Information for a longer period in the event of a complaint or if we reasonably believe there is a prospect of litigation in respect to our relationship with you.

To determine the appropriate retention period for Personal Information, we consider the amount, nature and sensitivity of the Personal Information, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your Personal Information, the purposes for which we process your Personal Information and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal, regulatory, tax, accounting, or other requirements.

V. YOUR RIGHTS

In certain circumstances, you may have the right to:

• Request access to your Personal Information, commonly known as a “data subject access request.” This enables you to receive a copy of the Personal Information we hold about you and to check that we are lawfully processing it.
• Request correction of the Personal Information that we hold about you. This enables you to correct any incomplete or inaccurate data we hold about you, although we may need to verify the accuracy of the new data you provide to us.
• Request erasure of your Personal Information. This enables you to ask us to delete or remove Personal Information where there is no good reason for us continuing to process it. You also have the right to ask us to delete or remove your Personal Information where you have successfully exercised your right to object to processing (see below), where we may have processed your information unlawfully or where we are required to erase your Personal Information to comply with local law.
• Object to processing of your Personal Information where we are relying on a legitimate interest (or those of a third party) and there is something about your particular situation which makes you want to object to processing on this ground as you feel it impacts your fundamental rights and freedoms. You also have the right to object where we are processing your Personal Information for direct marketing purposes.
• Request restriction of processing of your Personal Information. This enables you to ask us to suspend the processing of your Personal Information in certain scenarios.
• Request the transfer of your Personal Information to you or to a third-party. We will provide your Personal Information in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format, to you, or a third-party you have chosen.
• Withdraw consent at any time where we are relying on consent to process your Personal Information.
• Lodge a complaint to a competent data protection supervisory authority (Art. 77 GDPR) within your country or region, or where an alleged infringement of applicable data protection laws occurs, for any data protection issues. We would, however, appreciate the chance to address your concerns before you lodge a formal complaint, so please contact us first.

To exercise one of the above rights, please contact us using the details provided below.

For the purpose of the General Data Protection Regulation (the ” GDPR“), the controller of your Personal Information is AeroVironment, Inc., located at 900 INNOVATORS WAY, SIMI VALLEY, CA 92653.

We operate and/or have employees in many U.S. states. We understand our obligations for complying with state comprehensive privacy laws that govern the use of Personal Information.

If you have questions about this Policy or other privacy matters, you may contact us by phone at +1.703.418.2828, email privacy@avinc.com or mail: AeroVironment, Inc., Privacy Policy, attn: Legal Counsel, 241 18TH STREET SOUTH, SUITE 650 ARLINGTON, VA 22202.

We may need to request specific information from you confirm your identity and your right to access your Personal Information (or to exercise any of your other rights). We follow these steps as security measures to prevent Personal Information from being disclosed to any person that does not have a right to receive it.

We try to respond to all legitimate requests within one (1) month. Occasionally, it may take us longer than one month if your request is particularly complex or you have made several requests. In this case, we will notify you about the timeline, keep you updated on progress, and request an extension if necessary.

VI. HOW WE PROTECT THE SECURITY OF Personal information

We take your privacy very seriously and work hard to protect your data from being accidentally lost, used, or accessed in an unauthorized way, altered, or disclosed. We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent this from happening. In addition, we limit access to your Personal Information to those employees, volunteers, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a need to know. They will only process your Personal Information on our instructions, and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality. We have a comprehensive security program that employs numerous physical, technical, and policy controls such as Firewalls, VPN, encryption, employee trainings, and annual security audits. Physical safeguards include but are not limited to, security guards, alarms, cameras, and locks with badge access readers at our locations.

However, no system or transmission of information via the internet is completely secure or error-free. Although we will do our best to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee the complete security of Personal Information transmitted to our site; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent your data from being accidentally lost, used, or accessed in an unauthorized way, altered, or disclosed in violation of this Policy.

VII. A SPECIAL NOTE FOR PARENTS CONCERNING PRIVACY

Our websites are not directed to children, and we do not encourage children to participate in providing us with any personally identifiable information. If you believe that we might have any information from a child under age 13, please contact us by phone +1.703.418.2828, email privacy@avinc.com or mail: AeroVironment, Inc., Privacy Policy, attn: Legal Counsel, 241 18TH STREET SOUTH, SUITE 650 ARLINGTON, VA 22202.

We strongly recommend that children under age 13 use our services only under the approval and supervision of their parents or legal guardian(s).

We support the guidelines and regulatory requirements provided in the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA).

VIII. INTERNATIONAL DATA TRANSFERS

We operate on a global basis with offices in the U.S. and in Germany.  We may transfer Personal Information we collect from you to recipients in countries other than the one in which we originally collected the information, including the U.S.  Those countries may not have data protection laws and regulations like those of the country in which you originally provided your Personal Information.  We take appropriate steps to ensure that cross-border transfers of Personal Information are done in accordance with applicable laws and regulations, including by ensuring contractual commitments are in place with our affiliates and third parties to protect your Personal Information and privacy.  We also carefully evaluate and assess requests from law enforcement, regulators and government agencies prior to providing any Personal Information to such entities.

IX. AUTOMATED DECISION-MAKING

We do not currently perform any automated processing of Personal Information.

X.  LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES

When you visit our websites, you may find opportunities to link to third party websites, plug-ins, and applications, for example, on our news & media pages. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. Such third-party websites may also use cookies and other similar technologies to measure the effectiveness of their advertisements and/or to personalize the advertising content that you see. When you click through to these third-party websites, our Online Privacy Policy, CCPA Privacy Policy, and Cookie Policy no longer apply. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy or cookie statements. When you leave our websites, we recommend that you read the privacy and cookie policies for any third-party websites.

XI. COOKIES AND OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES

As you interact with our websites, we will also automatically collect the technical and usage data noted above about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns. We collect this Personal Information by using cookies and other similar technologies. Please see our Cookies Policy for further details.

XII. CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

We share Personal Information in accordance with the Privacy Policy in effect at the time the information is collected. We reserve the right to change this Privacy Policy, including the Cookie Policy and CCPA Privacy Policy, at any time. Any new iterations of this Privacy Policy, the Cookie Policy, or the CCPA Privacy Policy will be posted online with the applicable revision date. If changes are made regarding our collection or use of Personal Information, revised policies will be posted online as soon as possible.

January 01, 2024

Use and access to this website maintained by or on behalf of AeroVironment, Inc. (the ‘Site’) is subject to all the following terms and conditions (‘Terms and Conditions’) and all applicable laws. By using, accessing, browsing or viewing this Site, and/or any features of this Site, the user of the Site (‘User’ or ‘You’) accepts, without limitation or qualification, all of the Terms and Conditions set forth herein. AeroVironment, Inc. (‘AV’) reserves the right to modify these Terms and Conditions at any time without prior notice and as such recommends that the User reads the Terms and Conditions carefully and completely each time this Site is visited or used. If a User of this Site is unwilling or unable to be fully bound by these Terms and Conditions, the User should not access or use the Site.

1. Copyrights

Unless otherwise explicitly stated, all material including text, images, graphics, drawings, audio recordings, photos and videos (collectively ‘Material’) contained in or displayed on this Site is copyrighted and the Material and the copyrights thereto are either the property of, licensed by, or used with the permission of, AV and/or one or more of its affiliated or associated companies or other third party entities with which AV has a contractual business relationship (collectively ‘Associated Entity’). No Material on this Site may be reproduced, copied, published, modified, posted, reposted, performed or distributed in any way without the express written permission of either AV or, for Material not owned or licensed by AV, the particular Associated Entity owning or licensing such Material.

The User of this Site may use and browse this Site and the Materials owned by AV (‘AV Materials’) for his/her own personal information, education, understanding and knowledge, provided all such use is for non-commercial and personal purposes. No permission is given nor are any rights granted to the AV Materials for any commercial purposes. Unauthorized use, reproduction, copying, posting, reposting, publishing, modification, display, performance and/or distribution of the AV Materials is a violation of AV’s copyrights. The use of any Material owned by an Associated Entity (‘Associated Entity Material’) for commercial purposes is expressly prohibited and may be a violation of that entity’s copyright(s). Except for any limited permission as expressly stated and provided herein, nothing contained or stated herein, or within the Site shall be construed, interpreted or read as granting any right or license to anyone to, and/or under, any patent, trademark, copyright, publicity right or other intellectual property right of AV and/or any Associated Entity.

The User of this Site agrees not to remove, edit or otherwise alter any copyright or other proprietary rights notice contained in or on the Site.

In the event that any material contained on this Site is alleged to infringe a third-party copyright, notification of such allegation should be made directly to AV in accordance with the procedure set forth below. AV will process any notices of alleged infringement and take appropriate action as required by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), as well as by all applicable intellectual property laws. As set forth by the DMCA, any notice of alleged copyright infringement is to be sent to AV’s agent:

Corporate Counsel
AeroVironment, Inc.
900 Innovators Way
Simi Valley, CA 93065

According to 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3), to be effective a notification of claimed infringement must be a written communication provided to the above agent that
includes substantially the following:

(i) A physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.
(ii) Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed, or, if multiple copyrighted works at a single online site are covered by a single notification, a representative list of such works at that site.

(iii) Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity and that is to be removed or access to which is to be disabled, and information reasonably sufficient to permit the service provider to locate the material.

(iv) Information reasonably sufficient to permit the service provider to contact the complaining party, such as an address, telephone number, and, if available, an electronic mail address at which the complaining party may be contacted.

(v) A statement that the complaining party has a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.

(vi) A statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.

2. Trademarks

To the extent that Site contains, shows or otherwise presents the trademarks, trade dress, trade names, logos, symbols and/or service marks (collectively ‘Trademarks’) of AV, an Associated Entity, and/or others, whether such Trademarks are registered or unregistered, nothing within this Site or these Terms and Conditions shall be construed, interpreted or read as granting any right or license to anyone under, or to, any such Trademarks. Unauthorized use of the Trademarks by the User of this Site or any third party is strictly prohibited. AV shall enforce all of its intellectual property rights, including but not limited to rights in its Trademarks, to the fullest extent permitted by law. AV shall, to the fullest extent available under the law, seek civil and criminal actions against anyone infringing, misusing, copying and/or misappropriating AV’s Trademarks.

AeroVironment, AV, the AV logo, Architectual Wind, Global Observer, GO, Raven, Switchblade, Puma, Wasp, DDL and IWitness, are all trademarks of AeroVironment, Inc . Any and all third party trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

The User of this Site agrees not to remove, edit or otherwise alter any trademark, service mark or other proprietary rights notice contained in or on the Site.

3. Site Use and Content

This Site is not intended for use by, anyone under the age of 13. The User of this site hereby represents and warrants that he or she is 18 years of age or older. If the User is not at least 13 years of age, the User must not access or use this Site.

AV, and/or any Associated Entity, separately or collectively, do not warrant or represent in any way that the use of the Site and/or the Materials will not infringe any rights of any third party, and do not warrant or represent in any way the accuracy or correctness of any information provided by, or contained on, the Site. AV, and/or any Associated Entity, separately or collectively, assumes no liability or responsibility for any errors or omissions in the content, or information presented, in the Site or the Materials. The User of this Site and the Materials assumes and fully accepts all liability and risk for the use and browsing of this Site and/or the Materials. Neither AV, and/or any Associated Entity, separately or collectively, is in any manner liable for any direct, incidental, consequential, indirect, or punitive damages arising out of the User’s use and/or browsing of this Site and/or the Materials.

THIS SITE IS PROVIDED TO THE USER “AS-IS” WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY OF ANY KIND FROM EITHER AV AND/OR ANY ASSOCIATED ENTITY, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY WARRANTY OF DESIGN, MERCHANTABILITY, OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT.

The Site may contain information or data that is generated by third parties (such as by Site Users) separately and independent from AV or any Associated Entity (such as product reviews or ratings) (collectively ‘Third Party Submitted Content’). While AV will make reasonable efforts to review and monitor the Third Party Submitted Content, however, the User agrees that AV and any Associated Entity are not in any manner responsible for any Third Party Submitted Content or for any injury, harm, liability, cause of action, including but not limited to libel, slander, defamation, fraud, and/or any other action based on or arising from any omission, error, misrepresentation, inaccuracy, misstatement, misdirection, obscenity, profanity, pornography, resulting from and/or related to any Third Party Submitted Content. AV and/or any Associated Entity make no endorsement, representation, guarantee and/or warranty as to the authenticity, accuracy, integrity, quality, completeness or correctness of any Third Party Submitted Content. The User of this Site uses all Third Party Submitted Content at his or her own risk.

All information and/or data, including but not limited to pricing, terms, conditions, schedules, descriptions, specifications, images, product and service information and the like, set forth on this Site are subject to change without prior notice. All sales, lease and service commitments for products and services by AV are subject to the written terms and conditions of the applicable sales, lease, service or other agreement.

This Site may contain information regarding products, services and/or promotions of AV, and/or its Associated Entities. All the specifications, descriptions and images related to such products, services and/or promotions are based on the relevant information available at the time of posting and may be subject to change without notice. Some products, services and/or promotions shown or described may include optional, limited availability, prototype, pre-production, custom, special order, under development, not commercially available or discontinued equipment or services, and production products, services and promotions may vary. AV and Associated Entities reserve the right to make changes at any time, without notice, to any and all information related to products, services, and/or promotions, and to the products, services, and/or promotions themselves, set forth on this Site. AV and Associated Entities reserve the right to introduce or discontinue at any time, without notice, any and all products, services, and/or promotions. Specifications, availability and delivery time of products, services and promotions may vary, including variations by geographic location and local requirements.

4. Off-Site and/or Linked Content

AV and/or any Associated Entity is/are not in any manner responsible for any content, material, images or information contained in, or set forth, displayed or otherwise presented on, any site, page, file, document, or the like that this Site links to (by hypertext links or other means), lists, references or directs the User to (collectively ‘Off-Site Content’). AV and/or any Associated Entity is/are not in any manner responsible for any injury, harm, liability, cause of action, including but not limited to libel, slander, defamation, fraud, and/or any other action based on or arising from any omission, error, misrepresentation, inaccuracy, misstatement, misdirection, obscenity, profanity, pornography, resulting from and/or related to any Off-Site Content, and/or from the use or viewing of any site, page, file, document, or the like containing Off-Site Content. AV and/or any Associated Entity make no endorsement, representation, guarantee and/or warranty as to the authenticity, accuracy, integrity, quality, completeness or correctness of the Off-Site Content. The User of this Site uses all Off-Site Content at his or her own risk.

5. User Actions and Provided Materials

The User is prohibited from, and agrees not to, submit, send, post, provide, transmit, upload to, and/or display, present, perform on, this Site any materials that are in any manner inappropriate, obscene, lewd, offensive, threatening, unlawful, libelous, slanderous, defamatory, fraudulent, obscene, inflammatory, pornographic and/or profane. The User is prohibited from, and agrees not to, engage in any activity related to the use of this Site that constitutes, may constitute, results in, may result in, supports, aides or in any way encourages or facilitates any criminal offense, unlawful action and/or any civil cause of action. The User agrees to fully indemnify, hold harmless and defend AV and every Associated Entity and their respective directors, officers, board members, shareholders, managers, employees, contractors, agents and the like from any and all causes of action arising from any of the User’s actions or inactions related to the User’s use of this Site. AV and each Associated Entity assumes no responsibility or liability that may arise from any unlawful content of the User’s submissions, postings, transmissions, uploads or the like, the entirety of any such liability rests solely and completely with the User.

While AV and its Associated Entities may solicit User responses to questions or requests set forth on this Site, as well as User comments or feedback on our products or services, please do not submit any ideas, concepts, know-how, inventions, methods, processes, techniques or unsolicited information or data. However, in the event that any submission is made, the User agrees that AV and/or any Associated Entity is/are free to use and fully disclose, in any manner and for any purpose whatsoever (including, but not limited to, advertisement, marketing, licensing, manufacturing, product and/or service development, and giving or selling to third parties), any and all ideas, concepts, know-how, inventions, information, data, methods, processes, descriptions, techniques, drawings, charts, images, video, audio, statements, testimonials, suggestions, communications, or the like, that the User submits, sends, posts, provides, transmits, uploads to, and/or displays, presents, performs on, this Site (collectively ‘User Provided Material’). The User agrees to grant to AV and any and all Associated Entities a paid-up, royalty-free, world-wide, non-exclusive, perpetual license, with sub-license rights, to any and all intellectual property rights of the User Provided Material. Any and all User Provided Material will be non-confidential and AV and/or its Associated Entities shall not be liable for any disclosure thereof. User warrants that it has all right, power, permission and/or authority to grant the herein license(s) to the User Provided Material. The User agrees to fully indemnify, hold harmless and defend AV and every Associated Entity and their respective directors, officers, board members, shareholders, managers, employees, contractors, agents and the like from any and all causes of action arising from AV’s or an Associated Entities’ use of the User Provided Material. AV and each Associated Entity assumes no responsibility or liability that may arise from use of the User Provided Material.

The User agrees to provide AV and any Associated Entity with legitimate, accurate, correct, factual and complete information and/or data in response to any questions or requests set forth on this Site. The User agrees to request information from AV or any Associated Entity only for legitimate purposes and shall not be done for any purposes that are in any way inappropriate or unlawful.

The User agrees not to: (1) use any site search/retrieval application (or other such devices) to retrieve or index any portion of this Site; (2) collect any information about other Users (including usernames and/or email addresses) for any purpose; (3) create fake or automated user accounts; (4) send unsolicited communications (i.e., “spam”); (5) transmit or upload any virus, worm, Trojan horse, software bomb or other item designed to damage or degrade the Site, or any computer or system operating or related to the Site; (6) violate the security of or gain unauthorized access to the Site or any computer or system operating or related to the Site; and/or (7) impose an unreasonable or disproportionately large processing load on the Site.

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January 01 2024

We may collect information about your computer, including where available your IP address, operating system and browser type, for system administration and to report aggregate information. This is statistical data about our users’ browsing actions and patterns.

For the same reason, we may obtain information about your general internet usage by using a cookie file which is stored on the hard drive of your computer. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive.

Any personal data collected by carrying out any of the below purposes shall be processed in accordance with our Privacy Policy.

What cookies we use

We use two broad categories of cookies: (1) first party cookies, served directly by us to your computer or mobile device, which are used only by us to recognize your computer or mobile device when it revisits our Site; and (2) third party cookies, which are served by service providers on our Site, and can be used by such service providers to recognize your computer or mobile device when it visits other websites.

We use the following cookies on our website for the following purpose:

• Essential Cookies: These cookies are essential to provide you with services available through our website and to enable you to use some of its features. Without these cookies, the services that you have asked for cannot be provided, and we only use these cookies to provide you with those services.
• Functionality Cookies: These cookies allow our website to remember choices you make when you use our website, [such as remembering your language preferences, remembering your login details and remembering the changes you make to other parts of our website which you can customize]. The purpose of these cookies is to provide you with a more personal experience and to avoid you having to re-enter your preferences every time you visit our website.
• Analytics and Performance Cookies: These cookies are used to collect information about traffic to our website and how users use our website. The information gathered does not identify any individual visitor. We use this information to help operate our website more efficiently and to monitor the level of activity on our website.We use Google Analytics for this purpose. Google Analytics uses its own cookies. It is only used to improve how our website works. You can find out more information about Google Analytics cookies, and how Google protects your data, through their associated webpages on such topics: You can find out more about how Google protects your data here: www.google.com/analytics/learn/privacy.html.

Please see the below for information about the specific types of cookies we use and the purpose(s) of each:

Disabling the cookies

You can typically remove and reject cookies from our website with your browser settings. In order to do this, follow the instructions provided by your browser (usually located within the “settings”, “help”, “tools” or “edit” facility). Many browsers are set to accept cookies until you change your settings. If you remove or reject our cookies, it could affect how our website works for you.

Further information about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set on your computer or mobile device and how to manage and delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org.

CALIFORNIA TRANSPARENCY IN SUPPLY CHAINS ACT DISCLOSURE

The California Transparency and Supply Chains Act of 2010 requires qualifying manufacturers and retailers doing business in California to disclose their efforts to eradicate human trafficking and slavery from their supply chains.

AeroVironment, Inc. (the “Company”) is committed to complying with all applicable laws in all places we operate and conducting our business with the highest standards of ethics and integrity. We expect the same of the parties with which we do business. Our ethics and integrity standards are reflected in our Code of Business Conduct and Ethics (the “Code”), which outlines our expectations of ethical conduct and compliance with all laws by our officers, directors and employees. Our Code provides as follows with respect to human trafficking, forced labor and slavery:

The Company shall comply with laws and regulations that prohibit human trafficking, forced labor and slavery. The Company will not knowingly do business with suppliers who engage in such practices. We also expect our suppliers to obey the laws that require them to treat workers fairly and provide a safe and healthy work environment. The Company will quickly investigate any reports alleging human trafficking, forced labor or slavery in its supply chain and will take swift and decisive action against any supplier that is found to act improperly in this regard.

Company employees shall not engage in any form of trafficking in persons, procure commercial sex acts or use forced labor in the performance of contracts. The U.S. government and the Company have zero-tolerance policies concerning such activities. Company employees who violate this policy will be subject to disciplinary action as described in this Code, which may including referral to relevant regulatory authorities for criminal prosecution as appropriate.

All of our officers, directors and employees are required to read and understand and act in accordance with the Code. All employees have a duty to report any known or suspected violation of the Code, including any violation of laws, rules, regulations or policies that apply to the Company. Each of our directors, officers and employees, as well as any clients, contractors, vendors, stockholders or other interested parties, may submit anonymous reports of any violations or suspected violations of our Code via our Ethics and Compliance Hotline. We take all alleged violations of law, company policy and the Code seriously. We respond promptly and conduct investigations when appropriate. Failure by an employee to follow the standards set forth on the Code may subject such employee to disciplinary action up to and including termination of employment.

Our suppliers agree to comply with all applicable federal, state and local laws, rules, regulations or ordinances in the performance of work or services under our purchasing agreements and purchase orders, which includes all laws and regulations prohibiting human trafficking and slavery. Suppliers are expected to flow these requirements down to their suppliers. Any supplier who violates its legal obligations related to human trafficking and slavery would be in breach of its agreement with us, which could result in termination of the agreement. At this time we do not require our suppliers to certify that all materials incorporated into our products comply with the laws regarding slavery and human trafficking of the country or countries in which they are doing business.

In addition, when acting as a U.S. Government contractor or subcontractor, we are governed by and comply with Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 52.222-50, “Combatting Trafficking in Persons.” FAR 52.222-50 imposes the U.S. Government’s “zero tolerance policy on human trafficking” on its contractors and subcontractors. The regulation prohibits U.S. Government contractors and subcontractors from using “forced labor” or engaging in “severe forms of trafficking in persons” during the performance of the contract or subcontract. Violations of this regulation can result in significant monetary and non-monetary penalties. We also flow down the requirements of FAR 52.222-50 to our suppliers under our U.S. Government contracts.

Currently, AeroVironment does not verify product supply chains to evaluate and address risks of human trafficking and slavery or conduct audits of suppliers. The Company does not currently provide specific training on human trafficking mitigation, however, it does maintain a broad-based ethics and compliance program that is intended to ensure compliance with applicable laws and promote a culture committed to ethics and integrity.

Last Updated: September 01 2021

This California Consumer Privacy Act (” CCPA“) privacy policy (this “CCPA Policy”) is included in our Privacy Policy and applies to AeroVironment, Inc. (“AV,” “we,” “us,” or “our“)’s processing of personal information of California consumers (as the terms “personal information” and “consumer” is defined under the CCPA) (collectively, “Consumers,” “you,” or “your“). Any capitalized terms or other terms not defined herein shall have the meaning ascribed to them in the Privacy Policy or, if not defined herein or in the Privacy Policy, the CCPA. To the extent of any conflict between this CCPA Policy and the rest of our Privacy Policy, this CCPA Policy shall control only with respect to Consumers and their personal information. If you are located elsewhere, please see our Privacy Policy.

Personal Information We May Collect

The following chart shows the categories of personal information that we have collected during the past twelve (12) months, the sources of such information, and the business or commercial purposes for which we may use such information. For all categories of personal information collected, we disclose data to our service providers and other third parties to help us accomplish the business purposes described below, as described in more detail in our Privacy Policy.

For the table below, the list of examples for each category is intended to be illustrative and not exhaustive.

Sale of Personal Information

Given the CCPA’s broad definition of “sale,” except as otherwise discussed below, we consider disclosures of information collected through the use of third-party cookies and pixel tags (or similar technologies) to our adtech and analytics partners as “sales” that users can opt-out of via our Cookie Settings link. In certain cases, we have contractually limited our partners, such as (i) agencies that help us with our campaigns and use of these advertising/analytics technology services or (ii) adtech or analytics partners that only process Personal Information on our behalf, so that any disclosures to these partners are not considered “sales.”

Your CCPA Rights

Access

You may request access to the personal information that we have collected and maintained about you (along with information regarding its use and disclosure) over the past twelve (12) months upon appropriate verification. You may only make such requests twice (2) per every twelve (12) months.

Deletion

You have the right to request that we delete personal information collected and maintained about you, subject to certain exceptions. Once your request is verified and we have determined that we are required to delete that information in accordance with applicable law, we will delete your personal information accordingly. Your request to delete your personal information may be denied if it is necessary for us to retain your information under one or more of the exceptions listed in the CCPA. Please note that a record of your deletion request may be kept pursuant to our legal obligations.

Exercising Your Rights

To exercise the access and deletion rights described above, please submit a request to us by either:

• Emailing us at privacy@avinc.com.
• Calling us at 805-520-8350.

Please note that Consumers have a right to not receive discriminatory treatment for the exercise of their rights under the CCPA.

Verifying Your Request

Only you, or a person that you authorize to act on your behalf, may make a request related to your personal information. In the case of access and deletion, your request must be verifiable before we can fulfill such request.

Verifying your request will require you to provide sufficient information for us to reasonably verify that you are the person about whom we collected personal information or a person authorized to act on your behalf (e.g., previous transactions of person to whom request relates).

We will only use the personal information that you have provided in a verifiable request in order to verify your request. As stated above, we cannot respond to your request or provide you with personal information if we cannot verify your identity or authority.

Please note that we may charge a reasonable fee or refuse to act on a request if such request is excessive, repetitive, or manifestly unfounded.

Your California Privacy Rights under the “Shine the Light” Law

Pursuant to Section 1798.83 of the California Civil Code (a separate law from the CCPA), residents of California have the right to obtain certain information about the types of personal information that companies with whom they have an established business relationship (and that are not otherwise exempt) have shared with third parties for direct marketing purposes during the preceding calendar year, including the names and addresses of those third parties, and examples of the types of services or products marketed by those third parties. If you wish to submit a request pursuant to Section 1798.83, please contact us via privacy@avinc.com.

Do Not Track

We currently do not respond to any Do Not Track signals or similar signals.

Contacting Us

If you have any questions regarding our privacy practices as it relates to this CCPA Policy, please contact us via email at privacy@avinc.com with the subject line, ” CCPA Policy.”