Aptiv
Consumer Discretionary
28
out of 100. Number 413 of 512, counting from the worst.
Where Aptiv does well
- Arbitration 0 of 20. Nothing found.
- Renewals 0 of 20. Nothing found.
- Data sharing 4 of 20. Few problems found.
- No forced arbitration and no class-action waiver found in any public-facing document.
- An explicit, dated CCPA representation: 'We do not sell or share any of our data subjects'/consumers' Personal Information, as defined by the CCPA; in the preceding twelve
- months, we have not sold or "shared" any Personal Data.'
- Non-essential cookies are disabled by default — an opt-in, not opt-out, design ('All cookies, except those necessary to run aptiv.com, are disabled by default').
- The Privacy Statement lists full data-subject rights (access, deletion, objection, portability, opt-out of sale) with a free request path and a non-discrimination promise ('You will not have to pay a fee to access your Personal Data').
- Both the Privacy Statement and Cookie Policy are actively maintained, each stating 'Last Updated: 04 May 2026.'
Everything on Aptiv's site — including the terms themselves — can be changed whenever they like, with zero obligation to tell you it happened.
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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Everything on Aptiv's site — including the terms themselves — can be changed whenever they like, with zero obligation to tell you it happened.
"All information contained on this website is designed to be as comprehensive and factual as possible. Aptiv reserves the right, however, to make changes at any time, without notice."
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The privacy policy itself can be rewritten at any time; notifying you is framed as a possibility ('we may also notify you'), not a promise.
"We reserve the right to update this statement at any time. We may also notify you in other ways from time to time about the processing of your Personal Data."
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Dashcam-style road-test video Aptiv records on public roads — which 'incidentally' captures pedestrians and other people — is kept for 12 years and distributed to development partners in Europe and the US. Meanwhile the general Privacy Statement gives no concrete retention periods at all, citing only an unpublished internal 'Records Retention policy and Schedule.'
"The data will be retained for 12 years." (Recordings shared with "development partners and providers, in Europe (including countries recognized by the EU Commission to provide adequate protection) and USA.")
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Your personal data can be shared with third parties whenever Aptiv decides it has 'another legitimate interest' — a broad catch-all that covers far more than what you'd need to know to use their site.
"We will disclose or share your Personal Data with Third Parties where it is necessary to perform our contract with you, where we have another legitimate interest in doing so or where it is required by law."
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Aptiv lets Facebook and YouTube drop cookies on its own site to profile your interests for ads elsewhere — hard to square with the Privacy Statement's flat 'we do not sell or share' claim.
"Targeting Cookies - These cookies may be set through our site by our advertising partners such as Facebook and YouTube and may be used by those companies to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant adverts on other sites."
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Merely opening the page counts as agreeing: strict secrecy obligations and a ban on even taking notes attach to you automatically the moment you access the material.
"In consideration of access to and use of the information by an Aptiv customer, Aptiv customer and each individual acting on behalf of such Aptiv customer, who wishes to access to the information will be bound by these terms and will be deemed to have accepted them by accessing the Information." Viewers "may not record, copy, photograph or otherwise capture or reproduce or take notes regarding any element of the Information."
How these were found
Aptiv is a B2B auto-parts/tech supplier with almost no consumer surface: it sells no consumer products, runs no accounts or subscriptions, and has no forced-arbitration or auto-renew machinery a shopper would meet. Scored only what is public. Documents actually read via browser_open on aptiv.com (no mirrors needed): Terms of Use (https://www.aptiv.com/en/terms-of-use — no date/version stamp on the page), Privacy Statement (states 'Last Updated: 04 May 2026'), Cookie Policy (states 'Last Updated 04 May 2026'), Privacy Notice APTIV Test Drive (undated PDF), and Virtual Visits Participant Terms of Use (COVID-era document; content may be stale). Possible arbitration clauses in non-public employment or supplier contracts were not assessed.
These notes come from the original draft and are not independent verification.