General Dynamics
Industrials
21
out of 100. Number 489 of 512, counting from the worst.
Where General Dynamics does well
- Arbitration 0 of 20. Nothing found.
- Renewals 0 of 20. Nothing found.
- General Dynamics is notably cleaner than most large corporations on the data-selling front: its policy states outright 'We do not sell, rent, or otherwise trade for valuable consideration personal information collected on or from you as a user of our website.' There is no forced arbitration or class-action waiver anywhere in the terms (typical for an informational corporate site, but still better than many peers).
- It provides a Data Privacy Request Form and explicitly recognizes GDPR and CCPA rights — access, correction, deletion, opt-out — with promises to verify identity, respond within regulation timeframes, and explain any denial with an appeal path.
- Investor alert emails include a clear unsubscribe mechanism ('selecting the Unsubscribe link from within the alert email').
- There are no accounts, subscriptions, or purchases, so no auto-renew or cancellation traps exist to find.
Anything you email them — including your ideas, inventions, or know-how — is treated as non-confidential, and they may freely use it for anything, including building and marketing products.
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 email them — including your ideas, inventions, or know-how — is treated as non-confidential, and they may freely use it for anything, including building and marketing products.
Any communications you send using this website or otherwise to General Dynamics by electronic mail are on a non-confidential basis, and we are under no obligation to refrain from reproducing, publishing or otherwise using them in any way or for any purpose. We are free to use the content of any such communications, including any ideas, inventions, concepts, techniques or know-how disclosed therein, for any purpose including developing, manufacturing and/or marketing goods and services.
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Simply visiting the website counts as agreeing to the terms — there is no click-through or acceptance step.
By entering General Dynamics' website you acknowledge and agree to all terms and conditions stated in these terms.
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The privacy policy can be changed at any time with no advance notice to you; combined with the Terms of Use's 'reserve the right to make changes to the information in this website... without notice,' content and terms can shift silently.
We may change or update portions of this privacy notice at any time and without prior notice to you.
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Your data can be kept indefinitely beyond what's needed, based on an undefined internal 'GD policy' — there's no stated retention period or deletion schedule.
General Dynamics retains your personal information for as long as it is necessary to provide the information or service you requested, and may retain it for a longer period as required by GD policy or by law.
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An analytics tracker identifies you across repeat visits and can be tied to personal details (name, email, resume) when you submit any form — so 'anonymous' browsing data becomes personally identified.
Sitecore Engagement Analytics — Allows us to identify you upon repeat visits to our website. If you submit any forms on our website, this unique ID may be linked together with any personal information we receive from you.
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If the company (or a business unit) is sold, your personal data goes with the deal; the buyer is only asked to 'try' to honor this policy via undefined 'reasonable efforts.'
We reserve the right to transfer any information we have about you in the event we sell or transfer all or a portion of our business or assets. Should such a sale or transfer occur, we will use reasonable efforts to try to ensure that the transferee uses personal information you have provided through this website in a manner that is consistent with this privacy notice.
How these were found
Both documents were read in full directly from the official gd.com domain on October 1, 2026 — no mirrors or third-party copies were needed and the site did not block fetching. Privacy Policy shows 'This policy was last updated: March 2024'; the Terms of Use page carries no date or version stamp. General Dynamics is a B2B defense contractor with a thin informational corporate website: there are no user accounts, subscriptions, purchases, or forums, so several rubric categories (auto-renew, cancellation traps, data retention after account closure) have nothing to evaluate. The low total score (21) reflects the limited surface area of the public-facing terms, not a claim that the company's broader contracting practices (e.g., supplier terms, employment documents) were reviewed — they were not.
These notes come from the original draft and are not independent verification.