Huntington Ingalls Industries
Industrials
24
out of 100. Number 469 of 512, counting from the worst.
Where Huntington Ingalls Industries does well
- Arbitration 0 of 20. Nothing found.
- Renewals 0 of 20. Nothing found.
- No forced arbitration clause or class-action waiver exists in any public-facing HII legal document — website visitors never give up their right to sue.
- The company explicitly states it does not sell or share personal information under the CCPA and does not disclose personal info to third parties for their direct marketing ('Shine the Light' section).
- Marketing use is limited to first-party marketing only.
- It honors Global Privacy Control signals where legally required, promises deletion on verified request ('we will do so unless otherwise authorized by law'), acknowledges privacy requests within 10 business days with a 45-day response, and the site is not directed at children under 16 (info from under-16s is deleted).
HII can materially change how it uses your personal information at any time, and the statement promises no notice to you when it does.
The fine print
8 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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HII can materially change how it uses your personal information at any time, and the statement promises no notice to you when it does.
HII may update this Privacy Statement from time to time, including materially changing the use of Personal Information described herein.
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If you set your browser to tell websites not to track you, HII simply ignores that signal.
Our Online Activities and Services currently cannot process automated 'Do Not Track' signals from your browser.
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The 'we do not disclose' promise is hollowed out by three broad exceptions that cover essentially everything described anywhere else in the 13-page statement.
Except to the extent necessary to fulfill our business obligations, to accomplish one of the lawful purposes described in this Privacy Statement, or in response to your express instructions, we do not sell, transfer, or otherwise disclose Personal Information that we collect from or about you.
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HII confirms it discloses precise geolocation and SSN-class identifiers to vendors, advisors, contractual third parties, and government agencies/regulators — the 'do not sell' line doesn't stop this sharing.
In the past 12 months, HII has disclosed the above information [including 'precise geolocation information,' personal identifiers such as name, username, email address, IP address, social security number, driver's license number, and date of birth] with the following categories of third parties for a business purpose: Affiliates; service providers/vendors; professional advisors; third parties in connection with contractual obligations [and for internet activity: legal authorities, government agencies, and regulators].
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Your personal data can be sold off with the company during a merger or asset sale — and even the notice of it happening is only promised 'to the extent we are able to do so.'
We may share or transfer your information (including your Personal Information) in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of HII assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another entity... We will notify you of such a change in ownership or transfer of assets, to the extent we are able to do so, by posting a notice on our Online Activities.
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No specific retention periods are given anywhere — HII keeps your data as long as it decides is 'necessary' under its own internal records practices.
HII retains Personal Information in accordance with its records management practices and only as long as necessary to accomplish the business purpose for which it was collected and to comply with our legal and contractual obligations.
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The website privacy policy names 'Success Factors' — HII's job-applicant tracking system — as the thing honoring Global Privacy Control signals on the website, an obvious copy-paste error that suggests the policy was assembled from templates and may not accurately describe the site's actual behavior.
If your browser or browser extension has GPC enabled, Success Factors will automatically recognize that signal and opt you out of the sale of your personal information.
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Job applicants hand over SSNs, race/disability data, criminal and credit histories, drug-test results, and on-camera interview recordings — expected for a defense contractor doing security clearances, but it's an unusually broad data sweep spelled out in black and white.
[HII collects] Sensitive Data: SSN, government-issued identification, information about race, national origin, disability, sex, etc. ... Sensory or Surveillance Data: on-premise monitoring in our offices and other workplace facilities (images, video), audio/visual recordings of interviews. ... Background Screening Information: criminal history, sex offender registration, motor vehicle records, credit history, employment history, drug testing, and educational history.
HII Job Applicant Privacy Statement (Last Updated May 8, 2024)
How these were found
Huntington Ingalls is a B2B defense shipbuilder with no consumer product, accounts, or subscriptions — no public website Terms of Use (and therefore no forced arbitration, auto-renew, or cancellation terms of any kind) was found; scoring is limited to what actually exists and is modest by design. Documents relied on: HII Website Privacy Statement, Last Updated May 8, 2024 (13 pages), and HII Job Applicant Privacy Statement, Last Updated May 8, 2024 (9 pages). The Website Privacy Statement was read via a verbatim mirror at hii-3-0-web.vercel.app/documents/hii-website-privacy-statement-05082024 (HII's own web-rebuild staging domain) because the corresponding document page on the live hii.com site was not directly discoverable through search; the Applicant Privacy Statement was read directly from hii.com. Quotes are taken from the document texts as rendered; minor OCR/spacing artifacts cleaned for readability without changing meaning. Procurement/supplier legal documents on hii.com were excluded as B2B contract terms, not consumer-facing terms.
These notes come from the original draft and are not independent verification.