L3Harris
Industrials
39
out of 100. Number 308 of 512, counting from the worst.
Where L3Harris does well
- Arbitration 0 of 20. Nothing found.
- Renewals 0 of 20. Nothing found.
- No forced arbitration clause or class-action waiver appeared anywhere in the public terms — disputes fall under Virginia law with courts, which is notably consumer-friendlier than the mandatory-binding-arbitration norm in tech.
- There are no consumer accounts, subscriptions, or auto-renewal mechanics to trap visitors.
- The privacy policy honors Global Privacy Control as a valid opt-out request, offers an opt-out of sale/sharing via a cookie preference center, states it does not use sensitive personal information to infer characteristics about individuals, commits to notifying users and regulators of breaches where legally required, and extends children's protections to under-18s (stricter than the usual under-13 standard).
- Job-applicant data collected is tied to real hiring purposes (background checks, denied-party screening) rather than marketing.
L3Harris openly admits it hands your personal information to advertising-technology vendors who can use it for their own purposes — and concedes this legally counts as 'selling' or 'sharing' under state privacy laws like the CCPA.
The fine print
7 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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L3Harris openly admits it hands your personal information to advertising-technology vendors who can use it for their own purposes — and concedes this legally counts as 'selling' or 'sharing' under state privacy laws like the CCPA. In the same breath it adds that it does not 'monetize personal information in the sense of exchanging it for money,' a narrower denial than the sharing it just admitted.
To provide you with more interesting and customized information, promotions and advertising, we disclose personal information to third-party providers of advertising technologies and services who may use such personal information for their own purposes or to serve other customers, including displaying our advertisements to you on sites and services that we do not operate. These common forms of data sharing and use are considered 'targeted advertising' and/or 'selling' or 'sharing for cross context behavioral advertising' under certain US state privacy laws, such as the California Consumer Privacy Act.
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Browsing activity on L3Harris's own site is piped through Google's ad stack for retargeting and audience-building; if you're signed into Google and allow marketing cookies, the site's data can be linked to your Google identity for cross-device ad personalization. Your visit becomes marketing intelligence.
We use Google advertising services, including Google Ads and related technologies, to help measure the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns, understand how users interact with our website after viewing or clicking on our ads, prevent fraud, limit repeated ad delivery, and, where permitted by law and your choices, deliver or support advertising that may be more relevant to your interests. ... We use this information for purposes such as conversion measurement, campaign attribution, advertising performance analysis, remarketing or retargeting, audience creation, fraud prevention, frequency capping...
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They can rewrite the rules of the deal whenever they want, with no notice to you — changes take effect the moment they're posted, and simply using the service counts as agreeing. The burden is on you to re-read the terms 'each time' you use the service.
We may revise and update these Terms of Use from time to time in our sole discretion. All changes are effective immediately when we post them and apply to all access to and use of the Services thereafter. Your continued use of the Services following the posting of revised Terms of Use means that you accept and agree to the changes. You are expected to check this page from time to time/frequently/each time you access the Services, so you are aware of any changes, as they are binding on you.
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They can yank or change the paid service you're relying on at any moment, for no reason, without telling you — and accept zero liability if it simply stops working.
We reserve the right to withdraw or amend the Services provided, in our sole discretion without notice. We will not be liable if for any reason all or any part of the Services are unavailable at any time or for any period.
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There is no fixed deletion schedule and no maximum retention period anywhere in the policy. Your data is kept as long as they consider 'reasonably necessary' — a standard they define themselves — plus extra time if they think litigation might happen someday.
We will retain your personal information for the time period reasonably necessary to achieve the business and commercial purposes described in this Privacy Policy (including the section relating to California residents) or any other notice provided at the time of collection. We will only retain your personal information for as long as necessary to fulfil 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 or if otherwise required or permitted by applicable law.
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Your browser's Do Not Track setting is flat-out ignored. They acknowledge the signal exists and tell you it will have no effect on what they collect.
California law requires us to let you know how we respond to web browser 'Do Not Track' (DNT) signals. Because there currently isn't an industry or legal standard for recognizing or honoring DNT signals, we do not respond to them at this time.
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If the service harms you — data loss, outages, anything — your only remedy is to quit using it, and the most they could ever owe you is what you paid them in the last year (nothing, for free users).
YOU FURTHER AGREE THAT YOUR SOLE AND EXCLUSIVE REMEDY FOR DISSATISFACTION WITH THE SERVICES IS TO STOP USING THE SERVICES. THE MAXIMUM AGGREGATE LIABILITY OF L3HARRIS, THE AFFILIATED PARTIES, SUBCONTRACTORS, SUPPLIERS, AND THE RELATED PARTIES FOR ALL DAMAGES, LOSSES, AND CAUSES OF ACTION SHALL BE THE TOTAL AMOUNT, IF ANY, PAID BY YOU TO L3HARRIS WITHIN THE PREVIOUS TWELVE (12) MONTHS FOR ACCESS AND USE THE SITE.
How these were found
Documents actually read via browser_open on Oct 1, 2026: (1) L3Harris Privacy Policy at https://www.l3harris.com/privacy-policy (page carries no visible effective/last-updated date; search index last crawled it ~103 days prior); (2) L3Harris Broadband Managed Services Terms of Use PDF at https://www.l3harris.com/sites/default/files/2020-07/cs_pspc_terms_broadband_managed_service.pdf (legacy L3 Technologies document, 2020; no later version found publicly). No general l3harris.com website Terms of Use page was found — the privacy policy references 'our Terms of Use' but the footer only links the privacy policy and cookie policy, so the product-specific Broadband ToU above was used. L3Harris is a defense/aerospace B2B and government contractor (~75% US government revenue); there are no consumer accounts, subscriptions, or consumer-facing services on the public site, so there was little to score — arbitration, auto-renew, and retention findings all reflect a thin B2B document set, not consumer terms. Supplier/procurement terms (FAR/DFARS flowdowns) were excluded as not visitor-facing. No mirrors were needed; both documents loaded directly from the official domain.
These notes come from the original draft and are not independent verification.