Leidos
Industrials
46
out of 100. Number 252 of 512, counting from the worst.
Where Leidos does well
- Renewals 0 of 20. Nothing found.
- No auto-renewal or cancellation traps exist anywhere — Leidos is a B2B/government defense contractor and sells no subscriptions or consumer products on its site.
- The privacy statement is unusually candid: it explicitly states the business is B2B/B2G and that customer data is processed only at the customer's direction under the customer contract; it openly admits ad-partner disclosures may qualify as a 'sale' or 'sharing' of personal information; and it provides a real opt-out portal (OneTrust), detailed access/deletion/portability rights, and separate privacy notices for employees, recruits, and benefits.
- The arbitration section includes small-claims-court and government-agency carve-outs plus a promise to cover arbitration costs if they're prohibitive compared to litigation.
- Retention is at least tied to stated purposes and legal obligations, not 'as long as we like.'
Just by visiting Leidos.com you give up your right to sue in court or have a jury trial.
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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Just by visiting Leidos.com you give up your right to sue in court or have a jury trial. All disputes go to a private arbitrator. Small claims court and government-agency actions are carved out, and the company will help with arbitration costs if they're prohibitive compared to litigation.
Except as set forth below, you and we agree that we will resolve any controversies, claims, counterclaims, or other disputes between you and us or you and a third-party agent of ours... through binding and final arbitration, instead of through court proceedings... You and we hereby waive any right to a jury trial of any Claim.
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You can't join forces with anyone else — no class actions, no representative claims. Every claim must be fought individually, which strongly favors the company.
Neither you nor we may act as a class representative or private attorney general, nor participate as a member of a class of claimants, with respect to any Claim. You may not bring Claims in arbitration on a class, consolidated or representative basis.
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If lots of people file arbitration claims at once (e.g. after a mass data breach), Leidos slows them down with a staged 'bellwether' process — 20 cases first, then 40 more, then batches of 100 — and the rest sit in line with no filing fees even assessed until their turn comes. A court can also be asked to enjoin mass filings against Leidos.
If twenty-five (25) or more similar claims are asserted against Leidos at or around the same time... Counsel for the claimants and Leidos' counsel shall each select ten (10) cases (per side) to proceed first in individual arbitration proceedings as part of a bellwether process. The remaining cases shall not be filed or deemed filed in arbitration... until they are selected to proceed to individual arbitration proceedings as part of a staged process.
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Leidos openly admits that handing your data to its ad partners may legally count as selling/sharing your personal information. You get an opt-out, but only via a separate privacy-portal form.
In some jurisdictions, our disclosure of Personal Information to third-party advertising service providers may be considered a 'sale' or 'sharing' of Personal Information for targeted advertising purposes that individuals have the right to opt out of.
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Leidos and its ad/analytics partners track what you do across other sites over time and stitch it together across your browsers and devices to build a profile and target ads at you.
browsing activities over time and across other websites (following your visit to one or more of our Sites and Apps), and responses to offline marketing campaigns (together, 'Analytics Data')... These service providers may use cookies to collect information about your activity on our Sites and Apps. They may also combine this information with the information they collect about you, including information about your activities on other websites and applications over time... They may also associate any information they collect about you across the various browsers and devices you use.
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There's no fixed delete-by date. They keep your data as long as they decide the purpose lasts — and indefinitely longer if they think you might complain or sue.
We will retain your Personal Information for as long as required for the purposes for which it was collected... We may also store it for longer periods of time to have an accurate record of your interactions with us in the event of any complaints or challenges, or if we reasonably believe there is a prospect of litigation.
How these were found
Both documents were read in full directly from leidos.com via browser fetch on October 1, 2026 — no mirrors needed. Terms of Service: Last Updated January 2024 (https://www.leidos.com/terms). Privacy Statement: Last Updated August 2025 (https://www.leidos.com/privacy). Leidos is a B2B/B2G defense, intelligence, and health IT contractor with no consumer storefront; there are no purchase, subscription, or account-termination terms to score, so auto-renewal scores 0 and data/retention scores reflect only website-visitor data, not customer data (which is governed by customer contracts, not these public terms). Quotes are verbatim from the fetched pages except where line breaks were normalized.
These notes come from the original draft and are not independent verification.