Privacy Policy

Updated: May 14, 2026

1. Important Information and Who We Are

Privacy Policy applies to Applied Aerospace & Defense, Inc. and all of its subsidiaries, affiliates, and other related entities (collectively referred to as "Applied" "we", "us" or "our"). It applies to our collection, storage, and processing of personal information about our customers, suppliers, online users, prospective employees, and other third parties who engage with us.

Privacy Policy does not apply to those Applied entities that have provided their own privacy notices, nor does it apply to the websites, or any embedded content of our business partners or to any other third parties, even if their websites are linked to our website, or contain their embedded content. We recommend you review the privacy notices of the other parties with which you interact.

2. Information About You That We May Collect and Process

The personal information that we collect about you depends on the specific services or activities we undertake but typically consists of:

Contact information, such as name, address, email address, phone number, state/country of residence, language;
Transaction information, such as customer portal username and password, details of how you use any product or service provided by Applied, marketing preferences, details of what your inquiry or engagement with Applied may concern;
Professional or employment-related information, such as job applications, resumes, background check forms and results, work history and prior employer, in connection with a job application; and
Sensitive personal information (as defined under California law), such as Social Security Number, driver’s license, state identification card, passport number, and racial or ethnic origin, if you choose to provide such information in connection with a job application.
Cookies and Internet Protocol Addressing information. Our website uses cookies and similar technologies to collect technical information, which may include personal information, origin of initial search, or IP addresses.

3. We Use Different Methods to Collect Personal Information Including When You:

Fill in forms or use the functions and services on our website, including any interactive features such as an online forum on our website;
Enter into a contract with us (e.g., by means of our sales representatives, through service agreements, as a supplier, or a business partner, etc.);
Access our premises;
Use our IT resources and communication systems (e.g., email, network, Wi-Fi, etc.);
Register to use any of our online customer portals;
Correspond with us by phone, email, letters or otherwise;
Apply to work for us;
Purchase products from us, or send us products for repair;
Subscribe to any of our services, or communication channels;
Respond to surveys that we might ask you to complete for research purposes, or
Provide it to third parties who may disclose your information to us, such as our business partners.

4. Purposes and Legal Basis for Information Collection

In the table below is a description of the ways we may use your personal information, and which of the legal bases we rely on to do so. Note that we may process your personal information for more than one legal basis depending on the specific purpose for which we are using your information.

Where we need to collect personal information by law, or under the terms of a contract we have with you, and you fail to provide that information when requested, we may not be able to perform the contract we have or are trying to enter into with you (for example, to provide you with goods or services). In this case, we may have to cancel a product or service you have with us but we will notify you if this is the case at the time.

Please Contact | Applied Aerospace & Defense if you need details about the specific legal basis we are relying on to process your personal information where more than one basis has been set out in the table below.

Purposes for which we will use your information	Legal basis for the processing
For performance and administration of our customer contracts, warehouse, accounting, sales, service, purchase management and billing and collection purposes, including storage of such information in our systems for the same purposes.	Necessary for the performance of the contract between you and us.
For customer service, online ordering of products, customer relationship management, shipping purposes (such as communication to shippers and freight forwarders), including storage of such information in our systems for the same purposes.	Necessary for the performance of the contract between you and us, and for our legitimate interests, namely the correct management of the business relationship with our customers, as well as internal administrative purposes.
For customer relationship, business contact, or supplier relationship management, including storage of such information in our systems for the same purposes.	Necessary for the performance of the contract between you and us, and for our legitimate interests, namely the correct management of the business relationship with our customers and suppliers, as well as internal administrative purposes.
To process job applications where you apply to work for us, including where necessary to screen your personal information against denied parties' lists/systems for processing employment applications, or provide a reference for a job applicant, or in the context of acting as a sales consultant, distributor or other representative of Applied.	Necessary for the performance of the contract between you and us, and for our legitimate interests, namely human resources purposes and the interest of preventing fraud, crimes and/or unlawful behaviors.
To screen your personal information against denied parties' lists/systems for controlling the access to our premises.	Necessary for our legitimate interests, namely the interest of preventing fraud, crimes and/or illicit behaviors and/or unlawful accesses as well as protecting our assets and premises.
To screen your personal and shipping information against denied parties' lists/systems for carrying out import/export controls.	Necessary for our legitimate interests, namely the interest of preventing fraud, crimes and/or unlawful behaviors.
To store your personal information in our active directory systems for server, user, domain, or access management.	Necessary for our legitimate interests, namely for the purposes of ensuring network and information security.
To operate our website, including any of its interactive features such as online forums and customer portals, to ensure network and information security, to monitor the performance of our website and to improve your user experience.	Necessary for our legitimate interests, namely for the purposes of operating our website.
Providing you with newsletters, articles, product or service alerts, new product or service announcements and other information.	Consent or necessary for our legitimate interests, namely to provide business and commercial-related updates.

5. Information Transfers

We may share your personal information within the Applied group and to our third-party legal or financial advisors. This includes transferring your information to our various legal entities, subsidiaries, and external advisors across the United States. We will only transfer your personal information to entities deemed to provide an adequate level of protection for personal information. We do not sell or rent your personal information to third parties, nor do we share your personal information for third-party advertising purposes.

6. Information Security

All information we collect and process about you is stored on our secure servers located in our various business units or hosted in secure cloud-based environments. We have put in place appropriate technical and organizational security measures to prevent your personal information from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorized way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal information to those employees, agents, contractors, and other third parties with a business need to know. They will only process your personal information on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality. We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.

7. How Long We Will Store Your Personal Information

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 fulfill 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.

To determine the appropriate retention period for personal information, we consider the volume, nature and sensitivity of the information, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your information, the purposes for which we process your information and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal, regulatory, tax, accounting or other requirements.

8. Your Rights

You may have the right to request access to the personal information we hold about you and to have any inaccuracies corrected. If you wish to exercise this right where possible under applicable privacy or data protection laws, please Contact | Applied Aerospace & Defense.

This section describes how we handle your personal information, the reasons we do so, and the rights you have regarding your personal information. Capitalized terms used but not defined herein, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in California Civil Code § 1798.100, et seq. (together with the regulations thereunder, the “CCPA”), as applicable. Per this Privacy Policy, we have or may:

(a) Collect the following categories of personal information:

Identifiers, such as a real name, alias, postal address, email address, account name, and other similar identifiers;
Online identifiers, such as a device identifier; cookies, beacons, pixel tags and similar technology, other forms of persistent or probabilistic identifiers, and Internet Protocol address;
Internet and other electronic network activity information, such as the browsing history on our website;
Approximate geolocation (e.g. country or region derived from your Internet Protocol address);
Commercial information, such as products or services inquired about;
Login credentials for our website portals (including your username, password, time and date of login to our website portals);
Professional or employment-related information (including job applications, resumes, background check forms and results, work history and prior employer, in connection with a job application);
Sensitive personal information (as defined under California law), such as Social security, driver’s license, state identification card, passport number, and racial or ethnic origin, if you choose to provide such information in connection with a job application; and
Other personal information or content that you submit to us when you contact us, including any document(s) or any audio, electronic, visual, or similar information that you choose to upload.

(b) Collect personal information from the following categories of sources:

Directly from you. For example, when you inquire about a product or service, apply for or accept an employment position with us, etc.;
Directly and indirectly from activity on our website and/or services; and
Service providers who provide services on our behalf, such as those used to monitor activity on our services, provide analysis and analytics, maintain databases, administer and monitor emails and marketing, and provide consulting services.

(c) Collect personal information about you for one or more of the following business purposes:

Providing customer service, including responding to your requests or inquiries.
Processing and completing your orders and/or transactions including, as applicable, verifying customer information, processing payments, order confirmation/re-scheduling, billing and delivering products and/or services, providing storage and/or providing similar services.
Personalizing your experience with our services with content tailored to you.
Providing you with newsletters, articles, product or service alerts, new product or service announcements and other information.
Verifying and validating your identity or otherwise preventing, investigating, or providing notice of fraud, unlawful or criminal activity or unauthorized access to or use of personal information, our website or data systems.
Helping to ensure security and integrity on our website and platforms.
Debugging to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality.
Undertaking internal research for technological development and demonstration.
Undertaking activities to verify or maintain the quality or safety of a service or device that is owned, manufactured, manufactured for, or controlled by us, and to improve, upgrade, or enhance the service or device that is owned, manufactured, manufactured for, or controlled by us.
Enabling you to interact with content service providers, whether by linking to their sites, viewing their content within our online environment, or by viewing our content within their online environment.
Creating aggregated, pseudonymized, or anonymized information for analytical and statistical purposes.
Meeting legal obligations.
Enforcing our Terms of Use and other agreements.

(d) Disclose your personal information for legitimate business or legal purposes:

We do not collect or process sensitive personal information (as defined by California law) to infer characteristics about individuals. To the extent that we process de-identified information, we will maintain and use the information in de-identified form and will not attempt to re-identify the information unless permitted by applicable law.
We do not sell or rent your personal information to third parties, nor do we share your personal information for cross-context or targeted advertising purposes. Accordingly, we do not have actual knowledge that personal information of minors under the age of 16 are sold or shared for cross-context behavioral advertising or targeted advertising purposes.
We also do not disclose to third parties the personal information we collect for their own direct marketing or other purposes. While we do not sell or rent personal information, we disclose personal information for business purposes, including to our affiliates or subsidiary entities, who may collect and share personal information described in this Privacy Policy for use in the ways described herein.
We may disclose personal information to our service providers to do things like monitor activity on our services, provide analysis and analytics, maintain databases, administer and monitor emails and marketing, provide consulting services, and otherwise perform actions consistent with the uses described in this Privacy Policy.
We may disclose information for legal processes and emergency response. We may disclose personal information if we have a good-faith belief that it is necessary or authorized pursuant to applicable law to protect our customers, the public or our business.
We may disclose information due to a business transfer. We may disclose personal information as part of a corporate business transaction, such as a merger, acquisition, or joint venture, or in the event of insolvency, bankruptcy, or receivership. Should such an event occur, we will use reasonable efforts to direct the transferee to use personal information you have provided to us in a manner that is consistent with this Privacy Policy.

9. California Law required notifications and rights:

If you are a California resident and depending on the circumstances, you may have additional legal rights in relation to the information you give us, or which we collect about you, as follows:

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.
The right to request that we disclose (i) the categories of personal information related to you that we have collected, (ii) the categories of sources from which the personal information is collected, (iii) the business or commercial purpose for collecting or disclosing personal information, (iv) the categories of third parties to whom we disclose personal information and (v) specific pieces of personal information related to you that we have collected;
The right to request that we delete certain personal information we have collected from you (subject to certain exceptions);
The right to correct inaccurate personal information that we may have about you;
The right to non-discrimination, meaning that you will not receive any discriminatory treatment when you exercise one or more of your privacy rights;
The right to opt-out of the sale or sharing of your personal information (however, as stated in the section above, we do not sell or personal information, nor do we share personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising or targeted advertising purposes);
The right to limit the use of your sensitive personal information (however, we do not process such personal information subject to this limitation); and
The right to request that we provide you with (a) a list of certain categories of personal information we have disclosed to third parties for their direct marketing purposes during the immediately preceding calendar year and (b) the identity of those third parties. Applied does not share personal information about its consumers with any third parties for their own marketing purposes. We are required to respond to a customer request only once during any calendar year.
In your request, please attest to the fact that you are a California resident and provide a current California address for our response. Please be aware that not all information sharing is covered by the California privacy rights requirements and only information sharing that is covered will be included in our response. We reserve the right to deny requests in certain circumstances, such as where we have a reasonable belief that the request is fraudulent.
To help protect your privacy and preserve the security of the information, we will take steps to verify your identity before granting you access to your personal information or complying with your request. If you have an account with us, we may verify your identity by requiring you to sign in to your account. If you request access to or deletion of your personal information and do not sign in to an account with us, we require you to provide the following information: name, email address, phone number, and postal address. In addition, if you do not have an account and you ask us to provide you with specific pieces of personal information, we reserve the option to require you to sign a declaration under penalty of perjury that you are the consumer whose personal information is the subject of the request. If we cannot verify your identity, we may not be able to respond to your request.
If you designate an authorized agent to make a privacy request on your behalf, we may require you to provide the authorized agent written permission to do so (including proof of your consent and designation of the authorized agent for the purpose of making the request), and we may also require you to verify your own identity directly with us (as described above).

10. Protecting Children's Privacy

We do not knowingly solicit or collect personal information from children under the age of 18 without parental consent. If we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under the age of 18 without parental consent, we will promptly delete that information. If you believe that a child under the age of 18 may have provided us with personal information without parental consent, please Contact | Applied Aerospace & Defense

11. Changes to Our Privacy Policy

Any changes we make to this Privacy Policy in the future will be posted on our website and, where appropriate, notified to you. Please check our website frequently for any updates or changes to our Privacy Policy.

12. Contact Us

Please contact us if you have any questions, comments, or requests regarding this Privacy Policy (if you are a California resident you may also contact us at: +1 833-217-5822). We will not respond to any messages which are unrelated to privacy issues. Please send these via our Contact | Applied Aerospace & Defense

About Us

Applied Aerospace & Defense (Applied) is a premier provider of advanced design, engineering, and vertically integrated manufacturing solutions for leading and next-generation space and defense technology companies. Applied builds complex hardware for extreme operating environments and is focused on three core markets: Space and Launch Systems, Defense Aviation and Airborne Systems, and C5ISR and Precision Strike Systems. With decades of space and defense manufacturing heritage, Applied combines deep material science and IP-enabled process expertise with the ability to enable rapid prototyping, enhance new product development, and responsively scale production. Across its nationwide infrastructure of advanced manufacturing facilities, Applied continuously supports a balanced mix of next-generation technology and platform development, large scale production programs, and aftermarket sustainment for enduring platforms. More information is available at www.applied-ad.com