Website Privacy Notice
Astris AI LLC, a Lockheed Martin Company, and its affiliates (collectively referred to as "Astris AI LLC", "we", "us") takes its data protection and privacy responsibilities seriously. This privacy notice explains how we collect, use, and share your personal information as a result of your use of our web sites, including:
What personal information we collect and when and why we use it
Sharing your personal information
Transferring personal information globally
How we protect and store personal information
European Union
California
Australia
How you can contact us
Changes to this Privacy Notice
Links to other websites
You might find external links to third-party websites, including those of our affiliates, on our website. This privacy notice only applies to personal data collected on this website and does not apply to your use of a third-party or affiliate site. We have no influence or control over linked third-party or affiliate websites and your use of other sites is at your own risk and is subject to their privacy statements and policies.
What Personal Information We Collect and When and Why We Use It
In this section you can find out more about:
When we collect personal information
Categories of personal information we collect
How we use personal information
When we collect information
We collect information about you if you register with or use one of our website(s).
We will collect your personal information via the following methods:
By recording details you provide to us, with your explicit consent where required - e.g., in responding to a job posting, your communications with us through emails or calls
Categories of Personal Information we collect and use if you use our websites or visit our facilities:
Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies
This website does not use cookies nor does it generate persistent identifiers. While this website does not collect or store any personally identifiable information, other than the information you choose to provide (e.g., on the Contact Us page), it does collect anonymized data such as IP addresses and user agents, which are hashed with a daily rotating secret (salt), which resets and deletes every day, to calculate daily unique visitors. The anonymized data collected is only used to track metrics like unique visitors, pageviews, top sources, and top pages.
How we use personal information
We may use or disclose the personal information we collect to:
fulfill or meet the reason you provided the information. For example, if you share your name and contact information to request a price quote or ask a question about our products or services, we will use that personal information to respond to your inquiry;
communicate with you about, and administer your participation in, special events, programs, offers, surveys, and market research;
respond to your inquiries;
process employment applications, including by assessing qualifications, verifying information, and conducting reference or other employment-related checks;
evaluate potential suppliers and subcontractors and manage our relationships with them;
perform data analyses (including anonymization and aggregation of personal information);
protect against, identify, and prevent cybersecurity and other security events, espionage, fraud, and other unlawful activity, claims, and other liabilities;
help maintain the safety, security, and integrity of our website, products and services, databases and other technology assets, and business; and
comply with and enforce applicable legal requirements, relevant industry standards and our policies.
We also may use the information in other ways for which we provide specific notice at the time of collection.
Sharing Your Personal Information
In this section you can find out more about how we share personal information:
within Astris AI LLC;
with third parties, including those that help us provide our products and services; and
with regulators
We share your information in the manner and for the purposes described below:
within Astris AI LLC, where such disclosure is necessary to provide you with our services, to manage our business, or for security purposes;
with third parties who help manage our business and deliver services. These third parties have agreed to confidentiality restrictions and use any personal information we share with them or which they collect on our behalf solely for the purpose of providing the contracted service to us. These include IT service providers who help manage our IT and back-office systems;
we may share in aggregate, statistical form, non-personal data regarding the visitors to our website, traffic patterns, and website usage with our partners, affiliates, or advertisers;
If, in the future, we sell or transfer some or all of our business or assets to a third party, we may disclose information to a potential or actual third-party purchaser of our business or assets; and/or
with our regulators, to comply with all applicable laws, regulations and rules, and requests of law enforcement, regulatory and other governmental agencies.
Transferring Personal Information
In this section you can find out more about:
how we operate as a global business and transfer personal information; and
the arrangements we have in place to protect your personal information
Astris AI LLC operates on a global basis. Astris AI LLC will take appropriate steps ensure that transfers of personal information are in accordance with applicable law and carefully managed to protect your privacy rights and interests. To this end:
we ensure transfers within Astris AI LLC will be covered by an agreement entered into by members of Astris AI LLC (an intra-group agreement) which contractually obliges each member to ensure that personal information receives an adequate and consistent level of protection wherever it is transferred within Astris AI LLC;
where we transfer your personal information outside Astris AI LLC or to third parties who help provide our products and services, we obtain contractual commitments from them to protect your personal information; or
where we receive requests for information from law enforcement or regulators, we carefully validate these requests before any personal information are disclosed.
How We Protect and Retain Your Information
Security
We have implemented and maintain appropriate technical and organisational security measures, policies and procedures designed to reduce the risk of accidental destruction or loss, or the unauthorised disclosure or access to such information appropriate to the nature of the information concerned. As the security of information depends in part on the security of the computer you use to communicate with us and the security you use to protect User IDs and passwords, please take appropriate measures to protect this information.
Retaining your personal information
We will retain your personal information for as long as is reasonably necessary for the purposes for which it was collected, in alignment with our business needs (for example, to provide you with our services or to further contact you about employment opportunities). In some circumstances we may store your personal information for longer periods of time, for instance where we are required to do so in accordance with legal, regulatory, tax, and accounting requirements.
In specific circumstances, we may store your personal information for longer periods of time so that we have an accurate record of your dealings with us in the event of any complaints or challenges, or if we reasonably believe there is a prospect of litigation relating to your personal information or dealings.
Europe Union and the United Kingdom
If you are located in the European Union or the United Kingdom, you can exercise your rights by contacting us at privacy.fc-lm@lmco.com. Subject to legal and other permissible considerations, we will make every reasonable effort to honour your request promptly or inform you if we require further information in order to fulfil your request.
California
If you are a resident of California as defined in the California Code of Regulations (18 CCR § 17014), you have the following rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”) and the California Privacy Rights Act (“CPRA”), collectively, “California Privacy Law”:
Effective January 1, 2023, the California Privacy Law allows California residents to request: access to their personal information in a portable and readily usable form; disclosure of the specific categories of, and sources for, personal information that the company has collected about you; the business or commercial purposes for collecting the personal information; the categories of third parties with which the information was shared; and, deletion of your personal information, subject to certain exceptions.
You must verify your identity before we will fulfill your request. As a part of this verification process, government identification may be required. You may designate an authorized agent to make a request under the California Privacy Law on your behalf. In order to designate an authorized agent to make a request on your behalf, you must provide a valid power of attorney and the requester’s valid government-issued identification.
You have the right to make a request two times in a 12-month period, free of charge. We will respond within 45 days of receiving your request unless we request an extension. In the event a 45-day extension is needed, we will notify you of the extension within the initial 45-day period.
Upon validation of the identity and confirmation of California residency, in response to a valid access (right to know) request, Astris AI will generally provide:
The categories of PI that Astris AI LLC has collected about the data subject;
The categories of sources from which Astris AI LLC has collected the PI;
The business or commercial purposes for collecting, selling, or sharing PI;
The categories of third parties to whom Astris AI LLC discloses PI; and
The specific pieces of PI that Astris AI LLC has collected from or about the data subject.
Astris AI LLC may apply any exceptions or other conditions available under law when responding to any access (right to know) requests, corrections, deletions, or other requests.
Astris AI LLC, generally, does not engage in:
The "sale" or "sharing" of personal information
Providing financial incentives for the disclosure of personal information; and
Any use or disclosure of sensitive personal information except as necessary to provide benefit services or as otherwise permitted by California Privacy Law to comply with federal, state, or local laws.
As defined by California’s ‘Shine the Light Law,’ California residents may annually request and obtain information free of charge about what personal information is disclosed to third parties for direct marketing use within the prior calendar year. Lockheed does not sell or share your personal information with other businesses for direct marketing.
Health or medical information covered by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) and the California Confidentiality of Medical Information Act (CMIA) are excluded by California Privacy Law.
Australia
Users in Australia can contact us to discuss any concerns, or you may choose to complain to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner via www.oaic.gov.au.
If you are located in Australia, where you provide us with the personal information of third parties (e.g. your employees or contractors), you warrant that you have obtained the consent of and/or notified those individuals as required under the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) that you are providing their personal information to us and have provided them with a copy of or link to this Privacy Policy.
Contact Us
If you have any questions, concerns, or complaints regarding our compliance with this notice and applicable data protection laws, or if you wish to exercise your rights, we encourage you to first contact us at contact us at: privacy.fc-lm@lmco.com.
We will investigate and attempt to resolve complaints and disputes and will make every reasonable effort to honor your wish to exercise your rights as quickly as possible and, in any event, within the timeframes provided by applicable data protection laws.
Changes to this Privacy Notice
Astris AI LLC reserves the right to modify this Privacy Notice at any time. If we make changes to this Privacy Notice, we will post the revised notice here and update the effective date.
Effective: December 16, 2024
