COLLECTION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
We will ask you when we need information that personally identifies you (personal information) or allows us to contact you. Personal information collected by AeroVironment Inc. and PosiCharge is usually limited to name, company, telephone, e-mail address, and location, but may include other information when needed to provide a service you requested.

USE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
We use your personal information for the following purposes:

• To ensure our site is relevant to your needs.
• To contact you, to provide you with information on PosiCharge, or to purchase a PosiCharge system.
• To deliver services, such as customer service, consulting services, training, and product news and updates.
• To allow you access to limited-entry areas of our site as appropriate.

We will merge site-visitation data with anonymous demographic information for research purposes, and we may use this information in aggregate to provide more relevant content.

We occasionally hire other companies to provide limited services on our behalf, including packaging, mailing and delivering purchases, answering customer questions about products or services, gathering information on potential customer applications, sending postal mail and processing event registration. We will only provide those companies the information they need to deliver the service, and they are prohibited from using that information for any other purpose.

AeroVironment Inc. may disclose your personal information if required to do so by law or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on AeroVironment Inc. or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of AeroVironment Inc. and its family of Web sites, or (c) act in urgent circumstances to protect the personal safety of AeroVironment Inc. employees, users of AeroVironment Inc. products or services, or members of the public. v Your information may be stored and processed in the United States or any other country in which AeroVironment Inc. or its affiliates, subsidiaries or agents maintain facilities, and by using this site, you consent to any such transfer of information outside of your country.

CONTROL OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
When you register, or otherwise give us personal information, AeroVironment Inc. will not share that information with third parties without your permission, other than for the limited exceptions already listed. It will only be used for the purposes stated above.

PROTECTION OF CHILDREN'S PERSONAL INFORMATION
AeroVironment, Inc..com is a general audience site and does not knowingly collect any personal information from children.

USE OF COOKIES
When someone visits the site, a cookie is placed on the customer's machine (if the customer accepts cookies) or is read if the customer has visited the site previously. One use of cookies is to assist in the collection of the site visitation statistics described above.

We also use cookies to collect information on which newsletter links are clicked by customers. This information is used to ensure we are sending information customers want to read. It is collected in aggregate form and never linked with your personal information.

Web beacons, also known as clear gif technology, or action tags, may be used to assist in delivering the cookie on our site. This technology tells us how many visitors clicked on key elements (such as links or graphics) on an AeroVironment Inc. Web page. We do not use this technology to access your personally identifiable information on AeroVironment Inc.; it is a tool we use to compile aggregated statistics about AeroVironment Inc. Web site usage. We may share aggregated site statistics with partner companies but do not allow other companies to place clear gifs on our sites.

CHANGES TO THIS STATEMENT
AeroVironment Inc. will occasionally update this privacy statement.

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