Effective Date: October 21, 2024
This Online Privacy Policy (the “Privacy Policy”) explains how Pyxus International, Inc. and our affiliates and subsidiaries (collectively, “Pyxus,” “us,” “our,” or “we”) collect, use, and disclose information that we collect from users of websites that we operate and that include a link to this Policy (the “Websites”).
This Policy does not apply to information collected:
offline or through any other means, including through any other website operated by or on behalf of Pyxus that is subject to its own site-specific privacy statement and/or that does not include a link to this Privacy Policy; or
by any third party, including through any applications or content (including advertising) that we may link to or be accessible from or through the Websites.
Please read this Privacy Policy carefully to understand our practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use our Websites. By accessing or using our Websites, you agree to this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy may change from time to time (see “Changes to this Privacy Policy” below). Your continued use of the Websites after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the Privacy Policy periodically for updates.
Additional Information for Individuals in Certain Regions and Countries
If you are located in: (i) the European Economic Area, Switzerland, or the United Kingdom, (ii) China, or (iii) Brazil, our subsidiary Alliance One International has published country- and region-specific privacy statements that provide further information about Alliance One’s processing of your personal information and your rights under the laws of those jurisdictions. You can access those privacy statements through the links below:
The Information We Collect Through the Websites
When you access and use the Websites, we may collect information that you submit to us directly, such as by filling out a contact form on the Websites. This information may include:
Personal and contact information, such as your full name, email address, phone number, and country in which you are located.
Business and professional information, such as your title and company name.
employment and education information such as your resume, cover letter, employment and educational history, qualifications and skills, and any other information you provide in your employment inquiries or applications you submit through the Websites, including through a “Careers” or other similar page on the Websites.
Any other information you submit when you contact us, including any information you provide in a submission through contact forms on the Websites.
We may also collect certain other information automatically when you visit the Websites, such as the following:
Browser and Device Information. Certain information may be automatically collected by the Websites about your device and your browser. For example, we may receive device identifiers such as your IP address and MAC address, operating system type and version, and Internet browser type and version.
Search Engine and Other Referrals. When a third party refers you to our Websites, such as through your clicking on a link to our page from a Google search we may receive some information about your device and your interaction with the referring site or content.
Information Collected through Cookies and Web Beacons. The Websites may also use available web-based technologies to collect information about your use of the Websites, such as cookies or web beacons. Cookies are pieces of information stored directly on users’ computers or devices. Web beacons are similar in function to cookies and can tell us certain information like what content has been viewed on our Websites. We and third parties we work with use cookies and web beacons us to collect information such as browser type, transactions and interactions, time spent on the online services, pages visited, referring URL, and other traffic and usage data. We and these third parties may also use cookies and web beacons for purposes such as determining what features interest our users and developing our site features or operations.
Information Collected in Connection with Analytics Technologies. We may use various technologies to learn more about how visitors use the Websites, such as Google Analytics. Google Analytics uses cookies to help us analyze how visitors use the Websites. The information generated by the cookies about your use of the Websites includes your IP address. If you so choose, you may be able to opt out of Google Analytics’ collection of this information by turning off cookies in the preferences settings in your browser. For more information on Google Analytics, including how Google Analytics collects, uses, and discloses information, refer to the following page: www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/. We may also use other technologies to monitor and analyze activities on our Websites.
Location Information. The information collected automatically through the Websites may include data that indicates your approximate geographic location, such as your IP address.
How We Use the Information We Collect
We may use, disclose, transmit, transfer, store, and otherwise process your information for various purposes, including:
Communicating with you, including by responding to your inquiries, fulfilling your requests, and sending you promotional messages.
Providing, developing, maintaining, personalizing, protecting, and improving the Websites.
Operating, evaluating, debugging, identifying and repairing errors, effectuating similar functional enhancements, and improving our Websites.
Understanding how you and our business customers use our Websites, performing analytics, analyzing and reporting on usage and performance of the Websites, and determining what features and services may interest you and our business customers.
Our recruitment and hiring purposes, including evaluating and processing your employment application.
Legal and safety purposes, such as maintaining the safety, security, and integrity of our Websites, other technology assets, services, and our organization, preserving or enforcing our legal rights and property; protecting our users, our employees, and others; and complying with industry standards.
Protecting against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, and participating in any prosecution or enforcement of laws or agreements meant to prevent or punish such activity.
Enforcing our policies, terms of use, contracts, or other legal rights.
Evaluating or participating in an actual or potential merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of our assets, including as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceedings.
Complying with law and legal obligations.
Such other purposes as you may authorize or that we otherwise disclose at the time we collect your information.
We may also aggregate or de-identify personal information by removing any details that identify you personally. Aggregated or de-identified information will not be subject to this Privacy Policy and will be used to the extent permissible under applicable law.
How We Share the Information We Collect
We may disclose information we collect through the Websites:
To our affiliates and subsidiaries.
To our business partners, such as partners involved in joint business transactions.
To parties that provide online tracking technologies that we use to analyze use of the Websites.
To our contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our organization and the Websites.
To comply with applicable law, other legal obligations and requirements, and industry standards.
To enforce our policies, terms of use, contracts, or other legal rights.
To investigate or prevent unlawful activities or misuse of the Websites.
To protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, and participating in any prosecution or enforcement of laws or agreements meant to prevent or punish such activity.
To operate, evaluate, debug, identify and repair errors, effectuate similar functional enhancements, and improve our Websites.
To protect the legal rights, property, safety, and security of us, our users, our employees, and others.
To an actual or potential buyer, successor, or other organization in the event of an actual or potential merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of our assets, including as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceedings.
To such other parties as you may authorize or permit, such as when we request your consent to share information and you agree, or that we otherwise disclose.
Our Worldwide Practices
Information collected on our Websites may be transferred across state and country borders and stored or processed in the United States or any other country in which Pyxus or its subsidiaries, affiliates, or business units maintain facilities for the purposes of data consolidation, storage, and simplified customer information management. Pyxus may also transfer your personal data to our subcontractors, vendors, or business partners in the United States and other countries who perform services on our behalf. By using the Websites, you acknowledge that we may transfer your information to jurisdictions which may have different data protection rules than in your country.
Your Choices
We respect your privacy and offer choices regarding our collection and use of your information.
You may choose not to provide the information we request. However, not providing information we request may restrict your ability to use certain features of the Websites. For example, we will not be able to provide you with information regarding our products if you do not provide information with which we may contact you.
You can also control the use of cookies by changing the settings in your browser. To change your web browser settings for cookies, you can follow the instructions in the help section of your web browser or the guidance at https://allaboutcookies.org/. You can also opt out of Google Analytics by downloading, installing, and enabling the Google Analytics’ Opt-out Browser Add-on, which can be found at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/. Please note that choosing to disable cookies may limit your use of certain features or functions on our websites. Some Internet browsers have a “do-not-track” feature that lets you tell websites that you do not want to have your online activities tracked. At this time the Websites does not respond to browser “do not track” signals, and other third parties may collect personal information about your online activities over time and across different websites, online or cloud computing services, online applications, or mobile applications when you use our Websites.
You may opt out of receiving promotional emails from us at any time by following the opt-out link or other unsubscribe instructions provided in the email message, or by contacting us as provided in the “Contact Us” section at the end of this Privacy Policy. Note that if you opt-out of promotional emails, you may still receive transactional communications, such as order or subscription confirmations.
Third-party Links
The Websites may include links to other websites, applications, information, and services provided by third parties. We are not responsible for the privacy policies or practices of those third parties. We encourage you to review the applicable privacy policies of such third parties if you elect to follow the links provided.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy to reflect changes in our privacy practices at any time and without prior notice to you. When we do so, we will update the effective and last updated date above. We encourage you to periodically review this Privacy Policy for the latest information on our privacy practices.
Contacting Us
If you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices, or to exercise your rights under any applicable privacy laws, please contact us by email at compliance@pyxus.com.
