Privacy Policy
Thank you for visiting our website. This Privacy Policy informs you about how we protect and process your personal data when you visit our website (regardless of where you visit it from), interact with us, or use any of our services, and gives you important information about your privacy rights and choices.
You must read this Privacy Policy before using the website or submitting any personal data to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, do not visit our website or use any of our services. By accessing or using the website or our services, you agree to this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use.
If we make changes in our practices to further enhance the way we protect your personal data, we will update this policy and post the update at this website. In some situations we may also email the updated policy to you. Please review the Privacy Policy whenever you visit Alltech’s website to make sure that you understand how any personal data you provide will be used.
This policy does not apply to the practices of third parties you may choose to share information with when you use the services. Please note that the collection and use of your information by these third parties is subject to their own privacy policies and terms. You should understand the privacy and security practices of any third party before you share information with them.
General Information Founded in 1980 by Irish entrepreneur and scientist Dr. Pearse Lyons, Alltech discovers and delivers solutions for the sustainable nutrition of plants, animals and people. With expertise in yeast fermentation, solid state fermentation and the science of nutrigenomics, Alltech is a leading producer and processor of yeast additives, organic trace minerals, feed ingredients, premix and feed. Alltech, Inc. has its global company headquarters located at 3031 Catnip Hill Road, Nicholasville, Kentucky 40356, USA, as well as a European headquarters located at All-Technology (Ireland) Limited, Alltech Bioscience Centre, Summerhill Road, Sarney, Dunboyne Co. Meath. Alltech collects and stores the personal data you share at this website. Alltech may share your personal data internally to other members of the Alltech Group and with its service providers who assist Alltech with providing you specific services.
Alltech Inc. (“the Company”) is made up of different legal entities, which all form part of a wider group of companies (“the Alltech Group”) details of which can be found here[CS2] . This Privacy Policy is written on behalf of the Alltech Group. When we mention "Alltech ", "we", "us" or "our" in this Privacy Policy, we mean the relevant company in the Alltech Group responsible for processing your data. This Privacy Policy applies to all Alltech websites and companies that link to or reference this Privacy Policy.
If you would like to view additional information on our privacy policies that are related to other Alltech websites or affiliated privacy statements, please click the Privacy Policy links on the respective websites for these notices or affiliated statements.
Data Collection
When operating our services, Alltech collects data, including personal data about you. “Personal data” means information that can reasonably linked to a particular individual or household. In the previous twelve months, we have collected various types of information from you and about you through:
Direct interactions. You may give us your personal data by filling in forms or by corresponding with us by post, phone, email or otherwise. This includes personal data you provide when you:
inquire about our products or services;
create an account on our website;
subscribe to our service or publications;
request marketing materials to be sent to you;
enter a competition, promotion or survey; or
give us feedback or contact us.
Please note that we may process your personal data without your knowledge or consent, in compliance with the above rules, where this is required or permitted by law.
Automated technologies or interactions. As you interact with our website, we automatically collect technical data about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns. We collect this personal data by using cookies, which we explain in further detail on our https://www.alltech.com/cookie-policy cookie policy.
Personal data we collect includes:
Identity Data, such as first name, maiden name, last name, username or similar identifier, and title.
Contact Data, such as billing address, delivery address, email address and telephone numbers.
Transaction Data, such as details about payments to and from you, and other details of products and services you have purchased from us.
Technical Data, such as internet protocol (IP) address, your login data, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform, and other technology on the devices you use to access this website.
Profile Data, such as your username and password, purchases or orders made by you, your interests, preferences, feedback and survey responses.
Usage Data, such as information about how you use our website, products and services.
Marketing and Communications Data, such as your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties and your communication preferences.
We do not seek to collect any personal data defined as “Sensitive” or “Special Category” about you (this includes details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership, information about your health, or genetic and biometric data). We do not collect any information about criminal convictions and offences.
Alltech obtains contact details and other personal data regarding media contacts and influencers from a variety of sources including Cision. If you wish to know more about how such information is collected and used, please refer to Cision’s privacy notice at https://www.cision.com/us/legal/privacy-policy/.
Data Usage
Alltech uses personal data for a variety of business purposes and legitimate interests, as described below. Alltech will only use your personal data for purposes that are consistent with and related to the original reason why we collected your personal data. If we need to use your personal data for an unrelated purpose, we will notify you and either seek your additional consent, or will explain to you, why we are legally required to use your personal data in the specific situation.
In the past twelve months, we have used the information we obtain about you to:
Manage our business. Alltech uses personal data to maintain accounts, facilitate usage of the services, and complete necessary tasks to manage our business and provide our services.
Manage job applications. Alltech uses personal data to process and review job applications.
Facilitate customer purchases. Alltech uses personal data to provide customers with information about products, services, or other requested material, and to process, validate, and deliver purchases.
Conduct research and improve our business. Alltech uses personal data to conduct marketing research, such as questionnaires and surveys, and to analyze and enhance our marketing communication strategies.
Provide special offers. Alltech uses personal data to alert you to special offers, updated information, and other new products or services from Alltech. Alltech also uses personal data to manage your participation in our events and other promotions, where you have signed up for such events and promotions.
Communicate. Alltech uses personal data to communicate important business information, including delivering notices to you about the use of our services and marketing emails and e-newsletters to which you subscribe.
Protect our business. Alltech uses personal data to protect against fraud, unauthorized transactions, and other liabilities, and secure our services by identifying potential hackers and unauthorized users.
Ensure security and efficiency and to comply with the law. We may use personal data for other purposes with your consent or where permitted by law, for example, to comply with applicable legal requirements, court orders, legal proceedings, document requests, industry standards, and our internal policies.
Legal Bases for Personal Data Usage
When we use personal data of residents of the EU, UK, or Switzerland, we use the information in accordance with the following legal bases:
Where necessary to perform our contract with you.
Where necessary to comply with our legal obligations.
Where necessary for our legitimate interests.
Where you provide your consent.
For purposes of public interest or to protect your or others’ vital interests.
Disclosure of Personal Data
We may disclose your personal in the following ways and circumstances:
When you consent. Out of respect for your privacy, Alltech will not disclose your personal data to others without your consent, except as specified in this Privacy Policy.
With our service providers and vendors. We transfer all, or a portion of, your personal data to our service providers who help us deliver our products and services to you and for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy. These service providers are required by contract or law to only use or disclose the information as necessary to perform services on our behalf or as otherwise required by law. Although Alltech requires these third parties meet our privacy and security requirements, Alltech does not control the privacy or security policies of such third parties.
For a merger, acquisition, change in ownership, or reorganization. Personal data we have collected may be disclosed to a third party in the event of a merger, transfer of ownership or assets, bankruptcy, or other corporate reorganization.
For data analytics. We share your personal data with analytics service providers such as Google and Facebook. Google may combine your browsing information, including information from your use of our website, to generate interest-based advertisements.
For more information on Google and its tool’s data collection practices, please visit: https://policies.google.com/privacy
For more information on Meta and its tool’s data collection practices, please visit: https://www.facebook.com/privacy/policy
When we are legally permitted or required to do so. Alltech may disclose, without your prior consent, any data or personal data about you or your use of our services, if we believe disclosure is necessary.
Sale and Sharing of Personal Data
Alltech does not sell information in the commonly understood way. However, our use of cookies and other website tracking technologies may be considered a sale or sharing of Personal data under certain data protection laws, in which case, the categories of Personal data that we have sold or shared include identifiers (e.g., IP addresses) and internet or other similar network activity.
Categories of third parties to whom Personal data is sold or shared include data analytics providers and advertising and marketing providers. We have not sold personal data of children under the age of 16. Please see the U.S. Privacy Rights section on information regarding opting out of this data collection.
Your Privacy Options
All users of Alltech websites have the right to have us correct or delete your personal data at any time. Users also have the right, and the ability, to manage their Alltech subscriptions at any time.
U.S. Privacy Rights
State consumer privacy laws may provide their residents with additional rights regarding our use of their personal data. California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Montana, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, and Virginia provide (now or in the future) their state residents with rights to:
Confirm whether Alltech processes their personal data.
Request access to the personal data (commonly known as a "data subject access request") that Alltech has about you.
Request correction of the personal data that we hold about you. This right allows you to request that Alltech correct incomplete or inaccurate data Alltech holds about you (excluding Iowa and Utah).
Request deletion of the personal data that we hold about you. This right allows you to ask us to delete or remove personal data where there is no good reason for us continuing to process it. Note, however, that we may not always be able to comply with your request of erasure for specific legal reasons which we will tell you about, if applicable, at the time of your request.
Object to processing of your personal data for the purposes of targeted advertising (excluding Iowa), sales, or profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects (excluding Iowa and Utah).
Request a transfer of your personal data to a third party.
Either limit (opt-out of) or require consent to process sensitive personal data.
The exact scope of these rights may vary by state. To exercise any of these rights please email us at privacy@alltech.com or call us at 859-885-9613.
To appeal a decision regarding a consumer rights request, follow the instructions provided within the communication denying your request.
Nevada provides its residents with a limited right to opt-out of certain personal information sales. Residents who wish to exercise this sale opt-out rights may submit a request. However, please know we do not currently sell data triggering that statute's opt-out requirements.
European Union, United Kingdom, and Swiss Rights
Request access to the personal data (commonly known as a "data subject access request") that Alltech has about you.
Request correction of the personal data that we hold about you. This right allows you to request that Alltech correct incomplete or inaccurate data Alltech holds about you.
Request erasure of the personal data that we hold about you. This right allows you to ask us to delete or remove personal data where there is no good reason for us continuing to process it. Note, however, that we may not always be able to comply with your request of erasure for specific legal reasons which we will tell you about, if applicable, at the time of your request.
Object to processing of your personal data where we are relying on a legitimate interest (or the legitimate interest of a third party), and there is something about your particular situation which makes you want to object to processing on this ground, as you feel it impacts on your fundamental rights and freedoms, or object when personal data is or profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects.
Request a transfer of your personal data to a third party.
Withdraw consent at any time where we are relying on consent to process your personal data. However, this will not affect the lawfulness of any processing carried out before you withdraw your consent. If you withdraw your consent, we may not be able to provide certain products or services to you. We will advise you if this is the case at the time you withdraw your consent.
Right to File a Complaint: If you are a resident in the EEA, Switzerland or the UK, you have the right to lodge a complaint about our practices with respect to your personal information with the supervisory authority of your country or state.
To exercise any of these rights please email us at privacy@alltech.com. To appeal a decision regarding a consumer rights request, follow the instructions provided to you in our electronic communications with you regarding our request, or contact us at the information provided within this policy.
Data Transfer and Storage
Alltech is the data controller of the personal data we collect. Alltech uses a data processing service (data processor) provider in some instances to process your personal data. When Alltech uses a data processing service, the data processor is required by contract to have appropriate measures in place to protect personal data. The data processor processes the data only within the scope of Alltech’s instructions, and in accordance with the laws of the European Union. It is possible that your personal data may be stored outside of the European Union, namely in the United States. Data processors working with Alltech are contractually obligated to protect personal data in accordance with the laws of the European Union regardless of their location.
Data Retention
Alltech retains the personal data you submit in order to answer your inquiries and/or to deliver any marketing emails and e-newsletters to which you subscribe. If you request that we end your subscription(s), Alltech will retain the personal data submitted for one year for the preparation of statistics and for processing your comments and questions. We will use this retention approach unless you tell us that you do not wish for Alltech to keep this information for this time period. Alltech will delete your information at your request. Alltech may also be required to share personal data with legal authorities but will only do so if it is legally required.
Communications Choices
You can ask us to stop sending you marketing messages at any time by following the opt-out links included on marketing messages sent to you or by contacting us at any time at privacy@Alltech.com.
When you opt out of receiving marketing messages, we will honor your request by no longer sending you marketing messages. Please note this does not apply to transactional messages or other messages we are required to send you by law. We will still use your personal data if we have it as a result of a product/service purchase, warranty registration, product/service experience or other transactions. We retain your personal data in situations like those described so that we can continue to provide you services relating to these transactions.
Contact Us
You may contact Alltech if you require access to your personal data, or if you require your information to be corrected or deleted. You may also lodge a complaint with the Alltech Data Privacy team or ask any other data related query. Please contact them at privacy@alltech.com.