Last modified: November 1, 2024
Introduction
A. Duie Pyle, Inc. (“we” or “us”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting it through our compliance with this Privacy Policy.
This Privacy Policy describes the types of information we may collect from you and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, disclosing, and sharing that information.
This Privacy Policy applies to the information we collect:
- On or through the following websites: aduiepyle.com (including mypyle.aduiepyle.com and careers.aduiepyle.com), pylenow.com, and pyle100.com (our “Websites”).
- In email, text, and other electronic messages between you and us that relate to your use of or interactions with our Websites.
- Through mobile and desktop applications you download from our Websites, which provide dedicated non-browser-based interaction between you and our Websites.
- When you interact with our applications on third-party websites, if those websites include links to this Privacy Policy.
- In email, text, and other electronic messages between you and us regarding services we provide to you or your business, whether directly or indirectly (including transportation, home delivery, warehousing, brokerage, or other services).
Except as otherwise provided above, this Privacy Policy does not apply to information collected by:
- Us offline or through any other means, including on any other websites or applications operated by us, our affiliates or subsidiaries, or any other third party.
- Any third party, including through any application or content that may link to or be accessible from or through our Websites.
- Us regarding our employees.
Please read this Privacy Policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, you must not access or use our Websites or applications or receive services from us, whether directly or indirectly. By accessing or using our Websites or applications, or receiving services from us, you agree to this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use. This Privacy Policy may change from time to time (see Changes to Our Privacy Policy). Your use of any of our Websites or applications, or receipt of services, after we make changes is deemed acceptance of those changes, so please check this Privacy Policy periodically for updates.
our websiteS ARE not intended for CHILDREN
Our Websites and applications are offered and available to users who are 18 years of age or older. Our Websites and applications are not intended for children under 18 years of age. No one under age 18 may provide any information to or on our Websites or applications. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 18. If you are under 18, do not use or provide any information on our Websites or applications, do not register on our Websites or applications, do not make any purchases through our Websites or applications, do not use any interactive or public comment features of our Websites or applications, and do not provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, email address, or any screen name or user name you may use. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 18, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have information from or about a child under 18, please email us at pylemarketing@aduiepyle.com or call us at 800-523-5020 (Attn: Marketing).
Residents of certain states under 13, 16, or 18 years of age may have additional rights regarding the collection and sale of their personal information.
Information We Collect
About You and How We Collect It
We collect several types of information from and about you when you use or interact with our Websites or applications, or when you send to us or receive from us email, text, or other electronic messages, including the following:
- We collect information by which you may be personally identified, including the following (collectively, “personal information”):
- Personal identifiers: Information such as your name, postal address, residential address, email address, telephone number, date of birth, social security number, alien registration number, country of citizenship, driver’s license number and history, driving history and record, passport number, internet protocol (IP) address, the device identifier for the computer or other electronic device you use to access our Websites or applications, account name and password, bank account information, and credit/debit card information.
- Protected characteristics: Information such as your race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, and veteran status.
- Commercial: Information regarding transactions, products, and services you purchase, receive, and consider, and your other purchasing and consuming histories and tendencies.
- Internet and other electronic network activity: Clickstream data and other details regarding your interaction with our Websites and applications, including cookies, pages viewed, browsing history, marketing and communication preferences, and information that you provide to us in connection with your accounts, messages, inquiries, requests, applications, and related matters.
- Geolocation: Information such as your internet protocol (IP) address.
- Professional and employment: Information regarding your professional and employment status and history, including your employer, job title, licenses and certifications, penalty, discipline, and sanction records, and employment history.
- Education: Information regarding your educational history.
- Inferences: Inferences we draw from the foregoing information.
For purposes of this Privacy Policy, personal information does not include information that is publicly available, deidentified or aggregate information, or otherwise excluded from the scope of applicable data privacy laws.
- We collect information that is about you but individually does not identify you, such as device type, device operating system, internet browser type, email reader, and internet service provider.
- We collect information regarding your business, such as your business’s name, postal address, physical address, email address, telephone number, account name and password, information regarding transactions and payments, including bank account information, credit/debit card information, and other information that you provide to us in connection with your business’s account, including business account related messages, inquiries, requests, and related matters.
We collect this information:
- Directly from you when you provide it to us.
- Automatically as you navigate through our Websites or applications, or send to us or receive from us email, text, or other electronic messages. Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses, and information collected through cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies.
From third parties, for example, our business partners or your business.
Information You Provide to Us
The information we collect when you use or interact with our Websites or applications, or when you send to us or receive from us email, text, or other electronic messages, may include:
- Information that you provide when you enter information, submit questions or comments, create accounts, when you interact with our Websites or applications, or otherwise communicate with us via email, text, or other electronic message. This includes information you provide when you or your business create and use an account, submit shipment tracking inquiries, request pickups, request quotes or reports, order or receive services from us, submit messages, questions, or contact requests, subscribe to our newsletters, post material, make job related inquiries, link to job postings, or apply for a job.
- Records and copies of your correspondence (including your email address and phone number), if you communicate with us or respond to us.
- Details of transactions between you or your business and us and of the fulfillment of your or your business’s requests or orders. You or your business may be required to provide financial information before placing an order.
- Your search queries on our Websites and applications.
- Information you provide when you respond to a survey that we ask you to complete, enter a contest or promotion sponsored by us, or report a problem with our Websites or applications.
You also may provide information to be posted, submitted, published, or displayed (hereinafter, “posted”) on public areas of our Websites or applications, or transmitted to other users of our Websites or applications or to third parties (collectively, “User Contributions”). Your User Contributions are posted on our Websites or applications or transmitted to others at your own risk. We cannot control the actions of others with whom you may choose to share your User Contributions. Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that your User Contributions will not be viewed or misused by unauthorized persons.
INFORMATION WE COLLECT THROUGH AUTOMATIC DATA COLLECTION TECHNOLOGIES
As you navigate through and interact with our Websites or applications, or send to us or receive from us email, text, or other electronic messages, we use automatic data collection technologies to collect personal and other information about you, your browsing actions, patterns, and interactions with such Websites, applications, and electronic messages, and your computer or other electronic device, including:
- When you visit our Websites or applications, we obtain details of your visits, including traffic data, logs, page interaction data (including time and length of visit, scrolling, and click data), other communication data, and the resources that you access and use on our Websites or applications.
- When you receive an email from us, we may obtain a confirmation that you have done so together with a record of the time you opened the email.
- When you visit our Websites or applications or receive emails from us, we obtain information about your computer or electronic device and internet connection, including your geolocation data, IP address, operating system, browser or email reader type, and cookies located on your computer or electronic device.
We use such information to improve our Websites and applications and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to:
- Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.
- Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our Websites and applications according to your individual interests.
- Speed up your interactions with our Websites and applications.
- Recognize you when you return to our Websites and applications.
The technologies we use for this automatic data collection include:
- Cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a small file we or third parties place on your computer or electronic device through your web browser to collect and remember information about your interactions with our Websites and applications. We may use both session cookies and persistent cookies. Session cookies expire when you close your browser. Persistent cookies remain on your hard drive for an extended period.
- Web Beacons. Pages of our Websites and applications and our emails contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as website tags, pixel tags, clear gifs, and single-pixel gifs) that notify us when you access those pages or emails and provide us with information about your computer or electronic device and internet connection. We use web beacons, for example, to count the number of users who have visited the several pages of our Websites and applications or opened an email and for other related statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity).
For information about how you can control the information we collect about you and how we use that information, see Choices About How We Collect and Use Your Information.
INFORMATION THIRD PARTIES COLLECT THROUGH AUTOMATIC DATA COLLECTION TECHNOLOGIES
As you navigate through and interact with our Websites or applications, or send to us or receive from us email, text, or other electronic messages, third parties also use cookies, web beacons, and other automatic data collection technologies to collect personal information about you, your browsing actions, patterns, and interactions with such Websites, applications, and electronic messages, and your computer or other electronic device. The personal information they collect about you includes the information identified above under Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies.
These third parties may associate such information with personal information about you they collect in other ways or receive from other third parties, including information about your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services. These third parties may use this information to provide you with cross-context behavioral advertising or other interest-based or targeted content.
We do not control how these third parties collect or use your information. However, these third parties do provide you with ways to manage how they collect and use your information. For information about how you may be able to control the information these third parties collect about you and how they use that information, see Choices About How We Collect and Use Your Information.
HOW WE AND THIRD PARTIES USE YOUR INFORMATION
We use information that we collect about you or your business or that you provide to us, including any personal information:
- To present our Websites, applications, and their contents to you.
- To provide you or your business with information, products, or services that you request, purchase, or receive from us.
- To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it.
- To provide you with notices about your account.
- To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you or your business and us, including for billing and collection.
- To notify you about changes to our Websites, our applications, or any products or services we offer or provide, including changes in service hours, weather conditions, delivery availability and options, etc.
- To allow you to participate in interactive features on our Websites and applications.
- To further our employee recruitment efforts and hiring processes.
- To enforce or apply our rights, Terms of Use, this Privacy Policy, and our employment policies.
- To determine the effectiveness of our advertising.
- To administer our Websites, our applications, and carry out our security policies.
- In any other way we may describe when you provide the information.
- For any other purpose with your consent.
We may also use your or your business’s information to contact you about goods and services that may be of interest to you. If you do not want us to use your information in this way, you can opt out of receiving promotional offers from us. For more information, see Choices About How We Collect and Use Your Information.
Third parties may associate the information they collect from you with personal information about you they collect in other ways or receive from other third parties, including information about your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services. These third parties may use this information to provide you with cross-context behavioral advertising or other interest-based or targeted content. For information about how you may be able to control the information these third parties collect about you and how they use that information, see Choices About How We Collect and Use Your Information.
We and third parties may de-identify your personal information so that it does not identify you. We and they may use for any purpose and without restriction information that does not identify any individual or is deidentified or aggregate information.
DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION
We may disclose personal information and business information that we collect or you provide as described in this Privacy Policy:
- To our subsidiaries and affiliates.
- To contractors and service providers we use to support our business. See below for more details.
- To a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by us is among the assets transferred.
- To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it. For example, if you provide an email address or phone number when you use the contact request feature of our Website, we will transmit our follow up response to that email or phone number.
- For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.
- With your consent.
We may also disclose your personal information:
- To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including responding to any government or regulatory request.
- To enforce or apply our Terms of Use, this Privacy Policy, and any other agreements, including for billing and collection purposes.
- If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of us, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
The categories of personal information we may disclose to contractors and service providers to support our business are as follows:
- Advertising and marketing: We may disclose personal information, including personal identifiers, commercial, internet or other electronic network activity, geolocation, and inference information, for the provision of advertising and marketing services on our own behalf.
- Services on behalf of our business: We may disclose personal information, including personal identifiers, protected characteristics, commercial, internet or other electronic network activity, geolocation, professional or employment, education, and inference information, for services performed on our behalf, including maintaining or servicing accounts, providing customer service, processing or fulfilling orders and transactions, verifying customer information, processing payments, providing financing, providing analytic services, responding to requests, etc.
- Auditing: We disclose personal information, including personal identifiers, internet or other electronic network activity, and geolocation information, for auditing purposes related to counting ad impressions to unique visitors and verifying the positioning and quality of ad impressions.
- Security and integrity: We disclose personal information, including personal identifiers, commercial, internet or other electronic network activity, geolocation, professional or employment, and education information, to detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, and prosecute those responsible for that activity.
- Debugging: We disclose personal information, including personal identifiers, commercial, internet or other electronic network activity, and geolocation information, to debug, identify, and repair errors that impair the functionality of our Websites and applications.
- Quality control and improvement: We disclose personal information, including personal identifiers, commercial, internet or other electronic network activity, and geolocation information, to verify, maintain, improve, and enhance the quality of our services.
We do not sell your personal information to third parties. However, we may make available or disclose to third parties your personal information, including personal identifiers, commercial, internet or other electronic network activity, geolocation, and inference information, and business information that we collect or you provide. These third parties may associate the information they collect from you with personal information about you they collect in other ways or receive from other third parties, including information about your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services. These third parties may use this information to provide you with cross-context behavioral advertising or other interest-based or targeted content. For information about how you may be able to control the information these third parties collect about you and how they use that information, see Choices About How We Collect and Use Your Information.
We may disclose information that is deidentified, aggregated, or does not otherwise identify any individual without restriction.
CHOICES ABOUT HOW WE COLLECT AND USE YOUR INFORMATION
You can make choices regarding the personal information you provide to us.
- Tracking Technologies and Advertising. You may be able to set your browser to refuse certain browser cookies or to delete cookies stored on your device. If you refuse cookies, please note that some parts of our Websites or applications may then be inaccessible or not function properly.
When you first enter our Websites or applications, you may receive a cookie notice that allows you to accept all or some (but not all) cookies from our sites or applications. If you accept some (but not all) cookies through this notice, please note that (1) some parts of our Websites or applications may then be inaccessible or not function properly and (2) we may still store certain “necessary” cookies on your device. Necessary cookies are cookies that are essential for critical features of our Websites or applications to operate properly.
For sake of clarity, the web beacons located at our Websites and applications will not be disabled if you refuse cookies. - Promotional Offers from Us. If you do not wish to have your email address used by us to promote our products or services, you can opt out by sending us an email stating your request to pylemarketing@aduiepyle.com. If we have sent you a promotional email, you may send us a return email asking to be omitted from future email distributions or opt out by clicking the appropriate link (if available) in the email. This opt out does not apply to communications regarding services provided by or to us, product purchases, or other transactions.
- Text Communications from Us. In certain cases (e.g., if you submit a job application with us or receive services from us, directly or indirectly), you may receive text messages from us. You do not have to receive text messages from us to use our Websites or applications or receive services from us. If you receive texts from us, standard text messaging charges may apply. You may elect to stop receiving text messages from us at any time. To do so, type “STOP” in reply to a text message from us.
Our Websites and applications use cookies and web beacons provided by Google, Meta, and LinkedIn. We do not control how these third parties collect or use your information. However, these third parties may provide you with ways to manage how they collect and use your information.
- Privacy Policies. For information regarding how these companies collect, use, and disclose your personal information, consider reviewing their respective privacy policies: Google privacy policy, Meta privacy policy, and LinkedIn privacy policy.
- Google Advertising Settings and Google Analytics Opt Out. As to your advertising settings with Google, consider referring to https://adssettings.google.com/anonymous?hl=en_US&ref=mac-hub. Please note that any settings available at this site may only apply to the browser and device you use to access the site.
As to Google Analytics’ use of personal information it collects about you when you use certain browsers on your device, consider installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on provided by Google at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. Please note that this browser add-on may only be compatible with certain browsers and may only affect the information Google collects about you when you use that browser and device. - Meta – Your Activity Off Meta Technologies. As to the information that Meta obtains about you from our Website and other sites that are not operated by Meta, and how Meta uses that information, consider referring to https://www.facebook.com/off_facebook_activity/.
- LinkedIn Advertising Settings. As to your advertising settings with LinkedIn, consider referring to https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a1342443/?trk=microsites-frontend_legal_privacy-policy&lang=en.
Some browsers may have a “do not track” feature that lets you tell websites that you do not want to have your online activities tracked. We do not respond to such signals.
ACCESSING AND CORRECTING YOUR INFORMATION
You may send us an email at pylemarketing@aduiepyle.com or call us via our toll-free number at 800-523-5020 (Attn: Marketing) to request access to, correct, or delete any personal information that you have provided to us. If you have a user account, we cannot delete your account information except by also deleting your user account.
We may not accommodate a request to access, change, or delete information. For example, we may not accommodate such a request if (i) the information concerns completed, ongoing, prospective, or potential services provided by or to us, products sold by or to us, or other transactions, or (ii) we believe the access, change, or deletion would violate any law or legal obligation. If we change or delete your personal information, we may nevertheless retain copies of such information in cached or archived records. If your request concerns your User Contributions, we cannot access, change, or delete copies of such information that were copied or stored by third parties. Any change or deletion will not affect (i) any information we maintain that does not identify an individual or is deidentified or aggregated or (ii) any information maintained by our service providers or third parties to whom we make available or disclose personal information.
YOUR STATE PRIVACY RIGHTS
To the extent applicable, state consumer privacy laws may provide the residents of such states with additional rights regarding our use of their personal information.
YOUR CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS
California’s “Shine the Light” law (Civil Code Section § 1798.83) permits certain persons who are California residents to request certain information regarding our disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please send an email to pylemarketing@aduiepyle.com or write us at: A. Duie Pyle, Inc., P.O. Box 564 West Chester, PA 19381-0564, Attn: Marketing.
CROSS BORDER DATA TRANSFER
To provide you with certain services, including tracking services related to your shipments, it may be necessary for us to share information related to your shipment, including your name and address, the destination name and address, and the type of shipment, with our service providers located outside of the United States. The information we share may include your personal information or your business’s information. If we transfer such information outside of the United States, we will use commercially reasonable measures to comply with applicable data protection laws.
LINKS AND THIRD PARTY WEBSITES
Our Websites and applications contain links to third party websites and applications. These links include links to our accounts at social media sites operated by Facebook, X, LinkedIn, and Instagram. This Privacy Policy does not apply to information collected by third parties at their websites and applications. If you follow a link to any of these third party websites or applications, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies. We do not control these third party websites, and accept no responsibility for their privacy and security practices, the information they collect, or how they use that information. If you decide to access any of the third party websites linked from this Website, you do so at your own risk and subject to the terms of use and privacy policies for such websites.
Our Website contains links to job application sites operated by UKG and Tenstreet and our warehouse management system (“WMS”) site operated by Körber. For sake of clarity, this Privacy Policy does apply to information we collect (1) from UKG and Tenstreet when you use the links from our Websites and applications to their sites and (2) from Körber when you use our WMS site. However, this Privacy Policy does not apply to information UKG, Tenstreet, and Körber collect when you use these sites.
DATA SECURITY
We have implemented measures designed to secure your personal information and your business’s information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure.
The safety and security of your information also depends on you. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of our Websites and applications, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone. We urge you to be careful about giving out information in public areas of our Websites and applications like message boards. The information you share in public areas may be viewed by any user of our Websites and applications. Please notify us immediately of any unauthorized use of your account or password or any other breach of security.
Although we make reasonable efforts to protect your personal information and your business’s information, we cannot and do not guarantee the security of such information. We are not responsible for accidental loss or unauthorized access, use, alteration, or disclosure of your personal information or your business’s information.
CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY
We may revise and update this Privacy Policy from time to time in our sole discretion. It is our policy to post any such changes on this page. All changes are effective immediately when we post them, and apply to information we may collect from you or that you may provide after that time. The date this Privacy Policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for periodically visiting our Websites and this Privacy Policy to check for any changes.
CONTACT INFORMATION
To ask questions or comment about this Privacy Policy and our privacy practices, please contact us as follows:
by mail to A. Duie Pyle, Inc., P.O. Box 564 West Chester, PA 19381-0564, Attn: Marketing,
by email to pylemarketing@aduiepyle.com, or
by telephone via our toll-free number at 800-523-5020 (Attn: Marketing).