Respecting your right to privacy is an important component of Annex Agriculture Inc. (Annex Agriculture’s) commitment to providing excellent customer service. Annex recognizes the importance of explaining its privacy policies to you and protecting the privacy of personal information it may obtain from you through this website and provides this privacy statement for the purposes of assisting you with understanding Annex Agriculture’s privacy practices. Please note that Annex Agriculture’s website contains links to other websites. Annex Agriculture is not responsible for the privacy practices used or followed by other websites. You are encouraged to be aware of when you leave Annex Agriculture’s website, and to read the privacy statements of each and every website you may visit that may collect personal information from you.
1.1. Annex Agriculture does not collect personal information about you, unless it is voluntarily provided to Annex Agriculture to enable Annex Agriculture to serve your needs and its legitimate business purposes as stated here. For example, when you send Annex Agriculture a message, it is required to retain certain personal information on this website in order to respond to your message. Your personal information may also be used by Annex Agriculture to help improve this website, and for marketing and promotional purposes. Your personal information will be treated confidentially within Annex Agriculture and in accordance with applicable privacy law, including the Personal Information Protection and electronic Documents Act (Canada). You can choose not to provide certain information, but please be aware that this may result in your inability to make use of some of the features of this website.
2.1. Except as specifically stated in this privacy statement, Annex Agriculture’s policy is not to disclose personal information collected through this website to third parties. However, Annex Agriculture may share personal information so collected with affiliates of Annex Agriculture, and other companies and organizations who perform work for Annex Agriculture under contract or which sell products or services that complement those of Annex Agriculture. Annex Agriculture may also disclose personal information collected:
(iii) in connection with a sale, joint venture or other transfer of some or all of Annex Agriculture or the shares or assets of Annex Agriculture; or
2.2. Annex Agriculture may use a third-party service provider to collect anonymous visitor information including but not limited to IP addresses, browser types (such as Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge), referring pages, pages visited and time spent on a particular site or page. Annex Agriculture collects this information for the following purposes:
(ii) to administer Annex Agriculture’s website and servers;
(iii) to allow for auditing of Annex Agriculture’s services by third parties who have that right; and
3.1. This website uses “cookies” to obtain certain types of information when your web browser accesses the website. These cookies are textual identifiers that Annex Agriculture’s systems transfer to your computer’s hard drive through your web browser to enable Annex Agriculture’s websites to recognize your browser and to optimize and sometimes customize your use of our website. Third-party advertisers may also place or read cookies on your browser. A cookie file may contain information such as a user ID that the website uses to track the pages visited, but will only contain personal information that you have supplied. Annex Agriculture will not correlate information captured via cookies with information about you, nor will it share your information with or sell it to any unauthorized third party. Rather, Annex Agriculture uses this information to measure the number of visits you make to our website, the average time spent on the site, the pages viewed, and other relevant statistics in order to tailor your experience on our websites. Tailoring your experience allows Annex Agriculture to improve your experience and Annex Agriculture’s web presence, by displaying content to you that you might be interested in, displaying such content according to your preferences, and measuring the use of websites and pages.
3.2. You may choose not to accept cookies by setting your browser options to either inform you when cookies are being sent or deny cookies outright. Annex Agriculture does not require the use of cookies to provide information and/or services to you via the web, but employing these settings may limit website functionality.
Please note that this privacy statement may be revised by Annex Agriculture from time to time without notice, particularly to address changes in our business, applicable law, or technology. If such a revision is made, Annex Agriculture will post the revised notice here. Revisions are effective upon posting.