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Privacy Policy

Your privacy is very important to us, so we’ve developed this Privacy Policy to explain how we collect, use, disclose, transfer, and store your information. This Privacy Policy (“Policy”) describes the types of information that Georgia Crown Distributing Co., and its subsidiaries (“Georgia Crown,” the “Company,” “we,” “our,” or “us”) may collect from you (“you” or “your”) or that you will provide to us when accessing any of Georgia Crown’s websites, apps, marketing communications, or electronic messaging services (“Services”).  If you are a California resident, please see the “Additional Information for California Residents” section below, for additional details on how we handle your personal information and how to exercise your rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act.

By accessing our Services, you agree to the terms of this Policy.  This Policy may change from time to time.  We reserve the right to update or to change our Policy at any time, and we will post any changes we make to the Policy on our website. We encourage you to periodically review this page for the most current statement of our privacy practices. Your continued use of any Services constitutes your agreement to be bound by such changes to this Policy, so please review the Policy carefully and periodically check for updates.  

As part of our Services, we may from time to time send you emails, marketing communications, new letters, or other communications related to our Services, unless you elect to opt-out of receiving such information. You can discontinue future promotional or marketing communications by following the specific unsubscribe instructions provided by us.  Regardless of whether you opt out of receiving promotional communications, we reserve the right to contact you with respect to transaction-related communications, notices, or changes relating to our products and services.  We may use cookies to enhance your experience. You may choose to set your web browser to refuse cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent.  If you do so, please note that some parts of the website may not function properly.

In the course of offering our Services to you, we may, as described further below, collect certain information about you (“Personal Information”). So that we can provide you the highest quality of service, we may from time to time disclose Personal Information to the following: our subsidiaries and affiliates; to contractors, service providers, suppliers, vendors, retailers, customers, and other third parties we work with to support our business; and to other third-parties with your consent.  We may also use certain third-party vendors to assist in managing payment processing and storing payment methods and related information such as card numbers or routing information for the purpose of processing payments on our behalf.   In addition, we may disclose your Personal Information: (i) to comply with any court order, law, or legal process, or to respond to any government or regulatory request; (ii) to enforce or apply our Terms of Service; (iii) if we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property or safety of Georgia Crown, our users, or others; and (iv) to fulfill the purpose for which you provided or disclosed the information to us.  We also cooperate with government and law enforcement officials to enforce and comply with the law. We will disclose any information about you to government or law enforcement officials as we believe necessary or appropriate to respond to claims and legal process, to protect the safety of the public or any person, or to prevent or stop activity we consider to be, or to pose a risk of being, illegal, unethical or legally actionable activity.

Our principal offices are located in the United States, and we only conduct business in those states where we are licensed to operate:  Georgia, Alabama, and Tennessee. If you access our Services from any foreign country, it is likely that any data you send us will be transferred outside of your country of origin to us. By using our Services, you consent to having your data transferred to and stored in the United States. Our Service are not currently being offered to residents outside of the United States.

Our website may contain links to other websites that are not owned or controlled by us. Please be aware that we do not determine, and we are not responsible, for the privacy practices or content of such other websites. We strongly advise you to review the privacy policy of every website you visit.

Data Collection Through Website Use:

As you navigate through and interact with our Services, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect Personal Information, including certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including:

The technologies we may, from time to time, use for this automatic data collection include, but are not limited to:

By using these Services, you acknowledge your understanding that you are not required to provide this consent as a condition of purchasing any products or Services and that you may revoke this consent at any time by contacting Georgia Crown pursuant to the process described below. 

Sensitive Information

Unless we specifically request it, we ask that you not send us, and that you not disclose, any sensitive personal information (e.g., government-issued IDs, information related to race or ethnic origin, political opinions, religion or other beliefs, health, genetic, or biometric data, criminal background or union affiliation) on or through the Services or otherwise to us.

Data Retention

We may retain your Personal Information as long as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes and/or enforce our agreements; and/or as long as needed to provide you with the products and/or services of the Services. 

We may dispose of or delete any such Personal Information at any time, except as set forth in any other agreement or document executed by Company or as required by law.

We cooperate with government and law enforcement officials to enforce and comply with the law. We will disclose any information about you to government or law enforcement officials as we believe necessary or appropriate to respond to claims and legal process, to protect the safety of the public or any person, or to prevent or stop activity we consider to be, or to pose a risk of being, illegal, unethical or legally actionable activity.

You can exercise your privacy rights in accordance with applicable law by contacting us at privacy@georgiacrown.com.  Depending on where you reside, you may have multiple privacy rights, subject to applicable law, with respect to the personal information we process about you, including:

If Personal Information is deleted from the Services, copies of this information may remain viewable in cached and archived pages, or might have been copied or stored by other users of our Services. 

Notwithstanding the above, please note that we may still need to retain Personal Information necessary to provide you with products or Services you have purchased, for employment records, or as otherwise permitted by applicable law.

If you are authorized to make an access or deletion request on behalf of a data subject, please reach out to us at privacy@georgiacrown.com and indicate that you are an authorized agent. We will provide you with instructions on how to submit a request as an authorized agent on behalf of a data subject.

Additional Information for California Residents

The California Civil Code permits customers who are California residents to request certain information regarding our disclosure of Personal Information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. If you are a California resident and have provided us with Personal Information within the last year, you may make such a request by emailing us at privacy@georgiacrown.com with the subject “California Privacy Rights.”  

If you have any questions about this Policy, or you wish to report any circumstances whereby you believe the Services does not conform with this Policy, please contact us by email at: privacy@georgiacrown.com or by mail to: Georgia Crown, 100 Georgia Crown Drive, McDonough, Georgia 30253, Attention: Marketing Department.  In the event you would like us to correct, change or delete certain Personal Information, you may do so by contacting us at  privacy@georgiacrown.com with a specific request regarding your Personal Information. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to honor your request.

To the extent any provision of this Privacy Policy may be construed to conflict with applicable laws or regulations, the terms of such laws or regulations will apply.

Effective Date of Privacy Policy

4/17/25