Global Privacy Notice
Effective Date: January 30, 2026
The Scoular Company and our affiliates and subsidiaries listed in Schedule 1 (collectively, “Scoular”) respect your concerns about privacy. This Global Privacy Notice describes the types of personal information we collect, how we use the information, with whom we share it and the choices available to you regarding our use of the information. We also describe measures we take to protect the security of the information and how you can contact us about our privacy practices.
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We collect personal information about you through various channels. This Global Privacy Notice applies to the personal information we obtain via your transactions and dealings with Scoular, including through your use of www.scoular.com (the “Site”) and your offline interactions with Scoular (such as when you use our risk management, transportation & logistics or product-related services).
This Global Privacy Notice does not apply to your use of the GrainView or Roger mobile applications.
Click here to view the GrainView app privacy policy.
Click here to view the Roger app privacy policy.
We may collect certain personal information about you in various ways, such as when you visit the Site, when you contact us, or when you visit one of our facilities or offices. The types of personal information we may obtain through the channels described above include:
Biometric information may be collected by Scoular through the security systems in our U.S. facilities. Biometric information is not collected by Scoular entities outside of the U.S.
When you visit our Site, we may collect certain information by automated means, such as cookies, web beacons, web server logs and other technologies. The information we collect in this manner may include your device IP address, unique device identifier, web browser characteristics, device characteristics, operating system, language preferences, referring URLs, clickstream data, and dates and times of website visits. We may use these automated technologies on our Site to collect information about your equipment, browsing actions, and usage patterns. These technologies may help us (1) remember your information so you do not have to re-enter it; (2) track and understand how you use and interact with our Site; (3) tailor the Site around your preferences; (4) measure the usability of our Site and the effectiveness of our communications; and (5) otherwise manage and enhance our services, and help ensure they are working properly.
Cookies are files that websites send to your computer to uniquely identify your browser or to store information or settings in the browser. A web beacon (also known as an Internet tag, pixel tag or clear GIF) links web pages to web servers and their cookies and may be used to transmit information collected through cookies back to a web server. Your browser may tell you how to be notified when you receive certain types of cookies or how to restrict or disable certain types of cookies. Please note, however, that without cookies you may not be able to use all of the features of the Site.
We use cookies for security purposes. This includes the use of Google reCAPTCHA to protect the Site from spam and abuse.
We may use the personal information we obtain about you to:
We also may use the information in other ways for which we provide specific notice at the time of collection.
We may use third-party analytics services on our Site. The analytics providers that administer these services use technologies such as cookies, web beacons web server logs, and other trackers to help us analyze your use of the Site. We use these tools to understand user behavior on the Site and improve usability, track and analyze web traffic to the Site, and monitor web search performance and assist with search engine optimization. The information collected through these means (including IP address) may be disclosed to these analytics providers, and other relevant third parties who use the information to evaluate use of the Site. You can change your settings for analytics cookies and trackers at any time using the cookie settings on the Site.
On our Site, we may obtain information about your online activities to provide you with advertising about products and services that may be tailored to your interests. This section of our Global Privacy Notice provides details and explains how to exercise certain choices.
You may see our ads on other websites because we use third-party ad services. Through these ad services, we can target our messaging to users considering demographic data, users’ inferred interests and browsing context. These services track your online activities over time and across multiple websites and apps by collecting information through automated means, including through the use of cookies, web server logs, web beacons and other similar technologies. The ad services use this information to show you ads that may be tailored to your individual interests. The information ad services may collect includes data about your visits to websites that serve Scoular advertisements, such as the pages or ads you view and the actions you take on the websites or apps. This data collection takes place both on our Site and on third-party websites and apps that participate in these ad services. This process also helps us track the effectiveness of our marketing efforts.
Our Site is not designed to respond to “do not track” signals received from browsers.
To learn how to opt out of interest-based advertising in the U.S., please visit www.aboutads.info/choices, https://optout.networkadvertising.org/ and http://preferences-mgr.truste.com/
We do not disclose personal information we obtain about you, except as described in this Global Privacy Notice.
We may share your personal information with our affiliates and subsidiaries and joint venture partners for the purposes described in this Global Privacy Notice. We also may share personal information with service providers who perform services on our behalf based on our instructions. We share data collected through reCAPTCHA cookies with Google, including device IP address, referring URLs, operating system, and clickstream data. We do not authorize these service providers to use or disclose the information except as necessary to perform services on our behalf or to comply with legal requirements.
We also may disclose information about you (1) if we are required to do so by law or legal process (such as a court order or subpoena); (2) in response to requests by government agencies, such as law enforcement authorities; (3) to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights; (4) when we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to prevent physical or other harm or financial loss; (5) in connection with an investigation of suspected or actual illegal activity; or (6) otherwise with your consent. In addition, we reserve the right to transfer personal information we have about you in the event we sell or transfer all or a portion of our business or assets (including in the event of a merger, acquisition, joint venture, reorganization, divestiture, dissolution or liquidation).
We may transfer the personal information we collect about you to recipients in countries other than the country in which the information originally was collected. Those countries may not have the same data protection laws as the country in which you initially provided the information. When we transfer your information to recipients in other countries (such as the U.S.), we will protect that information as described in this Global Privacy Notice and will comply with applicable legal requirements providing adequate protection for the transfer of personal information to recipients in countries other than the one in which you provided the information (including, to the extent required by applicable law, entering into contractual arrangements with the relevant recipient).
You may at any time ask us to stop sending you emails or other communications. To update your preferences, ask us to remove your information from our mailing lists or submit a request, please contact us as described in the How to Contact Us section below. You may also follow the opt-out instructions contained in our marketing communications.
Where provided by law, you may withdraw any consent you previously provided to us or object at any time on legitimate grounds to the processing of your personal information, and we will apply your preferences going forward.
Subject to applicable law, you may (1) have the right to access certain personal information we maintain about you; (2) request that we update or correct your personal information; (3) object to the processing of your personal information or withdraw your prior consent, if applicable; and (4) ask us to block or delete your personal information from our database. To exercise these rights, please contact us as indicated in the How To Contact Us section of this Global Privacy Notice. You also may write to the relevant Scoular entity for your jurisdiction via the contact details listed here. We will process your request in accordance with applicable law and, to help protect your privacy and maintain security, we may take steps to verify your identity before granting you access to the information. To the extent permitted by applicable law, we may charge a reasonable fee to comply with your request.
Depending on your place of residence, specific privacy rights may be available to you. For more information about applicable privacy rights, please see the sections of this Global Privacy Notice called “California Consumer Privacy Statement,” “International Users,” and “EU/UK GDPR Addendum”.
We maintain administrative, technical and physical safeguards designed to protect personal information against accidental, unlawful or unauthorized access, destruction, loss, alteration, disclosure or use.
Our Site is designed for a general audience and are not directed to children. We do not knowingly collect or solicit personal information from children under the age of thirteen (13) (or other relevant age, as applicable pursuant to relevant law) through our Site. If we become aware that we have collected personal information from a child under thirteen (13), we will promptly delete the information from our records. If you believe a child under thirteen (13) may have provided us with personal information, please contact us as specified in the How to Contact Us section of this Global Privacy Notice.
For your convenience and information, our Site may provide links to or plug-ins of non-Scoular websites, apps and services that may be operated by companies not affiliated with Scoular. The privacy practices of the relevant third parties, including details on the information they may collect about you, is subject to the privacy statements of these parties, which we strongly suggest you review. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of any non-Scoular websites, apps or services.
This Global Privacy Notice may be updated periodically to reflect changes in our personal information practices. Changes to the Global Privacy Notice will be posted on this page. For significant changes, we will notify you by posting a prominent notice on our Site indicating at the top of the Notice when it was most recently updated.
You can update your preferences, ask us to remove your information from our mailing lists, submit a request or ask us questions about this Global Privacy Notice or the manner in which we or our service providers handle personal information by sending us an email using the “Contact Us” section of our website, or writing to:
The Scoular Company
Corporate Office
13660 California Street, P.O. Box 542047
Omaha, NE 68154
For Residents of Canada: You may contact Scoular regarding our information practices and this Global Privacy Notice at:
Residents of Canada have the following rights regarding their personal data:
For Residents of Mexico: For purposes of our data processing activities in Mexico, the relevant data controllers are:
Compañía Scoular de México, S. de R.L. de C.V.
Procesos Biointegrales de México, S. de R.L. de C.V.
Residents of Mexico have the following rights regarding their personal data:
For Residents of Singapore. You may contact Scoular regarding our information practices and this Global Privacy Notice at:
3 Killiney Road #07-08 Winsland
House 1
Singapore, Singapore 239519
You have the right to request access to a copy of your personal information, request correction to your personal information, and withdraw consent for the collection, use and disclosure of your personal information.
For Residents of the EU and UK: You may contact Scoular regarding our information practices and this Global Privacy Notice at:
Please see the EU/UK GDPR Addendum below for further information.
This California Consumer Privacy Statement (“Statement”) supplements the Scoular Global Privacy Notice and applies solely to California consumers. This Statement does not apply to Scoular personnel. This Statement uses certain terms that have the meanings given to them in the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020) and its implementing regulations (collectively, the “CCPA”).
This California Consumer Privacy Statement uses certain terms that have the meanings given to them in the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 and its implementing regulations (the “CCPA”).
We may collect (and may have collected during the 12-month period prior to the effective date of this Statement) the following categories of personal information about you:
We may use (and may have used during the 12-month period prior to the effective date of this California Consumer Privacy Statement) the categories of personal information listed above for the purposes described in our Global Privacy Notice. In addition, we may use these categories of personal information for the following business purposes specified in the CCPA:
We do not collect or process sensitive personal information for purposes of inferring characteristics about consumers.
To the extent we process deidentified information, we will maintain and use the information in deidentified form and will not attempt to reidentify the information unless permitted by applicable law.
We will retain your personal information for the time period reasonably necessary to achieve the purposes described in the Scoular Global Privacy Notice and this California Consumer Privacy Statement, or any other notice provided at the time of collection, taking into account applicable statutes of limitation and records retention requirements under applicable law.
During the 12-month period prior to the effective date of this Statement, we may have obtained personal information about you from the following categories of sources:
We do not sell your personal information in exchange for monetary consideration. We may allow certain third parties (such as online advertising services and social networks) to collect your personal information via automated technologies on the Site in exchange for non-monetary consideration. We share the categories of personal information listed below for online advertising purposes and to provide third-party social network features and functionality on the Site. You have the right to opt out of this disclosure of your information, as detailed below.
During the 12-month period prior to the effective date of this Statement, we may have sold or shared the following categories of personal information about you to online advertising services and social networks: Identifiers, Online Activity, Inferences.
We do not have actual knowledge that we sell or share the personal information of minors under 16 years of age.
During the 12-month period prior to the effective date of this Statement, we may have disclosed the following categories of personal information about you for a business purpose to the following categories of third parties:
| Category of Personal Information | Category of Third Party |
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| Identifiers | Joint venture partners, affiliates and subsidiaries, online advertising services, data analytics providers, social networks, service providers, ISPs and operating systems and platforms, data brokers |
| Additional Data Subject to Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80 Law | Joint venture partners, affiliates and subsidiaries, online advertising services, social networks, service providers, ISPs and operating systems and platforms, data brokers |
| Protected Classifications | Joint venture partners, affiliates and subsidiaries, service providers |
| Commercial Information | Joint venture partners, affiliates and subsidiaries, online advertising services, advertising networks, social networks, service providers, ISPs and operating systems and platforms, data brokers |
| Online Activity | Data analytics providers, online advertising services, social networks, service providers, ISPs and operating systems and platforms, data brokers |
| Geolocation Data | Joint venture partners, affiliates and subsidiaries, online advertising services, data analytics providers, social networks, service providers, ISPs and operating systems and platforms, data brokers |
| Sensory Information | Security partners |
| Employment Information | Joint venture partners, affiliates and subsidiaries, online advertising services, social networks, service providers, ISPs and operating systems and platforms, data brokers |
| Inferences | Joint venture partners, affiliates and subsidiaries, online advertising services, data analytics providers, social networks, service providers, ISPs and operating systems and platforms, data brokers |
In addition to the categories of third parties identified above, during the 12-month period prior to the effective date of this Statement, we may have shared personal information about you with government entities and third parties in connection with corporate transactions, such as mergers, acquisitions or divestitures.
You have certain choices regarding your personal information, as described below.
Access: You have the right to request, twice in a 12-month period, that we disclose to you the personal information we have collected, used, disclosed and sold or shared about you.
Correction: You have the right to request that we correct the personal information we maintain about you, if that information is inaccurate.
Deletion: You have the right to request that we delete certain personal information we have collected from you, if that information is inaccurate.
Opt-Out of Sale or Sharing: You have the right to opt-out of the sale of your personal information or the sharing of your personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising purposes.
Shine the Light Request: You also may have the right to request that we provide you with (a) a list of certain categories of personal information we have disclosed to third parties for their direct marketing purposes during the immediately preceding calendar year and (b) the identity of those third parties.
How to Submit a Request. To submit an access, correction, deletion, or Shine the Light request, call us at 1-909-390-9566 or email at privacyus@scoular.com. To submit an opt-out of sale or sharing request, email us at privacyus@scoular.com. You can also opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information by broadcasting the Global Privacy Control signal. To submit a request as an authorized agent on behalf of a consumer, email us at privacyus@scoular.com. For questions or concerns about our privacy policies and practices, please contact us as described in the How to Contact Us section of our Privacy Notice.
Verifying Requests. To help protect your privacy and maintain security, we will take steps to verify your identity before granting you access to your personal information or complying with your request. If you request access to or deletion of your personal information, we may require you to provide any of the following information: your name, your email address on file, the name of your contact person at Scoular, and the date of your last interaction with a Scoular representative. In addition, if you ask us to provide you with specific pieces of personal information, we will require you to sign a declaration under penalty of perjury that you are the consumer whose personal information is the subject of the request.
Additional Information. If you choose to exercise any of your rights under the CCPA, you have the right to not receive discriminatory treatment by us. To the extent permitted by applicable law, we may charge a reasonable fee to comply with your request.
To the extent the processing of your personal information is subject to the European Union (“EU”) General Data Protection Regulation (“EU GDPR”) or UK General Data Protection Regulation (“UK GDPR”), the following terms apply in addition to the above Sections:
CONTROLLER
Scoular is made up of different legal entities. This Global Privacy Notice is issued on behalf of the Scoular group of companies so when we mention, ”Scoular”, “we”, “us” or “our” in this Global Privacy Notice, we are referring to the relevant company within the Scoular group identified as controller for processing your data. The Scoular Company is the controller and responsible for this Site.
LEGAL BASIS AND LEGITIMATE INTEREST
Legal Basis
We will use your personal information when the law allows us to; most commonly, in the following circumstances:
Legitimate Interest
Where we collect, use, disclose and otherwise process your information based on legitimate interests, we rely on the legitimate interests as set forth below.
We use your personal information for the following business purposes and based on the following legitimate interests:
Business Purpose | Legitimate Interest |
To register you as a new customer or potential customer | Performing services for or on behalf of our clients, including maintaining or servicing accounts, providing customer service, client communications, client relationship management, processing or fulfilling transactions, verifying identity information, processing payments, and other services
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To process and correctly deliver anything you order from us | Performing services for or on behalf of our clients, including maintaining or servicing accounts, providing customer service, client communications, client relationship management, processing or fulfilling transactions, verifying identity information, processing payments, and other services
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To manage our relationship with you, including notifying you of updated terms or privacy policies | Performing services for or on behalf of our clients, including maintaining or servicing accounts, providing customer service, client communications, client relationship management, processing or fulfilling transactions, verifying identity information, processing payments, and other services
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To inform you of products or services we believe might interest you | Marketing our products: We use your information as necessary to pursue our legitimate interests in marketing our products to you. For example, where permitted by digital marketing law, we may contact you by email to let you know of products you might be interested in.
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To administer and protect our business and this Site (including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, system maintenance, support, reporting and hosting of data) | Providing, improving and developing our products: We use your information as necessary to pursue our legitimate interests in tailoring and improving our products. For example, we may send you a survey or questionnaire to understand your experience in purchasing from us.
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To use data analytics to improve our Site/products/services/marketing/customer relationships and experiences | Providing, improving and developing our products: We use your information as necessary to pursue our legitimate interests in tailoring and improving our products. For example, we may send you a survey or questionnaire to understand your experience in purchasing from us.
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To make suggestions and recommendations to you about goods or services that may be of interest to you | Marketing our products: We use your information as necessary to pursue our legitimate interests in marketing our products to you. For example, where permitted by digital marketing law, we may contact you by email to let you know of products you might be interested in.
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To respond to any legal requests, you may make | Performing services for or on behalf of our clients, including maintaining or servicing accounts, providing customer service, client communications, client relationship management, processing or fulfilling transactions, verifying identity information, processing payments, and other services
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To ensure we comply with the law | Performing services for or on behalf of our clients, including maintaining or servicing accounts, providing customer service, client communications, client relationship management, processing or fulfilling transactions, verifying identity information, processing payments, and other services
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As described to you when collecting your personal information.
| Performing services for or on behalf of our clients, including maintaining or servicing accounts, providing customer service, client communications, client relationship management, processing or fulfilling transactions, verifying identity information, processing payments, and other services
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CHANGE OF PURPOSE
Unless required or permitted by law, we will use your personal information only for the purposes for which we collected it, unless we reasonably consider that we need to use it for another reason and that reason is compatible with the original purpose. If you wish to get an explanation as to how the processing for the new purpose is compatible with the original purpose, please contact us.
If we need to use your personal information for an unrelated purpose, we will notify you and we will explain the legal basis which allows us to do so.
Please note that we may process your personal information without your knowledge or consent, in compliance with the above rules, where this is required or permitted by law.
OBLIGATION TO PROVIDE PERSONAL INFORMATION
You are neither legally nor contractually obliged to provide your personal information. However, if you do not provide certain personal information we may not be able to provide our services or respond to your requests.
YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS
If you are located in the EU/EEA or UK, to the extent provided for by law, you have the right:
You have a general right to object, on grounds relating to your situation, if we process your personal information based on our legitimate interest. We will no longer process your personal information unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override your interests, rights and freedoms or for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims.
You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority in your applicable Member State. In the UK, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner’s Office.
If you wish to exercise any of the rights available to you or to obtain any other information under applicable law, such as a copy of a legitimate interests balancing test, please contact us by sending an email to privacyeu@scoular.com.
INTERNATIONAL DATA TRANSFERS
Scoular may, if necessary to fulfill the purpose for processing the personal information, or if required by law or regulation, share your personal information with other Scoular companies and third parties/suppliers outside the EEA/UK.
You can obtain a copy of the specifically applicable or agreed safeguards for ensuring the appropriate level of data protection by contacting us at privacyeu@scoular.com.
COOKIES
Please see our “Cookies and Web Beacons” section above for information about the cookies used on our website.
ADDITIONAL CONTACT INFORMATION FOR EU AND UK RESIDENTS
Scoular has designated individuals who receive emails directed to the privacyeu@scoular.com inbox and are the contacts to handle all data subjects’ requests and complaints.
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