1. Introduction

Welcome to PetroInvest Argentina's Privacy Policy. At PetroInvest Argentina ("we," "us," or "our"), we respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website https://petro-invest.com/argentina (the "Website"), including any content, functionality, and services offered on or through the Website.

We encourage you to read this Privacy Policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your personal data. By accessing or using our Website, you acknowledge that you have read and understood this Privacy Policy.

2. Data We Collect

2.1 Personal Data

We may collect, use, store, and transfer different kinds of personal data about you, which we have grouped as follows:

  • Identity Data: includes first name, last name, username or similar identifier.
  • Contact Data: includes email address, telephone numbers, and postal address.
  • Technical Data: includes internet protocol (IP) address, 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.
  • Usage Data: includes information about how you use our Website and services.
  • Marketing and Communications Data: includes your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties and your communication preferences.

2.2 How We Collect Your Data

We use different methods to collect data from and about you including through:

  • Direct interactions: You may provide us with your Identity and Contact Data by filling in forms or by corresponding with us by post, phone, email, or otherwise. This includes personal data you provide when you:
    • Subscribe to our newsletter or publications
    • Request information or materials to be sent to you
    • Contact us through our contact form
    • Provide feedback
  • Automated technologies or interactions: As you interact with our Website, we may automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns. We collect this personal data by using cookies, server logs, and other similar technologies.
  • Third parties or publicly available sources: We may receive personal data about you from various third parties and public sources, such as analytics providers, advertising networks, and search information providers.

3. How We Use Your Data

We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:

  • To register you as a subscriber to our newsletter
  • To deliver relevant website content and advertisements to you
  • To send you marketing communications about products or services we think may interest you
  • To respond to your inquiries, comments, or questions
  • To maintain and improve our Website
  • To analyze how visitors use our Website and to measure the effectiveness of our content
  • To administer and protect our business and this Website (including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, system maintenance, support, reporting, and hosting of data)
  • To use data analytics to improve our Website, products/services, marketing, customer relationships, and experiences
  • To comply with legal obligations

3.1 Marketing Communications

We may use your personal data to form a view on what we think you may want or need, or what may be of interest to you. This is how we decide which products, services, and offers may be relevant for you.

You will receive marketing communications from us if you have requested information from us, subscribed to our newsletter, or if you provided us with your details when registering for a promotion, and in each case, you have not opted out of receiving that marketing.

3.2 Opting Out

You can ask us to stop sending you marketing messages at any time by following the opt-out links on any marketing message sent to you or by contacting us at any time.

Where you opt out of receiving these marketing messages, this will not apply to personal data provided to us as a result of other interactions with us, such as when using our services or other transactions.

4. Cookies Policy

4.1 What Are Cookies

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work more efficiently and provide information to the owners of the site.

4.2 How We Use Cookies

We use cookies to:

  • Understand how visitors use our website
  • Improve your browsing experience
  • Personalize content and advertisements
  • Provide social media features
  • Analyze our website traffic

4.3 Types of Cookies We Use

We use the following types of cookies on our Website:

  • Essential Cookies: These cookies are necessary for the Website to function properly. They enable core functionality such as security, network management, and account access. You may disable these by changing your browser settings, but this may affect how the Website functions.
  • Analytics Cookies: These cookies allow us to count visits and traffic sources so we can measure and improve the performance of our site. They help us to know which pages are the most and least popular and see how visitors move around the site.
  • Functionality Cookies: These cookies enable the Website to provide enhanced functionality and personalization. They may be set by us or by third-party providers whose services we have added to our pages.
  • Targeting Cookies: These cookies may be set through our site by our advertising partners. They may be used by those companies to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant advertisements on other sites.

4.4 Managing Cookies

Most web browsers allow you to manage your cookie preferences. You can set your browser to refuse cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. The methods for doing so vary from browser to browser, and from version to version. You can get information about blocking or deleting cookies for your specific browser from its help menu or through sites like www.allaboutcookies.org.

Please note that if you choose to disable all cookies, you may not be able to access all or parts of our Website. If you turn off targeting cookies, you will still see advertisements but they may not be relevant to you.

5. Data Disclosure and Transfer

We may share your personal data with the following parties:

  • Service Providers: We may share your information with service providers who perform services on our behalf, such as web hosting, data analysis, payment processing, order fulfillment, information technology and related infrastructure provision, customer service, email delivery, auditing, and other services.
  • Business Partners: We may share your information with our business partners to offer you certain products, services, or promotions.
  • Legal Requirements: We may disclose your information if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g., a court or a government agency).
  • Business Transfers: We may share or transfer your information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.

5.1 International Transfers

Your personal data may be transferred to, and processed in, countries other than the country in which you are resident. These countries may have data protection laws that are different from the laws of your country.

Specifically, our Website servers are located in various countries, and our group companies and third-party service providers and partners operate around the world. This means that when we collect your personal data, we may process it in any of these countries.

However, we have taken appropriate safeguards to require that your personal data will remain protected in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

6. Data Security

We have implemented appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used, or accessed in an unauthorized way, altered, or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors, and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions, and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.

We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.

However, please be aware that the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our Website; any transmission is at your own risk.

7. Data Retention

We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.

To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data, and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.

In some circumstances, we may anonymize your personal data (so that it can no longer be associated with you) for research or statistical purposes, in which case we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.

8. Your Legal Rights

Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data. These rights may include:

  • Request access to your personal data
  • Request correction of your personal data
  • Request erasure of your personal data
  • Object to processing of your personal data
  • Request restriction of processing your personal data
  • Request transfer of your personal data
  • Right to withdraw consent

If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please contact us using the contact information provided below.

You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data (or to exercise any of the other rights). However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive, or excessive. Alternatively, we may refuse to comply with your request in these circumstances.

We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your personal data (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that personal data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. We may also contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request to speed up our response.

We try to respond to all legitimate requests within one month. Occasionally it may take us longer than a month if your request is particularly complex or you have made a number of requests. In this case, we will notify you and keep you updated.

9. Third-Party Links

This Website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins, and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our Website, we encourage you to read the privacy policy of every website you visit.

10. Children's Privacy

Our Website is not intended for children under 16 years of age. No one under age 16 may provide any personal data on the Website. We do not knowingly collect personal data from children under 16. If you are under 16, do not use or provide any information on this Website. If we learn we have collected or received personal data from a child under 16 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 16, please contact us at the email address listed below.

11. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the "Last updated" date at the top of this Privacy Policy.

You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

12. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, or if you would like to exercise any of your rights, please contact us at:

  • Email: [email protected]
  • Phone: +449482744109
  • Address: 795 Cooper Ridges, New Kirsty PL15 8US