Modern information and communication technologies play a fundamental role in the activities of an organization like ODS-Petrodata. We are based in the USA. Our principal activity is providing market intelligence and related products and services to companies affiliated with the offshore oil and gas industry.

Some areas of our Web site enable you to communicate with other visitors or to post information to be accessed by others. When you do so, other visitors may collect your data.

Our Web site does not include links to third party Web service providers.

We automatically log personal data by means such as programming or we link information automatically logged by such means with personal data about specific individuals. We do so for the technical administration of the Web site. We may also collect data for the purpose of copyright enforcement.

We use cookies to store personal data or we link information stored in cookies with personal data about specific individuals. We do so for the following purposes:

• Technical administration of the Web site
• Data Collection and Purpose Specification

We collect the personal data that you may volunteer while using our services.

We do not collect information about our visitors from other sources, such as public records or bodies, or private organizations.

We do not collect or use personal data for any purpose other than that indicated in the table below. If we wish to use your personal data for new purposes, we offer you the means to consent to those new purposes:

• by sending an email:  general@ods-petrodata.com
• by sending postal mail to this address:  3200 Wilcrest Dr Ste 170, Houston, TX 77042
• by calling this telephone number:  832-463-3000

We do not knowingly collect personal data from children.

We take specific steps to protect the privacy of children by making reasonable efforts to ensure that a parent has authorized the collection of the child's personal data.

We provide information about our personal data practices in relation to children on our home page.

We do not disclose your personal data to our subsidiaries or other organizations.

Where we disclose your personal data for purposes which are different from those indicated in the table below, we offer you the opportunity to consent to disclosure.

We do not give visitors to our Web site the option of using a secure transmission method to send us their personal data.

We have implemented security policies, rules and technical measures to protect the personal data that we have under our control from:

• unauthorised access
• improper use or disclosure
• unauthorised modification
• unlawful destruction or accidental loss

All of our employees and data processors who have access to, and are associated with, the processing of personal data, are obliged to respect the confidentiality of our visitors' personal data.

We ensure that your personal data will not be disclosed to State institutions and authorities except if required by law or other regulation.

You can ask us by sending an email to general@ods-petrodata.com whether we are keeping personal data about you.

Upon request, which you can indicate by sending an email to general@ods-petrodata.com, we will provide you with a readable copy of the personal data that we keep about you, usually within seven business days. We will require proof of your identity. We will provide the information without any charge.

• erased
• rectified
• amended
• completed

We reserve the right to refuse to provide our visitors with a copy of their personal data, but will give reasons for our refusal. We do, however, allow you to challenge our decision to refuse to provide you with a copy of your personal data.

There are no national laws or self-regulatory schemes applicable to our web site or organization. There are no global or regional regulatory or self-regulatory schemes applicable to our web site or organization.