ARA Corporation and its subsidiaries and affiliates (collectively referred to as “ARA,” “we,” or “us”) understand the importance of your privacy. This Privacy Policy is intended to explain how we collect, use, and protect your personal information when you visit digital-oil-gas-map.com, an online marketplace owned and operated by ARA. Please read the following information carefully to understand our data processing practices.
INFORMATION COLLECTION
The information we learn from customers helps us personalize and continually improve the delivery of business information. We use the information to handle orders; deliver products and services; process payments; communicate with you about orders, products, services, and promotional offers; as well as update our records and generally maintain your account with us. We also use this information to improve our website, prevent or detect fraud or abuses of our website, and enable third parties to carry out technical, logistical, or other functions on our behalf. We may collect the following types of personal information:
Information You Give Us: We receive and store any information you enter on our website or give us in any other way. You can select not to provide certain information on our website. However, doing so may restrict the features that we are able to provide you. We use the provided information for such purposes as responding to your requests, communicating with you, customizing future shopping for you, and improving our products.
Automatic Information: We receive and store certain types of information whenever you interact with us. For example, like many websites, we use “cookies”, and we obtain certain types of information when your web browser accesses digital-oil-gas-map.com. Note: Your browsing and purchasing patterns for business information may be commercially sensitive. We recognize this. A number of companies offer utilities designed to help you visit websites anonymously. Although we will not be able to provide you with a personalized experience at digital-oil-gas-map.com if we cannot recognize you, we want you to be aware that these tools exist.
E-mail Communications: To help us make e-mails more useful and interesting, we may receive a confirmation when you open e-mail from ARA if your computer supports such capabilities.
Information from Other Sources: We might receive information about you or your organization to the extent permitted by law, we obtain (or may obtain) information about you from other third-party sources. We combine such third-party sourced information with information we have obtained about you from our site, we will treat the combined information in accordance with the practices described under this Privacy Policy, plus any additional restrictions imposed by the source of the data.
USE OF INFORMATION
We use your personal information for the following purposes: providing products or other services to you, processing your consulting requests, sending communications related to our products and services, improving our website, products, and services, analyzing data to better understand user needs and trends, and maintaining and protecting our website and the rights of our users.
INFORMATION SHARING
Information about our customers is an important part of our business and we do not share or sell it to third parties. ARA shares customer information only as described below.
Third Party Service Providers: Financial institutions which process your payments will have access to personal information needed to perform their functions, and may not use it for other purposes. Further, they must process the personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy and as permitted by applicable data protection laws.
Business Transfers: As we continue to develop our business, we might buy or sell subsidiaries or business units. In such transactions, customer information generally is one of the transferred business assets but remains subject to the promises made in any pre-existing Privacy Policy unless the customer consents otherwise.
COOKIES AND SIMILAR TECHNOLOGIES
Cookies are identifiers that we transfer to your computer’s hard drive through your web browser to enable our systems to recognize your browser and provide additional features such personalized information, and storage of items in your shopping cart between visits. The Help portion of the toolbar on most browsers will tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, or how to disable cookies altogether. However, cookies allow you to take full advantage of some of ARA’s best features, and we recommend that you leave them turned on.
SECURITY MEASURES
ARA takes your privacy seriously and takes every reasonable measure and precaution to protect and secure your personal data. We work hard to protect you and your information from unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction and have several layers of security measures in place, including secure hosting of our website, virus and malware protections, and encryption of data in transit using TSL (Transport Layer Security) certificates.
OTHER WEBSITE LINKS
We may provide links to third-party websites or information as a service to our users. If you use these links, you will be visiting those websites. Such links do not constitute or imply our endorsement, sponsorship, or recommendation of third parties, third-party websites, or the information contained therein. Your use of such links should comply with the terms of use and privacy policies applicable to those websites.
PRIVACY POLICY UPDATES
We reserve the right to update this Privacy Policy at any time. The updated Privacy Policy will be published on the website, and the effective date will be revised.