1.0 – General
This Privacy Policy is intended to set out a foundation for transparency and trust by explaining to our Clients, Website Users, and Subscribers the nature of the information that we collect from them and inform them about how we treat the collected data.
If you are under 18 years old, you should not use this website or any of our services without consent of a parent or legal guardian.
By using our service, you authorize us to collect, save, and use the collected data as described herein.
We would like to emphasize that we don’t request and we don’t advice our Clients, Subscribers, and any website user to submit any information and/or material other than what is deemed necessary to serve them and run our services as described herein.
Different countries and territories may have different laws and obligatory legal terms to comply with. If you have any doubts that this Privacy Policy and/or any of our Terms and Conditions may not suit the applicable laws in your location, you should not use (and you should immediately stop using) our website and any related service until you clear those doubts and make sure that there is no legal issue prevents you from accepting our Privacy Policy and/or Terms and Conditions.
This policy is subject to continuous review, update, and amendment. All changes will be posted at our website (at Privacy Policy page). Hence, we advise you to frequently visit and review our Privacy Policy page. Your continued use of the service after the changes have been made will constitute your acceptance of the changes.
2.0 – Data Collection & Processing
2.1 – Submitted data by Clients, Website Users, and Subscribers
These are data submitted directly by You as Client, Website User, or Subscriber in order to subscribe to our newsletter and/or requesting other services, which may include the following:
- Full Name.
- Contact information (Address, Phone, Email, etc.).
- Profession and position.
- Business information (business name, description, address, website and contacts)
- Expression of preferences or interests in receiving service or information about specific items or services.
- Any other data that deemed necessary to render specific service requested by a Client (e.g., technical specifications, designs, drawings, scope of work, etc.).
2.2 – Automatically collected data
These data are created and collected automatically when you visit our website or use any of our apps and services. They may include the following:
2.2.1 – Log data:
Log data may include user IP address, device type & model, web browser version & settings, date & time of site visit, the viewed pages, and any other general data that collected automatically by servers about user interaction with website contents and related applications.
2.2.2 – Cookies:
We may use cookies to save your choices and remember some information and user preferences which help us to offer you better browsing experience that suits your preferences.
You may change the setting of your browser to suspend or delete these cookies from your device, but that may affect the browser performance at the website or prevent some features from working properly.
2.2.3 – Statistical and Analytical Data:
For the purpose of monitoring and improving our website performance, we may use third-party services and applications to track website activity including sessions duration, pages per session, time, bounce rate, interest category data, demographic data, and information on the source of the traffic.
2.2.4 – Comments
When visitors leave comments on the website it may collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
2.2.5 – Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
2.3 – Data exchange with third party
2.3.1 – Analytical and statistical data
We may use specialized services, application, plugins, and software (including analytics software) provided and managed by third party to collect or analyze our statistical data in order to evaluate users’ interaction with the website, provide reports that helps to improve our services, protect the website, and prevent spams. We may also use third-party marketing platform, e-mail, messaging, and chat service to communicate with our subscribers and website users. We will do our best to select trustworthy service providers who have satisfactory privacy policy in place, but we may have very limited control on how those third-party service providers manage the exchanged data.
2.3.2 – Interaction through social media provider(s)
If you logged in to our website by using your social media account or you used any of the plugins provided by social media services providers to visit our website, some of your data might be exchanged with or processed through your social media provider. Moreover, the data related to your visit and your use of our website might be automatically associated with your social media account. The nature and extent of the exchanged or the processed data and the way of saving it will depend on the terms, conditions, and privacy policy of the used social media websites; hence you should carefully read their terms and policies before login with social media account or use any of the related plugins.
We may also receive some data about you through a third party such as social media services providers when you interact or communicate with us through our social media pages depending on your settings and privacy policy of the social media service provider.
2.3.3 – External links and embedded contents
Our website may contain some links to other third-party websites such as social media pages, third party services (e.g., online training platforms), blogs, and adverting websites. If you used any link to view or browse other website(s) you should be governed by terms, conditions, and privacy policies of that website(s). We are not responsible about any contents of those websites, any data you exchange with them, any transactions processed through them, and any related consequences.
Pages and posts on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website. These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
3.0 – Data Protection
We do care about your privacy and the security of your data therefore we have taken reasonable measures within our capabilities to safeguard the database storage from unauthorized access and use. However, it is impossible to make sure that the data and our system are 100% secured and safe. Hence, we are not responsible for any leakage, damage or loss of any of the data that we have collected regardless of whether it was due to website error, misuse, user mistake, third party fault, electronic piracy, viruses, technical error or any other reason. We are also not responsible for any consequences that may occur. Hence, you agree to use this website and our services at your own risk.
The data which are collected automatically during the use of the website and the related services are intended to evaluate the performance and to know user’s preferences in order to help us to improve our services and display the most appropriate products and services. We may also study and analyze this data along with other data from different resources to evaluate and improve the performance of our website and services.
To market our capabilities and range of services, we may publish some information about executed projects and display them in the company profile, website gallery, printed documents, etc. This information may include some data about the Clients who received the service such as Client’s name and address. We may also refer to some of our Clients in the clients’ list. We assume that our Clients understand the necessity of such marketing tools in order to build our services profile and reputability. In case you have any concern about publishing such information, you may inform us prior to the execution of your project.
If you have an access to user account in our website, application, or any other related service you shall be responsible for the security and privacy of your account information (including your user name, password, and user profile data) and you should not share them with any other party.
If we transfer the ownership of this website and/or any part of its related services to other party, we may transfer the related data to new owner in order to allow him to continue operating the website and/or providing the related services.
We may also share some information with other parties if required by laws, for example, in response to court order or request from official authority.
4.0 – Your Options
If you want to view our website, subscribe to our newsletter, or request any of our services you must accept all parts of this Privacy Policy. By using our website and/or requesting any of our services you confirm your acceptance of all parts of this Privacy Policy.
If you have already subscribed to any of our services and you opt to cancel your subscription, please send us your request through email to info@thedrillrig.com and we will take the necessary actions to delete your subscription. However, we may not be able to control all information, data, materials, and public comment that have been shared previously with or found by other third-party such search engine where that data may continue to appear in search results despite being erased or deleted from our website.
We may also retain or archive former subscribers or website user’s data for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
If you have any inquiries, comments, suggestion, or complaints, please contact us via email at: info@thedrillrig.com.