Privacy Statement

This Policy is a statement of the ways in which we may collect, hold and use information about individual persons and companies who communicate with us through electronic means. This Policy applies only to information gathered by us from online resources that display a link to this Policy and not from any other source. BY USING OR SUBMITTING INFORMATION VIA THIS WEBSITE, YOU CONSENT TO THE COLLECTION AND USE OF INFORMATION AS SET FORTH IN THIS PRIVACY POLICY STATEMENT. YOU ALSO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT PETROPLUS HOLDINGS AG, ON BEHALF OF ITSELF AND ITS AFFILIATES, (THE "COMPANY") MAY PERIODICALLY CHANGE, MODIFY, ADD OR REMOVE OR OTHERWISE UPDATE THIS PRIVACY POLICY STATEMENT AT ITS DISCRETION, WITHOUT PRIOR NOTIFICATION. In any such case the Company shall update the text of this Privacy Policy Statement without giving users of this website any notice.

Our privacy policy is easy to find as it is located on the Company's homepage (www.Petroplusholdings.com) and is linked to any part of a site where personal data are requested. At such data collection points, further explanation may be provided, where appropriate, as to the purposes for which the data will be used. This Policy, coupled with any supplementary explanation, discusses the types of information we are gathering, how we use it, under what circumstances it may be disclosed to third parties, and how we will otherwise treat any data about yourself that you voluntarily submit in connection with your use of our websites.

1. Pledge on Privacy

The term "personal data" as used in this Policy refers to information such as your name, birth date, e-mail address, mailing address, telephone number or IP address that can be used to identify you. Generally, the Company will not process your personal data without your consent. However, we reserve the right, in certain circumstances to conduct additional processing to the extent permitted or required by law, or in support of any legal or criminal investigation. The next sections explain how and when we collect personal data from you.

2. Intended Use of Personal Data

Most of our services do not require any form of registration by you, and you may visit our site without telling us who you are. However, some services may require registration. When you register with us, you may need to complete certain fields of information (some are required and some are optional), as well as choose a user name and password. In these situations, if you choose to withhold any personal data requested by us, it may not be possible for you to gain access to certain parts of the site and for us to respond to your query. We process personal data for the purposes which we inform you about when we ask you for personal data or information. For example, we may collect and use personal data to provide you with products or services, to bill you for products and services you request, to market products and services which we think may be of interest to you, or to communicate with you for other purposes. We keep and use your personal data and information in accordance with any applicable legal or ethical reporting or documentation retention requirements.

3. Non-Disclosure of Information

We will not sell, share, or otherwise distribute your personal data to third parties except as provided in this Privacy Policy. We may disclose your personally identifiable information to other affiliates of the Company worldwide that agree to treat it in accordance with this Privacy Policy, but only in accordance with the terms of this Privacy Policy. Personal data may occasionally be transferred to third parties who act for or on behalf of the Company, or in connection with the business of the Company, for further processing in accordance with the purpose(s) for which the data were originally collected, such as but not limited to delivery services, evaluation or technical support. These third parties have contracted with the Company that they will only use personal data for the agreed upon purpose, and will not sell your personal information to third parties, and will not disclose it to third parties except as may be required by law. Where such disclosure of personal data to a third party occurs, we will endeavor to ensure that the processing is performed in accordance with the purposes and within the limits under which the data were originally collected. There are two additional instances in which personal data collected from you may be transferred to a third party. The first is in the event that the business of this site and the customer data connected with it is sold, assigned or transferred, in which case we would require the buyer, assignee or transferee to treat personal data in accordance with this Privacy Policy. The second instance in which personal data may be disclosed to a third party is if we are required to do so because of an applicable law, court order or governmental regulation, or if such disclosure is otherwise necessary in support of any legal or criminal investigation we have a good faith basis to believe is a legitimate investigation.

4. Right of Access

You have the right to ensure that your personal data is always up-to-date. In some countries you have the legal right to require us to correct or delete your personal data. In addition, you can always tell us to stop contacting you. If you wish to contact us regarding our use of your personal data, please e-mail us at info@petroplus.biz. If you contact us, please note the name of the website where you provided the information, as well as the specific information you would like us to correct, update or delete. Your requests will be dealt with in a prompt manner. Requests to delete personal data will be subject to any applicable legal and ethical reporting or document filing or retention obligations imposed on us.

5. Security and Confidentiality

To ensure the security and confidentiality of personal data that we collect on-line, we use data networks protected, inter alia, by industry standard firewall and password protection. In the course of handling your personal data, we take measures we reasonably believe are designed to protect that information from loss, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration or destruction. While we cannot guarantee against any loss, misuse or alteration to data, we try to prevent such occurrences. Due to evolving technologies, the Company cannot provide assurances that personal data provided to us will be free from loss, misuse, or alteration by or through third parties who, despite the Company's efforts, obtain unauthorized access to such personal data.

6. Data Transfer Abroad

The Company has operations and databases in different jurisdictions. We may transfer your data to one of the Company's databases outside your country of domicile. Even if the country to which the data is to be transferred does not require us to provide adequate protection for your data, we will nonetheless seek to ensure that data transfers to the Company databases in that country are adequately protected.

7. Anonymous Data and "Cookies"

We may collect and process anonymous information about your visit to the Company's website(s), such as some of the pages you visit and some of the searches you perform. Such anonymous information is used by us to help improve the contents of the site and to compile aggregate statistics about individuals using our site for internal, market research purposes, and other legitimate business needs of the Company. In doing this, we may install "cookies" that collect the first level domain name of the user (e.g., "randommail.com" from an e-mail address of "jan@randommail.com") and the date and time of access. "Cookies" as used by us cannot be used to discover the identity of an individual user. A "cookie" is a small piece of information which is sent to your browser and stored on your computer's hard drive. Cookies do not damage your computer. You can set your browser to notify you when you receive a "cookie", this will enable you to decide if you want to accept it or not. We may obtain the services of outside parties to assist us in collecting and processing the information described in this Section and all such third parties will be required to abide by the obligations described above in Paragraph 3.On occasion, we may use Internet tags (also known as action tags, single-pixel GIFs, clear GIFs, invisible GIFs and 1-by-1 GIFs) in combination with cookies at this site and may deploy these tags through a third-party advertising partner. These tags are placed on both online advertisements that bring users to the site and on different pages of the site. We use this technology to measure the visitors' responses to our sites and the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns (including how many times a page is opened and which information is consulted). The third-party partner may be able to collect anonymous aggregated data about visitors to other sites because of these Internet tags/cookies. Please be assured that we DO NOT collect or seek through these tags or cookies any personally identifiable information about our visitors, such as names, addresses, e-mail addresses or telephone numbers.

8. Personal Information and Children

Most of the information available on this site is intended for persons 18 years of age and older. We will not knowingly collect, use or disclose personal data from a minor person under the age of 18, without obtaining prior consent from a person with parental responsibility (e.g., a parent or guardian) through direct off-line contact. We will provide the parent with (i) notice of the specific types of personal data being collected from the minor person, and (ii) the opportunity to object to any further collection, use, or storage of such information. We abide by laws designed to protect children.

9. Links to Other Sites

This Privacy Policy applies only to the Company's website(s) to the exclusion of third party websites. We may provide links to other websites which we believe may be of interest to our visitors. We aim to ensure that such websites are of the highest standard. However, due to the nature of the World Wide Web, we cannot guarantee the privacy standards of every website to which we link or be responsible for the contents of sites other than this one, and this Privacy Policy is not intended to be applicable to any linked, non-Petroplus site.

10. Contact Us

If you have any queries or complaints about our compliance with this Privacy Policy, or if you would like to make any recommendations or comments to improve the quality of our Privacy Policy, please e-mail us at info@petroplus.biz.This privacy policy is last updated in June 2011. We aim to constantly improve the tools available to you to manage the data that you provide to us. Please refer to this page from time to time to review these and other new features.