Privacy

United Petro Group is a global energy trading company. UPG was founded by Dr. Ganapathi Dhiwaghar. United Petro has its presence Globally in Singapore , Malaysia, Nederland, Mexico , South Africa, China , USA , Al Fujairah, Hongkong. United Petro Group has long-term contracts and established relationships with numerous crude oil producing companies around the world. Among others, crude oil and products origins include UAE, Russia, CIS Countries, Tunisia, Iraq, Libya, Algeria, and Kuwait.

If you are an employee or work for United Petro Group, we shall provide a separate statement to inform you how your personal data is used.

Your personal data may be collected directly from you or from other sources such as our customers, clients, their counterparties and representatives, third parties such as regulatory authorities, government agencies, credit reporting agencies, recruitment agencies, providers of pre-engagement screening services, your employer or other referees, social network information, publicly available records, or other third parties that we work with. We may aggregate personal data from different sources such as online and offline collection points and we combine personal data which are collected by any of our companies in United Petro Group, though in relation to personal data that you have provided, we will only do so for purposes which are consistent with the purposes for which you have provided that personal data.

Aggregated data which may be derived from your personal data but is anonymized is not considered personal data in law, as this data will not directly or indirectly reveal your identity. For example, we may aggregate data related to usage of our website to calculate the percentage of users accessing a specific website feature. However, if we combine or connect aggregated data with your personal data in a way which does directly or indirectly identify you, we treat the combined data as personal data which will be used in accordance with this Privacy Statement. If you are an existing customer or vendor of ours, or a representative of an existing customer of ours, further details about how we use your personal data are set out in your/ your employer’s customer contract with us. We may provide further notices to you at the point we collect your personal data, which will highlight any further information relating to our use of that personal data, and, where applicable, provide you with the ability to opt in or out of selected uses.

If you are based in the European Economic Area (“EEA”) or United Kingdom (“UK”) during your interactions with us (other than solely for travel purposes whereby you are not resident in the EEA or UK), the laws in those countries require us to provide you with additional information about our processing activities. We have included this information in Appendix A.

If you are based in a country or territory outside the EEA or UK during your interactions with us (other than solely for travel purposes whereby you are not resident in the EEA or UK), then subject to the applicable data protection laws, by providing us with your personal data, you agree and consent to the collection, use and disclosure of your personal data by us for some or all of the purposes mentioned in this Privacy Statement, where applicable.

A. Types of Personal Data Collected and How We Collect It

We will collect and process all or some of the personal data as follows. We describe certain kind of data (defined below) as Special Category Data.

• So, Personal data that you provide to us, such as when using the contact form on our website, providing feedback, your correspondence with us or when you interact with any of our social media channels (which may include when you like or comment on a post);

B. The Purposes for Collection of Personal Data

We will collect and process all or some of the personal data as follows. We describe certain kind of data (defined below) as Special Category Data.

1. To communicate effectively with you and conduct our business
   
   To conduct our business, including to respond to your queries or resolve any disputes, which may arise in connection with any dealings with us, to otherwise communicate with you, or to carry out our legal obligations arising from any agreements entered into between you and us, or to maintain and update internal contact lists to effectively communicate with you.
    
2. To update you on contests, marketing information and promotions
   
   To provide you with updates and offers including facilitating your participation in any technology challenges, contests, roadshows, promotions, campaigns and events. We may also use your information for marketing our own or our partner’s products and services to you by post, email, and phone calls. Where required by applicable data protection laws, we will ask for your consent at the time we collect your data to conduct any of these types of marketing. We will provide an option to unsubscribe or opt-out of further communication on any electronic marketing communication sent to you or you may opt out by contacting us as set out in the “Contacting Us” section below.
    
3. Personalization (offline and online)
   
   With your consent (where required), we use your personal data to (i) analyse your preferences and habits; (ii) to anticipate your needs based on our analysis of your profile; (iii) to improve and personalize our online and offline interaction with you; (iv) to ensure that the contents from our websites or applications are optimized for your computer and device; (v) to provide you with targeted marketing content; (vi) to better understand our business and pattern and trends relating to our products; (vii) to develop or further improve our product and services; and (vii) allow you to participate in interactive features when you chose to do so.
    
4. To assess your application for a role in the organization or as beneficiary
   
   To assess your application and pursuant to laws to which United Petro Group is subject (e.g., in relation to equal opportunities). This processing is a necessary pre-condition of entering into any future contract with you and for United Petro Group to fulfil its employment duties with respect to other employees and you yourself (should you be employed by United Petro Group). This could also include using your personal data to: carry out background and reference checks, communicate about the application process, keep records and comply with legal and regulatory requirements, and may also include use of Special Category Data in accordance with applicable laws.
   
   If you are unable to provide us with the information we request for this purpose, we may be unable to assess your appropriateness for the relevant application or to communicate with you. If your application is unsuccessful, we will keep your personal data in accordance with our internal policies and procedures and for administration and statistical analysis purposes.
    
5. To carry out due diligence or Know Your Customer screening activities
   
   To carry out due diligence assessment prior to entering into legal relationship with us, in accordance with legal and regulatory obligations or risk management procedures that may be required by law or may have been put in place by us.
    
6. To monitor certain activities
   
   To monitor queries and transactions to ensure service quality, compliance with procedures and to combat fraud, and to process any payments related to your commercial transaction with us.
    
7. To ensure the physical security and safety of visitors to our offices or premises
   
   To prevent loss, fraud, theft, injuries, terrorism, and other such events which may have an impact on health, safety and security from taking place at any of our premises.
    
8. To notify you of changes
   
   To notify you about changes to our services and products.
    
9. To ensure that our website content is relevant
   
   To ensure that content from our websites and any other microsites are presented in the most effective manner for you and for your device (which may include passing your data to business partners, suppliers and/or service providers).
    
10. To re-organise or make changes to our business
    
    In the event that we: (i) are subject to negotiations for the sale of our business or part thereof to a third party; (ii) are sold to a third party; or (iii) undergo a re-organisation, we may need to transfer some or all of your personal data to the relevant third party (and its advisors) as part of any due diligence process for the purpose of analysing any proposed sale or re-organisation. We may also need to transfer your personal data to that re-organised entity or third party after the sale or reorganisation for them to use for the same purposes as set out in this Privacy Statement.
     
11. In connection with legal or regulatory obligations
    
    We may process your personal data to comply with our regulatory requirements or dialogue with regulators as applicable which may include disclosing your personal data to third parties, the court service and/or regulators or law enforcement agencies in connection with enquiries, proceedings or investigations by such parties anywhere in the world or where compelled to do so. Where permitted, we will generally direct any such request to you or notify you before responding unless to do so would prejudice the prevention or detection of a crime.
     
12. Other circumstances
    
    In other circumstances, such purposes that are necessary or directly related to your relationship with us or where it is permitted under the applicable laws.

Where we rely on your consent for processing your personal data, you may withdraw your previous consent to this processing at any time, by contacting us by using the contact details below. Please note, however, that withdrawing your consent will not affect the lawfulness of processing based on your previous consent (prior to withdrawal).
Where we process your personal data for direct marketing purposes, we will log any objection you make, and stop processing your data for direct marketing purposes.
There may be instances where we process your personal data for our legitimate interests or on the basis of other lawful grounds (i.e., because we have established a relationship with you and need to process your personal data in order to provide you with the information and/or services you have requested), without having obtained your consent – this applies where our processing activities are governed by the applicable laws of certain jurisdictions in which we operate that do not require consent to have been obtained where there are legitimate and/or other lawful grounds to process the relevant personal data.
We do not seek your consent in such cases largely so that we can provide you with services in an efficient way (or where in some cases it might not be possible for us to seek your consent because we must process personal data, for example, for the detection of fraud). Before processing your personal data, we will consider your rights and freedoms and will only commence such processing where we do not think your rights will be infringed.
The collection of your personal data by us may be mandatory or voluntary in nature depending on the purposes for which your personal data is collected. Where it is mandatory for you to provide us with your personal data, and you fail or choose not to provide us with such data, or do not consent to the above or this Privacy Statement, we will not be able to provide our products and/or services or otherwise deal with you and/or to assess and process your application.

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To the extent that you have provided (or will provide) personal data about your family members, spouse, other dependents and/or other individuals, you confirm that you have explained to them that their personal data will be provided to, and processed by, us and where required by law, you represent and warrant that you have obtained their consent to the processing (including disclosure and transfer) of their personal data in accordance with this Privacy Statement.
In respect of minors or individuals not legally competent to give consent, you confirm that they have appointed you to act for them, to consent on their behalf to the processing (including disclosure and transfer) of their personal data in accordance with this Privacy Statement.

We may share the personal data that you provide to us to other entities in the United Petro Group group for the purposes described above. Such affiliates may be located in a jurisdiction that may not provide a level of protection equivalent to that provided by the laws of your home country. Where such transfers occur, United Petro Group will reasonably protect personal data and address data privacy and other privacy requirements in accordance with applicable laws.
Information may also be shared with our service providers or third parties, in each case to the extent necessary for the purposes described above. Such third-party who we reasonably believe need to have access to your information to provide you with the information or services you request from us may include:

All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers or on the servers of third party IT service providers. We maintain appropriate administrative, technical and physical safeguards to protect against loss, misuse or unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration or destruction of the personal data you provide to us in accordance with applicable laws We may transfer your personal data to, or store it in, a destination outside of the jurisdiction of the entity to which you provided it. This is because PETRONAS is a global business, with operations located in various jurisdictions, which uses third party service providers based in a number of locations worldwide.Where we have to transfer your personal data to third countries, we will use appropriate approved safeguards in accordance with applicable laws..

We will store your personal data for no longer than is necessary for the purposes for which it was collected or provided to us (unless a legal or insurance obligation requires us to keep it for longer period such as operational, legal, regulatory, tax or accounting requirements)..

We have security measures in place to help protect against the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. While we cannot guarantee that loss, misuse or alteration to data will not occur, we ensure that our systems adhere to market security standard so as to help safeguard against such occurrences..

Any changes we make to our Privacy Statement in the future will be posted on this page. Please check back frequently to see any updates or changes to our Privacy Statement..