1. The Purpose of This Privacy Policy and Terms of Use
1.1. OilDrillingFunds.com maintains and operates the website located at www.OilDrillingFunds.com. The following states the Company’s policy which applies specifically to information that comes to the Company through this website and other sources. These policies and terms of use are intended to identify the information that the Company may collect from you through the website and other sources, and inform you how the Company may use that information.
1.2. Please review the terms of this Privacy Policy and Terms of Use. Your use of this Website and/or the submission of any information through the form contained on the website constitute your acceptance of these terms. If you do not agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy, please discontinue your use of the Website immediately.
1.3. This Website is intended for users located within the United States. This Privacy Policy shall be interpreted under the federal laws of the United States.
2. The Company and The Website
2.1. The Company shall be defined as OilDrillingFunds.Com and its related entities, members, owners, operators, representatives, employees, and agents. The Company is not an investment advisor, registered broker-dealer, commodity broker, trader or any other type of stock or commodities advisor. The Company has no license from Securities Exchange Commission, Commodities Futures Trading Commission or any other government agency. The Company does not provide any investment advice. The Company is not an attorney or Certified Public Accountant and does not offer any tax advice. The Company does not promote or offer any investment opportunities and offers nothing for sale. The Company merely provides a venue to assist those interested in making an investment to connect with those who have available a particular investment opportunity.
2.2. The Website is www.OilDrillingFunds.com. The Website is not authorized by an investment advisor, registered broker-dealer or any other type of securities or commodities investment firm or fund. Providing information through the Website does not constitute an investment, a commitment by you or the Company regarding any type of investment, nor a guarantee to you of such an opportunity.
2.3. Nothing on the Website is intended to be and is not an offer to sell nor the solicitation of an offer to buy securities. Before making any investment decision, you must carefully review and consider all documentation associated with the investment, including, but not limited to, the Private Placement Memorandum and all the disclosures and information contained therein.
2.4. The purpose of the Website is to connect prospective accredited investors with managers of oil and gas funds, including limited and general partnerships, who provide opportunities to invest in oil and gas funds to accredited investors interested in making such an investment. However, the Company’s right to use the information it collects about you is not limited to that purpose. The Company’s use of information is described below.
3. Disclaimer
3.1. The Company is not an investment advisor, registered broker-dealer, commodity broker, trader or any other type of stock or investment advisor, attorney or law firm, accountant, Certified Public Accountant or accounting firm and does not provide any such professional advice or counseling. You further understand that submission of information through the Website does not create any guarantee that you will qualify as an accredited investor or that an offer will be made for you to invest in an oil and gas fund.
3.2. Neither OilDrillingFunds.com nor its affiliates, agents, employees, publishers endorse, recommend, accredit or approve of any investment fund, manager or general partner of an oil and gas fund. Nor does any investment fund, manager or general partner of an oil and gas fund approve, endorse or accept the statements made on this Website.
3.3. By submitting basic information through the form provided in the Website, you are only making a request to be contacted by a manager of an oil and gas fund – you are not making an investment nor are you verified as an accredited investor. There is no monetary cost to you for submitting your information and you are under no obligation to make any investment.
4. Collection of Information
4.1. The Company may collect personally identifiable information, such as your name, email address, telephone number and other contact information. The Company may also collect anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your age and gender. The Company may gather additional personal or non-personal information in the future.
4.2. The Company will never knowingly collect any information from or about children under the age of 13. If you are under the age of 13, please do not use this Website or provide any information to the Company. If the Company becomes aware that it has received information from a child under the age of 13, the Company will make commercially reasonable efforts to delete that information from its database.
4.3. The Company may also use cookie and web beacon technologies to associate certain Internet-related information about you with information about you in its database. Additionally, the Company may use other new and evolving sources of information in the future.
4.4. The Company automatically tracks certain information based upon your behavior on the website. The Company may use this information to do internal research on its users’ demographics, interests, and behavior to better understand, protect and serve you and the community. This information may include the URL that you just came from (whether this URL is on the website or not), which URL you next go to (whether this URL is on the website or not), your computer browser information, and your IP address. IP addresses are automatically logged by Web servers, collecting information about a user’s traffic patterns. While the IP address does not identify an individual by name, it may, with the cooperation of the ISP, be used to locate and identify an individual using the Web. Your IP address can, however, reveal what geographic area you are connecting from, or which ISP you are using. Finally, other websites you visit have IP addresses, and the Company may collect the IP addresses of those websites and their pages. Your Internet Protocol (“IP”) is a unique Internet “address” which is assigned to you by your Internet Service Provider (“ISP”). For local area network (“LAN”), DSL, or cable modem users, an IP address may be permanently assigned to a particular computer.
4.5. Company may also collect and accumulate other anonymous data which will help the Company understand and analyze the Internet experience of the Website visitors. For instance, the Company may accumulate visitor data relating to referring domain names, the type of browsers used, operating system software, screen resolutions, color capabilities, browser plug-ins, language settings, cookie preferences, search engine keywords and JavaScript enablement. When you provide the Company with personal information, the Company is able to use such visitor data to identify you.
5. Use of Information Collected by the Company
5.1. By providing the Company with information about yourself, others and your interest in making an investment or potential investment through the Website or in the course of using the Website or our other services, you consent to the commercial use of your information, information about your interest to make an investment, and any other data the Company may acquire about you from third-party service providers, including but in no way limited to, the transfer of the information to fund managers and/or other professionals who may contact you regarding the information provided and/or your interest in making an investment. The Company may use individual information for any legally permissible purpose in the Company’s sole discretion.
5.2. The Company assumes from the use of the Website that you have an interest in making an investment in a fund regarding the subject matter of the Website and that you are interested in connecting with a fund manager regarding your situation. If that assumption is incorrect, and you do not have an interest in making an investment or do not wish to be connected with a fund manager, do not use the Website.
5.3. The Company collects and uses your personal information to operate the Website and deliver the services you have requested. The Company also uses the information about you to make a profile of you. A profile is created by associating the various sources of information about you.
5.4. The Company or its affiliates may also use your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from the Company and its affiliates. The Company or its affiliates may also contact you through surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.
5.5. The Company may sell, rent, or lease customer information to third parties for a variety of reasons, including but in no way limited to, facilitating the contact from a manager of an oil and gas investment fund with you regarding your interest in making such an investment.
5.6. The Company may, from time to time, use your information to contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is transferred to the third party. The Company may share data with trusted partners to help perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or other actions relevant to the purpose of the Website. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to you or for the Company, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.
5.7. Company may use your information to target advertising to you. When you use the Internet, the Company uses technology information to associate an individual with that person’s personal information, and the Company attempts to show advertising for products and services in which the person has expressed an interest in the surveys, indicated an interest by means of technology information, and otherwise. The Company may, at its discretion, target advertising by using email, direct mail, telephones, cell phones, and other means of communication to provide promotional offers.
5.8. The Company may also disclose your personal information, without notice, if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on the website; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of the Company; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of the Company, or the public.
6. Protecting the security of your personal information is very important to the Company.
When you transmit information from your computer to the Company’s servers, your information is protected by a “firewall” (a combination of hardware and software that helps keep unauthorized visitors from accessing information within our computer network), as well as industry standard SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) encryption. Once the Company receives your transmission, the Company will take reasonable precautions to keep your information secure on our systems. While the Company strives to protect your privacy, however, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. The Company, therefore, cannot warrant or guarantee the security of any personal information you transmit to the Company online or be responsible for the theft, destruction, or inadvertent disclosure of that information.
7. Third-Parties
7.1. The Company may collect information about you when you provide information to a third party and the Company subsequently acquires and/or uses the information provided by the third party. Such information may include, but is not limited to, your name, email address, street address, zip code, telephone numbers (including cell phone numbers and carriers), birth date, gender, salary range, education and marital status, occupation, industry of employment, personal and online interests, and such other information you may have provided to the third party. When acquiring this information, the Company seeks assurances from the third party that you agreed to provide and have such information acquired by the Company. If you did not give express permission, or you would like to remove your permission, you may suppress all of your information by sending notification to us at info@oildrillingfunds.com.
7.2. Advertising agencies, advertising networks, and other companies who place advertisements on the websites and on the internet generally may use their own cookies, web beacons, and other technology to collect information about individuals. The Company does not control the use of such technology and the Company has no responsibility for the use of such technology to gather information about you.
7.3. The websites and email messages sometimes contain hypertext links to the websites of third parties. Company is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such other websites. Linked websites may contain links to websites maintained by third parties. Such links are provided for your convenience and reference only. Company does not operate or control in any respect any information, software, products or services available on such third party websites. The inclusion of a link to a website does not imply any endorsement of the services or the website, its contents, or its sponsoring organization.
8. Changes to This Privacy Policy
8.1. The terms of the Privacy Policy may change from time to time. If a change is made, the “Last Modified” date located at the top of this Policy will be updated to reflect the amendment. You are advised to check periodically for any changes. Your use of the Website indicates your acceptance of this Privacy Policy and all future changes thereto.
9. Unsubscribe
9.1. If you do not wish to receive further e-mail from the Company, you may unsubscribe by contacting us at unsubscribe@oildrillingfunds.com. The Company’s unsubscribe process impacts only the future delivery of electronic mailings disseminated by the Company on its own behalf. You may still receive electronic mailings sent on behalf of third parties and your information may still be shared with third parties for use in offline marketing and data appends, including email appends, unless you unsubscribe with those third parties as well.
10. Questions
10.1.Any questions that you may have regarding this Privacy Policy may be directed to info@oildrillingfunds.com.