PRIVACY POLICY
Last updated: June 23, 2022
OIC, L.P. (together with certain controlled affiliates, “we”, “our”, “us”) is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. We are a private equity fund established in the United States with offices in New York, Houston and London, and for the purpose of applicable data protection laws, we are the data controller.
This Privacy Policy sets out the basis on which we will process any personal data or usage information we collect from you, or that you provide to us, in connection with your use of our website at http://www.oic.com (our “Website”).
Please read this Privacy Policy carefully so that you understand your rights in relation to your personal data, and how we will collect, use and process your personal data. This Privacy Policy supplements any other privacy related notices and policies we may provide to you from time to time, and is not intended to override them. If you do not agree with this Privacy Policy in general or any part of it, you should not access the Website or otherwise provide your information to us.
We change our Privacy Policy from time to time. Updates to our Privacy Policy will apply only to information collected after the date of the change. We will note on our Website when our Privacy Policy has been updated. Please check the Website regularly for notices of changes to our Privacy Policy.
1. THE INFORMATION WE COLLECT When you visit our Website, we automatically collect the information sent to us by your computer, mobile phone or other device. This information includes: (i) device information including, but not limited to, name, version and type of operating system; (ii) standard web information such as your browser name, type and version and your activity on our Website; and (iii) screen size.
2. HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION As a matter of our legitimate interests, we will use your usage data to administer and improve our Website, and for internal operations, in order to conduct troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research, statistical and survey analysis.
In addition, we will use some or all of the above information to comply with any applicable legal obligations, to enforce any applicable terms and conditions, and to protect or defend our rights and the rights of others.
3. COOKIES We use cookies and other similar technologies to collect information about your browsing activities over time and across different websites following your use of our Website. Cookies allow us to remember your user preferences and to track usage data. This helps us to improve our Website. You can find more information about cookies and how to manage them at the link below:
4. HOW WE SHARE YOUR INFORMATION We do not use or share your personal data with others except as described in this Privacy Policy. In certain circumstances, we will share your information with third parties with your consent, as necessary, or as otherwise required or permitted by law. Specifically, we may share your personal data:
With service providers and vendors for business purposes in our legitimate interests, or to perform a contract with you. Such third parties include: (i) data analytics vendors; (ii) security vendors; and (iii) website hosting vendors. These service providers assist us with many different functions and tasks, such as providing data storage and disaster recovery services and website management.
For legal and security reasons and to protect our business, in our legitimate interests or as required by law. We will share your personal data with regulators, law enforcement agencies, public authorities, or any other relevant organizations: (i) in response to a legal obligation; (ii) if we have determined that it is necessary to share your personal data to comply with applicable law or any obligations thereunder, including cooperation with law enforcement, judicial orders, and regulatory inquiries; (iii) to protect the interests of, and ensure the safety and security, of us, our users, a third party or the public; and (iv) to exercise or defend legal claims.
With our affiliates, in our legitimate interests. We may share your personal data with companies within our corporate family.
5. WHERE WE STORE YOUR INFORMATION The personal data that we collect from you will be transferred to, and stored at/processed in countries outside the EEA and the United Kingdom (“UK”). Your personal data is also processed by staff operating outside the EEA and the UK who work for our third party service providers. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your personal data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
6. HOW LONG WE STORE YOUR PERSONAL DATA We will retain your personal data and technical usage collected by cookies on your use of our Website as follows:
Cookie provider: Google Analytics
Cookie names and duration:
Name: _ga_6W1ND02D3Y
Duration: 90 days
Name: ^__utma$
Duration: 2 years
Name: ^__utmb$
Duration: 30 minutes
Name: ^__utmc$
Duration: Session
Function and purpose:
Google Analytics is a web analytics tool that helps us understand how users engage with the website. Like many services, Google Analytics uses first-party cookies to track user interactions, as in our case, where they are used to collect information about how users use our site. This information is used to compile reports and to help us improve our website. The reports disclose website trends without identifying individual visitors. For more information on Google Analytics, see below:
You can opt out of Google Analytics without affecting how you visit our site – for more information on opting out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites you use, visit the below Google page:
Cookie provider: Osano
Cookie names and duration:
Name: osano _consentmanager
Duration: 1 year
Name: osano_consentmanager_expdate
Duration: 1 year
Name: osano_consentmanager_uuid
Duration: 1 year
Function and purpose:
Osano is cookie consent management tool that helps us to ensure compliance with certain applicable laws. The Osano cookies track your current consent status, store the expiration of your captured consent and store your unique consent identifier.
7. SECURITY Although we do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your information transmitted through the Website; any transmission is at your own risk.
8. YOUR RIGHTS If you are located in the EEA or the UK, you have certain rights in relation to your personal data:
Access: You have the right to access personal data we hold about you, how we use it, and who we share it with.
Portability: You have the right to receive a copy of the personal data we hold about you and to request that we transfer it to a third party, in certain circumstances and with certain exceptions.
Correction: You have the right to correct any of your personal data we hold that is inaccurate.
Erasure: In certain circumstance, you have the right to delete the personal data we hold about you.
Restriction of processing to storage only: You have the right to require us to stop processing the personal data we hold about you, other than for storage purposes, in certain circumstances.
Objection: You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data.
Withdrawal of consent: Where we rely on consent to process your personal data, you have the right to withdraw this consent at any time by visiting your cookies management center.
Please note that a number of these rights only apply in certain circumstances, and all of these rights may be limited by law. For example, where fulfilling your request would adversely affect other individuals or our trade secrets or intellectual property, where there are overriding public interests or where we are required by law to retain your personal data.
To exercise any of these rights, you can contact privacy@oic.com. We will respond to requests to exercise these rights without undue delay and at least within one month (though this may be extended by a further two months in certain circumstances).
9. THIRD PARTY LINKS Our Website may contain links to other online platforms, plug-ins or other applications operated by third parties. We do not control such other sites or applications, and are not responsible for their content, their privacy policies, or their use of your information. Information you provide on public or semi-public venues, including information you share on third-party social networking platforms, may also be viewable by other users of the Website and/or users of those third-party online platforms without limitation as to its use by us or by a third party. Our inclusion of such links does not, by itself, imply any endorsement of the content on such platforms or of their owners or operators except as disclosed on the Website. We expressly disclaim any and all liability for the actions of third parties, including but without limitation to actions relating to the use and/or disclosure of personal data by third parties. Any information submitted by you directly to these third parties is subject to that third party’s privacy policy.
10. CONTACT If you have questions or complaints about how we process your personal data, please contact us at Privacy@OIC.com and we will respond to your request as soon as possible.
If you think we have infringed data protection laws, you can file a claim with the data protection supervisory authority in the EEA country in which you live or work or where you think we have infringed data protection laws, or with the UK Information Commissioner’s Office, as applicable to you.