Date of entry into force: 15 May 2023

FK Energy Partners understands that your privacy is important to you. We are committed to respecting your privacy and protecting your personal data (any type of information that can identify you as a natural person). This Privacy Policy describes how we treat and protect your personal data in connection with FK Energy Partners’ business activities, such as conferences, events and customer services and on websites, applications and communications that post a link to this Privacy Policy (collectively, “the Sites”), in our capacity as data controllers.

Information We Collect

FK Energy Partners collects personal data in the course of its business activities, including in relation to some customer services. We also collect personal data in certain areas of the Websites when you (i) apply or apply for jobs through the FK Energy Partners Recruitment Portal; creates a user profile (ii) subscribes to FK Energy Partners newsletters and alerts; (i ii) and/or registers for conferences and events and/or participates in public user publishing areas (such as bulletin boards, discussion forums and surveys). The personal data collected varies and may include information provided by you, such as, but not limited to, your name, mailing address, email, telephone and fax, and your basic information necessary to apply for a job.

We may also automatically collect information about the devices you use to interact with our websites. The information we collect automatically may include IP address, device identifier, Internet browser, and browsing information collected through cookies, web beacons, pixels, clear gifs, and other similar technologies (collectively, “cookies and other tracking technologies”) on our websites. We may also automatically collect information about how you use the Sites, what you have searched for and viewed on the Sites. The information collected automatically will be associated with the personal data provided by you.

FK Energy Partners may also collect personal data about you from third parties, such as brokers or data aggregators, in the course of their business activities, including in relation to some customer services. We may combine this data with existing information we have about you, or use it independently, for the purposes of our benchmarking and data analysis activities (e.g., analysis of recruitment practices in an industry, detection of fraud patterns in financial transactions, retail environments). We will always seek to confirm that the third party has informed you in advance of the use of this data by them and FK Energy Partners.

Use of Information

FK Energy Partners uses your personal data to fulfill your requests, process requests to attend conferences and events, personalize the content you view or receive on the Websites, evaluate and improve our services, distribute newsletters and alerts, recruit and evaluate job applicants, analyze the performance and functioning of the Sites, publish your letters to the publisher or your comments, prevent fraud, enforce our terms of use, comply with all applicable laws and corporate reporting obligations, comply with FK Energy Partners contracts, as well as for other purposes you may request or initiate. In some situations, the collection of personal data may be necessary for the operation of the Sites, or we may use it in the course of our business activities, including in relation to some customer services, for example, to provide certain services or products, such as our benchmarking products. We may combine and/or analyze personal data to evaluate and offer more relevant content and services to you. We may keep any of your personal data on file and use it to contact you.

FK Energy Partners and its service providers may use cookies and other tracking technologies (whether owned by you or third parties), including web beacons, to manage our websites and services, and to collect analytics about how you use them. FK Energy Partners and its service providers may collect information about whether you open or click on any link in the knowledge, survey or event communications we send to you. The information provided by this Privacy Policy about cookies also applies to all other tracking technologies.

Our websites do not track you through the collection of personal data about your online activities over time and on third-party websites or online services. As such, we do not change our data collection and usage practices in response to “do not track” signals transmitted from web browsers. Use of Information Collected Through Mobile Devices With respect to our mobile applications, FK Energy Partners may use third-party service providers to analyze user activities to correct errors, monitor usage, and improve the performance of the mobile applications. For example, r FK Energy Partners reports on some of the aggregate usage and navigation patterns of some of our mobile applications, including information about the type of device used, articles accessed, and other events that may occur in our applications. FK Energy Partners also receives reports about certain errors that occur in mobile applications.

The legal basis by which we process your personal data

Our processing of your personal data for the purposes mentioned above is based on:
in part, in our legitimate interests in promoting and protecting FK Energy Partners, building and maintaining relationships, recruiting and providing our services; in part, with your consent, for example, if you create a user profile or register for our newsletters or alerts, or for business purposes that support web operations, such as understanding and improving the quality of your experience on our websites;
in part, to comply with the law, where certain information is necessary to satisfy our legal or regulatory obligations. Data recipients and international data transfers Personal data collected in the course of FK Energy Partners’ business activities, including in relation to certain customer services, as well as on the websites, may be transferred, from time to time, to subsidiaries and affiliates of FK Energy Partners, its employees in its global organization, as well as to our third-party service providers located around the world, even in countries where local law may be stricter than that of your own country. In addition, the websites can be viewed and hosted by FK Energy Partners and our third-party service providers anywhere in the world. Where required by law, we have implemented legal mechanisms designed to ensure adequate protection of your personal data that is processed by FK Energy Partners’ subsidiaries, affiliates and third-party service providers, including the transfer of your personal data to countries other than that of your residence. If you would like more information about these legal mechanisms, which may include the EU Standard Contractual Clauses, please contact us at the address below.

By using any of the websites and providing information on any of them, you voluntarily consent to the transfer and hosting of information across borders.
FK Energy Partners will not knowingly disclose or transfer (and take the necessary steps to prevent unauthorized or accidental disclosure) your personal data to third parties without your consent or as otherwise permitted by law, whether for third party marketing purposes or otherwise, except as mentioned below. FK Energy Partners may provide access to your personal data to third party service providers engaged by FK Energy Partners to provide services related to the Websites, as well as services related to FK Energy Partners’ business activities, including in relation to some customer services, in the manner agreed to in our customer service agreements.

We maintain processes designed to ensure that any processing of personal data by third parties is consistent with this Privacy Policy and protects the confidentiality, availability and integrity of your personal data.

We may also share your personal data with third-party service providers who perform services and functions on our behalf to support our interactions with you, including, for example, the processing of recruitment materials, the administration of surveys or contests, or our communication with you.
In addition, we may disclose information about you:

• if we are required to do so by virtue of law or judicial process;
• to legal authorities or other public officials;
• when we believe that disclosure is necessary or appropriate for the prevention of physical harm or financial loss, or in connection with an investigation of suspected or actual illegal activity;
• if disclosure is necessary to protect the vital interests of a person;
• to protect our goods, services and legal rights;
• to prevent fraud against FK Energy Partners, our subsidiaries and affiliates, and/or our business partners;
• to support audit, compliance and corporate governance functions; or
  to comply with any and all applicable laws.
• In addition, we may disclose or transfer your personal data in the following cases: reorganization, merger, sale, joint venture, assignment or other form of transfer or disposal, in whole or in part, of the business.
  
  

User Forums

You need to know that whenever you publicly disclose information online, that information may be collected and used by others. FK Energy Partners is not responsible for any action or policy of third parties that collects information that users publicly disclose in such forums on the Websites.

Links to Third Party Sites

FK Energy Partners may provide links to third-party websites or information as a service to our users. If you use these links, you will leave the sites. These links do not constitute or imply an endorsement, sponsorship or recommendation by FK Energy Partners of the third party, the third party website or the information contained therein, and FK Energy Partners shall not be responsible for their use. Such use shall be subject to the terms of use and privacy policies applicable to such websites.

Social network

The websites may allow you to connect to and associate your social media accounts, including but not limited to Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook and YouTube, to the FK Energy Partners website. The Sites may also allow you to connect to a FK Energy Partners account using certain social network account credentials. By linking your social network account to FK Energy Partners or connecting to a FK Energy Partners account using your social network account credentials, you grant us permission to access information made available by you in your public profile for such social network account. The information available on your public profile varies by social network and your settings, but may include your email, real name, profile picture, gender, and location. We use the information we receive from your social media account in accordance with the social network’s terms of use and this Privacy Policy.

Please refer to the privacy settings on your social media account for information on what data is shared with FK Energy Partners and other connected applications, and on how to manage the data that is shared through your account, including information about your activities using our websites.
If you wish to withdraw a social network account from our website, please refer to the settings of that social network account and its provider.

Safety

FK Energy Partners has implemented generally accepted technology and operational safety standards to protect personal data from loss, misuse, alteration or destruction. Only FK Energy Partners personnel and authorized third-party service providers are granted access to personal data, and such employees and service providers are required to treat such information as confidential. However, despite these precautions, FK Energy Partners cannot guarantee that unauthorized persons will gain access to your personal data.

Data Retention

FK Energy Partners preserves personal data as necessary for the duration of the relevant business relationship. We may also preserve personal data for a period longer than the duration of the business relationship. We need to preserve them to protect ourselves from legal claims, use them for historical record keeping or analysis, or comply with our information management schedules and policies. If you request the deletion of your personal data, FK Energy Partners will reasonably attempt to delete all instances of the information in its entirety. For requests for access, corrections or deletion, please see the “Your Rights” section of this Privacy Policy.

Your rights

Where granted by applicable law, you may have the right to request access to the personal data we have collected about you for the purposes of reviewing, modifying or requesting deletion of data. You may also have the right to request a copy of the personal data we have collected about you and correct any inaccurate data. In certain circumstances, you may also request that we stop processing your personal data.

If you would like to make a request to access, review or correct the personal data we have collected about you or discuss how we process your personal data, please contact us at [email protected]. To help protect your privacy and security, we will take reasonable steps to verify your identity, such as requiring a password and user ID, before granting access to your personal data. We will make every reasonable attempt to investigate, comply with or respond promptly to your requests as required by law. Different laws may prevent us from providing access to your personal data or otherwise fulfilling your request according to the circumstances and as requested, such as if by displaying your information the identity of another person may be revealed. We reserve the right to deny your requests when they may be manifestly unfounded and/or excessive, or otherwise objectionable or unjustified under applicable law.

In addition, and where granted by local law, you have the legal right to lodge a complaint with a competent data protection authority.
Cancellation of your subscription
If you have registered to receive the FK Energy Partners newsletter or alerts, or if you receive invitations to surveys or events from FK Energy Partners and prefer not to receive further email communications, please check the communication settings in your profile on the fkenergypartners.com website, follow the instructions on the page of the website where you provided such information, have signed up or registered, or write to the global address [email protected], to unsubscribe from all FK Energy Partners communications .

Additional information regarding the protection of personal data in Brazilian territory (subject to the LGPD)

If you access our Sites when located in Brazil, you will also be subject to the specific rights and guarantees provided for in the General Data Protection Law (LGPD), which will complement this Data Protection Policy as presented below. We emphasize, therefore, that the other provisions of this Policy remain applicable to users subject to the LGPD, as applicable.
( I ) Your data protection rights in Brazil
Users subject to the LGPD will also have several specific rights that can be exercised upon request to FK Energy Partners , which includes.
Right to Confirmation of the Existence of Treatment. At any time, you have the right to confirm that we are processing any personal data relating to you.
Right of Access. You have the right to request that we disclose or provide you with access, in a clear and appropriate manner, to information related to the processing of your personal data, such as specific personal data about you that we collect, together with the categories of sources from which they were collected, the purpose of their processing, the period during which they will be stored, and the categories of third parties with whom we share your personal data.

Right to Correction: You have the right to demand the correction of any incorrect, incomplete or outdated personal data we hold about you
Right to Anonymization: You have the right to demand that your data be treated in a way that they no longer have the possibility of direct or indirect association with you. This is only possible in situations where the personal data in question is considered unnecessary, excessive or processed in a way that does not comply with the provisions of the LGPD.
Right to Block: You have the right to request the interruption of the processing of your personal data by us. This is only possible in situations where the personal data in question is considered unnecessary, excessive or processed in a way that does not comply with the provisions of the LGPD.

Right of Exclusion. You have the right to request that the personal data we collect from you be deleted. This is only possible in situations where the personal data in question have been collected with the consent of the holder or if such data is considered unnecessary, excessive or processed in a way that does not comply with the provisions of the LGPD. Please note, however, that in certain situations we are not obliged to delete such personal data, such as: (i) when the data necessary to complete the operation for which your personal data was collected; (ii) for the preservation of our right of defence in any legal proceedings in the future; (iii) to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation; (iv) to ensure the security of our Sites or otherwise legitimately use your previously anonymized internally data.

Right of Portability (Transfer): You have the right to receive your personal data in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format so that you can transmit it to another controller.

Right to Information: You have the right to be informed about the public and private entities (if any) with which we share your personal data and also to be informed about the possibility of denying consent and about the consequences of such denial.
Right of Revocation of Consent. You have the right to request, through a free and facilitated procedure, that from the moment you revoke your consent, we no longer process any of the data that you had previously consented to be processed.

Right to Review Decisions Based on Automated Processing: You have the right to access clear and adequate information regarding the criteria and procedures used to generate a decision that has been made solely on the basis of automated processing of your personal data.
( II ) How you can exercise your rights
We will make sure that you will be able to exercise any of the rights described above in a free and facilitated procedure and to this end you can contact FK Energy Partners at any time by sending an email with your request to [email protected] .
We value the security and confidentiality of your personal data. Therefore, if you exercise any of your rights described above, we must first verify your identity to make sure that you are the person from whom we collect the personal data. We carefully check each request as indicated in the “Your Rights” Chapter above.

In addition, FK Energy Partners is committed to immediately responding to your requests and questions for the exercise of your rights, so if this is not possible for real or legal reasons, you will be informed about this scenario.
Please note that these rights apply to the personal data we control or share, even if we use a service provider to collect or process the data on our behalf. If this data is transferred to third party operators such as service providers, they will be notified to take all necessary measures in order to comply with the requests of the data subject.
Changes to the Privacy Policy
We reserve the right to make changes to this Privacy Policy from time to time. Whenever we make any material changes to this Policy, we will alert you to those changes.

Contact Us

FK Energy Partners
Avenida Carlos Queiroz Telles, 81 apt 21 Mirante, Vila Andrade. Sao Paulo, SPCEP 05704-150
[email protected]