Privacy Policy
Protecting the security and privacy of your Personal
Information is important to IDS and to the way we conduct our business in
compliance with laws on privacy, data protection and data security in the
countries in which we maintain Web sites. We hope the policy outlined below will
help you understand what information IDS may collect, how IDS uses and
safeguards that information and with whom we may share it.
Personal Information
Through our Web sites, IDS will not collect any
personally identifiable information about you (e.g., your name, address,
telephone number or e-mail address ("Personal Information")), unless you
voluntarily choose to provide it to us (e.g., by registration, email enquiry,
survey).
If you do not want your Personal Information collected, please do not
submit it to us.
When you do provide us with Personal Information, we
usually use it to respond to your enquiry, process your order or provide you
access to specific account information. Also, to support our customer
relationship with you:
- We may store and process Personal Information and share it within the Kuwait Petroleum Group of
companies to better understand your business needs and how we can improve our products and
services; or
- We (or a third party on our behalf) may use Personal
Information to contact you about an IDS offer in support of your business needs
or to conduct online surveys to understand better our customers' needs and
profiles.
Since IDS operates globally, the information you submit
may be transferred outside of the European Economic Area. This and all other
transmissions will remain secure and under our sole control.
If you choose not to have your Personal Information used to support our customer
relationship programmes (especially direct-marketing or market-research), we
will respect your choice. We do not (and do not intend to in the future) sell,
rent or otherwise market your Personal
Information to third parties.
Non-Personal Information Collected Automatically
When you access our Web sites, we may automatically (i.e., not by registration) collect
information
that is not personally identifiable (e.g., type of Internet browser and computer
operating system used; domain name of the Web site from which you came; number
of visits, average time spent, pages viewed). We may use this information and
share it within the Kuwait Petroleum Group of companies to measure the use of
our Web sites and improve their content.
"Cookies" - Information Placed Automatically on Your Computer
When you view one of our Web sites, we may store some information on your computer in
the form of a "Cookie" to automatically recognize you the next time you visit.
Cookies can help us in many ways, for example, by allowing us to tailor a web
site to better match your interests or to save your password so that you do not
have to re-enter it each time. If you choose not to be recognized, please refer
to your Internet browser to erase Cookies from your computer hard drive, block
all Cookies, or receive a warning before a Cookie is stored.
Children
No Personal Information should be submitted to IDS's Web
sites by children without the consent of their parent or guardian. IDS
encourages all parents or guardians to instruct their children in the safe and
responsible use of their Personal Information while using the Internet. IDS will
not knowingly collect or use any Personal Information collected from children
for any purpose whatsoever, including disclosure to third parties.
Security
IDS takes precautions to ensure the security of your
Personal Information and strives to keep it accurate. We carefully protect your
Personal Information from loss, destruction, falsification, manipulation, and
unauthorized access or unauthorized disclosure.
Links to Other Web Sites
This IDS Web site may contain links to other Web sites. IDS is not responsible
for the privacy practices or the content of other Web sites.
Use of your personal information submitted to other web sites
We cannot be responsible for the privacy policies and practices of other web sites even if:
- you accessed the third party web site using links from our web site; or
- you linked to our web site from a third party web site.
We recommend that you check the policy of each site you visit and contact the owner or operator of such
web site if you have any concerns or questions.
Updates
As the Internet matures, so will our Data Privacy Protection Policy. We will post changes to our Data Privacy
Protection Policy on this page as soon as the commitment has been made to alter any existing policy.