Crude Oil Mechanicals is committed to protecting your privacy and developing technology that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience. This Statement of Privacy applies to the Crude Oil Mechanicals site and governs data collection and usage. By using the Crude Oil Mechanicals site, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

Collection of your Personal Information

Crude Oil Mechanicals collects personally identifiable information, such as your email address, name, home or work address or telephone number. Crude Oil Mechanicals also collects anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences, interests and favorites.

There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by Crude Oil Mechanicals. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used by Crude Oil Mechanicals for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Crude Oil Mechanicals site.

Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through Crude Oil Mechanicals public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others. Note: Crude Oil Mechanicals does not read any of your private online communications.

Crude Oil Mechanicals encourages you to review the privacy statements of Web sites you choose to link to from Crude Oil Mechanicals so that you can understand how those Web sites collect, use and share your information. Crude Oil Mechanicals is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on Web sites outside of the Crude Oil Mechanicals and Crude Oil Mechanicals family of Web sites.

Use of your Personal Information

Crude Oil Mechanicals collects and uses your personal information to operate the Crude Oil Mechanicals Web site and deliver the services you have requested. Crude Oil Mechanicals also uses your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from Crude Oil Mechanicals and its affiliates. Crude Oil Mechanicals may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.

Crude Oil Mechanicals does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. Crude Oil Mechanicals may, from time to time, 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 not transferred to the third party. In addition, Crude Oil Mechanicals may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to Crude Oil Mechanicals, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

Crude Oil Mechanicals does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.

Crude Oil Mechanicals keeps track of the Web sites and pages our customers visit within Crude Oil Mechanicals, in order to determine what Crude Oil Mechanicals services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within Crude Oil Mechanicals to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.

Crude Oil Mechanicals Web sites will disclose your personal information, without notice, only 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 Crude Oil Mechanicals or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Crude Oil Mechanicals; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Crude Oil Mechanicals, or the public.

Use of Cookies

The Crude Oil Mechanicals Web site use "cookies" to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize Crude Oil Mechanicals pages, or register with Crude Oil Mechanicals site or services, a cookie helps Crude Oil Mechanicals to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same Crude Oil Mechanicals Web site, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the Crude Oil Mechanicals features that you customized.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the Crude Oil Mechanicals services or Web sites you visit.

Security of your Personal Information

Crude Oil Mechanicals secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. Crude Oil Mechanicals secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other Web sites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.

Changes to this Statement

Crude Oil Mechanicals will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. Crude Oil Mechanicals encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how Crude Oil Mechanicals is protecting your information.

Contact Information

Crude Oil Mechanicals welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that Crude Oil Mechanicals has not adhered to this Statement, please contact Crude Oil Mechanicals at info@crudeoilmechanicals.org. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.