Texas Energy Privacy Notice
Last Modified: September 14, 2023
1. Introduction
Texas Energy Corp. (“Texas Energy” or “we” or “us”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting it through our compliance with this privacy notice.
This Privacy Notice (our “Privacy Notice”) describes the types of information we may collect, use, maintain, protect, disclose, or otherwise process about you when you visit the website https://texas-energy.net (the “Website”) and our investor portal available on or through the Website and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, disclosing, or otherwise processing that information.
This policy applies to information we collect:
- on our Website (including in the investor portal); and
- in email, text, and other electronic messages between you and Texas Energy through any medium.
It does not apply to information collected by:
- us offline or through any other means, including on any other website operated by Texas Energy or any third-party;
- us related to your or any other individual’s employment or potential employment with us;
- us related to any purchase of our products and services;
- us related to your investment in our company, other than to log into the investor-only portion of our Website; or
- any third party, including through any application or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from the Website.
Please read this Privacy Notice carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use our Website. By accessing or using our Website you agree to this Privacy Notice. This Privacy Notice may change from time to time (see Changes to Our Privacy Notice). Your continued use of our Website after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check this Privacy Notice periodically for updates.
2. Children Under the Age of 18
Our Website is not intended for children under 18 years of age. No one under age 18 may provide any information to or on the Website. We do not knowingly collect Personal Data from children under 18. If you are under 18, do not use or provide any information on our Website. If we learn we have collected or received Personal Data from a child under 18 without parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information directly from a child under 18, please contact us at privacy@texas-energy.net to request that this information be removed.
3. Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It
Throughout this Privacy Notice, the term “Personal Data” means any information that identifies, relates to, describes, references, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular individual or device. However, Personal Data does not include any deidentified or aggregated information.
Generally
We collect Personal Data from various sources, including:
- directly from you when you provide it to us; and
- automatically as you navigate through or otherwise use the Website.
Information You Provide to Us
We collect the following types of Personal Data directly from you when you access or use our Website: real name, work postal address, work email address, work telephone number, account name (if you are an investor), title, employer name, records of goods and services considered to be purchased or obtained (if you include it in your communications with us).
The Personal Data we collect on or through our Website through:
- information that you provide by filling in contact us forms on our Website. We may also ask you for information when you report a problem with our Website; and
- if you contact us, records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses).
Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies
If you are an investor and use our investor portal, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain Personal Data about your interaction with our Website if you navigate through and interact with the investor portal on our Website. This may include certain information necessary to provide you with access to the investor portal, such as unique identifiers that allow us to recognize that you are logged in and allow you to access the investor portal. This may also include certain information about your computing device and internet connection, i.e., your IP address, operating system, device make and model, and browser type.
The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:
- Session Cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. Our Website may use session cookies (which expire once you close your browser) when you use the investor portal of the Website. Each time you access the investor portal, a session cookie containing an encrypted, unique identifier is placed on your browser. These session cookies allow us to uniquely identify you and maintain your access if you access our investor portal. Session cookies are required to use the Website.
Third-Party Use of Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies
Some content on the Website is served by third-parties, including content hosting providers. These third parties may use various tracking technologies to collect information about you when you use our Website and access this content. The information they collect may be associated with your Personal Data or they may collect information, including Personal Data, about your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services.
We do not control these third parties’ collection and use of your Personal Data. Please contact the applicable third party for information about their collection and use of your Personal Data.
4. How We Use Your Information
- to provide our Website and its content to you;
- to provide you with information that you request from us;
- to support, develop, troubleshoot, and debug our Website;
- to provide you with access to your investor account with us, if you have one. The Personal Data used for the creation, and funding of your investor account is governed by our investor privacy notice;
- to help maintain the safety, security, and integrity of our Website;
- for internal testing, research, analysis, and product development, including to develop and improve our Website, and to improve our LNG product offerings;
- detecting security incidents, protecting against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, and prosecuting those responsible for that activity;
- debugging to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality on our Website;
- to carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including our Website Terms of Use;
- to notify you about changes to our Website or any products or services we offer;
- in any other way we may describe when you provide the information;
- to fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it; and
- for any other purpose with your consent.
5. Disclosure of Your Personal Data
- to contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business, such as entities that provide IT and infrastructure support services;
- to a potential or actual buyer or other successor in the event of a planned or actual merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of Texas Energy Corp’s assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which Personal Data held by Texas Energy Corp about our Website’s users is among the assets transferred;
- to fulfill the purpose for which you provide it. For example, if you give us your contact information to contact you, your contact information may be disclosed to communications companies, such as telephone companies and email service providers to allow us to contact you;
- for any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information; and
- with your consent.
- to comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request;
- to enforce or apply our Website Terms of Use; and
- if we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of Texas Energy Corp, our customers, or others.
6. Correcting Your Personal Data
You may send us an email at privacy@texas-energy.net to correct Personal Data that we have collected about you (such as to correct your email address). If you are an investor, please see our investor privacy notice for information on how you may get access to, correct, or delete your Personal Data as an investor.
7. Do Not Track Signals
We do not currently use automated data collection technologies to collect information about your online activities over time and across third-party websites or other online services (behavioral tracking). If we do collect such information in the future, some web browsers permit you to broadcast a signal to websites and online services indicating a preference that they “do not track” your online activities. At this time, we do not honor such signals and we do not modify what information we collect or how we use that information based upon whether such a signal is broadcast or received by us.
8. Data Security
We have implemented measures designed to secure your Personal Data from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure.
The safety and security of your information also depends on you. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to the investor portal portion of our Website, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone.
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your Personal Data, we cannot guarantee the security of your Personal Data transmitted to our Website. Any transmission of Personal Data is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures deployed on the Website.
9. Consent to Processing of Personal Data in the United States
In order to provide our Website to you, we may send and store your Personal Data outside of the country where you reside or are located, including to countries that may not or do not provide an equivalent level of protection for your Personal Data. Your Personal Data may be processed and stored in the United States and federal, state, and local governments, courts, or law enforcement or regulatory agencies in the United States may be able to obtain disclosure of your information through the laws of the United States. By using our Website, you represent that you have read and understood the above and hereby consent to the storage and processing of Personal Data outside the country where you reside or are located, including in the United States.
10. Changes to Our Privacy Notice
We may change this Privacy Notice at any time. It is our policy to post any changes we make to our Privacy Notice on this page with a notice that the Privacy Notice has been updated on the Website’ home page. If we make material changes to how we treat our users’ Personal Data, we will notify you by email to the email address specified in your account and/or through a notice on the Website’ home page. The date this Privacy Notice was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date active and deliverable email address for you, and for periodically visiting our Website and this Privacy Notice to check for any changes.
Your continued use of our Website following the posting of changes constitutes your acceptance to such changes.
11. Contact Information
If you have any questions, concerns, complaints, or suggestions regarding our Privacy Notice or the ways in which we collect and use your Personal Data described in this Privacy Notice, have any requests related to your Personal Data pursuant to applicable laws, or otherwise need to contact us, you may contact us at the contact information below or through the “Contact” page on our Website.
Texas Energy
800 Boylston Street
16th Floor
Boston, MA 02119
(646) 886-9088
privacy@texas-energy.net