Privacy Statement

www.jadestone-energy.com (our website) is provided by Jadestone Energy (‘we’, ‘our’ or ‘us’). We are the controller of personal data obtained via our website, meaning we are the organisation legally responsible for deciding how and for what purposes it is used.

We take your privacy very seriously. Please read this privacy policy carefully as it contains important information on who we are and how and why we collect, store, use and share any information relating to you (your personal data) in connection with your use of our website. It also explains your rights in relation to your personal data and how to contact us or a relevant regulator in the event you have a complaint.

We collect, use and are responsible for certain personal data about you.

Given the nature of our website, we do not expect to collect the personal data of anyone under 13 years old. If you are aware that any personal data of anyone under 13 years old has been shared with our website please let us know so that we can delete that data.

What this policy applies to

This privacy policy relates to your use of our website only.

Throughout our website we may link to other websites owned and operated by certain third parties. Those third party websites may also gather information about you in accordance with their own separate privacy policies. For privacy information relating to those third party websites, please consult their privacy policies as appropriate.

Personal data we collect about you

The personal data we collect about you depends on the particular activities carried out through our website. We may collect and use the following personal data about you:

your name, address and contact information, including email address and telephone number and company details
your gender
location data
details of any information, feedback or other matters you give to us by phone, email, post or via social media
your activities on, and use of, our website
your cv and details of your experience and qualifications
your personal or professional interests
your professional online presence, e.g. LinkedIn profile
information about how you use our website and technology systems

We collect and use this personal data for the purposes described in the section ‘How and why we use your personal data’ below.

How your personal data is collected

We collect personal data from you:

directly, when you enter or send us information, such as when you contact us using our contact form via our website or via email and indirectly, such as your browsing activity while on our website; we will collect information indirectly using the technologies explained in the section on ‘Cookies and other tracking technologies’ below

How and why we use your personal data

Under data protection law, we can only use your personal data if we have a proper reason,

The table below explains what we use your personal data for and why.

What we use your personal data for	Our reasons
Providing services to you	To perform our contract with you or to take steps at your request before entering into a contract
Our recruitment process	To take steps at your request before entering into a contract with you To comply with our legal and regulatory obligations
Conducting checks to identify you and verify your identity or to help prevent and detect fraud against you or us	To comply with our legal and regulatory obligations For our legitimate interests, i.e. to minimise fraud that could be damaging for you and/or us
To enforce legal rights or defend or undertake legal proceedings	Depending on the circumstances: —to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations —in other cases, for our legitimate interests, i.e. to protect our business, interests and rights
Retaining and evaluating information on your recent visits to our website and how you move around different sections of our website for analytics purposes to understand how people use our website so that we can make it more intuitive or to check our website is working as intended	Depending on the circumstances: —your consent as gathered —where we are not required to obtain your consent and do not do so, for our legitimate interests, i.e. to be as efficient as we can so we can deliver the best service to you at the best price If you have provided such a consent you may withdraw it at any time by contacting us at ServiceDesk@jadestone-energy.com
Protecting the security of systems and data used to provide the services	To comply with our legal and regulatory obligations We may also use your personal data to ensure the security of systems and data to a standard that goes beyond our legal obligations, and in those cases our reasons are for our legitimate interests, i.e. to protect systems and data and to prevent and detect criminal activity that could be damaging for you and/or us
Disclosures and other activities necessary to comply with legal and regulatory obligations that apply to our business	To comply with our legal and regulatory obligations
To share your personal data with members of our group and third parties that will or may take control or ownership of some or all of our business (and professional advisors acting on our or their behalf) in connection with a significant corporate transaction or restructuring, including a merger, acquisition, asset sale, initial public offering or in the event of our insolvency In such cases information will be anonymised where possible and only shared where necessary	Depending on the circumstances: —to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations —in other cases, for our legitimate interests, i.e. to protect, realise or grow the value in our business and assets

How and why we use your personal data—in more detail

More details about how we use your personal data and why are set out in the table below:

Purpose	Processing operation	Lawful basis	Relevant categories of personal data
Communications with you not related to marketing, including about changes to our terms or policies or changes to the products or other important notices	Addressing and sending communications to you as required by data protection laws	Processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject	—your name, address and contact information, including email address and telephone number and company details

Purpose

Processing operation

Lawful basis

Relevant categories of personal data

Communications with you not related to marketing, including about changes to our terms or policies or changes to the products or other important notices

Addressing and sending communications to you as required by data protection laws

Processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject

—your name, address and contact information, including email address and telephone number and company details

How and why we use your personal data—Special category personal data

Where we process such special category personal data, we will also ensure we are permitted to do so under data protection laws.

How and why we use your personal data—sharing

See ‘Who we share your personal data with’ for further information on the steps we will take to protect your personal data where we need to share it with others.

Marketing

We will use your personal data to send you updates by email, text message, telephone or post about our business.

We will always treat your personal data with the utmost respect and never sell it to other organisations for marketing purposes.

For more information on your right to object at any time to your personal data being used for marketing purposes, see ‘Your rights’ below.

Who we share your personal data with

We may share personal data with third parties we use to help deliver our services to you, e.g. service providers and third parties we use to help us run our business, for example, website hosts and website analytics providers.

We only allow those organisations to handle your personal data if we are satisfied they take appropriate measures to protect your personal data. We also impose contractual obligations on them to ensure they can only use your personal data to provide services to us and to you.

We or the third parties mentioned above occasionally also share personal data with:

our and their external auditors, e.g. in relation to the audit of our or their accounts, in which case the recipient of the information will be bound by confidentiality obligations, our and their professional advisors (such as lawyers and other advisors), in which case the recipient of the information will be bound by confidentiality obligations, law enforcement agencies, courts, tribunals and regulatory bodies to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations.
other parties that have or may acquire control or ownership of our business (and our or their professional advisers) in connection with a significant corporate transaction or restructuring, including a merger, acquisition, asset sale, initial public offering or in the event of our insolvency—usually, information will be anonymised but this may not always be possible. The recipient of any of your personal data will be bound by confidentiality obligations.

How long your personal data will be kept

We will not keep your personal data for longer than we need it for the purpose for which it is used.

Transferring your personal data

In view of our global reach, it is sometimes necessary for us to transfer your personal data to different countries and in such circumstances we will comply with applicable laws designed to ensure the privacy of your personal data.

Cookies

A cookie is a small text file which is placed onto your device (e.g. computer, smartphone or other electronic device) when you use our website. We use cookies and (any similar technologies, e.g. web beacons, action tags, single-pixel gifs) on our website. These help us recognise you and your device and store some information about your preferences or past actions.

For further information on cookies and other technologies, and how we use them can be found in our Cookie Policy.

Your rights

You generally have the following rights, which you can usually exercise free of charge:

Access to a copy of your personal data	The right to be provided with a copy of your personal data
Correction (also known as rectification)	The right to require us to correct any mistakes in your personal data
Erasure (also known as the right to be forgotten)	The right to require us to delete your personal data—in certain situations
Restriction of use	The right to require us to restrict use of your personal data in certain circumstances, e.g. if you contest the accuracy of the data.
Data portability	The right to receive the personal data you provided to us, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and/or transmit that data to a third party—in certain situations.
To object to use	The right to object: —at any time to your personal data being used for direct marketing (including profiling) —in certain other situations to our continued use of your personal data, e.g. where we use your personal data for our legitimate interests unless there are compelling legitimate grounds for the processing to continue or the processing is required for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.
Not to be subject to decisions without human involvement	The right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing (including profiling) that produces legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affects you. We do not make any such decisions based on data collected by our website.
The right to withdraw consent	If you have provided us with a consent to use your personal data you have a right to withdraw that consent easily at any time You may withdraw consents by emailing DataProtection@jadestone-energy.com. Withdrawing a consent will not affect the lawfulness of our use of your personal data in reliance on that consent before it was withdrawn.

If you would like to exercise any of those rights, please contact our Data Protection Manager/Data Protection Officer by email at DataProtection@jadestone-energy.com.

Keeping your personal data secure

We have appropriate security measures to prevent personal data from being accidentally lost or used or accessed unlawfully. We limit access to your personal data to those who have a genuine need to access it.

We also have procedures in place to deal with any suspected data security breach. We will notify you and any applicable regulator of a suspected data security breach where we are legally required to do so.

How to complain

Please contact us if you have any queries or concerns about our use of your personal data at DataProtection@jadestone-energy.com). We hope we will be able to resolve any issues you may have.

Changes to this privacy policy

We may change this privacy policy from time to time.

How to contact us

You can contact us by email at DataProtection@Jadestone-energy.com if you have any questions about this privacy policy or the information we hold about you, to exercise a right under data protection law or to make a complaint.