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Privacy Statement For Nickle's Energy Group

Thank you for visiting Nickle's websites. To better protect your privacy, we provide this statement explaining our online information practices. This statement covers what types of personal information we will collect from you when you use Nickle's web products and services and how we will use that information. Personal information is information about you that is personally identifiable, like your name, business address, or e-mail address, that is not otherwise publicly available.

Nickle's websites are owned and operated by Nickle's Energy Group. Nickle's Energy Group is owned by Business Information Group, a leading Canadian information company. Our home page on the web is located at www.nickles.com.

The following Nickle's websites are governed by this privacy statement:

We invite you to contact us regarding any of our publications at the following address:

Nickle's Energy Group
Suite 300, 999 - 8 Street SW
Calgary, AB
Canada T2R 1N7

You may contact us by e-mail at CustomerService@nickles.com or call us at (403) 209-3500 or (toll free) 1-800-387-2446.

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Enforcement Of This Policy

If you think we have not followed our privacy policy in some way, or you have questions or concerns regarding this statement, please contact the Group Publisher by e-mail at dailyoilbulletin@nickles.com or by mail at the above address.

Log Data

Each request to any of Nickle's websites is recorded in our server access log files. Nickle's Energy Group uses this data to compile general statistics about website usage. The information is used for planning future web services and to improve the services currently offered. It may also be used for systems administration and troubleshooting purposes. Aggregate information may sometimes be shared with our existing and potential advertisers and sponsors or their agents. This information will never be used to identify the individual person the data was collected from without the individual's explicit permission. Information that is logged may include:

  • Your IP address
  • The page that you requested
  • Search terms (if entered)
  • The type of browser you are using (e.g. Netscape, Internet Explorer)
  • The operating system you are using (e.g. Windows XP, Mac OS)
  • Cookie information
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Cookies

A cookie is a small piece of information stored on your computer by a web page. It is used to identify you to the web server. It tells the server who you are when you return to a page at the same website. Your browser will only send a cookie back to the domain that originally sent it to you. A cookie cannot run any programs, deliver any viruses, or send back information about your system. Many sites on the Internet use cookies to recognize visitors when they return to a site.

Nickle's Energy Group may use cookies for the following purposes:

  • Determining your access privileges on Nickle's websites. If you are a paid subscriber to one of Nickle's online products, a cookie is used to recognize you when you visit a Nickle's website.
  • Completion and support of the current activity. For example, if you are using one of our search pages, a cookie is used to keep track of your search parameters, and your place in the search.
  • Tracking site usage. Nickle's Energy Group collects information about which pages are visited on our sites. Site visitation data is identified only by a unique ID number, and not linked with any personal information that you may have provided us.

Web Beacons

Some of Nickle's web pages contain an invisible electronic image known as a "web beacon". Web beacons are similar in function to cookies, but allow websites on different domains to share information. Nickle's Energy Group may use web beacons to transfer your subscription access information between Nickle's sites both on and off the nickles.com domain. For example, Daily Oil Bulletin pages are located on the dailyoilbulletin.com domain. Advertisements embedded on Nickle's web pages may contain web beacons. Web beacons do not transmit any personal information collected by Nickle's to any sites not owned by Nickle's Energy Group or its parent firm, Business Information Group.

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Registration

We may ask for information that personally identifies you or allows us to contact you when we need to do so in order to provide certain services. Cases where such information may be requested include the following:

  • You register to use restricted access areas of Nickle's websites as a paid subscriber.
  • You apply for a free trial of subscription-based products on Nickle's websites.
  • You purchase products and services through our online order page.
  • You enter a contest or participate in an online promotion.
  • You submit an event for publication in our online Events Calendar, or submit material online for publication in any of our other publications.

This information may be used for the following purposes:

  • Communicate with you regarding your subscription, provide you with a password, or give you instructions on how to use our online services.
  • Complete transactions, invoice and deliver items purchased online.
  • Send you headlines or informational alerts by e-mail as part of your subscription service.
  • Send you occasional e-mail on subjects of interest to the oil and gas industry. You may opt-out of receiving this by following the opt-out instructions contained in the e-mail message you receive from us.
  • Send you complimentary issues of our printed publications.
  • Notify you about new products and special offers. You may opt-out of receiving this by following the opt-out instructions contained in the e-mail message you receive from us.
  • Notify contest winners.
  • Verify that information submitted for publication is correct and complete.

Nickle's Energy Group may contract other companies to provide services such as delivery. We will only provide these companies with the information they need to provide such services. Otherwise, we will not sell or share your personal information given to us for subscription access purposes with any companies not affiliated with Nickle's Energy Group.

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Corporate Accounts

In some cases, your subscription may be owned by your employer, or other entity who has purchased it on your behalf. We reserve the right to share information about the usage of a subscription with the party who paid for it, and by registering to use such a subscription, you agree to these terms.

Accessing Registration Information

You may edit your registration information at any time. Follow the "Subscriber Info" link on the home page of the website that hosts your subscription. If you need assistance, contact CustomerService@nickles.com by e-mail, or call our office at (403) 209-3500 or (toll free) 1-800-387-2446.

Additional Information

Please note that Nickle's websites contain links to other websites that Nickle's Energy Group does not own or control. This policy does not apply to the websites of our advertisers, or any other pages linked to outside of the sites listed above.

Nickle's Energy Group may change, add or remove portions of this policy at any time. This policy is valid for one day from the time that it is downloaded from our server.

For additional information on Nickle's Energy Group's Privacy Policy and compliance with the Alberta Personal Information Protection Act (PIPA), contact Nickle's Privacy Officer by e-mail at customerservice@nickles.com, or call our office at (403) 209-3500 or (toll free) 1-800-387-2446.

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