Privacy policy

Last Update Effective Date 16/04/2017

This privacy policy applies to the website www.echoenergyplc.com owned and operated by Echo Energy plc. This privacy policy describes how Echo Energy collects and uses the personal information you provide on www.echoenergyplc.com. It also describes the choices available to you regarding our use of your personal information and how you can access and update this information.

About Us

Echo Energy plc is a listed South and Central American focused mid-cap gas company in the making. The Company is pursuing a high value piped onshore gas strategy across South and Central America, which commences with a Multi Tcf potential Bolivian exploration portfolio. The Company is led by a team and Cornerstone Investor with strong regional connections and an indisputable track record in building mid cap AIM listed gas businesses with sustainable value growth for Private Investors. Echo Energy’s aim is to provide useful, simple and straightforward information about the business through its website.

Information we may collect from you

We may collect and process the following data about you provided at the time of requesting services or information from us:

• Information that you provide to us by filling in forms on our site echoenergyplc.com (Our Site). This includes Contact Information such as name, email address, mailing address, phone number,
• Information that you provide to us when you write to us (including by email).
• Information that you provide to us when we speak to you by telephone. We may make and keep a record of the information you share with us.
• Information that you provide to us by completing surveys.
• As is true of most web sites, we gather certain information automatically and store it in log files. This information includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, and clickstream data. We use this information, to analyze trends, to administer the site, to track users’ movements around the site and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole.

Uses made of the information

We use information held about you in the following ways:

• To ensure that content from Our Site is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer.
• To provide you with information, products or services that you request from us, where you have consented to be contacted for such purposes.
• To notify you about changes to our goods and services.

Disclosure of your information

We will not share your personal information with third parties and we do not sell your personal information to third parties.

We may disclose your personal information to any member of our group, which means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and its subsidiaries.

In addition to the above, we may disclose your personal information to third parties:

If Echo Energy or substantially all of its assets are acquired by a third party, in which case personal data held by it about its customers will be one of the transferred assets.

If we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our Terms and Conditions of Website Use and other agreements; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of us, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

We may provide your personal information to companies that provide services to help us with our business activities such as shipping your order, processing payments, offering customer services or to improve our business operations. These companies are authorised to use your personal information only as necessary to provide these services to us.

We do not disclose information about identifiable individuals to our advertisers, but we may provide them with aggregate information about our users. We may also use such aggregate information to help advertisers reach the kind of audience they want to target. We may make use of the personal data we have collected from you to enable us to comply with our advertisers' wishes by displaying their advertisements to that target audience.

Access to information

If your personal information changes, or if you no longer desire our service, you have the right to correct, update, amend, delete/remove or request it be deleted completely free of charge. You may do so by unsubscribing from our emails, by emailing our customer support at info@echoenergyplc.com , or by contacting us by telephone or postal mail at the contact information listed below.

If you wish to request access to or a copy of the information Echo Energy has about you, please email our customer support at info@echoenergyplc.com or contact us by telephone or postal mail, and we will respond to your request within 40 days. Any access request may be subject to a fee of £10 to meet our costs in providing you with details of the information we hold about you.

We will retain your information for as long as your account is active or as needed to provide you services. We will retain and use your information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements, which in some cases involving the collection and processing of financial data may require a retention period of 7 years.

If you wish to subscribe to our newsletter(s), we will use your name and email address to send the newsletter to you. Out of respect for your privacy, you may choose to stop receiving our newsletter or marketing emails by following the unsubscribe instructions included in these emails, accessing the email preferences in your account settings page or you can contact us at info@echoenergyplc.com

Similarly, you have the right to ask us not to process your personal data for marketing purposes. We will usually inform you (before collecting your data) if we intend to use your data for such purposes, or if we intend to disclose your information to any third party for such purposes. You can exercise your right to prevent such processing by contacting us at any time.

Cookies and Tracking Technologies

Technologies such as: cookies, beacons, tags and scripts are used by echoenergy Limited and our partners, including marketing partners affiliates, or analytics service providers and business process service providers. These technologies are used in analyzing trends, administering the site, tracking users’ movements around the site and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole. We may receive reports based on the use of these technologies by these companies on an individual as well as aggregated basis.

A cookie is a message given to a web browser by a web server to identify users and customize web pages from them. We use cookies for to estimate our audience size and usage pattern; to store information about your preferences, and so allow us to customize our Site according to your individual interests; to speed up your searches; and to recognize you when you return to our Site. We use persistent cookies in our primary platform, as well as our valuation calculator, to remember users so they do not have to login every time they return to the site. Users can control the use of cookies at the individual browser level. If you reject cookies, you may still use our site, but your ability to use some features or areas of our site may be limited.

If you would like more information on what cookies are, how they work, and how to manage them, visit www.aboutcookies.org.

Additional Privacy Information

Links to 3rd Party Sites

Our Site may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of our suppliers, partner networks, advertisers, affiliates and other third parties. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites should have their own privacy policies and we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies or the content or operation of these websites. Please check these policies and the terms of the websites before you submit any personal data to these websites.

Social Media Widgets

Our Web site includes Social Media Features, such as the Twitter follow button. These Features may collect your IP address, which page you are visiting on our site, and may set a cookie to enable the Feature to function properly. Social Media Features and Widgets are either hosted by a third party or hosted directly on our Site. Your interactions with these Features are governed by the privacy policy of the company providing it.

Changes to our privacy policy

We may update this privacy policy to reflect changes to our information practices. If we make any material changes we will notify you by email (sent to the e-mail address specified in your account) or by means of a notice on this Site prior to the change becoming effective. We encourage you to periodically review this page for the latest information on our privacy practices.