INTRODUCTION
This Website Privacy and Cookies Policy ("Privacy Policy") describes how Oceaneering International (Oceaneering International and the affiliates listed here) ("Oceaneering") collects, uses, shares, and otherwise processes individually identifiable data about visitors to this Site (defined below) as well as contact persons of our corporate customers, vendors, and suppliers ("Personal Data"). This Privacy Policy applies to Personal Data that we collect through our websites ("Site"), as well as through trade shows, seminars, conferences, and other offline means.
COLLECTION OF PERSONAL DATA
As a business-to-business ("B2B") organization, we collect name, contact details, and other Personal Data related to our commercial relationships. We collect the following categories of Personal Data:
- Basic Data: Name, title, company, region, job responsibilities, phone number, mailing address, email address, contact details, age and/or date of birth if requested, and any other personal data that you submit to us during the course of correspondence with us.
- Registration Data: Newsletter and/or other alert requests, subscriptions, downloads, and
registration to seminars, courses, or conferences. - Marketing Data: Data about individual participation in trade shows, seminars, and conferences, credentials, associations, product interests, query information, and preferences.
- Job Applicant Data: Data provided by job applicants or others on our Site or offline means in
connection with employment opportunities. Additional notice will be provided via separate
privacy statement(s) where applicable. - Device Data: Computer Internet Protocol (IP) address, unique device identifier (UDID), cookies and other data linked to a device, and data about usage of our Site (Usage Data). Note, however, we do not consider Device Data to be Personal Data except where we can link it to you as an individual or where applicable law provides otherwise.
USE OF PERSONAL DATA
We use the above categories of Personal Data for the following purposes:
PURPOSE OF USE | CATEGORIES OF PERSONAL DATA |
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Perform transactions and respond to your inquiries | Basic Data, Registration Data, and Device Data |
Manage your accounts and maintain our business operations | Basic Data, Registration Data, and Device Data |
Make our Site more intuitive and easy to use | Device Data |
Protect the security and effective functioning of our Site and information technology systems | Basic Data, Registration Data, and Device Data |
Provide relevant marketing | Basic Data, Registration Data, Device Data, and Marketing Data |
Address our compliance and legal obligations and exercise our legal rights | Basic Data, Registration Data, and Device Data |
Consider individuals for employment and contractor opportunities and manage on-boarding procedures | Job Applicant Data |
SHARING OF PERSONAL DATA
We may share Personal Data with the following categories of recipients:
- Affiliates: We share Personal Data within the Oceaneering group of affiliated companies as necessary for the purposes identified above. As noted above, the list of affiliates within the Oceaneering group is provided here.
- Suppliers and service providers: We share Personal Data with suppliers and service providers to enable such parties to perform functions on our behalf and under our instructions in order to carry out the purposes identified above. We require such parties by contract to provide reasonable security for Personal Data and to use and process such Personal Data only on our behalf.
- Auditors, and advisors: We share Personal Data with auditors for the performance of audit functions, and with advisors for the provision of legal and other advice.
Business reorganization: We share Personal Data with any corporate purchaser or prospect to the extent permitted by law as part of any merger, acquisition, sale of company assets, or transition of service to another provider, as well as in the event of insolvency, bankruptcy, or receivership in which Personal Data would be transferred as an asset of Oceaneering. - Mandatory disclosures and legal rights: We share Personal Data in order to comply with any
subpoena, court order or other legal process, or other governmental request. We also share Personal Data to establish or protect our legal rights, property, or safety, or the rights, property, or safety of others, or to defend against legal claims.
If you have questions about the parties with which we share Personal Data, please contact us as specified below.
MARKETING CHOICES
You have control regarding our use of your Personal Data for directing marketing. If you no longer wish to receive any marketing communications, remain on a mailing list to which you previously subscribed, or receive any other marketing communication, you can choose to not receive such communications at any time. Please follow the unsubscribe link in the relevant communication or contact us as detailed
below.
COOKIES
We use and allow certain third parties to use cookies, web beacons, and similar tracking technologies (collectively, "cookies") on our Site.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small amounts of data that are stored on your browser, device, or the page you are viewing. Some cookies are deleted once you close your browser, while other cookies are retained even after you close your browser so that you can be recognized when you return to a website. More information about cookies and how they work is available at www.allaboutcookies.org.
How do we use cookies?
We use cookies to provide the Site and services, gather information about your usage patterns when you navigate this Site in order to enhance your personalized experience, and to understand usage patterns to improve our Site, products, and services. We also allow certain third parties to place cookies on our Site in order to collect information about your online activities on our Site over time and across different websites that you visit. This information is used to provide advertising tailored to your interests on websites you visit, also known as interest based advertising, and to analyze the effectiveness of such advertising.
Cookies on our Site are generally divided into the following categories:
STRICTLY NECESSARY | ANALYTICAL/PERFORMANCE | TARGETING |
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These are required for the operation of our Site. These cookies are session cookies that are erased when you close your browser. | These allow us to recognize and count the number of users of our Site and understand how such users navigate through our Site. This helps to improve how our Site works, for example, by ensuring that users can find what they are looking for easily. These cookies are session cookies which are erased when you close your browser. We use Google Analytics, and you can see below for how to control the use of cookies by Google Analytics. | These record your visit to our Site and the pages you have visited. You can delete these cookies via your browser settings. See below for further details on how you can control third party targeting cookies. |