Last updated: 1 July 2024
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Wood Mackenzie Limited on behalf of itself, its subsidiaries and its affiliates (hereinafter “Wood Mackenzie”, “we”, or “us”) respects your concerns about privacy.
The Notice describes the types of personal data we obtain, how we use the personal data, and with whom we share it. We also describe the rights you may have and how you can contact us about our privacy practices.
This Online Privacy Notice (the “Notice”) applies to Personal data that we collect:
The website www.woodmac.com is owned and operated by Wood Mackenzie Limited, for the benefit of all Wood Mackenzie Limited subsidiaries and affiliates.
Wood Mackenzie Limited is the data controller in respect of personal data that we collect through the Sites, through the account sign-up or account access process or that you provide to us, or data that has been collected from third parties as described above. Our contact details can be found at the “How To Contact Us” section at the end of this Notice. Where Wood Mackenzie Limited shares Personal Data with Wood Mackenzie subsidiaries and affiliates, those entities are also controllers. For Information about who we are click here, and please click here for information on how Wood Mackenzie shares Personal Data within its group entities.
Visitors to the Sites are subject to important limitations. Please review our Conditions of Use, which govern your visit to these Sites on the World Wide Web.
We will update this Notice from time to time. When we make changes, we will publish the updated Notice on the WoodMackenzie.com. If we make any significant changes, we will inform you of this.
Please note that if you are a resident of Brazil, or California, then please refer to the jurisdiction specific information below.
Wood Mackenzie is a global insight business for renewables, energy and natural resources. To learn more about Wood Mackenzie, see About us.
For more details of our locations visit; Our Locations.
If you contact us inquiring about a career at Wood Mackenzie, we may direct you to our recruitment website / application portal. Our candidate privacy notices can be found here: Privacy Policy Centre.
Personal Data is defined in different ways under different laws, however, generally personal data is data that is about an identified or identifiable individual.
We may collect personal data that you choose to provide to us, including, but not limited to, your first and last name, physical business address, e-mail address, or telephone number, such as when you:
Fill out a form on the Sites;
Sign-up to receive direct marketing communications on the Sites or otherwise, such as if you attend an event and provide us with your details;
Sign-up to a feature that we offer on the Sites and you provide your personal data in connection with that feature;
Sign up to/attend an event that we have organised;
Communicate with us for example, on a social media platform or by sending us an email; or
Sign-up for or access our products and services.
Where permitted by law, we may acquire personal data about you from third parties. This type of personal data includes information such as your name, business contact details, role, preferences and business interests. We obtain personal data from third parties in the following ways;
Personal data shared between affiliates;
When you sign up to attend an event/webinar where Wood Mackenzie is a sponsor;
Publicly-available information (such as your business role, preferences and business interests) on third party social media sites (such as LinkedIn), internet sites such as company websites,
Marketing lists acquired from third party marketing agencies, namely, Cognism.
When you visit our Sites, we also may collect certain information by automated means using technologies such as cookies, non-cookie-based tokens, web server logs, tracking pixels, and web beacons. Cookies are files that websites send to your computer or other Internet-connected device to identify your browser uniquely or to store information or settings in your browser. Your browser may tell you when you receive certain types of cookies and how to restrict or disable certain cookies. Please note, however, that without cookies, you may not be able to use all of the features of our Sites and may not be able to purchase products that use a “shopping cart.” Non-cookie-based tokens are encoded URL-based identifiers that track e-mail click-thru activity or time-sensitive password reset keys and will work in scenarios where cookies are disabled or a session has not been initiated.
You may review and update your cookie settings at any time by visiting Wood Mackenzie Cookie Policy and Cookie Settings.
Information we collect directly from you or from the following sources:
Personal Information such as name, job title, business contact details, company name and company address
Product/service preferences. Please note that if you are a user of our services, you may manage your preferences within ‘My Account’ and by navigating to ‘My Preferences’.
To provide you access to our products and services
Respond to your inquiry / request
Receive your feedback on our products / services and to acknowledge / update you on its progress
Advertise / market/ provide announcements about our products, services as well as future conferences / events that may be of interest to you
We work to tailor the marketing communications that we provide so that we can deliver content that is more relevant to you, at an appropriate frequency. For these purposes, we will use the information that you provide to us, along with information that we have collected about you, i.e. engagement patterns such as email opens, file, form, web visits or video/webinar views, event registrations and unsubscribe / resubscribe requests.
Operate, evaluate, and improve our business including develop new products and services
Administer our Sites, investigate any complaints and provide customer service
Perform market research
Determine the effectiveness of our advertising and marketing
Analyse and enhance our products, services, and websites
Maintain your preferences within “do not contact” lists (if you unsubscribe from any marketing communications, we will continue to store some of your data on a ‘do not contact’ list so that we can record your preference
Maintain information security
Protect against and prevent fraud, claims and other liabilities and to comply with or enforce applicable legal requirements, industry standards and our policies and terms.
It is necessary to perform our obligations or exercise our contractual rights
It is necessary to comply with applicable laws or regulations
We have a legitimate interest to:
Manage and promote our business and brand to business contacts
Provide and improve our services
Operate our business
We have your consent (where required under applicable law) to use your information for marketing. You have a right to withdraw your consent / unsubscribe by contacting us
Where your employer has provided your data to us, to carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you or your employer and us
We may also use the information to protect against and prevent fraud, claims, and other liabilities and to comply with or enforce applicable legal requirements, industry standards, and our policies and terms. We use personal data for these purposes when it is necessary to protect, exercise or defend our legal rights, or when we are required to do so by law that applies to us.
Where permitted by law, we may acquire personal data about you from third-parties. This may include personal data shared between our affiliates, publicly available information on third party social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter should you interact with us, and marketing lists acquired from third party data brokers, namely Cognism.
Public resources such as company websites, third-party marketing lists or third-party research consultant lists
Name
Business contact information
Role
Industry / business interests
Advertise / Market/ provide announcements about our products, services as well as future conferences / events that may be of interest to you
We work to tailor the marketing communications that we provide so that we can deliver content that is more relevant to you, at an appropriate frequency. For these purposes, we will use the information that you provide to us, along with information that we have collected about you, i.e. engagement patterns such as email opens, file, form, web visits or video/webinar views, event registrations and unsubscribe / resubscribe requests.
Maintain your preferences within “do not contact” lists (if you unsubscribe from any marketing communications, we will continue to store some of your data on a ‘do not contact’ list so as to record and observe your preference).
We have a legitimate interest to:
Manage and promote our business and brand to business contacts
Provide and improve our services
Operate our business
Where consent has been provided to use your information for sales / marketing communications. You have a right to withdraw your consent / unsubscribe by contacting us, or following the link at the base of any marketing email that we send.
We may also use the information to protect against and prevent fraud, claims, and other liabilities and to comply with or enforce applicable legal requirements, industry standards, and our policies and terms. We use personal data for these purposes when it is necessary to protect, exercise or defend our legal rights, or when we are required to do so by law that applies to us.
Personal data that you provide directly to us when you sign up to attend / accept an invitation to attend an in-person event.
Name
Business contact information
Role
We may ask you to notify us if you have any dietary requests
To provide you with access to the event
Respond to your inquiry / request
Accommodate your dietary request
We have a legitimate interest to:
Manage and promote our business and brand to business contacts
Provide and improve our services
Operate our business
Manage event security
We may also use the information to protect against and prevent fraud, claims, and other liabilities and to comply with or enforce applicable legal requirements, industry standards, and our policies and terms. We use personal data for these purposes when it is necessary to protect, exercise or defend our legal rights, or when we are required to do so by law that applies to us.
Information that We Collect Automatically through cookies, non-cookie based tokens, web beacons, and other automated means
Our web servers may log information such as:
Your operating system type, browser type, domain and other system settings
Language system uses and country / time zone where the device used is located
Address of the web-page that referred to our site
IP address used to connect to the internet
Log information about site interaction such as pages visited
Browsing history
Statistical data relating to interactions i.e. no. of emails opened, file/form/video views, event registrations, unsubscribes/resubscribes
Understand and respond to your needs
To provide you access to our products and services
Customise and enhance our visitors visits to the Sites
We work to tailor the marketing communications that we provide so that we can deliver content that is more relevant to you, at an appropriate frequency. For these purposes, we will use the information that you provide to us, along with information that we have collected about you, i.e. engagement patterns such as email opens, file, form, web visits or video/webinar views, event registrations and unsubscribe / resubscribe requests.
Facilitate use of the Sites
Collect statistics about your visits to the sites
Understand the manner in which our visitors browse the Sites
Diagnose technical and service problems
Administer the Sites
Identify visitors to the Sites
We use clickstream data to determine how much time visitors spend on web pages of the Sites, how visitors navigate through the Sites, and how we may tailor the Sites to meet the needs of our visitors.
We have a legitimate interest to:
Manage and promote our business and brand to business contacts
Provide and improve our services
Operate our business
We may also use the information to protect against and prevent fraud, claims, and other liabilities and to comply with or enforce applicable legal requirements, industry standards, and our policies and terms. We use personal data for these purposes when it is necessary to protect, exercise or defend our legal rights, or when we are required to do so by law that applies to us.
Your browser settings may have settlings that enable you to transmit a “Do not Track” signal to websites and online services you visit. We are in the process of reviewing functionality. Currently, if you visit wwww.woodmac.com and if we detect that you have enabled the Do Not Track setting, or Global Privacy Control in the EU/UK, we will automatically disable targeting cookies.
The sites includes social media functions, such as the Blog, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook widgets. These widgets enable you, should you choose to do so, to share content on your social channel. The widgets may collect information about which pages you visit on the sites and the IP address of the device you use to connect to the Internet. The widgets may also set a cookie to ensure the features are functioning properly.
Social media functions and widgets are hosted either by a third party or directly on the sites. Your interactions with the social media functions and widgets located on the sites are governed by the privacy policies of the companies that provide them. If you use any of the social media functions or widgets on our sites, we strongly suggest you review the privacy policies of the companies that provide those functions and features.
If you are a LinkedIn member, we use LinkedIn’s Insights Tag which is small snippet of javascript code on our website which, when enabled via cookie acceptance, will enable us to collect data regarding your interactions with our website. This includes the URL/s, referrer, IP address, device and browser and timestamp. This data is stripped of direct identifiers after 7 days and deleted within 180 days.
We use this data to serve you with relevant marketing messages promoting our content, products and services based on your previous engagement with us.
We use LinkedIn Sales Navigator service from LinkedIn to identify, locate, and communicate with business contacts.
To learn how to opt out of Sponsored InMail, navigate to Privacy & Settings in your LinkedIn account, choose the "Communications" tab, and then click "Turn on/off Partner InMail" to disable Sponsored InMails. Further information on data protection at LinkedIn can be found at www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy
Our marketing emails contain pixel tags once opened. These enable us to track whether an email has been received, and count visitors that have opened an email. This occurs when a person clicks “Download images” as this signals an open in our email system. If an individual clicks a link in an email, our system also marks this as an open. We use this information to understand the impact of our campaigns, so we can tailor our content to be most relevant to our audience.
We also use third-party web analytic services on our Sites, such as Google Analytics. Google Analytics is a third party, web analytics software service provided by Google. It tracks and reports website traffic data. For more information about how your data is used, please read Google's privacy notice.
We do not collect any personal information from Google Analytics. Google collects and provide statistics about how users are interacting with our site. We are not able to identify individual users. The statistical information we see about users includes:
We use this data to improve user experience across our website for example, making our site easier to navigate, serving up the most relevant content, and ensuring we are optimising for browsers and devices.
To learn how to opt out of Google Analytics, visit: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
StackAdapt is a programmatic advertising platform providing advertising services. Via StackAdapt’s services, and subject to your cookie preferences, we collect and use statistical information that does not identify you, in order to measure advertising campaign effectiveness i.e. how successful a campaign has been in driving awareness, engagement and traffic to our website. We also use StackAdapt, again subject to your cookie preferences, for targeted advertising. For further information, please see our Cookie Policy. We encourage you to also review StackAdapt’s privacy notice which also includes details on your rights: Platform Privacy Policy.
To learn more about the cookies that Wood Mackenzie uses on these Sites, as well as to control your cookie settings on this Sites, please read our Cookie Policy.
If you choose not to provide Personal Information requested by us, we may not be able to provide you with the services / information that you have requested or inquired about.
If you are located in the People’s Republic of China, we will only use your personal data for marketing purposes after obtaining consent from you. If you do not want us to use your personal data for marketing purposes, please contact us and our contact details can be found at the ‘How To Contact Us’ section at the end of this Notice.
We do not sell or otherwise disclose personal data that you provide to us or that we collect, except as described here. We share your information with the following third parties;
In addition, we disclose personal data about you (a) if we are required or permitted to do so by law or legal process, for example due to a court order or a request from a law enforcement agency, (b) when we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to prevent physical harm or financial loss, (c) in connection with an investigation of suspected or actual fraudulent or other illegal activity, and (c) in the event we sell or transfer all or a portion of our business or assets (including in the event of a reorganization, dissolution, or liquidation).
Wood Mackenzie is a multinational organisation that manages its group entities through uniformed IT systems. Wood Mackenzie has offices in various locations. For details of our office locations, see here: www.woodmac.com/about/our-locations/
We may transfer the personal data that we collect about you to recipients in countries other than the country in which the personal data originally was collected. Those countries may not have the same data protection laws as the country in which you initially provided the personal data. When we transfer your personal data to recipients in mother countries (such as the U.S.), we will protect that personal data as described in this Notice.
If you are located in the United Kingdom (“UK”) or European Economic Area (“EEA”), or Switzerland, we will comply with applicable legal requirements providing adequate protection for the transfer of personal data to recipients in countries outside of the UK, EEA and Switzerland. In all such cases, we will only transfer your personal data if:
or
If you are located in the People’s Republic of China, we will seek your separate consent for sharing your personal data with other data controllers and cross-border transfer of your personal data. Please refer to Section 4 above for a list of recipients and Section 10 below for the contact information and ways to exercise your rights with the recipients.
You may request a copy of the safeguards that we have put in place in respect of transfers of personal data by contacting us as described in the How To Contact Us section below.
We maintain appropriate technical and organizational measures designed to protect your personal data against loss or accidental, unlawful or unauthorised, alteration, access, disclosure or use.
In order to access our subscription services, you will be required to create an account and provide a username, and a password of your choosing. We use this information to provide / administer your account. You may not share the user name and password with or transfer them to any third party, including other colleagues. We will never ask you for your password/username.
The time period for which we keep personal data depends on the purpose for which we collected it. In all cases we keep it for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes for which we collected it. We will then delete the personal data, unless we are legally required to retain it or if we need to retain it in order to comply with our legal obligations (for example, for tax and accounting purposes).
Subject to any applicable legal requirements, we typically retain personal data as follows:
Personal data you provide to us through our Sites: we keep this personal data for as long as necessary in order to respond to your request, and for a short further period in case you send us further requests.
Personal data you provide to us through the account setup or access process: we keep this personal data for as long as necessary in order to manage access to your account, and for a short further period in case you send us further requests.
Personal data you provide when you sign-up to receive direct marketing communications: we keep most of this personal data for the duration of our relationship with you until you opt-out or we do not have any contact with you for a long period of time.
Personal data collected for analytics purposes: we keep this personal data for a short period of time necessary for us to carry out the analytics.
Website logs: we keep Site audit logs, which may contain your personal data, for as long as necessary to fulfil the purpose for which it was collected.
Unsubscribe
Any marketing email that we send to you will contain an unsubscribe link that will remove you from the relevant marketing list. You may also contact us to unsubscribe by submitting an unsubscribe request here; Unsubscribe.
If you unsubscribe from any marketing communications, we will continue to store some of your data on a ‘do not contact’ list so as to record and observe your preferences.
Your Rights & Choices
Please note that your rights described may be subject to certain limitations. Wood Mackenzie may not be required to fulfil all requests in all circumstances. For example, we may not be able to delete all data as we may have a legal requirement to retain such data, or to retain such data in an identifiable form.
Automated Decision Making
Automated decision making refers to a decision taken solely on the basis of automated processing of personal data, without human intervention. Wood Mackenzie does not make decisions based solely on automated data processing.
If you are located in the UK. European Economic Area (“EEA”), or Switzerland, you may have the following rights in relation to personal data that we hold about you. Please note that your rights described may be subject to certain limitations. Wood Mackenzie may not be required to fulfil all requests in all circumstances. For example, we may not be able to delete all data as we may have a legal requirement to retain such data, or to retain such data in an identifiable form:
Confirmation and Access:
Correction and update:
Deletion:
Restriction:
Withdraw Consent:
Object:
Portability:
You may contact us by e-mail or as described in the “How to Contact Us” section below to exercise your rights described above.
You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the data protection supervisory authority in your country. You can find the contact information of the data protection supervisory authority in your country here. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the data protection supervisory authority in your country. You can find the contact information of the data protection supervisory authority in your country here (for EU Citizens) and here (for UK citizens).
Children under 14 years old are not the target audience for our Sites/products or services. To protect their privacy, we prohibit the collection of personal data from children. Please contact us if you believe that we have any personal data from any children without their parental/guardian consent – we will promptly investigate (and remove) such personal data.
We may update this Notice periodically and without prior notice to you to reflect changes in our personal data practices or relevant laws. We will post the updated version and indicate at the top of the notice when it was most recently updated.
Changes to this Version of the Privacy Notice
The main changes and reasons for changes between the current version of this Privacy Notice and previous version dated February 2023, are the following:
If you have any questions or concerns about the use of your personal information, you can contact us at privacy@woodmac.com. Please note that this email address is not for use for marketing purposes.
Certain Wood Mackenzie affiliates and subsidiaries have a Data Protection Officer. If your personal data was provided to or collected by Vesseltracker, contact with Vesseltracker’s Data Protection Officer can be initiated info@vesseltracker.com
Right to Lodge a Complaint with a Supervisory Authority
Subject to applicable law, you have the right to raise a complaint with the supervisory authority where you live, work or where an infringement takes place.
If you are located in the UK, the data protection regulator is the ICO. The ICO’s address is:
Information Commissioner’s Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF
ICO website: https://www.ico.org.uk
If you are located in the EU, a list of data protection authorities is available from the European Data Protection Board here: European Data Protection Board (europa.eu)
If you reside in one of the following countries / states, then the following applicable section applies to you. If there is a conflict between the provisions in a country noted below, and the general descriptions above, then the country-specific information will apply.
If you are located in Brazil, you have the following rights in relation to personal data that we hold about you:
Confirmation and Access:
Correction:
Anonymisation or blocking:
Deletion:
Revoke consent:
Information regarding Consent:
Portability:
You will not be subject to decisions based solely on automated data processing without your prior informed consent.
Information about recipients:
Informed
You have the right to lodge a complaint with the Data Protection Authority regarding the processing of your personal data; ANPD — Autoridade Nacional de Proteção de Dados (www.gov.br)
In addition to the contact details described under ‘contact us’ you may also contact us in writing at:
FAO: Data Privacy
Wood Mackenzie
Av. Alm. Barroso, 52 – Centro
Rio de Janeiro - RJ
20031-000
Brazil
If you are a resident in California, please see our California notice (woodmac.com)
