Privacy Policy
We take your privacy very seriously. Please read this privacy policy carefully as it contains important information on who we are and our information practices, meaning how and why we collect, use, disclose, sell, share, store, and retain your personal information. It also explains your rights in relation to your personal information and how to contact us in the event you have a complaint or request.
We collect, use, and are responsible for certain personal information about you. For California consumers, we are subject to the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA), as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 (CPRA), and we are responsible for your personal information as a “business” under the CCPA/CPRA. Depending on where you are located, other privacy and data protection laws may also apply to our processing of your personal information, and we will comply with those laws to the extent they apply.
1. Key Terms. It would be helpful to start by explaining some key terms used in this policy:
2. Personal Information We Collect About You. We may collect and use the following personal information, including sensitive personal information, that identifies, relates to, describes, is reasonable capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer or household:
If you do not provide personal information required to provide our nanotechnology chemical solutions and related services for oil and gas producers to you or your company, it may delay or prevent us from providing those solutions and services to you.
3. How Your Personal Information is Collected. We collect personal information from the following categories of sources:
- You, directly in person, by telephone, text, or email, and via our website and any customer or partner portals or mobile applications that we operate
- Third party with your consent (e.g., your bank)
- Advertising networks
- Internet service providers
- Data analytics providers
- Government entities
- Operating systems and platforms
- Social networks
- Data brokers
- Publicly accessible sources (e.g., property records)
- Cookies on our website
- Our IT and security systems, including:
- Door entry systems and reception logs
- Automated monitoring of our websites and other technical systems, such as our computer networks and connections, CCTV and access control systems, communications systems, email, and instant messaging systems –and–
- Laboratory information management systems, safety and incident reporting systems, and other operational systems used in connection with our nanotechnology chemical solutions and related facilities
4. Cookies, Pixels, and Other Tracking Technologies. When you visit or use our website or other online services, we and our partners use cookies, pixels, tags, scripts, software development kits (SDKs), and similar tracking technologies ("cookies" or "tracking technologies") to collect information about your device and your interactions with our services and online content.
These tracking technologies may be set by us (first-party cookies) or by third parties (third-party cookies) and are used for the following purposes:
Strictly necessary cookies that are required for our website to function properly, to enable core features (such as page navigation, access to secure areas, and form submissions), and to protect the security of our services.
Performance, analytics, and measurement cookies that help us understand how visitors use our website (for example, which pages are visited and which links are clicked), so that we can improve our website, services, and marketing campaigns.
Advertising and targeting cookies, pixels, and similar technologies that enable us and our advertising and analytics partners to recognize your device over time and across websites and apps, to measure the effectiveness of our marketing, and to show you ads that may be more relevant to your interests (also sometimes referred to as "interest-based" or "cross-context behavioral" advertising).
Under the CCPA/CPRA, our use of certain advertising, analytics, and social media cookies and pixels may constitute the "sharing" of your personal information for cross-context behavioral or targeted advertising. You can manage your cookie and tracking technology preferences (other than strictly necessary cookies) at any time by using the cookie banner or cookie preference center that appears when you first visit our website (and is available via the "Cookie Settings" link in the footer of our website). You may also exercise your right to opt-out of the sale or sharing of your personal information, including in connection with our use of advertising and analytics cookies and pixels, by visiting our homepage and clicking the "Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information" link or by going directly to https://www.activenergychemicals.com/do-not-sell-or-share-my-personal-information.
You can also configure your browser or device to refuse or disable cookies or to alert you when cookies are being sent. Please note that if you disable or refuse cookies, some parts of our website may become inaccessible or may not function properly.
5. How and Why We Use Your Personal Information. We use your personal information for business and operational purposes, including to provide and improve our products and services, to communicate with you, to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations, to protect our rights and the rights of others, and for other purposes described in this privacy policy or at the time of collection.
The table below explains what we use (process) your personal information for and our reasons for doing so:
6. Promotional Communications. We may use your personal information to send you updates (by email, text message, telephone, or post) about our nanotechnology chemical solutions and related services for oil and gas producers, including exclusive offers, promotions or new products and services.
In many cases, we rely on our business relationship with you to send you promotional communications about our products and services. Where applicable law requires your consent for certain types of marketing communications, we will request that consent separately and clearly.
We will always treat your personal information with the utmost respect and we do not sell your personal information or share it with other organizations outside of Activ Energy Chemicals, Inc. for their own direct marketing. However, as described in the “Cookies, Pixels, and Other Tracking Technologies” and “Personal Information We Sold or Shared” sections, we may allow certain thirdparty advertising, analytics, and social media partners to collect or receive information about your online activity on our website (for example, via cookies and pixels) so that they can help us deliver more relevant ads, measure campaign performance, or provide analytics services. Under the CCPA/CPRA, this type of activity may be considered a “sale” or “sharing” of your personal information for crosscontext behavioral or targeted advertising, and you have the right optout of such sale or sharing as described below.
You have the right to opt-out of receiving promotional communications at any time and, for California consumers, to optout of the sale or sharing of your personal information for targeted or crosscontext behavioral advertising. You can exercise these choices by:
- Contacting us at privacy@activenergy.com
- Using the “unsubscribe” link in emails or “STOP” number in texts; visiting our homepage and clicking the “Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information” link or going directly to https://www.activenergychemicals.com/do-not-sell-or-share-my-personal-information; or adjusting your preferences in our cookie banner or cookie preference center (accessible via the “Cookie Settings” link in the footer of our website) to disable advertising and analytics cookies and pixels.
We may ask you to confirm or update your marketing preferences if you instruct us to provide further nanotechnology chemical solutions or related services in the future, or if there are changes in the law, regulation, or the structure of our business.
7. Who We Share Your Personal Information With. We routinely share personal information with:
- Our affiliates, including companies within the Activ Energy Chemicals, Inc.
- Service providers we use to help deliver our nanotechnology chemical solutions and related services to you, such as payment service providers, warehouses, and delivery companies
- Other third parties we use to help us run our business, such as marketing agencies or website hosts
- Third parties approved by you, including social media sites you choose to link your account to or third-party payment providers
- Credit reporting agencies
- Our insurers and brokers
- Our banks
- Other business partners and professional advisers, such as logistics providers, technical consultants, auditors, accountants, and legal advisers who support our operations
We only allow our service providers to handle your personal information if we are satisfied they take appropriate measures to protect your personal information. We also impose contractual obligations on service providers relating to ensure they can only use your personal information to provide services to us and to you. We may also share personal information with external auditors, e.g., in relation to ISO[ or Investors in People] accreditation and the audit of our accounts.
We may disclose and exchange information with law enforcement agencies and regulatory bodies to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations.
We may also need to share some personal information with other parties, such as potential buyers of some or all of our business or during a re-structuring. We will typically anonymize information, but this may not always be possible. The recipient of the information will be bound by confidentiality obligations.
8. Personal Information We Sold or Shared. In the preceding 12 months, we have sold or shared the following categories of personal information:
- Identifiers (e.g., a real name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier, online identifier, Internet Protocol address, email address, account name, social security number, driver’s license number, passport number, or other similar identifiers)
- Information that identifies, relates to, describes, or is capable of being associated with, a particular individual, including, but not limited to, their name, signature, social security number, physical characteristics or description, address, telephone number, passport number, driver’s license or state identification card number, insurance policy number, education, employment, employment history, bank account number, credit card number, debit card number, or any other financial information, medical information, or health insurance information
- Commercial information (e.g., records of personal property, products or services purchased, obtained, or considered, or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies)
- Internet or other electronic network activity information (e.g., browsing history, search history, and information regarding a consumer’s interaction with an internet website, application, or advertisement)
- Geolocation data
- Inferences drawn from any of the information identified above to create a profile about a consumer reflecting the consumer’s preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes
9. Categories of Personal Information We Disclosed for a Business Purpose. In the preceding 12 months, we have disclosed the following categories of personal information for a business purpose:
- Identifiers (e.g., a real name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier, online identifier, Internet Protocol address, email address, account name, social security number, driver's license number, passport number, or other similar identifiers)
- Information that identifies, relates to, describes, or is capable of being associated with, a particular individual, including, but not limited to, their name, signature, social security number, physical characteristics or description, address, telephone number, passport number, driver's license or state identification card number, insurance policy number, education, employment, employment history, bank account number, credit card number, debit card number, or any other financial information, medical information, or health insurance information
- Characteristics of protected classifications under California or federal law
- Commercial information (e.g., records of personal property, products or services purchased, obtained, or considered, or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies)
- Internet or other electronic network activity information (e.g., browsing history, search history, and information regarding a consumer's interaction with an internet website, application, or advertisement)
- Geolocation data
- Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar information
- Professional or employment-related information
- Education information, defined as information that is not publicly available personally identifiable information as defined in the FERPA
- Inferences drawn from any of the information identified above to create a profile about a consumer reflecting the consumer's preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes –and–
- Sensitive personal information
10. How Long Your Personal Information Will Be Kept. We will keep your personal information while you have an account with us or while we are providing our nanotechnology chemical solutions and related services to you or your company. Thereafter, we will keep your personal information for as long as is necessary:
- To respond to any questions, complaints or claims made by you or on your behalf
- To show that we treated you fairly –or–
- To keep records required by law
We will not retain your personal information for longer than necessary for the purposes set out in this policy. Different retention periods apply for different types of personal information. Further details on this may be available in our internal records management policies and schedules.
When it is no longer necessary to retain your personal information, we will delete or anonymize it.
11. California Consumers: Your Rights Under the CCPA/CPRA. You have the right under the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA), as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 (CPRA), and certain other privacy and data protection laws, as applicable, to exercise free of charge:
12. How to Exercise Your Rights. If you would like to exercise any of your rights as described in this Privacy Policy (including any rights you may have under the CCPA/CPRA or other applicable privacy laws), you can do so here: https://www.activenergy.com/privacy-rights. You may also email/write to us at privacy@activenergy.com or
Activ Energy Chemicals, Inc.
Attn: General Counsel
12 N. Cheyenne Ave.
Tulsa, OK 74103
Please note that you may only make a CCPA/CPRA-related data access or data portability disclosure request twice within a 12-month period.
- If you choose to contact us directly by website, email, phone, or in writing, you will need to provide us with:
- Enough information to identify you (e.g., your full name, address and customer or matter reference number)
- Proof of your identity and address (e.g., a copy of your driving license or passport and a recent utility or credit card bill) –and–
- A description of what right you want to exercise and the information to which your request relates
- We are not obligated to make a data access or data portability disclosure if we cannot verify that the person making the request is the person about whom we collected information or is someone authorized to act on such person's behalf.
- Any personal information we collect from you to verify your identity in connection with your request will be used solely for the purposes of verification.
13. Keeping Your Personal Information Secure. We have appropriate security measures in place to prevent personal information from being accidentally lost or used or accessed in an unauthorized way. We limit access to your personal information to those who have a genuine business need to access it. Those processing your information will do so only in an authorized manner and are subject to a duty of confidentiality. 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.
14. Changes to This Privacy Notice. This privacy notice was published on January 1, 2026 and last updated on January 1, 2026.
We may change this privacy notice from time to time–when we do, we will inform you via notices on our website or other means of contact such as email where appropriate.
15. How to Contact Us. Please contact us by post, email, or telephone if you have any questions about this privacy policy or the information we hold about you.
Our contact details are shown below:
16. Do You Need Extra Help? If you would like this notice in another format (for example: audio, large print, braille) please contact us (see “How to contact us” above).