Privacy Policy
Introduction
Chevron Corporation and its wholly owned subsidiaries are committed to protecting your privacy. This statement explains the steps we take to protect personal data collected when you visit Energyville.com. It describes what categories of personal data we collect, the purposes for which we use those data, your choices regarding use of personal data, and our security measures. By accessing Energyville.com, you consent to the data collection and use practices described in this privacy statement.
Data collection
Data collected directly from visitors. In most instances, you can visit the site and play the Energyville game without providing any personal data. However, on some pages, we may ask you for personal data to provide a service or carry out a transaction requested by you. The personal data that we collect is limited to contact details, such as names (first names and last initials only) and email addresses.
You are not required to provide this information. However, if you choose not to, we may not be able to provide you the requested service or complete your transaction.
Data collected automatically. We collect certain data about all visitors to Energyville.com, including what pages they view, the number of bytes transferred, the links they click, and other actions taken within the site. We also collect certain standard information that your browser sends to every website you visit, such as your Internet Protocol (IP) address, your browser type and capabilities and language, your operating system, the date and time you access the site, and the website from which you linked to Energyville.com. We do not link these data to your identity.
Our use of personal data
We will use personal data collected through Energyville.com only for the purposes set forth below.
Services and transactions. We use personal data collected through the site to deliver services or execute transactions you request on the site, such as sending emails to others referred by you, inviting them to play the Energyville game.
Website improvement. We may use data collected about you to improve our websites (including our security measures) and related products or services, or to make our websites easier to use by eliminating the need for you to repeatedly enter the same information or by customizing our websites to your particular preference or interests.
Our use of cookies
Cookies are small files that websites save to your hard disk or to your browser's memory. Energyville.com may use them to track the number of times you have visited the website, to track the number of visitors to the website, to determine and analyze visitors' use of our websites, to store data that you provide (such as your preferences and email address), and to store technical information related to your interactions with our websites. We may also use session cookies, which are deleted when you close your browser, to facilitate your movement around our websites and other information useful in administering the session.
Most Internet browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser settings to decline cookies or to notify you when a cookie is being placed on your computer. If you choose not to accept cookies, you may not be able to experience all of the features of Energyville.com.
From time to time Energyville.com may contain electronic images known as Web beacons—sometimes called single-pixel gifs—that allow us to count the number of users who have visited pages on the site. For example, we may include Web beacons in email messages sent through the site in order to determine whether messages have been opened and acted upon, including whether the recipient clicked on a link in the email or forwarded the email to another person.
Disclosure of personal data
Except as described below, personal data that you provide to Chevron via Energyville.com will not be shared outside of Chevron, its subsidiaries and affiliates and its joint ventures without your consent.
Disclosure to service providers. Chevron contracts with other companies to provide services on our behalf, such as hosting our websites, sending out information, processing transactions, and analyzing our websites. We provide these companies with only those elements of the personal data collected that they need to deliver those services. These companies and their employees are prohibited from using those personal data for any other purposes.
Disclosures in connection with acquisitions or divestitures. Circumstances may arise where for strategic or other business reasons Chevron decides to sell, buy, merge or otherwise reorganize particular businesses. Such a transaction may involve the disclosure of personal data to prospective or actual purchasers, or receiving it from sellers. Although it is Chevron's practice to seek protection for information in these types of transactions, we cannot guarantee that any entity receiving such data from Chevron in connection with one of these transactions will comply with all of the terms of this privacy statement.
Disclosure for other reasons. We may disclose personal data if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with legal requirements or with legal process served on us, to protect and defend our rights or property, or in urgent circumstances to protect the personal safety of any individual.
Security
Chevron is committed to protecting the security of personal data collected through Energyville.com. While no security measure can guarantee against compromise, we use a variety of security technologies and procedures to help protect such personal data from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. For example, we store the personal data you provide on computer systems with limited access that are located in facilities to which access is limited.
International transfers of personal data
Personal data collected on our websites may be stored and processed in the United States or any other country in which Chevron or its subsidiaries, affiliates or joint ventures maintain facilities. By choosing to use our websites and to provide data to them, you consent to any such transfer of information outside of your country.
Links to other websites
Energyville.com may contain links to other websites, including those of other companies, professional and government organizations, and/or publications. Although we try to link only to websites that share our high standards and respect for privacy, we do not control and are not responsible for the content, security or privacy practices employed by other websites. You should review the privacy statements of those websites to determine how they protect and use your personal data.
Children
This site is a general audience site, although it contains information that may be of interest to children. However, Chevron does not seek through this site to gather personal data from or about persons under the age of 13.
Questions about our privacy practices
If you have questions regarding this privacy statement or our handling of personal data collected through this site, please contact us by email, or by mail at
Chevron Corporation
Attn. Global Privacy Office
66001 Bollinger Canyon Rd.
San Ramon, CA 94583
Changes to this privacy statement
Chevron may occasionally update this privacy statement. When we do, we will revise the "updated" date at the bottom of the privacy statement. You should revisit this page periodically to become aware of the most recent privacy terms; your use of the site after such changes have been posted constitutes your agreement to such changes.
Updated: December 2011