Privacy Policy

Effective Date: January 1, 2023
Last Updated: June 29, 2023

The Privacy Policy describes how the World Oil family of companies (“World Oil” “we” and “us”) collects, uses, protects, and discloses personal information about you, and how you can exercise your privacy rights.

Our Privacy Policy applies to visitors of our website, customers, vendors, job applicants, and current or former employees and contractors. If you have any questions, please contact us as provided below.

Contents

Categories of Personal Information We Collect
Categories of Sources From Which We Collect Personal Information
Purposes for Collecting Personal Information
How We Share Information With Others
How Long We Keep Personal Information
Cookies, Analytics, and Other Tracking Technology
Security
This Website is Not Intended for Children
Marketing Communications
Processing in the United States
Your California Privacy Rights
Contact Us
Updates to Our Privacy Policy

Categories of Personal Information We Collect

We collect the following categories and types of personal information:

Contact Information. We collect full name, email address, current and prior postal address, and telephone number.
Identifiers. We collect internet protocol address, social security number, driver’s license number, passport number and signature.
Financial Information. We collect bank account number, bank routing information and credit card number.
Personal Characteristics or Traits. We collect date of birth, gender, age, weight, height, nationality, racial or ethnic origin, religion, marital status, citizenship status, military or veteran status and disability information.
Commercial Information. We collect records of products or services purchased, obtained, or considered.
Biometric information. We collect fingerprint information for background checks.
Internet or Electronic Usage Data. We collect data related to network and website interaction history, IP address, website cookie information, interaction with advertisements and browsing time.
Geolocation Data. We collect geolocation data related to the location of the trucks and equipment in our fleet.
Audio/visual data. We collect video data of commercial drivers operating equipment in our fleet.
Professional or Employment Information. We collect job application details, previous work history, salary wage expectation, reference or background checks, drug test results, professional memberships, personnel number, job title role, office location, company entity, compensation and bonus data, benefits data, dependency information, emergency contact information, direct deposit banking details, time tracking, absence and annual leave, corporate credit card numbers, travel booking details, expense details, performance rating, records of disciplinary action, health and safety related information, workers compensation claims, grievances and complaints, exit interview and comments, and reasons for termination.
Non-public Education Information. We collect education history, degrees, qualifications and certifications.
Sensitive Personal Information. We collect government issued identification numbers (e.g., social security, driver’s license, state identification card, passport number and Account Log-In (e.g., username and password to online account with us).

Categories of Sources From Which We Collect Personal Information

We collect information in a variety of ways:

Directly from you. We collect contact information, identifiers, financial information, personal characteristics or traits, commercial information, biometric information, professional or employment information, non-public education information and sensitive personal information that you provide directly to us.
When you visit our offices. When you visit our offices or facilities, we also collect contact information.
When you utilize our equipment. When you utilize the trucks within our fleet, we collect the geolocation data of that truck and video data of the driver operating the truck.
Automatically. When you access our websites, we collect identifiers, geolocation data, and internet or electronic usage data using tools like browser cookies.
From third parties, vendors and service providers: We may collect identifiers, commercial information, applicant information, and background check information.

Purposes for Collecting Personal Information

We use your personal information for the following purposes:

Transactional Purposes: We use contact information, identifiers, financial information, and commercial information to: (i) allow you to receive the products and services that we offer; (ii) to communicate with you; and (iii) provide supporting business activities such as billing and collections, procurement, and tax related activities.
Employment Purposes. We use contact information, identifiers, personal characteristics or traits, biometric information, professional or employment information, non-public education information and sensitive personal information for the purpose of administering employment activities such as recruiting, hiring, onboarding, training, communication, payroll, employment benefits, travel planning, union reporting and employee recognition.
Analytical Purposes: We use professional or employment information to analyze trends and statistics.
Marketing and Promotional Purposes: We use contact information, identifiers, financial information and internet or electronic usage data to improve our marketing efforts, prospecting of new customers, drafting proposals, customer relationship management, customer engagement, to provide you with information about us, including personalized marketing communications.
Maintenance and Improvement of our Website and Systems: We use internet or electronic usage data to improve our website and systems, provide and maintain functionality on our website and systems, and help us diagnose technical and service problems and administer our website and systems. Maintenance of our systems includes activities such as supporting employee account administration for network and applications, applying security controls for company systems, providing new system implementations, applying change management processes, and providing IT Service Desk / Help Desk Support.
Develop and Improve Our Products and Services: We use contact information, identifiers, financial information, commercial information, geolocation data and professional or employment information to help us develop new products and services and to improve and analyze our existing products and service offerings.
Security and Fraud Prevention: We use contact information, identifiers, financial information, commercial information, biometric information, internet or electronic usage data, geolocation data, video data, professional or employment information, personal characteristics or traits, non-public education information, and sensitive personal information to: (i) protect our websites, products and services; (ii) protect us, our affiliated companies, our employees, our carriers and others; (iii) conduct vendor due diligence; and (iv)prevent fraud, theft and misconduct.
Legal: We use contact information, identifiers, financial information, commercial information, biometric information, internet or electronic usage data, geolocation data, professional or employment information, personal characteristics or traits, non-public education information, and sensitive personal information to comply with our legal obligations, including reporting requirements, and defend ourselves in legal proceedings, and protect our company and our property, employees, and others through legal proceedings.

We will share personal information in the following circumstances or as otherwise described in this Privacy Policy:

Service Providers: We may share personal information with vendors and service providers who support the operation of our services, website, and our business and who need access to such information to carry out their work for us (including, for example, cloud hosting providers, analytics, payment processing, financial institutions, order fulfillment, email delivery, marketing, insurance, internet service providers, operating systems and platforms, transportation, recruiting vendors, benefits and workers compensation vendors, subhaulers, storage and facilities services, background check, credit verification, maintenance and customer support services). In some cases, the vendor or service provider may directly collect the information from you on our behalf.
Affiliates: We may share personal information with and among our parent company, subsidiaries, affiliates, or their successors or assigns.
Marketing/Analytics/Advertising Partners: We may share personal information with third party marketing, analytics or advertising partners, including social media platforms and networks, for commercial purposes such as sending you marketing emails.
Professional Advisors: We may share information with professional advisors, such as lawyers, bankers, tax consultants, auditors, and insurers, where necessary in the course of the professional services that they render to us.
Unions: We may share personal information with employee representation bodies (e.g., unions).
Government Entities: We share information with regulatory and government entities including government, administrative, law enforcement and regulatory agencies; tax authorities; and other public agencies or authorities if we think we should in order to comply with any applicable law, regulation, legal process or other legal obligation. This includes cooperating with law enforcement when we think it is appropriate, obtaining legal remedies or limiting our damages, and to enforcing or protecting our contracts, legal rights or the rights of others, including by responding to claims asserted against us.
Corporate Transaction Recipients: We may share information with potential investors, purchasers, merger partners, and their advisors in the event we: (i) sell or transfer, or are considering selling or transferring, all or a portion of our business or assets; or (ii) are considering or engaging in any reorganization, conversion, merger, sale, joint venture, assignment, transfer or disposition of all or any portion of our ownership interest, business or operations.
With Your Consent or At Your Direction: We may share information with third parties whenever you consent to or direct such sharing.
Other Reasons: We may share information for other reasons we may describe to you.

How Long We Keep Personal Information

We will retain and use your information for as long as we need it to provide you services or products, or as long as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements. If you wish to request that we no longer use your information to provide you services or products, please contact us at privacy@worldoilcorp.com.

Cookies, Analytics, and Other Tracking Technology

Cookies and Tracking Technology

We want you to be aware that certain online tools exist to help us serve and recognize you when you visit our website. We receive and store certain types of information when you visit our website. When you access the website, we (including companies we work with) may place small data files on your computer or other device. These data files may be web beacons, cookies, clear gifs, pixel tags, e-tags, flash cookies, log files, or other local storage provided by your browser or associated applications. These tracking technologies, which are often referred to collectively as cookies, allow us to understand how users navigate to and around our website, view different pages, access content and request Services. We may use them, for example, to keep track of your preferences and profile information and collect general usage and volume statistical information. If you want to remove or block cookies, you may be able to update your browser settings. You can also find instructions on how to manage cookies on different types of web browsers at www.allaboutcookies.org. Please click here to change your preferences regarding cookies.

Do Not Track Signals

Some browsers have a “do not track” feature. It lets you tell websites you visit that you do not want them to track your online activity. These features are not yet uniform across browsers. Our Sites are thus not currently set up to respond to these signals. For more information on Do Not Track signals, please visit https://allaboutdnt.com/.

Security

We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the personal information submitted to us and have implemented reasonable technical, organization, administrative and physical measures to protect personal information. No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure, however. Therefore, we cannot guarantee its absolute security and encourage you to use websites and share information with caution.

This Website is Not Intended for Children

We do not knowingly collect or store any personal information from anyone under the age of 13. If we become aware that we have collected or stored personal information from an individual under age 13, we will remove his or her personal information from our files. If you are a parent or guardian and believe we may have inadvertently collected personal information from your child, please notify us immediately by sending an email to privacy@worldoilcorp.com.

Marketing Communications

You can opt out of marketing or advertising emails and newsletters by using the mechanism noted in communications you receive from us. You may also request to opt out of marketing or advertising emails by contacting us through one of the methods specified in the Contact Us section of this Privacy Policy. Once we process your request, we will cease using the information for such purposes at no charge to you. If you opt out of getting marketing messages, you will continue to receive messages from us about your relationship with us where permitted by law.

Processing in the United States

We are based in the United States. If you are using the website from outside the United States, please be aware that information we obtain about you will be processed in the United States or in other jurisdictions. By using the website or our services, you acknowledge your personal information may be transferred to and processed in jurisdictions outside your own, including the United States, as described in this Privacy Policy. Please be aware that the data protection laws and regulations that apply to your personal information transferred to the United States or other countries may be different from the laws in your country of residence. The United States may not afford the same level of protection as laws in your own country. Information we transfer from the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom or Switzerland to the United States will be subject to appropriate safeguards under applicable law. Those safeguards may include standard data protection clauses approved by the European Commission/ICO and available on their website.

Your California Privacy Rights

Shine The Light. If you are a California resident, this section applies to you. The California Shine the Light law (Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.83) permits residents of California to request certain details about how their information is shared with third parties for the third-parties’ direct marketing purposes. If you are a California resident and would like to make such a request, please contact us at privacy@worldoilcorp.com, and include “CA Shine the Light” in the subject line of your email.

California Consumer Privacy Act.

This section applies to our privacy practices as required under the California Consumer Privacy Act, including as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act (together, the “CCPA“).

Categories and sources of personal information we collect

In the preceding 12 months, we have collected the following categories of personal information: contact information, identifiers, financial information, personal characteristics or traits, commercial information, biometric information, internet or electronic usage data, geolocation data, professional or employment information, non-public education information and sensitive personal information. For details about precise data points we collect and the categories of sources of such collection, please see the sections above titled Categories of Personal Information We Collect and Categories of Sources From Which We Collect Personal Information.

Sale of Personal Information

In the preceding 12 months, we have not “sold” (as that term is defined in the CCPA) personal information. We do not knowingly sell the personal information of minors under the age of 16.

Sharing of Personal Information

We have not “shared” and do not “share” (as those terms are defined in the CCPA) personal information. We do not knowingly share the personal information of minors under the age of 16.

Use or Disclosure of Sensitive Personal Information

In the preceding 12 months, we have not used or disclosed sensitive personal information for purposes to which the right to limit use and disclosure applies under the CCPA.

Purposes for which we use personal information: We collect personal information for the business and commercial purposes described in the section above titled Purposes for Collecting Personal Information.

Disclosure for a business purpose: In the preceding 12 months, we have disclosed the following categories of personal information for business purposes to the following categories of third party recipients:

Category of Personal Information	Categories of Recipients
Contact Information	· Service providers · Operating Systems and Platforms · Government entities · Unions
Identifiers	· Service providers · Operating Systems and Platforms · Government entities · Unions
Financial information	· Service providers · Operating Systems and Platforms · Government entities · Unions
Personal Characteristics or Traits	· Service providers · Operating Systems and Platforms · Government entities · Unions
Biometric Information	· Service providers · Operating Systems and Platforms · Government entities · Unions
Geolocation Data	· Service providers · Operating Systems and Platforms · Unions
Internet or Electronic Usage Data	· Service providers · Operating Systems and Platforms
Professional or Employment Information	· Service providers · Operating Systems and Platforms · Government entities · Unions
Non-public Education Information	· Service providers · Operating Systems and Platforms · Unions
Sensitive Information	· Service providers · Operating Systems and Platforms · Unions

For a more expansive description of the categories of recipients and business purposes for which we share personal information, please see the How We Share Personal Information section above.

Your Rights Under the CCPA

Subject to certain exceptions, the CCPA affords California consumers the following rights:

You have the right to request that we tell you (i) what personal information we have collected about you, (ii) the sources of that information, (iii) the business or commercial purposes for collecting, selling or sharing the personal information; and (iv) the categories of third-parties to whom we have disclosed personal information.
You have the right to request that we provide you with a copy of your personal information.
You have the right to request that we delete personal information that we have collected from you. We may not delete all of your personal information if one of the exceptions to the CCPA applies.
You have the right to opt-out of the sale or sharing of your personal information.
You have the right to direct us to limit the use or disclosure of your sensitive personal information to only the purposes specified in the CCPA.
You have the right to correct inaccurate personal information that we hold about you.
You have the right to opt out of automated decision-making, including profiling, that we use to evaluate certain qualifications as part of the recruitment process.
You have the right to not be discriminated against for exercising any of your CCPA rights. We will not discriminate against you, deny you services, charge you a different price, or provide you with a lesser quality of services if you exercise any of your CCPA rights.

If you choose to use the Global Privacy Control (“GPC”) browser signal, you will only be opted out of online sales or sharing of Personal Information, and will need to turn it on for each browser you use. To submit a request to opt out of offline sales and sharing which would not otherwise be controlled by GPC, please use our webform or telephone number.

Exercising Your Rights Under the CCPA

To exercise any of your CCPA rights, please complete and submit the Webform found here. You can also email us at privacy@worldoilcorp.com or call us at 877-361-4661. For all requests, you must provide us with your name, email address, and phone number. Failure to provide all of the foregoing information may prevent us from processing your request. For an online request to delete, we will also send you a second verification to confirm that you want your information to be deleted.
In order to designate an authorized agent to act on your behalf, you must provide a signed, written authorization as requested in the Webform or to us at privacy@worldoilcorp.com.

Other Consumer Rights Information. Under California Civil Code Section 1789.3, we are required to provide California residents with the following information:

Unless otherwise expressly stated, this Site is provided without charge.
To file a complaint regarding this Site or to receive further information regarding use of this website, please contact us via email at privacy@worldoilcorp.com. You also may contact the Complaint Assistance Unit of the Division of Consumer Services of California’s Department of Consumer Affairs in writing at 400 R Street, Suite 1080, Sacramento, California 95814 or by telephone at (916) 445-1254 or (800) 952-5210.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Policy or our data practices, please email us at privacy@worldoilcorp.com . You can also call us at 877-361-4661.

Updates to Our Privacy Policy

From time to time we may change our privacy policy. We will notify you of any material changes to our privacy policy as required by law. We will also post an updated copy on the website where this appears. Please check our website periodically for updates.