Cookies Policy
Cookies Policy
Last Revision: January 13, 2025
This Cookies Policy has the purpose of informing about the nature of Cookies used by STEP Oil & Gas on its websites, to guide users on how this technology is used and how to manage its use during interactions with our services.
1. What are Cookies and Similar Technologies?
Cookies are small files created by visited websites and stored on the user’s device through the browser, and can be used to identify visitors’ devices, personalize the page based on the navigability profile, track usage patterns for improvement and control, in addition to facilitating the transport of data between pages of the same website.
The functions performed by Cookies can also be done by similar technologies, such as pixels, techniques fingerprinting, log files, web beacons, among others.
2. Types of Cookies
Responsible entity
- Own or primary – Set directly by the website or application visited; generally, it cannot be used to track activity on other websites; e.g.: credential login information and preferred language.
- From third parties – Created by a different domain than the one being visited; they result from functionalities from other domains that are incorporated into a website, such as the display of advertisements.
Necessity
- Necessary – Used to ensure that the website or application performs basic functions and operates correctly, for the appropriate provision of services.
- Not necessary – Disabling it does not prevent the website or application from functioning or the user’s use of the services; These relate to features such as tracking behaviors, measuring page or service performance, and displaying ads or other embedded content.
Purpose
- Analytics or performance – They make it possible to collect data and information about how users use the website, which pages they visit most frequently, the occurrence of errors or information about the performance of the website or application.
- Functionality – Used to provide the basic services requested by the user and make it possible to remember website or application preferences, such as username, region or language.
- Advertising – Collecting information about the users’ browsing habits allow their identification, profile building and display of personalized advertisements according to their interests.
Retention period
- Session or temporary – They serve to collect and store information that is only relevant for the provision of a requested service or for a specific temporary purpose, as occurs, in general, with products in a shopping cart; are maintained only while the holders access the website.
- Persistent – They collect data that is stored and can be accessed and processed for a period defined by the controller, which can vary from a few minutes to several years, or until the user manually deletes it.
3. Why STEP Oil & Gas Websites use Cookies?
STEP Oil & Gas uses Cookies in compliance with privacy and personal data protection standards, allowing users to access them in accordance with the guidelines established by applicable privacy regulations. The Cookies collected are stored in the user’s browser for the time necessary to fulfill the purpose informed during collection and meet legal requirements in force, including the protection of the rights of STEP Oil & Gas and/or its users.
STEP Oil & Gas websites embed videos and other media files through third-party Cookies, which may collect user information and cross-reference it with their profiles on these platforms, but STEP Oil & Gas does not have access to such data nor control over which Cookies will be activated. Advertising Cookies of other partner websites and advertising tools can also be used.
The main purposes of Cookies we use are to:
- improve our services and the user experience when visiting our websites – offer interactive content, improve the usability and functioning of our platform, and facilitate the sharing of content on social networks;
- collect access statistics and generate reports, through Google Analytics, including information about the use and behavior of the user on the websites, such as pages visited, length of stay and interactions carried out, which helps to identify technical problems, analyze and continuously improve the quality and efficiency of the websites and services offered by STEP Oil & Gas, including to improve the company’s information campaigns;
- make videos and animated presentations available directly on the website, for example, when you visit a page with a video embedded in or sourced from YouTube;
- allow load balancing;
- allow identification of geolocation;
- record settings and remember users’ browsing preferences, such as language and country, during their visit to the website and for future visits;
- security when visiting our platforms, authentication and fraud prevention.
STEP Oil & Gas is not responsible for the privacy policies of third-party platforms. To consult the main ones, please visit:
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/policies/cookies
- Instagram: https://privacycenter.instagram.com/policies/cookies/
- Google and Youtube: https://policies.google.com/technologies/cookies
- Twitter: https://help.twitter.com/pt/rules-and-policies/twitter-cookies
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/legal/cookie-policy?trk=homepage-basic_footer-cookie-policy
- TIKTOK: https://www.tiktok.com/legal/page/row/privacy-policy/
4. Management of Cookies in the Browser
You can use your preferred browser settings to disable or remove Cookies. However, by blocking certain types of Cookies, some functionalities of our services may not be activated in the ideal way.
To manage the Cookies via browser settings, please see the respective tutorial:
- Internet Explorer: https://support.microsoft.com/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies
- Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1406636
- Safari: https://support.apple.com/guide/safari/sfri11471/mac
- Google Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?co=GENIE.Platform=Desktop&oco=1
- Microsoft Edge: https://support.microsoft.com/help/4027947/microsoft-edge-delete-cookies
- Opera: https://help.opera.com/en/latest/web-preferences/#cookies
5. Contact Information
The responsible for personal data processing at STEP Oil & Gas is STEP Oil & Gas Servicos LTDA, Brazilian company, registered under General Taxpayers’ Registry CNPJ 13.169.311/0001-20, with head office at Rua do Caldeireiro, Lotes 10, 11 e 12, Quadra J Zona Zen, Rio das Ostras/RJ, Brazil, Zip Code 28.899-006.
If you have any doubts or comments regarding this Policy or questions related to the processing of your personal data, please contact office.br@step-og.com.
6. Change to the Cookies Policy
We frequently review privacy regulations and, in case of change, the revision date at the top of this page will be changed, with its effects applying from this date. Therefore, we encourage periodic reading of these regulations.