Privacy Notice

ECOGAS HOLDING AS

1. Introduction

ECOGAS Holding AS (hereinafter “the Company”) is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Notice explains how we collect, use, store, and protect your personal data when you visit our website.

As a data controller, the Company complies with the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), Norwegian Personal Data Act (”Personopplysningsloven”) and all other applicable data protection legislation. By using our website, you acknowledge and accept the terms described in this Privacy Notice.

We encourage you to carefully read this Privacy Notice to understand how we handle your personal data and the rights available to you under applicable law.

2. Categories and Collection of Personal Data

2.1. Categories of Personal Data

Depending on how you interact with our website, we may collect the following categories of personal data:

Contact information: Names, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, and job titles.
Communication-related information: Marketing preferences, event-related information, IP addresses, user behaviour on our communication channels, and interactions with our corporate social media accounts (e.g., likes, shares, comments, messages, and other publicly shared profile information).

2.2. Collection of Personal Data

We may collect personal data in the following ways:

Directly from you when you communicate with us.
Through your use of the Company’s website (including cookie‑related data).
Through your interactions with our official social media accounts or through third-party platforms that display or integrate our content.
From publicly available sources or third-party service providers where relevant and appropriate.

2.3 Security of Processing

The Company maintains appropriate technical and organizational measures to ensure the confidentiality, integrity and availability of your personal data. Personal data is retained only for as long as necessary for the purposes for which was collected or as required by law.

Where third-party service providers process personal data on our behalf, the Company ensures that adequate safeguards are in place in accordance with applicable legislation.

3. Purposes of Processing

We process personal data only when we have a lawful basis and only for a specified, explicit and legitimate purpose or as required by applicable legislation. We will therefore only process personal data:

(a) to comply with its legal obligations,

(b) to fulfill our legitimate interests such as ensuring the security of our systems, providing and improving our websites and other corporate communication channels, communicating with stakeholders, maintaining business operations, and establishing, exercising or defending legal claims,

(d) to process your personal data based on your consent, where applicable. You may withdraw your consent at any time without affecting the lawfulness of processing carried out before the withdrawal.

4. Transfer of Personal Data

Your personal data may be made available to Company’s personnel and related companies, third parties such as IT and website service providers, legal advisors, auditors or competent authorities where required, third-party platforms or media providers when content you engage with includes personal data.

In such cases, third parties act either as independent data controllers or as data processors under the Company’s instructions and subject to appropriate safeguards.

Where personal data is transferred to countries outside the European Economic Area (EEA), such transfers shall take place under appropriate safeguards in accordance with applicable data protection legislation, including the use of Standard Contractual Clauses or other equivalent measures and contractual arrangements.

5. Your Rights

You have a number of rights in relation to processing of your personal data. If you have any questions or want to enforce your rights, we encourage you to contact us by using the contact information included in the bottom of this privacy notice.

Right to information and access. You have the right to ask us for information about or access to your personal data. There are some exemptions, which means you may not always receive all the information we process.
Right to object. You have the right to object to processing of your personal data. This effectively means that you can stop or prevent us from using your personal data. However, it only applies in certain circumstances, and we may not need to stop the processing of your personal data if we have compelling legitimate grounds to continue using your personal data.
Right to erasure. You have the right to ask us to erase your personal information in certain circumstances.
Right to rectification. You have the right to ask us to rectify personal data you think is inaccurate. You also have the right to ask us to complete personal data you think is incomplete.
Right to restriction of processing. You have the right to ask us to restrict the processing of your personal data in certain circumstances.
Right to withdraw consent. If you have consented to us processing your personal data in order to receive newsletters, you may withdraw this consent at any time. When sending out newsletters, we have arranged it so that you may easily opt out of these types of communications, by including a link to an unsubscribe-form in each communication.
Right to complaint. If you have any complaints about our processing of your personal data, you may contact the Norwegian Data Protection Agency.

To exercise your rights, please contact the Company.

6. Amendments to this Privacy Notice

The Company may update this Privacy Notice from time to time. Any updates will be posted on this page, and we encourage you to review this Privacy Notice regularly.