PRIVACY POLICY

PRIVACY NOTICE

SINDA Exploración, S. de R.L. de C.V. (“Sinda”), with address at Presa Falcon Col. Lomas del Santuario 2511 Villa de Los Frailes, Chihuahua México C.P. 31205, in compliance with what is set forth in the “Ley Federal de Protección de Datos Personales en Posesión de los Particulares (the “Personal Data Law”), informs clients, whether natural persons or entities (the “Clients”) the following privacy notice (the “Privacy Notice”).

Treatment of Personal Data

Sinda will gather the personal data of the Clients with which it has or may have a business relation (the “Holders”) for the fulfillment of the purposes mentioned herein. Said data will be treated at all times under the principles of legality, consent, information, quality, purpose, loyalty, proportionality and responsibility, complying at all times with the Personal Data Law.

All data belonging to the Holders is supplied voluntarily and may include, but is not limited to, the following: name, address, telephone, tax ID, banking data, name of the contact, name of the legal representative, business purpose, among others.

Sinda informs the Holders that, under no circumstance, it will request sensitive personal data, which include those that may reveal aspects related to ethnicity or race, state of health, genetic information, religious beliefs, philosophic and moral, union affiliation, political opinions or sexual preference.

Purpose of the Treatment of Personal Data

The gathering of personal data by Sinda has the following purposes:

  1. Registering and identifying the Holders, as well as updating the data base.
  2. Have direct contact with the Holders, as well as to engage into any kind of negotiation that may result in a business relation.
  3. Engage into payment diligences and any other operation derived from the relation with the Holders.
  4. Follow up on any kind of request or communication that the Holders make.
  5. Send relevant information about Sinda.

Limit on the Use of Personal Data

Sinda keeps the personal data in data bases under safety measures and with limited access, especially implemented to avoid any use, destruction or unauthorized treatment of the supplied personal data.

ARCO Rights

The Holders have the right, at any time, to exercise their right of access, rectification, cancellation and opposition (“ARCO rights”), in relation with the personal data they supply to Sinda.

The ARCO rights consist of the right the Holders have to, at any moment, request: (i) rectification or correction of the personal data supplied when they are inexact or incomplete; (ii) access to the personal data that Sinda has on its data base; (iii) the cancellation or deletion of the personal data that Sinda has gathered in virtue of a business relation.

For the exercise of the ARCO rights, the Holders will have to send their request in writing and in a free format to the following e-mail address: contacto@sinda.mx, in order for the Holders to point out the right they wish to exercise, as well as the reason that motivates said exercise, supplying the following information:

  1. Complete name.
  2. Documents that evidence the Holder’s identity or the relevant authority to act on its behalf.
  3. Address.
  4. Request and motivation regarding the data of which it wishes to exercise the ARCO rights.

The responsible will communicate the Holder, in a term of no more than 20 (twenty) days, from the date in which the request with complete information was received, exercising any ARCO right, the answer, as well as the corresponding resolution, in order for Sinda to make the request effective within 15 (fifteen) days following the date in which the response is communicated to the Client.

For the case of requests for access to personal data, Sinda will proceed to deliver the Holders all the information it has on the data base.

In case the Client wishes to cancel its personal data, said request will generate a blocking period, after which the requested data will be suppressed. Sinda will be entitled to keep such data exclusively for the effects of responsibility derived from its treatment. The blocking period will be equal to the prescription term of the actions derived from the legal relation that supports the treatment in terms of the applicable law in each specific legal subject.

Transfer of Personal Data

Sinda will not sell, assign or transfer the personal data supplied by the Holders to any third party.

Notice of changes to the Privacy Notice

Furthermore, Sinda will be entitled to send the Holders any notice via e-mail, in order for the them to be aware of any change related to this Privacy Notice.

Acceptance of the Privacy Notice

The Client accepts that it is aware of the content of this Privacy Notice and agrees to all of its terms.