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Privacy Statement
We are committed to protecting your privacy. Most pages on our site
can be visited without providing information about yourself or your
organization. Occasionally, we need your contact information to
provide services that you request. This privacy statement explains
our data collection procedures and use of your information. This
privacy statement applies only to this website. This notice informs
you about:
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Personal information that may be
collected
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The consequences, if any, resulting
from your refusal to provide personal information
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Who has access to your personal
information
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How this information may be used,
including, with whom, if anyone, it might be shared
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Use of cookies and tracking IP
addresses to collect information
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Choices you have regarding the use
of your personal information
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How We safeguards your information
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How you can access and, if
necessary, change your personal information
Please contact
us if you have any questions, complaints, or comments regarding
our Privacy Statement or Privacy Policy.
Websites
This Privacy Policy applies only to information submitted and
collected online through this website. It does not apply to
information that may be collected by us offline. In addition, this
Privacy Policy applies only to sites operated by our company. When
you link to any other sites, you leave this site and we have no
control over the activities or policies of other sites.
Information Collected
Generally, information is requested when
you register to receive more information, subscribe to e-mail
newsletters, sign up for an event or training, or order services.
Contact information collected by our site is generally limited to
your name, company name, contact information and e-mail address.
Other information may need to be collected when we need to provide a
service requested by you. This site also collects information about
pages visited within the site.
If you do not provide certain contact
information (e.g. e-mail address), you will not be able to view
parts of our site including popular downloads, webinars, various
white papers, etc. We may request and/or collect information from
you on a voluntary basis when you:
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Receive access to our articles, etc.
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Participate in promotions or events
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Send questions or comments via
e-mail to us
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Submit your resume to us online
The requested information may include
personal information such as your name, e-mail address, telephone
number, and business address. In addition, we may request other
information about your specific business needs and staff.
To participate in some of our promotions, you may be asked to
provide an e-mail address so that we can contact you. Please use
your business, not your personal, e-mail address. For other
promotions, we may request your name and business address in order
to send you information by regular mail.
E-mail Address
By allowing you to send e-mail to us, we are not attempting to
collect any personal information about you. We will only use
business information (such as name, mailing address and e-mail
address) contained in your e-mail to respond to your specific
inquiry or comments in the e-mail. Since e-mail is a form of
business communication, we may retain your information for a period
of time and archive such information per our retention requirements.
Your e-mail address may be used to:
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Respond to your specific inquiry or
comments
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Provide you with our e-mail
newsletter
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Inform you about upcoming speaking
engagements
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Other forms of business
correspondence
If you do not want us to send you e-mail
or regular mail about our products and/or services, you may opt-out
of receiving future communications. If you receive an e-mail and
want to opt-out, simply reply back to the e-mail requesting your
address be removed from future communications.
Resumes
Our website may allow submission of
resumes. Personal information collected from resumes is not subject
to this Privacy Policy. However, we can assure you that such
information will be used solely for the purpose of accepting and
evaluating candidate submissions for job postings and position
openings.
Use of Information
We collect, store, and process information provided to us. We may
use the information you submit to our Web sites to send you
advertising or promotional materials, including information about
new services, features, enhancements, special offers and other
events of interest.
We may also use your personal information for our internal marketing
and demographic studies, so we can constantly improve the products
and services we provide you and can better meet your needs. The
demographic information (e.g., business location, type of business,
etc.) you provide us is collected by We and is not disclosed to
third parties. This demographic information cannot be used to
personally identify you or your computer. We may merge
site-visitation data with anonymous demographic information for
research purposes, and we may use this information in aggregate to
provide more relevant content.
We occasionally hire other companies to provide limited services on
our behalf, including packaging, mailing and delivering purchases,
answering questions about products or services, sending postal mail
and processing event registration. We will only provide those
companies the information they need to deliver the service, and they
are prohibited from using that information for any other purpose.
Specifically, we use your contact information for the following
purposes:
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To ensure our site is relevant to
your needs
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To deliver services, such as
newsletters, events, training or software, that you request or
purchase
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To help us create and publish
content most relevant to you
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To alert you to product upgrades,
special offers, updated information and other new services
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To allow you access to limited-entry
areas of our site as appropriate
We may disclose your contact information
if required to do so by law or in the good-faith belief that such
action is necessary to:
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Conform to the edicts of the law or
comply with legal process served on the site
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Protect and defend the rights or
property of our organization and its web site
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Investigations of fraud,
intellectual property right infringements, or other activity
that is illegal
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Act in urgent circumstances to
protect the personal safety of employees, users of products or
services, or members of the public
Sharing of Information
We may share your personal information with outside entities hired
to assist with internal website support operations (e.g., services
provided, e-mail, technical support, etc.). These entities will not
use your personal information for any other purpose, and have agreed
to maintain confidentiality, security, and integrity of information
they obtain from us.
We do not sell, rent, or otherwise disclose personal information
collected from and about its website visitors to third parties.
However, in the event of a merger, acquisition, reorganization,
bankruptcy, or other similar event, our client information may be
transferred to our successor or assign, if permitted by and done in
accordance with applicable law.
Clear GIFs, Cookies and IP Addresses
Clear GIFs, sometimes called "web bugs" or “pixel tags,” are file
objects, usually a graphic image such as a transparent one
pixel-by-one pixel GIF (Graphics Interchange Format, one of the two
most common file formats for images on the Web), that are placed on
a Web page or in an e-mail message to monitor user behavior. The GIF
tells us the IP address of the computer that fetched our page, the
URL of the page the GIF is on, the time the page was viewed, the
type of browser used, and it can also identify a previously set
cookie value. This anonymous information is returned by the clear
GIF to We and we may use this information to accurately count
visitors across our web sites and understand how they navigate and
use our network of web sites. We does not combine information
gathered through clear GIFs with your personal information.
We reserve the right to use "cookies" to enhance your experience at
our website. Cookies are pieces of information that we place on your
computer to help us accurately understand how many visitors are
viewing a particular site, how often they visit that site and the
content viewed. For example, a cookie will allow us to remember
certain things based on your Internet Protocol or "IP" address (an
IP address is the string of numbers that identifies each sender or
receiver of information that is sent across the Internet), such as
the time and duration of your visits, how you navigated through our
content and where you exited a particular site.
We reserve the right to collect IP addresses for the purposes of
system administration, to report aggregate information to third
party marketing firms, and to audit the use of our web sites. When
visitors request pages on our website, our servers may log the
visitor's IP address. We do not link the IP address to your
personally identifiable information. This ensures that your session
will be logged, but you remain anonymous to us.
Log Files
Other information passively collected by We is in the form of logs
-- files that record web site activity and gather statistics about
web user's browsing habits. These entries are generated anonymously,
and help We determine (among other things) how many and how often
users have visited our website, the pages visited, and other similar
data. We also use the log file entries for our internal marketing
and demographic studies, so we can constantly improve the online
services we provide you.
Safeguarding Information
We only collect information to the extent deemed reasonably
necessary to serve our legitimate business purposes. In addition, we
will take appropriate steps to ensure the security and integrity of
any information you provide to us. Any information provided to us is
stored in an an access controlled data center. Your information is
protected by firewalls, intrusion detection, anti-virus,
anti-spyware, and other forms of anti-malware software.
Update and Removal of Information
Once registered with us, you may at any time review and/or update
the contact information we have for you or inform us that you want
us to remove your information from our database. Simply contact us
to change, update, or have us remove your information. If your
request is sent via e-mail, please include in your message the
service or communication you received.
California Privacy Rights
California Civil Code Section 1798.83 (January 1, 2005) permits
California residents to request certain information regarding our
disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct
marketing purposes. At this time we do not share our client's
information with unaffiliated third parties for their own direct
marketing purposes.
Age Notice
We provide business to business services. However, all areas of this
site are available to the general public, including those under the
age of 13. Those under the age of 13 should seek your parent or
guardian's consent before you provide any personal information such
as name or e-mail address to us.
We have developed this website to be an enjoyable experience for
visitors of all ages. We recognize that some younger children may
not understand some of the information contained on the website or
how the web site operate. Adults should monitor and restrict the
activities of their children. In addition, We request that adults
discuss this Privacy Statement with your children so that they will
better understand how to use this website and the information they
may be asked to provide.
We strongly believe that providing its visitors with accurate and
adequate notice about web sites will lead to informed choices and
decisions about how to use web sites as well as protect visitor
privacy. Please contact us if you have any questions or comments
about our site or our Privacy Policy.
Effective Date and Changes To Privacy
Statement
This Privacy Statement is effective as
of December 31, 2008. You will be notified by prominent notice on
this page if there are material changes to this Privacy Policy.
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