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Privacy Policy
Protecting your privacy is a priority at IT Business
Edge. Please read this privacy policy to learn how we keep your personal
information confidential while using it to enhance the information and
services we provide you.
1. Registration
When you register with IT Business Edge you supply some personal information,
including your e-mail address, required to begin your subscription(s)
to IT Business Edge weekly reports. Once you subscribe to a weekly report,
you can unsubscribe at any time by visiting this Web site.
2. How is Collected
Information Used?
We use the personal information you supply to provide you with valuable
information that is relevant to your professional interests. The information
you receive via e-mail in our weekly reports is customized according to
what you tell us about your top IT priorities. Based on information you
share with us, we will also send you updates about white papers, research,
training materials, templates and software tools available to our members.
Many of these resources are free, and some are offered at special discounts
for IT Business Edge subscribers.
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3. Protecting Your
Information
IT Business Edge never shares your personal information with anyone without
your permission. For example, some free content available to our subscribers,
such as white papers and research reports, requires that you share specific
personal information with the publisher or sponsor of that content. In
such instances, you are notified before you download or view the content
of the specific information required and of exactly whom will receive
it. Some premium products we offer for sale, such as printed books or
CD-ROMS, are actually delivered by their publishers. By purchasing such
a product, you give us permission to share your address and other required
information with the publisher, with whom you begin a separate business
relationship. If you elect to receive them, IT Business Edge will also
send you special offers of various types from select partners. Each offer
is screened by the IT Business Edge staff to ensure its relevance and
is physically sent by us, not by the offering partner. The only way the
partner will receive any of your information is if you provide it while
responding to the offer. Finally, by subscribing to IT Business Edge you
implicitly give us permission to share your information with vendors who
are essential in the delivery of services and features included in your
subscription. For example, our Web-hosting and e-mail delivery vendors
may need to store your information on their servers while helping us send
you your weekly reports. However, these essential vendors will use your
personal information only as needed to deliver products and services which
you have requested or purchased from IT Business Edge.
4. Links to Third-Party
Web Sites
IT Business Edge weekly reports contain links to third-party Web sites.
This privacy statement applies only to the IT Business Edge Web site and
information collected by IT Business Edge. It does not apply to any third-party
Web sites you access from our weekly reports or our Web site, and we are
not responsible for the privacy practices of these sites.
5. Security
IT Business Edge employs several physical, electronic and procedural safeguards
to protect the personal information you provide us. Your IT Business Edge
account information can only be accessed using the correct password, and
the servers holding that information are protected by a firewall. IT Business
Edge also uses industry-standard SSL-encryption to ensure your personal
information is protected during data transmissions. And for the purpose
of business operations, access to your information is limited to authorized
employees who need it to perform their jobs or to provide you with requested
services and products.
6. Cookies
A cookie is a small piece of computer code that lets Web servers "identify"
visitors. Each time you initiate a session on the IT Business Edge site,
our server uses a cookie to identify you as a subscriber and provide you
with appropriate access privileges. These cookies do not store any of
the personal information you have provided through the site; they are
simply identifiers. Most browsers automatically accept cookies, but you
can usually refuse cookies, or selectively accept cookies, by adjusting
the preferences in your browser. However, if you turn cookies off, some
features of our site will not be available to you and some Web pages may
not display properly. You can find information about how you can adjust
the cookie settings for common browsers at the following Web sites:
7. Web Beacons
IT Business Edge may use electronic images known as Web beacons, or clear
GIFs, to monitor the use of our Web site and e-mail reports. A Web beacon
is a graphic image, often transparent and usually no larger than 1 pixel
x 1 pixel, which works in combination with cookies to track usage of a
Web page or e-mail containing it. (To learn more about Web beacons, see
http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/W/Web_beacon.html).
8. Redirected URLs
IT Business Edge uses redirected URLs to keep track of Web traffic
generated by links in our e-mail reports. Redirected URLs route subscribers
to Web sites after recording who they are and the links they click. This
information helps IT Business Edge further personalize the information
we provide subscribers by sending them special reports and exclusive offers
related to the topics that are most important to them. All subscribers
receive special reports as a benefit of signing up for IT Business Edge,
but only those who ask to receive special offers in their subscriber profiles
receive this exclusive benefit.
9. Third-Party
Advertisers
IT Business Edge does not use third-party advertising companies to provide
advertisements or allow third-party advertisers to track your browsing
activities on the IT Business Edge Web site at this time.
10. Updating Your
Personal Information
You may update your personal information at any time by visiting the IT
Business Edge Web site and editing your account profile.
11. Policy Changes
If this privacy policy changes in any significant way, a notice will appear
on the IT Business Edge Web site and/or you will be notified by e-mail.
12. To Contact
IT Business Edge
Should you have any questions or comments regarding this privacy policy,
please contact us at: privacy@itbe.com.
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