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Privacy Policy
Last Revised: November 2007
Overview
Our site visitors’ privacy and trust are important to us. We provide this notice in order
to make sure that your expectations and our practices are aligned, and that you are aware
of your choices with regard to our use and disclosure of the information you provide to this site.
This Privacy Policy describes the policies of Reed Business Information (“RBI”
or “we”), a division of Reed Elsevier Inc., regarding the collection, use, disclosure
and protection of the following types of information:
- Information obtained when you (“you” or “User”) visit the
www.dm2decisionmaker.com web site (this “Site”).
- Information obtained through e-mail communications with you related to the Site.
This privacy policy does not apply to information we collect by other means (including offline) or
from other sources. Your use of this Site constitutes your acceptance of this Privacy Policy
and your consent to any action we take with respect to your information in compliance
with this Privacy Policy.
We may change the terms of this Privacy Policy, so Users are encouraged to review this page from
time to time. Your continued use of this Site following the posting of changes to the Privacy
Policy means that you accept the changes.
Information We Collect and How We Collect It
We require you to provide certain information about yourself if you register with this Site
or request products and services. We also collect information when you participate in contests
and surveys, when you respond to requests for feedback and when you submit postings to public areas
of this Site (e.g., blogs, moderated discussions and bulletin boards).
The information we collect may include information from which you may be personally
identified (“Personally Identifiable Information”), such as name, postal address, telephone number,
fax number and e-mail address, and certain business information such as employer name, occupation,
job function, job title and buying information (e.g., preferences or history). We also will collect
credit card and related information when you request a product or service (including, if
applicable, registering for the Site) for which there is a charge. This Site only collects
Personally Identifiable Information with your knowledge.
When you visit this Site, we may collect the IP address of your
computer. We also use automatic data collection technology to record other information that
identifies your computer and tracks your behavior on this Site. Methods used to collect this
information may include "cookies" and "clear GIFs" (also known as "pixel tags" or "beacons"). A
cookie is a small amount of data that is sent to your browser from a server and stored on your
computer’s hard drive. Most browsers allow Users to block the receipt of cookies, but doing so
may compromise your ability to use certain features of this Site. A clear GIF is a small graphic
image, typically used in connection with cookies, that is placed on a web site or in an email
message. A clear GIF can monitor certain user behavior, such as your usage of the web site, whether
you opened an email message or whether you clicked on a URL in an email message. We do not
collect Personally Identifiable Information in this way, but if you provide us with Personally
Identifiable Information, we may associate that information with the information that is
collected automatically.
Some of the materials included on this Site, including advertising, may be served by third
parties. These third parties, in the course of serving such materials, may collect information
regarding your use of this Site and how you respond to e-mail communications, using methods that
may include automatic data collection, and may use this information in order to present advertisements
or other content that may be of interest to you on both this Site and other web sites. Collection,
use, disclosure and security of information collected by third parties are subject to the privacy
policies of those third parties. If you would like more information about this practice or to opt out
of having this information used by certain third-party ad servers to provide targeted ads, please
visit
http://www.networkadvertising.org/optout_nonppii.asp. You also may view the privacy policy
of DoubleClick, a third party that serves ads to this Site, at
www.privacychoices.org.
How We Use Your Information
We use Personally Identifiable Information collected on this Site for the following purposes:
- To provide you with this Site and other products and services.
- To respond to your inquiries and contact you about changes regarding this Site.
- To provide you with e-mail, fax and other notices (such as expiration and renewal notices)
regarding your account and the products or services that you are receiving, and for billing and
collection purposes.
- For any other purpose disclosed at the time the information is collected or to which you consent.
- As otherwise specifically described in this Privacy Policy.
We also may use your information to better understand our Users and to improve our Site. For example,
we may use this information to determine what portions of this Site are most popular and the
demographics of our Users generally. Cookies and other User information also enable us to customize
your experience on the Site. We may use IP addresses to help diagnose problems with our servers or
to administer our Site. We may also use IP addresses to help identify a User during a particular
session and to gather data regarding use of this Site.
We may use the information you provide us to send you e-mail, fax and other communications on behalf
of RBI and our affiliates. These communications may include e-mail newsletters, as well as offers
for other RBI and Reed Elsevier services. All email newsletters will provide you with an opportunity
to opt out of receiving future issues of the newsletter. All promotional offers will include
an opportunity to opt out of receiving future promotions from the brand whose product/service is
being promoted.
We also may use your information to send you e-mail and other communications on behalf of third
parties. Each of these communications will include instructions for opting out of receiving future
third party offers from us. You may also opt out of receiving third party offers from this Site at
any time by sending an e-mail to
privacymanager@reedbusiness.com with the subject line “opt out – third party.”
Our Disclosure of Your Information
We may disclose aggregated, anonymous statistics about many Users, and individual information that is
not Personally Identifiable Information without restriction as long as no individual is identifiable
by the information disclosed, and otherwise will not disclose your Personally Identifiable
Information except as follows:
- Name and/or business name and title (but not information by which you may be contacted (i.e.
name, postal address, telephone number, fax number and e-mail address ) in representative lists of
our magazine circulation and/or web site membership, but not for further use or dissemination by
the recipient.
- To third parties engaged to provide services under contractual requirement to keep
Personally Identifiable Information confidential and use it only to perform the services.
- Portions of this Site may be provided as “Premium” or “Sponsored” content. Premium or
Sponsored content is made available to Users on the condition that we may share certain of the
User’s registration information with the Premium or Sponsored content’s sponsors and advertisers
and/or their service providers. We will always disclose when you are registering or being provided
with Premium or Sponsored content.
- To other third parties (and/or to their service providers on their behalf) to market their products
or services under contractual requirement to keep Personally Identifiable Information confidential and
use it only to market and provide their products or services. You may opt out of such disclosures
by sending an e-mail to
privacymanager@reedbusiness.com with the subject line: “do not disclose.”
- To any successor pursuant to an asset sale, merger, consolidation, restructuring, reorganization,
liquidation or other similar transaction involving RBI or this Site.
- When we believe such disclosure is required by law, regulation or securities exchange requirement
or for the protection of persons or property.
- When disclosure is necessary to accomplish the purpose for which you provide it.
- To other Reed Elsevier member companies for any uses consistent with those disclosed in this
Privacy Policy.
Security
We use reasonable safeguards to protect Personally Identifiable Information we collect on this Site
from unauthorized access, use, modification or disclosure. However, due to the design of the Internet
and other factors outside of our control, we cannot guarantee that communications between you and
our servers will be free from unauthorized access by third parties.
Right to Access and Change Information
You may view and update information that you previously submitted to this Site by visiting the
newsletter or website registration page for this Site, or which you submitted to request a print
publication, by sending an e-mail to subsmail@reedbusiness.com. However, a request to change information
may not be accommodated if the request would conflict with legal requirements or result in incorrect
information. Requests to view or change personal information may take a few days to process.
Links
This Site contains content, services, advertising and other materials that link to Web sites operated
by third parties. We have no control over those other sites, and this Privacy Policy does not apply
to them. We encourage you to refer to the privacy policies, if any, of those sites.
This Site is operated by:
Reed Business Information
360 Park Avenue South
New York, NY 10010-1710
Email: privacymanager@reedbusiness.com
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