COLLECTION AND USE OF INFORMATION:

Company collects information from our users at several different points on our website. When you register with one of our sites, sign-up for one of our events, sign-up to receive one of our newsletters and promotional emails, or subscribe to other Company products and services, Company may ask for your contact information (such as your name, telephone number, email address, address etc.); information about your job (such as the name of the company you work for, industry you work in, job title, job title level, functional area, etc.); information about on line payment (such as debit/credit card while subscribing magazine or related services through gateway facility, your username, password and other demographic information); information about your visits to our website, purchase pattern, interests including gathering information about users from public sources, information about your IP address to measure our website traffic and to help provide a relevant shopping experience, etcetera.

Company may also ask for such information at other times, such as when you request information from Company and/or our customers and suppliers. The information collected by Company may be used in a number of ways including:

WITH WHOM COMPANY SHARE YOUR INFORMATION:

If you are requesting assistance, product information, white papers, case studies, brochures, or other downloadable content, your contact information may be shared with the developer or seller of the relevant product, content, or software. Company under confidentiality and similar agreements with its customers and partner companies specify that  partner companies: (a) may use this information in marketing related activities to contact you via common methods of communication; (b) must not disclose the information to any third party other than service providers of the partner company solely for the permitted marketing purposes set forth above; (c) not to sell, disclose, or use your information for any purpose beyond the purposes and use identified expressly in Company’s agreement with them; and (d) may only use your contact information in adherence to all applicable laws.  Please contact the partner company directly if you have any questions about their use of your information.

Company may share your information with a third-party email service provider (ESP) to promote Company’s products and service only, if Company believes you have a legitimate interest in receiving the offer.

PROMOTIONAL OFFERS:

You complete one of our registration and/or subscription forms, you will be giving Company express consent to send promotional offers for select Company’s products and services. Company endeavours to promote to you products and services that are relevant and that we feel you would have a legitimate interest in hearing about. These products or services may include content newsletters, research reports, events and seminars. You can opt out from receiving these promotions at any time by clicking the “unsubscribe” link at the bottom of the offer email.

To process these internal promotions, Company may share your information, such as you contact information, with certain email service providers who contract with Company to email market on Company’s behalf.

COOKIES:

A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user’s computer by a web browser containing information associated with the user. We use cookies or similar electronic tools to be reminded of who you are and to access your account information in order to deliver to you a better and more personalized service. This cookie is set when you register. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us. You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Users are advised that if they wish to deny the use and saving of cookies from this website on to their computers’ hard drives they should take necessary steps within their web browsers security settings to block all cookies from this website and it’s external serving vendors.

This website uses tracking software to monitor its visitors to better understand how they use it. This software is provided by Google Analytics which uses cookies to track visitor usage. The software will save a cookie to your computers hard drive in order to track and monitor your engagement and usage of the website but will not store, save or collect personal information. You can read Google’s privacy policy here [http://www.google.com/privacy.html] for further information.

Information collected by the Google Analytics cookies, which includes demographic information such as your gender and age, may be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in accordance with its privacy practices.

Upon entering on our website, all users have the ability to accept our use of cookies. Full use of our website requires an individual to accept to use cookies while on our site.

LINKS TO OTHER SITES:

This website may contain links to other websites. Please be aware that Company is not responsible for the privacy practices or contents of such other sites. We advise our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy policies of each and every website that collects personally identifiable information. This Privacy Policy applies solely to information collected by our website.

SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS:

Communication, engagement and actions taken through external social media platforms that this website and its owners participate on are subject to the terms and conditions as well as the privacy policies held with each social media platform respectively.

Users are advised to use social media platforms wisely and communicate / engage with them taking due care and caution in regard to their own privacy and personal details. This website and/or its owners will never ask for personal or sensitive information through social media platforms or encourage users wishing to discuss sensitive details to contact them through primary communication channels such as by telephone or email.

This website may use social sharing buttons which help share web content directly from web pages to the social media platform in question. Users are advised before using such social sharing buttons that they do so at their own discretion and note that the social media platform may track and save your request to share a web page respectively through your social media platform account.

USING OUR BULLETIN BOARD AND ONLINE SURVEYS:

Online survey data will be reported in aggregate. No individual company data is ever released or identified. Unique survey identifiers (e.g., member identification number) are kept confidential and will only be used by authorized official of company to get in contact with survey participants if necessary.

FEEDBACK:

Your feedback messages become our property and, unless you direct otherwise, may be used by us for promotional purposes.

SECURITY:

The personal information of users is kept secured with the help of technical experts. While we take sufficient steps to make your personal data secured as much possible, no system or transmission of data over internet or any other public network or any system of data storage can be guaranteed to be fully secured. We cannot guarantee the security of our database, nor can we guarantee that information you supply will not be intercepted while being transmitted to us over the Internet. And, of course, any information you include in a posting to the discussion areas is available to anyone with Internet access.