The IDG Knowledge Hub site and associated sites are maintained by:
IDG Communications, Inc.
5 Speen St.
Framingham, Massachusetts USA 01701
Tel.: 508-875-5000
The IDG Knowledge Hub collects personally identifying information and data about individuals, their company, and the company's demographics "personally identifying information and data" including (i) when you provide information to IDG Knowledge Hub, such as when you register or sign up for any of our products such as subscriptions, e-mails, contests, newsletters, memberships, RSS Feeds, webcasts, White Papers, online seminars, conferences and other communications with IDG Knowledge Hub; (ii) when you register or sign up on the IDG Knowledge Hub site or when you register for any other IDG Publishing Network products individually or through "auto register", your information will be known to IDG Knowledge Hub; and (iii) from time to time we may add other information that we collect from third party sources to enhance the information that you provided to IDG Knowledge Hub.
Below is the current policy regarding the usage of personally identifying information and data collected by IDG Knowledge Hub. We reevaluate this policy on an ongoing basis based on feedback from users. IDG Knowledge Hub reserves the right to change its privacy policy. However, if there are any changes to the use of personally identifying information and data that are different from that stated at the time of collection, we will notify you by posting a notice on our website.
IDG Knowledge Hub or one of our IDG affiliated companies, or third party partners may place a "cookie" in the browser files of a user's computer. The cookie itself does not contain any personally identifying information, except when such information has been supplied by a subscriber or registered user.
If you have registered with IDG Knowledge Hub, the information in your "cookie" is used to provide a more personalized experience on our Web site.
If you haven't registered with our site, we may place a cookie on your system to help provide a more personalized experience on IDG Knowledge Hub. This cookie identifies you as a unique user by means of a tracking ID.
However, if you have not registered on our site, we cannot link that user ID with personal identifying information and data about you such as your name or e-mail address.
Other cookies without personally identifying information and data may be used to enable IDG Knowledge Hub to manage the banner advertisements presented or personalized information to the user.
Browsers or third-party software can allow you to block the use of cookies while you surf our site. Or, you can use third-party "anonymizer" services to mask information in your cookies, or even general data such as your IP address. In such cases, you would not be able to take advantage of most of the personalization services offered by IDG Knowledge Hub.
The aggregated information we collect is used for a number of purposes including the following:
1. To improve the content and design of the IDG Knowledge Hub website.
2. To enable our audit bureau to verify our claims of traffic to the site.
3. To help advertisers, potential advertisers or marketers assess the suitability of the site for their ad campaigns.
4. As clear GIFs, also known as pixel tags, provided by an ad-serving company (“third party service provider”) to help manage online advertising. These clear GIFs let our ad-serving company recognize a browser's cookie when a user visits our site. The information we may collect and share through this technology is not personally identifiable (it does not include your name, address, telephone number or e-mail address).
5. IDG Knowledge Hub may use a third party service provider to serve advertising on its site and through its e-mail newsletters. When the service provider is serving ads, it may recognize certain types of non-personally identifiable information, such as a user's IP address, browser version or type, operating system, service provider and time zone. The service provider may also use cookies to note the general content of the sites that users visit over time in order to serve ads on this site and other sites. Any pages a user calls up on our site aren't connected with personally identifiable information collected either on our site or elsewhere. For more details about the non-personally identifiable information that may be collected and the opportunity to opt out of such data collection, please contact us at questions@idg.com. We may also use web metric vendors to gather information to help us understand how users utilize our websites and other electronic products.
6. We may create and use aggregate customer data to understand more about the interests of our customers and may use the data to offer goods and services we believe may be of interest to our customers, on behalf of IDG Knowledge Hub, its sister IDG companies, or select organizations.
Postal addresses, and other personally identifying information and data that may be collected will be used to promote IDG Knowledge Hub and other IDG companies' products and services, and may be rented and/or licensed to selected outside firms for promotional purposes. Offers for which the personally identifying information and data are rented and/or licensed for use and the users are required to target their offers carefully.
Telephone numbers of IDG Knowledge Hub users may be used by IDG Knowledge Hub, IDG and other IDG companies, affiliates and it's advertisers for promotional purposes. IDG Knowledge Hub may rent and/or license for use phone numbers to selected outside firms for promotional purposes. Offers for which the numbers are rented and/or licensed for use are required to target their offers carefully.
Fax numbers of IDG Knowledge Hub registered users may be used for surveys for IDG Knowledge Hub and third parties. Except as set forth in this policy no fax numbers are rented and/or licensed to outside firms.
E-mail addresses of IDG Knowledge Hub registered users may be used to collect feedback by members of our editorial or research team, to promote IDG Knowledge Hub and IDG products and services, and they may be rented to other firms and/or licensed for promotional purposes. When you provide your email address to us, you agree to receive email from IDG Knowledge Hub and its sister IDG companies, and the IDG Network. We allow users to "opt-out" of receiving e-mail from outside firms, however, when e-mail information is collected and with each e-mail use of the user's address you can individually "opt-out" of receiving further e-mail from outside firms, IDG Knowledge Hub, its sister IDG companies and the IDG Network . If a user does not choose to "opt-out" at the time the e-mail address is collected, or does not respond to the questions concerning how we may use their email address, the address may be rented and/or licensed for use to outside firms. Offers for which the e-mail address is rented and/or licensed for use require the users to target their offers carefully. Users who later decide they want to change their preferences may do so by contacting us at questions@idg.com.
Personal identifying information submitted on portions of our site developed with outside third parties may be shared with those third parties, and the information will be governed by those parties' privacy policies as well as IDG Knowledge Hub's. Neither IDG Knowledge Hub, nor any of its parent companies or any of its subsidiaries or affiliates bear any responsibility for any actions or policies of such third parties.
IDG Knowledge Hub users should be aware that when they disclose personal identifying information (e.g., user name, address, company name, telephone number, demographic information, buying information, other data and E-mail address) in discussion forums, chat rooms or other areas that are publicly accessible by others, that information can be collected and used by others and may result in unsolicited messages from other posters or parties. IDG Knowledge Hub, nor its parent company or any of its subsidiaries or affiliates, are not responsible for any information that you provide in the above areas.
In the event that the ownership of IDG Knowledge Hub or any of its products are sold or transferred all lists and data which contain personally identifying information and data including, for example, user name, address, company name, telephone number, demographic information, buying information, other data and e-mail address, will be transferred to the new owner.
IDG PUBLISHING NETWORK ONLINE REGISTRATION PRIVACY POLICY
Below is the current policy regarding the usage of personally identifying information and data collected by the IDG Publishing Network. We reevaluate this policy on an ongoing basis based on feedback from readers. The IDG Publishing Network reserves the right to change its privacy policy. However, if there are any changes to the use of personally identifiable information and data that is different from that stated at the time of collection, we will notify you by posting a notice on our website.
About the IDG Publishing Network
The International Data Group, Inc. (IDG) family of on-line and print publications consists of hundreds of award-winning titles including CIO, CSO, InfoWorld, GamePro, Network World, Macworld and PC World. The IDG Publishing Network is a growing collection of IDG web sites that presently includes cio.com, csoonline.com, InfoWorld.com, macworld.com, maccentral.com, pcworld.com and gamepro.com. A complete listing is available at www.idg.com.
To access restricted content on any IDG Publishing Network website you must be a member of the IDG Publishing Network. To become a member of the IDG Publishing Network, you need to provide certain information about yourself. Any of the IDG Publishing Network sites may use this identifying information for internal analytical and business development purposes and to send you email. However, other forms of communication, including postal mail, may be directed to you pursuant to the site's specific privacy policy, as may be updated from time to time.
You can "opt-out" of receiving further email by clicking the appropriate links that appear at the bottom of any email you receive. If you do not want to receive other types of communication, including as applicable, postal mail, from the editor and publisher of the site, please refer to the site's privacy policy for the procedure to follow.
The IDG Publishing Network is intended for individuals over the age of 13 years old. Personal information may not be provided by anyone under 13 years of age. Further no one under 13 years old may participate in the forums or chat rooms or any other areas where public discussions may take place. In addition no one under the age of 18 may conduct any transactions for the purposes or purchasing or selling any items. Parents should be sure that their children are not conducting any of the above activities on the IDG Publishing Network.
If you have any questions or comments regarding the IDG Publishing Network or its use of information please send email to questions@idg.com or write to us at IDG Publishing Network, 3 Post Office Square, Boston, MA 02109.
DATE: April 21, 2008
