| The following privacy provisions apply solely to this website. We use the term "visitors" and "you" throughout this policy to include any person that accesses our website. If you are a customer to InsightBusiness or other Insight services, additional privacy policies will apply to your subscribed service.
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Contact Information
Collection of Personal Information by InsightBusiness.com
Collections by Contract Service Providers
Collections by Third Party Advertisers
Disclosure of Personal Information
Disclosure of Aggregate Information
Use of Cookies and Tracking Devices
Electronic Communications (email)
How to Discontinue Email Communications from Us
Retention of Personal Information
Our Security Procedures
Visits to Third Party Links/Websites
Changes to our Privacy Policy
Children's Privacy Policy
Contact Information
This website is operated by InsightBusiness and its affiliates (collectively, "InsightBusiness," "We," "Us," or "Our"). If you have any questions about this privacy policy, please contact us at:
InsightBusiness
810 7th Avenue; 41st Floor
New York, New York 10019
privacy@insightcom.com
Collection of Personal Information by InsightBusiness.com
We provide informative features as part of this website. To operate these features and allow website submissions and/or site interaction, we may request that you submit personally identifiable information over our website, such as, but not limited to, name, physical and/or e-mail addresses, telephone number, and credit card or other payment information ("personal information").
We collect personal information over our website for several important purposes, including to respond to visitor inquiries, improve our service(s) and website, gauge your service(s) preferences or other service interests, protect the security of our visitors and this website, notify visitors of promotional events and/or for future marketing and/or promotions about our service(s) or website. We may also survey visitors about various topics, including how we can improve our website and services.
We may allow other entities owned or operated by, or under common ownership or control with, InsightBusiness ("Insight Entities") to post service information, promotions, or features and request personal information over our website. Insight Entities that collect personal information over this website are required to comply with the provisions of this privacy policy.
The information you provide online through this website may be combined and maintained in online or offline databases and may also be combined with information you provide to us offline or through other Insight services.
Collections by Contract Service Providers
For website features, we may use third party contract providers to operate portions of the site and/or to collect visitor personal information on our behalf. For example, we may use a third party service provider to collect and process visitor requests made via our website. The contract provider will share your personal information with us. To facilitate a visitor response or inquiry, we may also share personal information with the contract provider. Third party providers that collect personal information over this website on our behalf are required to comply with the provisions of this privacy policy and protect visitor personal information.
Collections by Third Party Advertisers
Our website may post banner ads or other forms of advertisements and/or links from third party advertisers that are not owned or operated by InsightBusiness or Insight Entities. These third party advertisers may independently solicit and collect personal information, or send their own tracking devices to our visitors. When you visit a third party advertiser's link or website, you will be subject to the privacy policy and terms of usage agreement of that website operator. InsightBusiness and/or Insight Entities will not be responsible for advertiser ads and/or links or the content, activities, information collection, use and disclosure practices of the websites of third party advertisers.
Disclosure of Personal Information
We may share or disclose visitor personal information collected by our website with Insight Entities; partners; sponsors; agents; content, service or contract providers; contractors; consultants; accountants; auditors; attorneys; entities that provide support for the operation of the website or provision of our service(s); authorized government entities; and/or other lawfully authorized parties. We may disclose personal information to these third parties when you consent to the disclosure; when disclosure is required or authorized by law; when it is necessary to operate the website or our website services; to provide or enhance our website features; to enable participation in features or promotional events; to complete requests for service(s) or specific transactions; to protect the safety of our visitors, employees or property; and/or to comply with legal process, such as subpoenas or court orders. We may also disclose personal information to investigate and/or help prevent potentially unlawful activity or activity that threatens our network, system or website or that otherwise violates our website Terms of Use or AUPs.
In the event of a sale or transfer of InsightBusiness assets or stock, or contemplated sale or transfer, we may disclose personal information to other third parties in conjunction with entering into an agreement for such sale or transfer or if we are involved in bankruptcy proceedings. The recipient of personal information may have privacy practices that differ from those in this policy.
Disclosure of Aggregate Information
We may provide aggregate information about our visitors to other third parties, such as how many persons visited a particular page or activity, the average age of our visitors on the site or page, or geographic information such as zip code clustering. This aggregate information does not include or reveal personal information about an individual visitor. We may combine this aggregate information with personal information collected in accordance with this policy to create an enhanced database and/or to research or improve our services.
Use of Cookies and Tracking Devices
We may use cookies and/or other tracking devices on this website to record and gather non-personal, aggregate information. A cookie is a small data file that contains a unique identification number that a website places on your hard drive. Cookies simplify and improve Web navigation and personalize your Web experience by allowing a Web site server that hosts a site to recognize your browser when you visit certain web pages. This site may also use clear gifs [Graphics Interchange Formats], a tiny line of code only that can be programmed to collect aggregate data.
These tracking devices may record certain "hits" and submissions or links visited, including, but not limited to, Internet server and browser identification, Internet service provider, click-stream information, demographic information, duration of visit and domain type. We may use tracking devices to simplify site navigation and to help us obtain generalized information so we can better tailor our website to specific interests or participation.
The tracking devices we use do not independently collect personal information about you when you navigate through this website. Some personal information you voluntarily provide over our website may be linked to non-personal information collected through cookies or other tracking devices. If we combine aggregate information with personal information that identifies the interests of a particular visitor, such information will be protected in accordance with our privacy protections.
To prevent the recording of certain data through cookies, you can refuse to use cookies by turning them off in your browser. You do not need to have cookies turned on to navigate on most of this site. However, you may find that some areas on the website will be slower or you may not be able to participate in certain website features or offerings if the cookies are disabled.
Electronic Communications (email)
When visitors send email or other electronic communications to us, we protect the privacy of the visitor's email address and other personal information consistent with this Privacy Policy. Any content or portion of the email that does not contain personal information may be disclosed to other third parties not identified in this Policy. Please see our HYPERLINK "http://www.insightbb.com/terms_conditions/index.html" \l "terms_of_use" Website Terms of Usage Agreement.
How To Discontinue Email Communications from Us
You may ask that we remove your personal information from our website contact list by notifying us via email. Certain information fields are required and cannot be deleted for security purposes or in accordance with various laws or an applicable Insight service agreement.
Retention of Personal Information
We may retain visitor's personal information as long as necessary to maintain our databases as it relates to website operations, as is consistent with our company's record retention practices in the ordinary course of business, to ensure individualized website navigation capabilities and/or to comply with federal and state laws or authorized requests for disclosure pursuant to legal process.
Our Security Procedures
Information collected by or for InsightBusiness for this website is stored in our databases and/or in third party databases maintained on InsightBusiness' behalf. Only employees and authorized agents or contractors have access to the databases containing visitors' personal information. We require these persons to protect the privacy of all accessed personal information. We have also implemented security features, such as routers, firewalls, and encryption technology to safeguard the privacy of your personal information. We will continue to enhance our security procedures as new technology becomes available.
Despite our security measures, we do not guarantee the security of information stored in our databases or that unauthorized parties will not intercept information that you send or receive over the Internet. As a shared resource, the Internet subjects you to the risk of unauthorized access to your files and data, even when security measures are implemented. If you use our website or certain website features to send or receive personal or confidential information, you do so at your own risk.
Visits to Third Party Links/Websites
Our website may contain information, links or pointers to other sites or resources on the Internet controlled or provided by third parties. When you use these tools to access third party websites, you will be subject to the privacy policies and terms of usage agreements, if any, of the third party operators. InsightBusiness and/or Insight Entities are not responsible or liable for the collection, use, disclosure and/or site tracking practices of other third parties.
Changes to our Privacy Policy
We will review our privacy practices on a periodic basis and may update the provisions of this Privacy Policy. If we update this policy, we will post a revised Privacy Policy on this website. Changes shall become effective when they are posted or as otherwise indicated in the revised Policy. Use of this website following revisions to this website Privacy Policy constitutes your acceptance to the revised privacy provisions.
CHILDREN'S PRIVACY POLICY
This website is a general information site directed to business and commercial customers. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of thirteen. If upon notification by a parent or guardian, or discovery by other means, that we have improperly collected personal information from a child under thirteen, or that a child has improperly submitted personal information over this site, we will delete the child's personal information from our records.
Please contact us if you have any questions about this Website Privacy Policy.
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UPDATED: November 2006
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