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PC210 is committed to protecting your privacy. This policy
describes the ways that personally identifiable and anonymous
information about our online users, event registrants and print
subscribers is gathered, our information sharing practices,
and how online users and print subscribers may request changes
to the way this information is shared.
Personally
Identifiable Information We Collect
We collect personally identifiable information when you provide
it to us, such as when you subscribe to our magazines (either
directly with us or through another company such as a subscription
agency), sign up for email newsletters, enter a contest, register
for site membership, participate in surveys, or to otherwise
communicate with us. Several of the services that we offer,
including but not limited to file downloads and message boards,
require registration as a condition of use; when you register
with one of our sites you are no longer anonymous. We may also
receive information about you from other sources and add it
to the information you have provided to us.
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Information You Volunteer and How it Is
Displayed to Others Online
กค PC210 is not responsible for the information you volunteer about
yourself in the course of discussions in our forums, chat rooms, or
other forms of publicly accessible interaction, or information that
you choose to make public in your member profile. As a member, you
can view, correct or change your publicly available information at
any time via your member profile page.
Personally identifiable information you provide as a subscriber to
the Microsoft Watch newsletter is not shared with anyone except on
an aggregate, statistical basis, except for the purposes of fulfillment
and email deployment.
PC210 Magazines, Seminars, Events, Sites and Other Publications and
Services
As a PC210 customer you can also expect to receive relevant email
and postal offers for PC210 publications, seminars, events, web sites
and other services. From time to time we are also able to secure and
offer to our customers specially-negotiated discounts and new products
from other leading companies. If you would prefer not to receive such
mailings in the future, you can change your preference via the links
in the previous section ("Mailing Lists").
Change
of Ownership of PC210 Properties
The mailing list(s) associated with PC210 properties may also be subject
to transfer to another company in the event of a change of ownership.
In this event, PC210 or the new owner of the affected properties will
use commercially reasonable efforts to notify you and provide the
opportunity to remove your name from the associated mailing list(s).
Anonymous Information We Collect
Cookies
As you probably know, cookies are small pieces of information that
many Web sites store on your computer's hard drive when you visit
them. They don't tell us who you are unless you've specifically given
us personally identifiable information. Cookies stored on your hard
drive by a PC210 site are not accessible to other sites.
Like many other web sites, PC210 sites use cookies to improve your
experience with our online content. For example, we may use a cookie
to identify members so they don't have to re-enter a user id and password
when they wish to download a utility or post to a discussion. As another
example, cookies can be used to control the number of times you see
advertisements, like pop-ups. By allowing us to better understand
how users interact with the site over time, cookies also help us improve
your experience and deliver more relevant content to you. Cookies
may be created directly by our sites for these purposes, or by third-party
companies operating on our behalf. However, our cookies do not contain
any information that is, in itself, personally identifying. Some of
our advertisers occasionally serve you cookies as well. We do not
have control over cookies placed by advertisers. You need not have
cookies turned on to visit our sites, though cookies may be required
in order for you to participate in certain areas. If you choose to
become a member of a PC210 web site, you must have cookies enabled
to access any member related pages (i.e. Discussion Boards, Member
Profile pages, Search for a Member).
Most web browsers automatically accept cookies but allow you to modify
security settings so you can approve or reject cookies on a case-by-case
basis.
Pixel Tags
Like many web sites, PC210 may also use pixel tags, also known as
beacons, spotlight tags or web bugs, to improve our understanding
of site traffic, visitor behavior, and response to promotional campaigns,
as a supplement to our server logs and other methods of traffic and
response measurement. Pixel tags are sometimes used in conjunction
with small Javascript-based applications, also for the purpose of
traffic measurement. We may also implement pixel tags provided by
other companies, for the same purpose. You can disable pixel tags
by changing your browser settings to omit images and disable Javascript;
or there are commercial software packages available that can omit
pixel tags and most advertisements.
Changing
Your Privacy Options
Update Your Registration Information
You can correct or change the information collected during site registration
at any time at the profile page links shown above, or, for eSeminars
and Events, by sending email to the addresses shown above.
Update Your Newsletter Subscriptions
You can opt-in to newsletter mailing lists, or remove yourself at
any time through the subscription management page (this page will
display all of your newsletter subscriptions) or by following the
instructions at the end of the newsletters you receive. Please allow
3-5 business days for changes to take effect.
Update
Your Print Subscription Information
You can correct or change your print subscription information at http://www.PC210.com/members/.
Please allow 2-4 weeks for changes to take effect.
Security
We use reasonable precautions to keep the personal information you
disclose to our magazines and websites secure and to only release
this information to third parties we believe share our commitment
to privacy. However, we are not responsible for any breach of security
or for the actions of these parties.
Children
PC210 web sites are not intended for use by children, especially those
under 13. No one under age 13 is allowed to provide any personal information
or use our public discussion areas, forums, and chats. Minors under
the age of 18 are prohibited from making purchases, including subscriptions,
on our sites.
If your children disclose information about themselves in our public
discussion areas, they may get unsolicited messages from other parties.
Accordingly, you should tell them not to do so.
Changes
to the PC210 Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy may be modified from time to time. Any modifications
to our privacy policy will be reflected first on this page, so check
back often. If there is a significant change, we will indicate on
our sites that our privacy policy has changed and provide a link to
the new policy.
Questions?
If you have any questions on our Privacy Policy, you can contact us
at Server@PC210.com |
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