We have organized all our websites so that you will not be required to identify yourself or reveal any personal information in order to view our websites. At times, we may ask you to provide information about yourself or your company in order to better serve you. If you choose to provide this personally identifiable information, we will use it in accordance with this Privacy Statement. We provide this Privacy Statement to answer some of the questions you may have about the types of information we may collect from our website and what we may do with that information. By entering this website, you are consenting to the terms of this Privacy Statement.
Changes to this Privacy Statement
We reserve the right to update this Privacy Statement at any time without
notice to you. Please check back regularly for updates to this Privacy
Statement. Your use of this website may also be subject to additional terms
outlined in the Terms of Use
and elsewhere on this website.
What information do we collect and how do we use it?
We understand that you expect to learn about this product when you visit this
website. Similarly, we hope to learn about your needs as a current or potential
customer or shareholder through your visits to this website.
Personal Information
On some of our web pages you may be able to ask questions and register to
receive information. On these pages, we will ask you for the personal
information necessary for us to respond to you, (e.g., name, mailing address,
electronic mail address, telephone number). If you opt not to provide us with
personal information you can still access our websites; however you may be
unable to participate in certain promotions or receive product information
offered through Barbican Marketing Media's websites or interactive
advertisements.
Aggregate and Statistical Data
Barbican Marketing Media may collect certain aggregate data called web log
information (such as your web browser, operating system, pages visited, etc.)
and use cookies when you visit many of our web pages. For instance, when you
visit one of our websites, our web server will automatically recognize some
non-personal information, including but not limited to the date and time you
visited our site, the pages you visited, the referrer (the website you came
from), the type of browser you are using (e.g., Netscape, Internet Explorer),
the type of operating system you are using (e.g., Windows XP or Mac OS), and the
domain name and address of your Internet Service Provider (e.g., AOL).
Neither our cookies nor web beacons nor web log information collects any personal information. They do not contain personal information such as your name or e-mail address.
In some cases we may also collect information about you that you voluntarily submit and which is not personal, such as general statistical information like age, gender, household size, zip/postal code, preferences and interests.
Cookies and Web Beacons
When you view one of our websites or interactive advertisements, we may collect
some non-personal information about you. The collection of this non-personal
information is done either through the "cookie" technology or with
"web beacons" (also called "single-pixel gif" or "web
pings"). Neither our cookies nor web beacons nor web log information
collects any personal information.
What do we do with this information?
We will use the information that you provide us to better understand your needs
and to provide you with better products and services. At the most basic level,
we will use information you provide to communicate with you, to update you on
our products and services and to personalize our websites for you. Web logs may
be used if necessary to help identify any person attempting to break into or
damage our website. We may share web log information with law enforcement
agencies if we believe that we have evidence of a violation of computer security
or related laws.
Periodically, we may survey you about your use of products for other market research or to provide you with marketing information we think will be useful to you. Of course, you need not participate in these surveys or accept this marketing information.
Will information be sold to third parties?
We will not, without your permission, sell the information which you give to us
to third parties. Occasionally, we may share personal information from you (such
as name, mailing addresses and e-mail addresses) with vendors, contractors or
partners of Barbican Marketing Media in connection with services that these
individuals or entities perform for or with Barbican Marketing Media. These
vendors, contractors or partners are restricted from using this data in any way
other than to provide services for Barbican Marketing Media, and they may not
share or resell this data. The services they provide for Barbican Marketing
Media include mailing product samples, or contacting the winners of
Barbican Marketing Media contests.
Barbican Marketing Media also reserves the right to share the information to respond to duly authorized information requests of governmental authorities or where required by law.
Links to Other Sites
We may provide you with links to other websites. Please be aware that we cannot
guarantee or vouch for the data collection practices of such other websites. We
encourage you to read the privacy statements for those linked websites.
Privacy of Children
This website is not designed for, or directed to, children under the age of
13 and will not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from
individuals in this age group. We encourage parents to take an active role in
their children's online activities and to talk with their children about
disclosing personally identifiable information to websites.
Referrals
Occasionally, visitors will have the opportunity to forward product sampling
opportunities or other information on the website to friends/relatives or to
send messages from our websites or interactive advertisements to
friends/relatives. This personal referral information you provide to facilitate
this communication is used on a one-time basis or stored only for analysis
purposes, and is not further used by Barbican Marketing Media to re-contact
referred individuals, except in circumstances where we obtain consent from the
people you have referred to receive communications from us.
Data Security
Barbican Marketing Media is committed to keeping the data you provide us secure
and will take reasonable precautions to protect your personal information from
loss, misuse or alteration. Vendors, contractors or partners of Barbican
Marketing Media who have access to your personal information in connection with
providing services for Barbican Marketing Media are required to keep the
information confidential and are not permitted to use this information for any
other purpose than to carry out the services they are performing for Barbican
Marketing Media. We use secure connections on our websites to protect credit
card information during its transmission.
Accessing Your Information and Contacting Barbican Marketing Media
If you have any questions about this Privacy Statement, or if you have submitted
or another person has submitted personally identifiable information about you
through this website, and you would like to have that information changed or
deleted, please contact:
VOLUNTARY PARTICIPATION
Our sites allow you to choose to receive or stop receiving communications from
us. To request removal from a Barbican Marketing Media mailing list,
please send a message with your request to
support@trade-secrets.org.
or click on the link in your email.
YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF OUR PRIVACY PRACTICES
By using this website or any other Barbican Marketing Media website or
interactive banner ads, you signify your acceptance of this Privacy Statement,
and you adhere to the terms and conditions posted on the website.
If you do not agree with any of these terms in, please do not use this site or submit any personal information.
Please check back for updates to this Privacy Statement.