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Your privacy, and the privacy of
all registered users of the services of CCBN.com, is important to
us. Accordingly, we have adopted the following privacy policy. Our
policy is based on the principles of notice, choice, access and
security in the collection and use of personally-identifiable information
regarding our users and their activities at our site. This policy
applies to all visitors to www.ccbn.com,
www.companyboardroom.com,
and all registered users of www.streetevents.com
and my.ccbn.com.
1. Notice
This policy tells you, among other things, what
information we gather from you, how we may use or disclose that
information and our efforts to protect it. Please read this policy
carefully, and feel free to contact us at info@ccbn.com
if you have any questions regarding its contents.
Types of Information Collected
In connection with your use of our site, we ask for and may collect
a variety of information from and about you in different ways. For
example, when you register to use our site, we ask for and store
your and/or your business’ name, address, e-mail address and other
identifying contact data. We may also receive information about
you through the Web sites of the companies for which we provide
investor relations services.
Use of Cookies
Use of our registered user areas requires that you accept the use
of cookies, which are small data files that our Web site sends to
your browser for storage on your computer’s hard drive. We use cookies
to protect confidential data, track activity at our site and better
serve your needs and interests.
Use of Information
We use your personally identifying information to identify you as
a user of the site and to allow you access to the registered user
sections of the site. We may use your e-mail address to contact you
directly regarding services or products that we believe may be of
interest to you. We may also associate your personally identifying
information with information we collect about your preferences and
activities at the site, such as the particular pages you request
at the site and other transactions you effect through the site.
We may vary the content you receive in future visits to the site
based on your preferences and activities.
We may combine your personally identifying information,
and information about your preferences and activities, with those
of all or a particular group of our users to prepare collective
profiles of our users and their activities. For example, we may
track the number of our users who view certain pages, [or] use certain
features or compile the total number of visitors to our site in
a particular geographic region. Such information, and other information
we derive from individual users’ information, allows us to
continue to grow and provide you with quality services, as well
as develop more accurate marketing and advertising for our Web site.
Disclosure of Information
We do not release your personally identifying information, and information
about your activities and preferences, to other companies wishing
to contact you about products or services. We may, however, provide
third parties with collective profiles of our user groups and their
activities and preferences. Such collective profiles may also be
disclosed in describing our site and services to prospective partners,
advertisers and other third parties, and for other lawful purposes.
Your information may be provided to the company
for which we are under contract to provide investor relations services
to you. Such information will be handled in accordance with that
company’s privacy policies. However, we do not disclose information
about a company’s investors to the other companies for which we
provide investor relations services.
Finally, we may disclose information as necessary
to fulfill legal and regulatory requirements; to effect a sale,
assignment, or other transfer of our assets or one or more of our
service agreements; or if we believe, in good faith, that such disclosure
is legally required or necessary to protect others’ rights or to
prevent harm.
2. Choice
You may choose to restrict our use of your information
to maintaining your registration on the site, or prohibit our disclosure
of your information to others, by contacting us and directing us
to impose such limits. If you wish us to restrict the use or disclosure
of your information, please send us an e-mail at info@ccbn.com.
Since we must use and disclose certain information in order provide
services to you, your decision to opt out may mean that you can
no longer receive some or all of the services we offer.
In addition, we will not send unsolicited messages
to users of our site who indicate that they do not wish to receive
such messages. If you do not wish to receive unsolicited e-mail messages
from us, please contact us at info@ccbn.com.
3. Access
At any time after you have logged on to our site,
you may contact us at info@ccbn.com
to request access to information we have collected regarding you
or your business or to notify us of changes to such information.
You may also contact us by mail at Attn: Data Access, 343 Congress
Street, Boston, MA 02210, by telephone at 617.603.7900, or by facsimile
at 617.603.7800. If you request any changes, we will contact you
by e-mail or fax to confirm those changes. Once confirmed, any new
item of information will replace the corresponding information previously
provided.
4. Control of Your Password
You are responsible for all actions taken with your
User ID and password, including fees. Therefore, we recommend that
you do not disclose your password to anyone. If you lose control
of your password, you may lose substantial control over your personally
identifiable information and may be subject to legally binding actions
taken on your behalf. Therefore, if your password has been compromised
for any reason, you should immediately change your password as detailed
in the profiles page of the product for which you are registered.
5. Security
We use industry-standard encryption methods to transmit
your personal registration information from your computer to ours
across the Internet, and we restrict access to any registered user
portions of our site to computers running web browsers that support
Secure Socket Layer ("SSL") protocol. To use this protection technology,
you need to have an SSL-compatible browser. These browsers will
automatically activate the technology when you log on to our site.
We use industry standard practices to insure your personally identifiable
information is secure, including firewalls.
Please remember that you play a valuable part in
security as well. Your password to access our site should never
be shared with anyone and should be changed frequently. And, after
you have finished using our site, you should log off and exit your
browser so no unauthorized persons can use our site with your name
and account information. Remember that any information you voluntarily
disclose on-line in any news or message postings, discussion groups
or chat rooms may be collected and used by others without your permission.
Furthermore, if you provide any information to parties who operate
Web sites that are linked to or from our site, different rules may
apply to their collection, use or disclosure of your personal information.
We encourage you to review these sites’ policies before revealing
any sensitive or personal information.
Regardless of the precautions taken by you or by
us, "perfect security" does not exist on the Internet. We cannot
ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to
us, and you transmit such information at your own risk. We reserve
the right to change this policy at any time without prior notice.
Revisions will be posted on our Web sites. This Privacy Policy is
for the information of our users and does not constitute a contract
or modification of any contract. |
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