Storage Networking World Online privacy policy statement
This Web site is owned by Computerworld Inc., an IDG Communications company.
This page explains how we use information we collect about our readers, visitors, and subscribers.
Our logfiles collect only the domain name, but not the e-mail address, of visitors to our Web page, the e-mail addresses of those who communicate with us via e-mail, aggregate information on what pages consumers access or visit, user-specific information on what pages consumers access or visit, and information volunteered by the consumer, such as survey information and/or registrations.
The information we collect is used to improve the content of our Web magazines, to help us understand how our readers use our magazines, to notify consumers about updates to our magazines, and to send information to subscribers on behalf of other reputable organizations for marketing purposes, and by us to contact consumers for our own marketing purposes.
From time to time, we send to subscribers web-based surveys so that we can better understand the subscribers to our editorial product, and to continue to target the content appropriately. We do not turn over possession or control of e-mail addresses to others. We identify ourselves as the source of every e-mailing. Demographic data received from subscribers is used only in aggregated form; details by subscriber are not shared with any outside organizations. Under no circumstances do we make our lists available to known spammers, get-rich-quick sites, pornographic sites, or vendors of products not in some way relevant to the likely interest areas of readers of each of our magazines.
Subscribers (those who fill out our e-mail alert subscription form) do not have the option upon signup of refusing marketing e-mail from third parties this list is not available for rental or third-party use. You can also unsubscribe altogether at any time from our e-mail alert service. Detailed instructions are sent with every e-mail we send you.
If you supply us with your postal address on-line you will only receive postal mailings from the Editors/Program Managers/Underwriters. You can, however, have your name put on our do-not-mail list by sending e-mail to us at the above address.
Persons who supply us with their telephone numbers on-line may receive telephone contact from us with information regarding orders they have placed on-line, or from editors asking their opinion about issues affecting the magazines or markets, or from our own marketing staff.
Use of cookies on our sites
"Cookies" are an identification tag or code provided by a server to your browser, which your browser stores and, when the same server requests, gives it back. It is a method of distinguishing among visitors to a Web site.
There is one use of cookies by our magazine.
Our Web server provides your browser with a single longlasting cookie, then reads that cookie on any subsequent page you visit on our magazines. We use this cookie exclusively to understand how visitors use our site: How often people visit in given time periods, how many articles they read in each visit, how many people visit and never return, what percentage of our visitors are regular subscribers, and looking for patterns in our demographics for which stories are read by what kinds of readers.
We may at some future time offer special services and benefits to readers who are subscribers; we will be able to use the cookies as a mutually convenient way to distinguish our subscribers from nonsubscribers for these purposes.
You can refuse the cookies or delete the cookies file on your computer using various widely available methods. In such cases, our cookie analysis plans will lack the needed data. In addition, when we implement special subscriber benefits, cookied subscribers will have automatic access to them, but noncookied subscribers will have to enter a password. There are no other implications for accepting or refusing cookies from our magazine.
Some fear that the use of cookies gives us the ability to ferret information from you without your knowledge. As far as we know, it is not physically possible for us to do anything like this. In any event, we do not and will not use the cookie feature to access additional information from your computer, or to store anything other than a randomly generated identifying tag on your computer, or otherwise violate your privacy or acquire personal information you have not already provided us.
If you have further questions about cookies, CIAC, the Computer Incident Advisory Capacity unit that monitors computer problems for the US Department of Energy, issued a study on March 12, 1998 of the risks to users of cookies, titled "Information Bulletin I-034: Internet Cookies."
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