Privacy Policy

Last updated: September 2008

Haymarket Media Inc. ("Haymarket") has created this privacy statement to demonstrate our firm commitment to protect your privacy and to fully disclose what information we collect and how we use it. Please note your use of our site is also governed by the Terms and Conditions of use.

Information Collection and Dissemination

General Principles

• In general, you may visit this Web site without identifying yourself or revealing any personal information.
• As you browse our Web site, the site collects log file, IP address of your computer, and other standard tracking data we use to evaluate site traffic and usage patterns. Such information is aggregated with tracking data from all site visitors. We will use the information to personalize the site according to your preferences based on the aggregated information. We also use the aggregated information to evaluate products and services we may offer to you.
• Some portions of this Web site may require you to give us personally identifiable information such as your name, job title, company, physical mailing address, e-mail address, telephone and fax numbers (Personal Information) and, if applicable, financial information such as your credit card information (Financial Information), for, without limitation, (i) registration for attendance at certain Haymarket trade shows, conferences and events; and (ii) subscriptions to our publications. If you communicate with us by e-mail, post messages to any of our chat groups, bulletin boards or forums, or otherwise complete online forms, surveys or contest entries, any information provided in such communications may be collected as Personal Information.
• If you elect to provide us Personal Information, we use it primarily to deliver the service you requested. Other uses of Personal Information are described elsewhere in this Policy.
• If you submit Financial Information, we use that information primarily to verify your credit and collect payments for your purchases, orders, registrations etc.
• Haymarket uses a third party to process credit card transactions and does not store financial information, such as credit card information on its website.

Information Sharing

Unless you opt-out, we share your Personal Information with Haymarket's affiliates and partners and third parties licensed to access your Personal Information by any of the foregoing.
Except as otherwise provided in this Privacy Policy, we will keep your Personal Information and your Financial Information private and will not share it with third parties, unless such disclosure is necessary t (a) comply with a court order or other legal process; (b) protect our rights or property; or (c) enforce our terms of service.

Several companies unaffiliated with Haymarket provide email deployment services for our email messages. The personally identifiable information, such as e-mail address, we provide to these vendors for the purposes of e-mail deployment is only used by them for that purpose and not for any other business activity.

In order to comply with the Federal CAN-SPAM Act of 2003, we also may provide lists of customers who have opted-out of email promotion for Haymarket products to other companies, so they can be suppressed from mailings those companies send on Haymarket’s behalf. In addition, if you unsubscribe from a mailing we send to our own list on behalf of a third party, your removal instruction may also be supplied to the third party and added to their own suppression file. If you continue receiving email after opting out, please contact us at web@haymarketmedia.com.

Aggregated information

We sometimes provide aggregated usage or tracking information collected from this Web site to third parties.

Information on Children

As a business-to-business company, we do not knowingly collect information from children under the age of 13. On-line registration and web site usage is restricted to adults who are professionally engaged in the businesses we serve.

Updating Visitor Information: You have the option of accessing, correcting, updating and modifying your Personal and/or Financial Information, or visitor profile, at any time and as often as desired. If you desire to delete your Personal and/or Financial Information please contact us at web@haymarketmedia.com.

Update Your Newsletter Subscriptions

You can opt-in to newsletter mailing lists, or remove yourself (opt-out) 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.  You can locate the subscription management page through the “Log In” link at the top right hand corner of the site. For Haymarket sites not offering the subscription management page, please send your email preferences to subscriptions@haymarketmedia.com.

Update Your Print Subscription Information

You can correct or change your print subscription information by sending an email to subscriptions@haymarketmedia.com. Please allow 2-4 weeks for changes to take effect.

Third Party and Affiliated Links: Our Web sites contain external links to other Web sites including suppliers, advertisers and affiliates. We have no control over, and are not responsible for, the content of, or information gathered by, these other Web sites. We do not endorse any of these Web sites or the products or services associated with such Web sites merely because they are linked to our Web site.

Haymarket Magazines, Seminars, Events, Sites and Other Publications and Services

As a Haymarket customer you can also expect to receive relevant email and postal offers for Haymarket 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 subscription management page which can be located by using the “Log In” link at the top right hand corner of the site.  For Haymarket sites not offering the subscription management page, please send your email preferences to subscriptions@haymarketmedia.com.

Haymarket Events

Haymarket Events are produced for a variety of companies (Sponsors). All data collected during the registration of such events may be shared with those Sponsors. This data is governed by the individual Sponsor's privacy policy and may be used by the Sponsor for follow-up purposes. Please visit the Sponsor’s web site to review its privacy policy. Similarly, Haymarket events will have the same access to this data as the Sponsors, and this Privacy Policy continues to govern how Haymarket uses the data. For details on how event Sponsors use the information you provide, please contact the Sponsor directly.

If you have any questions, please contact Events@haymarketmedia.com.

Haymarket eSeminars

Haymarket eSeminars produces sponsored webcasts and online trade shows for a variety of  Sponsors. All data collected during the registration for such events will be shared with those Sponsors. This data is governed by the individual Sponsor's privacy policy and may be used by the Sponsor for follow-up purposes. Please visit the Sponsor’s web site to review its privacy policy. Similarly, Haymarket eSeminars will have the same access to this data as the Sponsors, and this Privacy Policy continues to govern how Haymarket uses the data. For details on how eSeminar Sponsors use the information you provide, please contact the Sponsor directly.

Haymarket eSeminars also automatically receives and records information on our server logs from your browser, including your IP address, Internet connection speed, Internet connection duration, and Real Media and Windows Media player information. This is done in conjunction with our broadcast providers. Your data is collected and retained by our broadcast providers for the sole purposes of delivering eSeminars content appropriately, traffic reporting, and enabling re-registration for future events. In addition, our broadcast providers use cookie technology to identify you as a registered user of the eSeminars service.

If you have any questions, please contact eSeminars@haymarketmedia.com.

Email A Friend
If you choose to use our referral service to inform a friend about our Site, products, or services, we will ask you for your friend's name and email address. We will send your friend a one-time e-mail inviting them to visit the site. We may store this information for the purpose of sending this one-time e-mail and tracking the success of our referral program. Your friend may contact the us at web@haymarketmedia.com to have their information removed from our database.

Online Ad Serving

We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our Web site. These companies may use information (not including your name, address email address or telephone number) about your visits to this and other Web sites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, click here: http://www.networkadvertising.org/consumer/opt_out.asp

Cookies
A "cookie" is a bit of data sent by a Web site through the browser to the computer of the user visiting the site, and enables the site to return the results the browser expects. Haymarket uses temporary, session-specific cookies to ensure visits to its Web site are smooth and customized for the visitor. Such cookies allow us to provide a visitor's browser with information tailored to the visitor's preferences and needs. Haymarket also uses permanent or persistent cookies that remain on a visitor's computer after the visitor leaves a Haymarket Web site.

If you do not want your browser to accept cookies, you can turn off the cookie acceptance option in the browser's settings. However, disabling the cookie support function of the browser will prevent our Web site from functioning properly and you may not be able to utilize fully all of the site's features and information.

We use advertising companies to develop banner ads for our Web site. These ads may contain cookies. These companies collect cookies sent to your browser through the banner ads and we do not have control or access to this data.

Pixel Tags

Like many web sites, Haymarket 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.

Opt-out Option
Visitors to this Web site can decide if they want to receive promotional information from Haymarket. On the visitor registration pages, prospective visitors can choose to request Haymarket not to e-mail them advertising and promotional information. Should visitors accept promotional e-mail from Haymarket, any e-mail they receive will include instructions on how to be removed from Haymarket's promotional e-mail list. If you continue receiving email after opting out, please contact us at web@haymarketmedia.com.

Security and Encryption
This Web site takes commercially reasonable precautions to protect your information. When appropriate, we use SSL encryption technology on our Web site and a secure server to encrypt information transmitted between your browsers and our server. As a result, data you submit to our Web site such as credit card and payment information is transmitted using commercially reasonable security over the Internet.

This Web site also uses password encryption to keep ensure your privacy when registering for newsletters, events, and other Haymarket related media.

Notification of Changes
Haymarket reserves the right, at any time and without notice, to add to, change, update or modify this Privacy Policy, simply by posting such change, update or modification on the Web site. Any such change, update or modification will be effective immediately upon posting on the Web site. Please check back often to review the latest version of our Privacy Policy.

Your Acceptance of these Terms
By using our Web site, products or services, you signify your acceptance of the terms of the Haymarket Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to the terms of the Haymarket Privacy Policy, please do not use the Web site, products and/or services and exit the site immediately.

Questions?

If you have any questions on our Privacy Policy, or complaints about our handling of your Personal and/or Financial Information, you can contact us at sitefeedback@haymarketmedia.com.