Privacy policy GENERAL Dow Jones & Company, Inc., publisher of The Boardroom Connection at boardroomconnection.com, and its affiliates (hereafter referred to collectively as "Dow Jones") is committed to maintaining the privacy of personal information that you provide to us when using www.boardroomconnection.com. This Privacy Policy describes how we treat personal information received about you when you visit www.boardroomconnection.com. LINKS TO OTHER WEB SITES When you visit www.boardroomconnection.com, we may make content or services available to you from other Web sites including our affiliated or co-branded Web sites. These other Web sites are not subject to this Privacy Policy. We recommend that you review the privacy policy at each such Web site to determine how that site protects your privacy. INFORMATION WE COLLECT General: When you register for new interview alerts and e-mail newsletters, and at other times, we will collect personally identifiable information from you that may include your name, title, e-mail address, and facts about your computers, profession and similar information. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of thirteen. Web Site Usage Information: We may automatically collect IP addresses and Web site usage information. This information helps us evaluate how our visitors use and navigate our Web site, including the number and frequency of visitors to each Web page, and the length of their visits. HOW WE USE INFORMATION COLLECTED We may use information in the following ways: For the purposes for which you specifically provided the information including, for example, to enable us to process, validate and verify your requests. To notify you about our new or existing products and services, special offers, or to otherwise contact you. To enhance our products and services or develop new products and services. To provide advertisers and other third parties with aggregate information about our user base and usage patterns. To allow us to personalize the content that you and others see based on personal characteristics or preferences. To share your information with select advertisers or other third parties whose products or services we feel may be of interest to you. We may hire other companies to perform services on our behalf including, without limitation, facilitating some aspects of our services such as sending e-mail. These other companies may be supplied with or have access to your personally identifiable information solely for the purpose of providing these services to us or on our behalf. We use third parties, called third-party ad servers or ad networks, to deliver ads to you on our behalf. These third-party ad servers may be supplied with or have access to your personally identifiable information solely for the purpose of providing these services to us or on our behalf. They may also collect and use non-personally identifiable information about your visits to the Services and other Web sites in order to present advertisements that may be of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice or to opt out of having this information used by third-party ad servers to provide targeted ads, please visit http://www.networkadvertising.org/optout_nonppii.asp. Except as specifically set forth in this Privacy Policy, your personally identifiable information will not be shared outside of Dow Jones. We may disclose and use personally identifiable information in special circumstances where it is necessary to enforce our rights (for example, when necessary to protect our intellectual property rights). We may also disclose or use your personal information when we, in good faith, believe that the law requires us to do so. ONLINE ADVERTISEMENTS When you view an ad for The Boardroom Connection, our third party advertising company may place or recognize a unique cookie on your browser. Our advertising company may also use invisible images (often referred to as pixel tags, clear GIFs or web beacons) to note which pages of our Web site you visit after viewing our ads. The information that is collected through the use of these images is not personally identifiable and is used only to track responses to our advertising efforts. YOUR ABILITY TO CHOOSE You can let us know you no longer want to receive new interview alerts and e-mail newsletters you have signed up for by clicking on an unsubscribe link within those e-mails. COOKIES AND WEB BEACONS We employ cookie technology to help visitors and subscribers move faster through our site. We also use cookie technology to estimate our total audience size and traffic and to help us improve our site's experience by measuring which site areas are of greatest interest to users. You can turn off the ability to receive any of these cookies by adjusting the browser in your computer, but you should note that if you do so, this may materially affect the functionality of this Web site and the information you can access through it. If you wish to find out more about cookies, or how to refuse cookies, please visit the Interactive Advertising Bureau's web site at www.allaboutcookies.org. We use web beacons (invisible images often referred to as pixel tags or clear GIFs) on our site in order to recognize users and assess traffic patterns. We also include Web beacons in our e-mail messages including newsletters in order to count how many e-mail messages have been opened. SECURITY The personally identifiable information we collect from you on this Web site is stored in limited-access servers. We will maintain safeguards to protect the security of these servers and your personally identifiable information. POLICY MODIFICATIONS When we make any material change to this Privacy Policy, we will inform you by posting a notice on the main page of this site that the policy has been updated and by changing the date on this page noting when the policy was last updated. TRANSFER TO U.S. OR OTHER COUNTRIES Your information may be stored and processed in the United States or any other country where Dow Jones has facilities, and by subscribing to our services, you consent to the transfer of information outside of your country. COMMENTS AND QUESTIONS If you have any questions, comments or concerns about our Privacy Policy, you may contact us by e-mail at feedback@boardroomconnection.com. This policy was last updated May 16, 2005. 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