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ComputerworldUK privacy policy

Introduction

Respecting the privacy of our customers and ensuring the confidentiality of customer information is critical to IDG Communications Limited (IDG). The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to ensure that we interact with all of our customers in line with current legislation such as the UK Data Protection Act 1998 and in accordance with their wishes.

IDG Communications Ltd is the owner and operator of Computerworld UK (www.computerworlduk.com). Information we collect from users of the sites will be stored by us on computers in the UK and may be used in the following ways:

About this Statement - Your Consent

The purpose of this statement is to explain to you how we may use your personal information. By using this IDG Communications Ltd Website at www.computerworlduk.com you agree to this use.

Personal Details

IDG Communications Ltd will use your contact details (postal address, email address, telephone, mobile and fax numbers) to contact you regarding the services you have requested. This includes re-registration/renewal notifications, surveys on improving our service to you and/or invitations to exhibitions, seminars and shows.

From time to time IDG may invite you to register in order to receive magazines, email newsletters, enter competitions, and receive services from IDG websites. This will require you to confirm personal information such as your name, email address, and mailing address postcodes. This information is mandatory and is required by IDG for security purposes and enables IDG to supply a reasonable level of services to users and our advertisers. We will ask for information such as job function, job title, industry sector, company/ name and country. During registration, you will also be asked to choose a user name and password for future access to the relevant site(s).

In order to provide you with free resources, white papers and expert analysis, we share your business information with companies whose content you choose to view and download from the Computerworld UK site.

IDG offers you the chance to opt in to receive additional information from IDG and its associated companies by email, telephone and/or SMS. This includes other products/services that IDG and its associated companies offer and that IDG feels will be of interest to you.

IDG offers you the chance to opt in to receive marketing information from other carefully selected organisations by email, telephone and/or SMS. IDG will only pass on these details if you opt in. IDG takes all measures possible to ensure that the contact you receive will be from reputable organisations. IDG however cannot accept any responsibility for use of the data once it has been passed on.

IDG offers you the chance to opt out of receiving additional information from IDG and its associated companies by post. This includes all other products/services that IDG and its associated companies offer.

IDG offers you the chance to opt out of receiving marketing information from other carefully selected organisations by post. IDG takes all measures possible to ensure that the contact you receive will be from reputable organisations. IDG cannot however accept any responsibility for use of the data once it has been passed on.

Aggregate statistical information gathered from IDG registration forms may be passed on to advertisers or others regarding sales or website usage. At no point will this include personal identifying information.

At all times a recipient of a IDG product and/or service will have the opportunity to amend their contact details. You can also request, at any time, to have your personal details flagged on the IDG databases to ensure you do not continue to receive marketing information from IDG Communications or other relevant third parties. We will not actually delete your record from the IDG databases as we would no longer be able to identify you, which could lead to you receiving information from us in the future. To action any of these requests please contact the relevant customer care department of the product/service you subscribe to.

If you submit your email address to sign up for our newsletter(s) on the website, then you can unsubscribe at any time by either contacting us directly or via the unsubscribe facility included in communications sent to you.

You have the right to be told what personal information we hold about you on our databases. You should write to Ms Alex Lincoln, IDG Communications Ltd, 99 Grays Inn Rd, London, WC1X 8TY, United Kingdom. In your letter you must state your full name, your address and all publications and/or services from IDG to which you know you subscribe. A small administration charge of £5.00 will be made for fulfilling this request.

Information about your use of the Website

In order that we can monitor and improve the site, we may gather certain information about you when you use it, including details of your domain name and IP address, operating system, browser, version, cookie details (see below) and the website that you visited prior to our site. This is anonymous aggregated data. IDG may make anonymous use of this information to help diagnose faults, manage the system and gather broad demographic information about our users in general. This information will be stripped of all details that could identify you personally. For example, we may use IP addresses to help fix performance problems with our server.

IDG uses all reasonable precautions to keep the personal information disclosed to it secure.

Information collected from site visitors

This statement discloses the privacy policy for the IDG network of sites, which encompasses the following URLs:
www.techworld.com
www.computerworlduk.com
www.cio.co.uk
and subdomains of these websites.

Other Links

Please be aware that our site may link to other web sites which may be accessed through our site. This statement does not extend to sites that are linked to IDG sites but which are not part of the IDG network. You should refer to those sites for further details about their use of your personal information. We are not responsible for the data policies, content or security of these linked web sites.

Cookies

Cookies are small pieces of information stored by us on your computer which enable us to identify your computer when you access our services or websites. We use cookies to allow us to understand who has seen which pages, to determine how frequently particular pages are visited and determine the most popular areas of our Website, and carry out market research.

We may use cookies to provide you with a convenient means of access, without needing your password. Also to protect the integrity of registered user names and passwords and to limit access to 'paid for' services. We will not disclose information obtained by the use of cookies to third parties.

Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, though you do not have to. The 'help' portion of the toolbar on most browsers will tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, or how to disable cookies altogether.

When you request a page from the site's web server, the server automatically collects some information about your system, including your IP address. IDG collects the minimum information necessary to make the service work - this information is essential to send the pages back across the Internet to the right computer.

Third-Party Advertisement Servers

In the UK, we use the ADTECH to serve advertisements on the www.computerworlduk.com website. You are able to opt out of the ADTECH ad-serving cookie via the ADTECH privacy policy which can be viewed here.

Furthermore, some advertisers may use third-party companies to track advertisements on our Website. We will not pass any personally identifiable information to them as part of this and unless you visit the website of these companies and provide them with this information, those advertisers will not be able to identify who you are. This use of tracking technology by our advertisers is subject to their own privacy policies. IDG does not have control over the collection of information for advertising purposes.

Statistical information

Aggregate statistical information provided by us to our advertisers or others regarding sales or website usage will not include personally identifying information.

IDG is not responsible for the content or the privacy policies of third party web sites linked to this site.

IDG Communications Ltd reviews its privacy and data protection policy periodically. We reserve the right to modify our privacy and data protection policy at any time without notice. Any changes to the policy will be posted on this page.

To alter your details

If your personal information changes you can alter the details we hold by editing your site profile when logged in to www.computerworlduk.com. To Login to the site, please visit our Account Login Page.

Contact Us

If you have any comments or queries in connection with our privacy policy, please Contact Us.

We can be contacted at:
IDG Communications Ltd
99 Grays Inn Rd
London
WC1X 8TY
United Kingdom

Phone: +44 (0) 20 7071 3615
Fax: +44 (0) 20 7071 3658
Email: webmaster@computerworld.com

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