Privacy Statement
Penton Media, Inc. (Penton), doing business as Tech Conferences, is committed to your privacy. The following paragraphs fully describe the Tech Conferences' practices regarding information you provide when using one of our products or services.

Information Collection
We may ask you to provide information about yourself when you use our various site services, subscribe to a publication or register for an event. We collect personal identifying information such as your name, email address, postal address and phone number along with basic demographic information about your job and place of business. The ways we use the information are outlined below:

Site Services
For our "Email us" or "Send feedback to Webmaster" service, personal information is only passed to customer service representatives within Penton so that we may personally follow up on your feedback if necessary. This information is not stored or used for any other purpose.

Web Site Registration and Email Newsletters
You must register in order to view selected site content, manage your email newsletter subscriptions, or participate in our discussion forums. We may share aggregated, non-identifying information with third parties for marketing purposes. Your email address and mailing address may be used to notify you of new products and services from Tech Conferences, Penton, its affiliates, and third parties that we believe may be of interest to you. Offers are carefully screened to ensure our customers only receive targeted messages from reputable firms. Email address, names, and mailing addresses are released only to bonded mail-houses or through a contracted email delivery service for use on behalf of the client. Your personal information is never released directly to the third-party vendors. You may opt out of these mailings at any time. For your convenience, unsubscription information will be displayed at the bottom of each e-mail we send to you.

Conference Registration
When you register for any of our conferences or purchase conference materials, your postal address information is used primarily to fulfill your request and to communicate with you about the conference. Your name, email address and mailing address may also be used to notify you of new products and services from Tech Conferences, Penton, its affiliates, and third parties that we believe may be of interest to you. Offers are carefully screened to ensure our customers only receive targeted messages from reputable firms. Email address, names, and mailing addresses are released only to bonded mail-houses or through a contracted email delivery service for use on behalf of the client. Your personal information is never released directly to the third-party vendors. You may opt out of these mailings at any time.

As part of your conference registration fee, you may be subscribed to one or more of our partner magazines and/or web sites at no additional cost to you. In such cases, your name, email address, and mailing address may be shared with our partners in order to fulfill your subscriptions.

If you do not wish to receive promotional messages through the mail, please contact our customer service department:

Email: info@devconnections.com
Toll-free (US and Canada): (800) 438-6720
Local and International: (203) 268-3204

Cookies and our Third-party Vendors
Our sites use "cookies" to set and maintain site preferences during your session, to authenticate when you log in, and to help facilitate your experience on our sites. Other cookies from third-party vendors may be used to facilitate serving ads and analyzing overall Web site usage.

Security
We use reasonable precautions to keep the personal information that you disclose to us secure and to disclose such information only within the above guidelines. Where information is shared, it is only with your permission and only to third parties we believe to be responsible. However, we are not responsible for any breach of security or for any actions of any third parties that receive the information. Our sites also link to other sites and we are not responsible for their privacy policies or practices.

If you have questions about the Tech Conferences's privacy policy, please send an email to info@devconnections.com. For information about Penton Media's general corporate privacy policy, please visit http://www.penton.com/privacy.html