PRINT SUBSCRIBER PRIVACY POLICY for Storage Magazine

Subscribers and applicants for Storage Magazine subscriptions are asked to complete a questionnaire with identifying information and demographics. The data is used in the following ways: to improve the content, notify subscribers about requalification and renewal, for marketing products, research and service and used by our audit bureau to verify cumulative demographic statistics.

Postal addresses will be used to promote Storage Magazine and TechTarget products and services, and may be rented to selected outside firms for promotional purposes. Offers for which the names are rented are screened, and renters are required to target their offers carefully.

Telephone numbers of Storage Magazine print subscribers are used by Storage Magazine and TechTarget to collect requalification data and may be used by Storage Magazine and TechTarget for promotional purposes.

Fax numbers of Storage Magazine print subscribers are used by Storage Magazine and TechTarget to collect requalification data and may be used for surveys.

We will use your email address to communicate with you about your subscription. At the time you subscribe you may decline to receive email notification of new products and services from Storage Magazine, TechTarget, its affiliates, and third parties that we believe may be of interest to you.

Subscribers or applicants who do not want their names used in any of the above ways may write and ask to be removed from the promotion list. Requests should be sent to:

Storage Magazine
Member Services
117 Kendrick Street
Needham, MA 02494

Overall privacy statement

We take your privacy very seriously. Because we gather certain types of information about our users we want to help you understand the terms and conditions surrounding the collection and use of that information. This privacy statement discloses the types of information we gather, how we use it, and how you can correct or change it.

What information does TechTarget collect?

Our primary goal in collecting personal information is to provide you with the best and most useful content and services. Because we derive revenue mainly from advertising, collecting information is essential to keeping our services affordable to users.

We collect personally identifiable information (which includes name, title, address, phone number, fax number and email address) when you provide it to us, such as when you register on one of our sites, when you subscribe for a print magazine or an e-mail newsletter, register for one of our conferences or when you register to use certain services like webcasts, whitepapers or the TechTarget IT Panel. Several of the services that we offer on our sites, such as Tips or Ask The Expert, may require registration as a condition of use. Once you register with one of the TechTarget network of sites you are no longer anonymous to us. We may also receive information about you from other sources and add it to the information you provided to us.

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How do you use single-pixel gifs?

TechTarget and its advertisers may use single-pixel gif images, sometimes referred to as web bugs or web beacons, to count Web page accesses and gather some general statistical information. We do not gather personal information through the use of these images. Our advertisers may use single-pixel gifs that can track personal information from cookies that may have been previously placed on a user's computer by an advertiser.

How does TechTarget use the information?

We use the information we gather for these purposes:

To customize the advertising and content you see.
To enhance the user experience in our network of sites. We use tracking information to determine how well each page performs overall based on aggregate user demographics and traffic patterns to those pages. In doing so, we continue to build a better service for you.
To fulfill your requests for certain products and services, such as sending out electronic newsletters and enabling users to participate in paid services, polls, contests, message boards, and auctions.
To send you information you agreed to receive about topics we think will be of interest to you.

How does TechTarget share the information?

Personally identifiable information

We will make your personally identifiable information available to other companies or people when:

We have your consent to share the information.
We have engaged companies to work with us or on our behalf to provide a product or service that you have requested, such as opt-in e-mail announcements.
You use co-branded services. When you use a co-branded service within our network of sites you grant us permission to pass your registration information back to that service partner. Their use of your information is subject to their applicable privacy policies.

Aggregate information

We aggregate personally identifiable information and disclose such information in a non-personally identifiable manner to advertisers and other third parties for marketing, promotional, and other purposes. We do not disclose to these entities any information that could be used to identify you personally.

Business transfers

We are always seeking to improve our network of Web sites and our business. In accomplishing these objectives, we may buy or sell a company or one or more of the companies in our corporate family may merge with or be acquired by another company. If we sell a business, we may transfer some or all of your information as a part of the sale in order that the service being provided to you may continue or for other business purposes.

What are my options?

Users who would rather not provide any of the user data requested by our registration process do not need to register with us. You can still view much of the content and use many of the services offered by our sites without registering.

We also give users the following options:

Opting not to receive our electronic newsletters or those of third parties when registering. Users who opt-in may remove themselves from mailing lists at any time through the edit profile pages or by following the instructions at the end of the e-mail they received from us;
Opting not to provide certain personal information when registering for a site, provided, that you may not be able to utilize certain of our products or services without providing us with certain information.

How can I update my personally identifiable information?

You can correct or change the information collected during registration for any of our sites. The instructions for doing this can be found in the edit profile area on any of our site. Users may change information at any time and as often as necessary. Users who are experiencing problems with our services or who have questions about how our services work can contact us using e-mail addresses at the bottom of this page.

What if this Privacy Policy changes?

Any modifications to our privacy policy will be reflected within this area of TechTarget. If there is a material change in our privacy policy, we will indicate on our site/s that our privacy policy has changed and provide a link to the new privacy statement.

Questions, comments

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Updated August 2004