Updated:&nbsp. December 31, 2019 What information we collect about you How we use information we collect We collect information about you when you provide it to us, when you use our Products, and when other sources provide it to us, as further described below. For example, you provide content to us when you provide comments or feedback or when you participate in any interactive features, surveys, contests, promotions, sweepstakes, activities or events. We also collect information through your device about your operating system, browser type, IP address URLs of referring/exit pages device identifiers  We use cookies, web beacons and other technologies&nbsp;to improve and customize our Products and your experience. determine whether an email has been opened and acted upon. We may log Internet Protocol (IP) addresses, or the location of your computer on the Internet required for systems administration and troubleshooting purposes.   Targeting Cookies or Advertising Cookies.&nbsp. These cookies collect information about your browsing habits in order to make advertising relevant to you and your interests. They remember the websites you have visited and that information is shared with other parties such as advertising technology service providers and advertisers.   Social media cookies.These cookies are used when you share information using a social media sharing button or “like” button on our websites or you link your account or engage with our content on or through a social media site. To opt-out of our use of cookies, you can instruct your browser, by changing its options, to stop accepting cookies or to prompt you before accepting a cookie from websites you visit. If you do not accept cookies, however, you may not be able to use all aspects of our Products. Information we receive from other sources  We receive information about you from other users, from third-party services, from our related companies, and from our business and channel partners. We also receive your email address from other users when they provide it in order to forward you an article or to invite you to the Products.&nbsp. Similarly, your employer may provide your contact information when they designate you as a recipient of the Products. Where you&nbsp;use multiple Products, we combine information about you and your activities to provide an integrated experience, such as to allow you to find information from one Product while searching from another&nbsp;or to present relevant product information as you travel across our websites. For research and development :&nbsp. We are always looking for ways to make our Products more useful, relevant, faster, and secure to you.&nbsp. We use collective learnings about how people use our Products and feedback provided directly to us&nbsp;to troubleshoot and to identify trends, usage, activity patterns and areas for integration and improvement of the Products.&nbsp;&nbsp. We automatically analyze and aggregate frequently viewed articles to improve relevance of suggested topics that auto-populate when you use the search feature. We use your contact information and information about how you use the Products to send promotional communications that may be of specific interest to you, including by email and by displaying Crain Product ads on other companies' websites and applications, as well as on other companies’ platforms and websites. We also communicate with you about new product offers, promotions and contests.&nbsp. You can control whether you receive these communications as described below under "Opt-out of communications."  Where required by law or where we believe it is necessary to protect our legal rights, interests and the interests of others, we use information about you in connection with legal claims, compliance, regulatory, and audit functions, and&nbsp;disclosures in connection with the acquisition, merger or sale of a business. Where we are using your information because we or a third-party (e.g. your employer) have a legitimate interest to do so, you have the right to object to that use though, in some cases, this may mean you no longer will have access to the Product.  Our websites may offer&nbsp;publicly accessible comment areas and blogs.&nbsp;You should be aware that any information you provide on these websites - including profile information associated with the account you use to post the information - may be read, collected, and used by any member of the public who accesses these websites.&nbsp. Your posts and certain profile information may remain even after you terminate your account.&nbsp;We urge you to consider the sensitivity of any information you input into these Products.  We share information with third parties that help us&nbsp;operate, provide, improve, integrate, customize, support and market our Products.   Service Providers : We&nbsp;work with third-party service providers&nbsp;to provide website and application development, hosting, maintenance, backup, storage, virtual infrastructure, payment processing, analysis and other services for us, which may require them to&nbsp;access or use information about you.&nbsp. If a service provider needs to&nbsp;access information about you to perform services on our behalf, they do so under close instruction from us, including policies and procedures designed to protect your information.  The Products may include links that direct you to other websites or services whose privacy practices may differ from ours. If you submit information to any of those third-party sites, your information is governed by their privacy policies, not this one. We encourage you to carefully read the privacy policy of any website you visit.  We&nbsp;retain your account information for as long as your account is active and a reasonable period thereafter in case you decide to re-activate the Products.&nbsp. We also retain some of your information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, to resolve disputes, to enforce our agreements, to support business operations, and to continue to develop and improve our Products. >Your Choices:&nbsp; You have the right to request a copy of your information to request the deletion or restriction of your information Send "Do Not Track" Signals : Some browsers have incorporated "Do Not Track" (DNT) features that can send a signal to the websites you visit indicating you do not wish to be tracked. Because there is not yet a common understanding of how to interpret the DNT signal, our Products do not currently respond to browser DNT signals. We collect information globally and primarily store that information in the United States, the UK and Denmark. We transfer, process and store&nbsp;your information outside of your country of residence, to wherever we or our third-party service providers operate for the purpose of providing you the Products.&nbsp. Whenever we transfer your information, we take steps to protect it.&nbsp;&nbsp;   International transfers within the Crain Companies :&nbsp;To facilitate our global operations, we transfer EU data information to the United States and allow access to that information from countries in which the Crain owned or operated companies have operations for the purposes described in this policy.  These countries may not have equivalent privacy and data protection laws to the laws of many of the countries where our customers and users are based. When we share information about you&nbsp;within and among&nbsp;Crain corporate affiliates, we make use of standard contractual data protection clauses, which have been approved by the European Commission.  You may contact us for such information or to opt-out of the sharing of your personal information with third parties for marketing purposes as detailed above at any time by sending an e-mail stating this preference and including your full name and e-mail address to&nbsp;or call&nbsp;(312) 649-5200.&nbsp;&nbsp; The Products are not directed to individuals under 16. Your information&nbsp;is controlled by Crain Communications Inc. &nbsp;If you have questions or concerns about how your information&nbsp;is handled, please direct your inquiry to Crain Communications Inc, which we have appointed to be responsible for facilitating such inquiries or, if you are a resident of the European Economic Area, please contact our EU Representativex. General Counsel c/o Crain Communications Inc 1155 Gratiot Avenue Detroit, MI&nbsp;&nbsp;48207 E-Mail:&nbsp;privacyhelp@crain.com  

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