document: title: privacy statement
text: Effective: September 8, 2011

## Scope

UBM LLC (“UBM” or "we") operates through four separate divisions: UBM Channel™; UBM Electronics™; UBM Tech™; and UBM Studios™.  Three of these divisions focus on the needs of a specific community of technology professionals or other specialized community with shared interests and responsibilities.  The fourth, UBM Studios, builds virtual events on behalf of its corporate customers. 

This Privacy Policy covers information which you give any of the four divisions about yourself and your professional background as you register for or attend our face-to-face events around the world, as you visit or participate in any of our web sites or online venues hosted on servers in the United States, or subscribe to any of our print publications distributed in the United States, or volunteer information in any social media context. We will post or display a link to this UBM Privacy Policy on all forms and all online pages to which it is applicable.

An increasing number or our websites allow you to publish or share content including information which identifies you.  In many cases, this Policy will govern how UBM uses the information you provide and what choices you have about its publication.  In addition, a limited number of our brands and web sites within the four divisions publish a separate, different privacy policy based on a particular business model and relationship with customers. A link to the applicable policy will appear at the bottom of those web pages.

Each division aims to be at the heart of the commercial or professional communities it serves. Our business includes creating opportunities for you to access other companies’ information and resources. When we work with other companies to build co-branded web sites, virtual events, sponsored webinars, or in any way that allows you to connect directly with that other company, we will include a link to this Policy and to the other company’s Privacy Policy as well. Our Policy will govern our collection and use of information about you. We recommend that you read the partner’s Policy as well to learn how that company will treat the information you provide.

## Information That Identifies You

We rely on the information you provide to us – as you register, contact us, participate in surveys, post comments to public areas of and interact with our web sites, respond to our email campaigns, and participate in webinars or online events. We may also add data from external sources. We will add information about how you interact with our offerings – your subscriptions, the events you attend, and the like.

We may work to expand our communities by acquiring names and contact details from other sources that have compiled contact information. This information might be public information or data you provided with necessary permissions. We may also invite you to join our communities via third party social and professional networking sites.

## Automatic Data Collection Technologies

We also use cookies and common data collection technologies, including web beacons and clear GIFs associated with cookies, on our web pages, in newsletters, and in our email campaigns to collect information both on an aggregate and individual basis.    

Some of our web sites use Adobe Flash to provide video content, and the Adobe Flash Player has the ability to separately store information about that particular Flash application. We do not associate this Adobe Flash stored information with you as an individual. Please see the Adobe Flash Player Help page for additional information about controlling the settings of the Adobe Flash Player on your computer.

We gather date, time, certain information about a user's browser and system or device configuration and capabilities, navigation history and IP address for all visitors to our web sites. We use this information for our internal security audit log, for trend analysis and system administration and to gather broad information about our audiences and their geographic locations.

Please see More Information About Cookies, for additional details about how we use cookies that identify you, which third party advertisers and advertising networks we allow to serve third party advertising displayed on our sites or to display our ads to you once you have left our web pages, and how to control cookies or their use for serving targeted advertising.   

## How We Use Information That Identifies You

We use information about you: 

  * to provide the services, publications, and information you request and to manage your account with us. 
  * to deliver or display content that matches your professional interests and responsibilities. 
  * to contact you with information about and invitations for products and services – ours and other companies’ - directed to your professional interests and responsibilities. 
  * to offer you opportunities to connect directly with your peers and with sellers of technology that may be of interest to you. 
  * for any other purpose that we tell you about when you give us the information. 



## Your Choices

You have a choice about and control over:

Connecting directly with other companies for marketing purposes. In addition to providing you with our own editorial content, we offer you the opportunity to access others’ branded content and expertise. When you choose to take advantage of that content or expertise, you choose to have your name and contact details transferred directly to that other company. We will put you in direct contact with another company or companies when you choose to:

  * Register for certain registration-only, or “gated” communities. Access to technical resources provided or sponsored by another company is contingent on your agreement that your contact details may be shared with the other company. We may track your interest in that company’s content or our own content over time and disclose your interest to that company. 
  * Register for a specific webcast, online event, web site, newsletter, or other offering which is sponsored or co-sponsored by another company. 
  * Register for one of our virtual events with a number of exhibitors. We may give your name and contact details to all exhibitors and give the exhibitor whose booths and resources you access a record of your visits and interaction with content from that exhibitor. 
  * Attend one of our face-to-face events. Exhibitors may be given an attendance list for the event. It is up to you, however, to decide whether to leave your business card or allow your RFID-enabled badge to be read by a particular exhibitor – the badges cannot be read remotely. A sponsor of a special, sponsored conference session will also be given information about you if you choose to attend that company’s session. Your future interaction with online content from an exhibitor or sponsor to whom you provided your contact data to may also be tracked and disclosed to that exhibitor or sponsor. 



## Making information you provide public.  

  * We offer web sites that allow you to publish content.  Many of these blog sites require that you register if you wish to comment.  We will publish the user name you provide at registration when you comment.  Some sites allow you to create a public profile as well.
  * Our online event venues also require that you register and allow you to have both public and closed communications with exhibitors and other participants.  Information that identifies you will be published or shared according to your choices.
  * In addition, we may create online membership communities that allow you to create and publish your profile and other information.  These communities may provide privacy controls which allow you to choose how much of your profile and other information to make public or to share with others within the community.  As a professional, you remain responsible for locating the privacy controls (usually available on the page from which you can edit your profile), understanding how those controls, including default settings, work and protecting the information you provide.



## Receiving email marketing messages from us.

  * You may opt out of our email marketing lists by following the directions at the bottom of our promotional emails.  Please note that we have a number of brands and products and allow you to opt out selectively. To remove a specific email address from all email marketing from UBM Chananel, UBM Electronics, UBM Tech and UBM Studios, you may click on this UBM-wide opt out link To remove a specific email address from a division's list, you may send a request to privacyrequests@ubm.com. 
  * Please note that you may receive email marketing messages from us about other companies’ offerings as part of a list rental or partner marketing programs - but only if you have given us permission to do so. We do not disclose your contact details to the partners, and we do not sell your data. You have the option of contacting the other company directly if you click on the links within the email. To opt out of our partner marketing programs, you may follow the instructions at the bottom of any email we send you as part of the program. 



Whether your account information is up to date. Please help us keep your account information up to date. To contact us about a print subscription, or to cancel the subscription, please check the UBM LLC information (the “masthead”) inside the print publication. You may update most online registrations by consulting the particular web site itself or visiting a preference page after you have logged on to the site.

## More Information About Cookies

You also have choices about cookies:

Our cookies. We place cookies that identify you, or allow third parties to do so on our behalf, for the following purposes:

  * to recognize you automatically when you return to a gated community. 
  * to understand your interests in content, both our own content and that of other companies, on or across our web sites
  * to control access to gated online events including webinars and virtual events. 
  * to make an automated record of your interests within a virtual event. 
  * to manage and follow up on email campaigns. 



You may use the tools in your browser to decline, disable, or delete any cookies.

You will still be able to log on to a gated community if you decline or delete our persistent cookie that enables automatic recognition. If you disable the session cookie for our gated sites you may remain on the site but you will not be able to access (download) any gated content. You must accept the session cookie used to manage access to registration-only online events for the duration of your participation in the event.

Third party advertising cookies. We allow other companies to serve ads on our web pages. We do not control their use of cookies or other data collection technologies or practices.

  * The divisions of UBM LLC currently allow the following third party ad servers to serve ads on our web pages: BBN Networks; Bizo, Inc. and Google AdSense.  Some companies, such as Bizo, Inc. and Google Adsense, may offer additional choices about your preferences. Please visit each of their web sites for more information about the technologies they use and their privacy practices. 
  * Many of the third party ad serving companies that serve ads to our web sites are members of the Network Advertising Initiative. The NAI offers useful information about ad networks and a single place to turn off targeted ad serving from any of its members. 



We may add or change the list of Third Party Advertisers from time to time without changing the effective date of the Statement itself. We urge you to check this section for changes regularly.

## Disclosure of Information About You

We reserve the right to disclose information about you to third parties in certain circumstances: to vendors that work on our behalf, to law enforcement or other entities that present valid legal process, to protect human safety or our networks or property, or as part of a sale or our merger of business assets.

## Important Information

UBM LLC is a subsidiary of UBM plc.

We collect and process information on servers around the world.

We use reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards to protect personal information against theft, loss, or misuse. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet or storage can be guaranteed to be 100 percent secure. As a result, while we strive to protect information about you and your professional interests, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you submit to us. You remain responsible for protecting your user name and passwords and for the security of information in transit to us over the Internet.

This Privacy Policy covers how we use information you provide. We cannot control how others may use information you may make public on our sites, for example, on professional networking sites or sites inviting user-generated content, in forums, at virtual events, or user-generated blogs.

Please note that virtual events may mimic face-to-face events by automatically displaying information about you to other participants in the event. We cannot control how other participants use that displayed information, so please take a moment to make sure you understand how a particular virtual event works and what choices you have within the environment.

Our products, services, events and offerings are directed to professionals. If we create a special offering for children under the age of thirteen, we will also create privacy practices and policies appropriate for that age group.

## Changes

We will post and date any changes to this Privacy Policy. Please check here periodically. Your continued use of our products and services covered by this Policy constitutes your consent to the practices in place at the time of your use.

## How to Contact Us

For questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact:

privacyrequests@ubm.com, or

UBM LLC   
Attn: UBM Legal  
150 West 30th Street, 20th Floor   
New York, New York, 10001

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