Privacy Statement for aspnetPRO.com
Informant Communications Group, Inc. has created this privacy statement to demonstrate its firm commitment to privacy. Informant Communications Group takes your privacy seriously. Our goal in collecting personal information is to provide you with the best and most useful content and services. The following discloses the information gathering and dissemination practices for this Web site: aspnetPRO.com

Information Automatically Logged
We use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server and to administer our Web site, and to help identify you. Your IP address is also used to gather broad demographic information, and for other purposes.

Cookies
Our site uses cookies to keep track of your subscription information, and to make sure you don't see the same ad repeatedly. We also use cookies to deliver content specific to your interests and to save your password so you don't have to re-enter it each time you visit our site.

E-mail Addresses
If you should provide Informant Communications Group with your email address as part of a magazine subscription or email newsletter sign-up, we will never provide that email address directly to third-party advertisers unless it is clearly mentioned at the time of sign-up or unless you directly provide us with permission to do so. We will deliver the email products and companion products from Informant Communications Group via email until you request to unsubscribe or the products are discontinued by us. You will always have the opportunity to unsubscribe and opt-out of future emails at your discretion.

Advertisers
Most ads appearing on aspnetPRO.com and other Web sites owned and operated by Informant Communications Group, Inc. (ICG) are hosted and displayed by us. Occasionally there are circumstances that make it necessary to use an outside ad company to display ads on our site. Any and all of the aforementioned ads hosted and served internally or externally may contain cookies. While we use cookies in other parts of our Web site, cookies received with banner ads by an outside ad company may be collected by our ad company, and we do not have access to this information. Some aggregate customer data is shared with the advertising companies.

Registration and Order Forms
Our site's registration forms may require users to give us contact information (such as their name, e-mail, and postal address), financial information (such as their bank account or credit-card numbers), unique identifiers and demographic information (such as their zip code, age, or income level).

Contact information from the registration forms is used to ship purchases, provide information about our company, and to send promotional material from some of our partners to our customers. The customer's contact information is also used to get in touch with the customer when necessary and to share with other companies who may want to contact our customers.

Users may opt-out of receiving future mailings; see the Choice/Opt-Out section below. Financial information that is collected is used to bill the user for products and services. Unique identifiers (such as social security numbers) are collected from Web site visitors to verify the user's identity, and for use as account numbers in our record system.

Demographic and profile data is also collected at our site. This information is shared with advertisers on an aggregate basis. We use this data to tailor our visitor's experience at our site, showing them content in which we think they might be interested, and displaying the content according to their preferences.

Surveys
Our online surveys may ask visitors for contact information (such as e-mail address), unique identifiers (such as social security number), and demographic information (such as zip code, age, or income level).

Demographic and profile data is also collected at our site. This information maybe shared with advertisers on an aggregate basis. We use this data to tailor our visitor's experience at our site showing them content in which we think they might be interested, and displaying the content according to their preferences.

"Tell a Friend About This Article"
aspnetPRO.com article mailer service allows a reader to electronically forward a news story to someone else by clicking the appropriate link from within that story. Users must provide their e-mail address, as well as that of the recipient. This information is used only in the case of transmission errors and to let the recipient know who sent the story. This information is not used for any other purpose nor are the email addresses recorded.

External Links
This site contains links to other sites. aspnetPRO.com as well as the other Web sites owned and operated by Informant Communications Group, Inc. is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Web sites.

Special Relationships
aspnetPRO.com has a number of special relationships. The two main relationships aspnetPRO.com has are with Microsoft Corporation and Borland International Corporation. Each of these relationships are independent of the other. Other independent relationships with other companies may be added in the future and this policy applies to all current and future special relationship, even though they may not be specifically mentioned by name in this section.

If you have requested or paid for a product from Informant Communications Group that has to do with a Microsoft product (such as Microsoft Office or ASP.NET) we may from time to time provide Microsoft with access to mail you special promotions, announcements, product offerings, event invitations, etc. Informant Communications Group will mail these promotions to you directly on Microsoft’s behalf or we will provide names to a secure, bonded mail-house for one-time mailings of these promotions. We provide this information and limited access to Microsoft as part of our joint, community-building efforts for the communities we serve.

Similarly, If you have requested or paid for a product from Informant Communications Group that has to do with a Borland product (such as Delphi or Borland C++ Builder) we may from time to time provide Borland with access to mail you special promotions, announcements, product offerings, event invitations, etc. Informant Communications Group will mail these promotions to you directly on Borland’s behalf or we will provide names to a secure, bonded mail-house for one-time mailings of these promotions. We provide this information and limited access to Borland as part of our joint, community-building efforts for the communities we serve.

aspnetPRO.com/Informant Communications Group does not make Microsoft customer data available to Borland International customers nor does it make available Borland International customer data to Microsoft.

In all cases, only the following information is shared with the aforementioned partners: