FORTUNE Business Leader Council

Privacy Policy

Thank you for visiting the FORTUNE Business Leader Council site. Your privacy is important to us. To better protect your privacy, we provide this notice explaining our online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used at this site.

The FORTUNE Business Leader Council is an Opt-In, Members-Only Panel

The FORTUNE Business Leader Council conducts surveys and research of various kinds among its panel members. Information from these surveys and research may be used by us and others to design new products and services, to develop advertising and marketing programs, and for other product and business development purposes.

The Information We Collect

The personally identifiable information that may be collected on this site includes your name, home and other street addresses, email address, telephone number, birthday, and other personal and business information. Additionally, we may collect information about your interests and preferences from your survey and research responses and usage information.

From time to time, you may be able to order products, enter contests, vote in polls, subscribe to one of our services such as our online newsletters, or participate in one of our online forums or communities. The types of personally identifiable information that may also be collected at these pages include: name, address, email address, telephone number, fax number, credit card information, and information about your interests in and use of various products, programs, and services.

At certain parts of the site, only persons who provide us with the requested personally identifiable information will be able to order products, programs, and services or otherwise participate in the site's activities and offerings.

We also may collect certain non-personally identifiable information when you visit many of our web pages such as the type of browser you are using (e.g., Netscape, Internet Explorer), the type of operating system you are using (e.g., Windows '95 or MacOS), and the domain name of your Internet service provider (e.g., America Online, EarthLink).

How We Use the Information

We may use the information you provide about yourself to contact you about participating in surveys and research, to respond to your inquiries and submissions, to notify you about events we believe might be of interest to you, to notify you of any prizes you may have won, to contact you about your account with us, and to fulfill your requests for our products, programs, services and offerings.

We will not use or transfer your personally identifiable information to other panelists or third parties (except to our research vendor Resource Systems Group, Inc, and as may otherwise be permitted under this Privacy Notice) without your prior consent. Your responses to surveys and research and any other non-personally identifiable information may be used by us and shared with third parties.

We may also use the non-personally identifiable information that we collect to improve the design and content of our site and to enable us to personalize your Internet experience. We also may use this information in the aggregate to analyze site usage.

We will disclose information we maintain when required to do so by law, for example, in response to a court order or a subpoena. We also may disclose such information in response to a law enforcement agency's request.

Our agents and contractors (including RSG) who have access to personally identifiable information are required to protect this information in a manner that is consistent with this Privacy Notice by, for example, not using the information for any purpose other than to carry out the services they are performing for us.

Although we take appropriate measures to safeguard against unauthorized disclosures of information, we cannot assure you that personally identifiable information that we collect will never be disclosed in a manner that is inconsistent with this Privacy Notice. Inadvertent disclosures may result, for example, when third parties misrepresent their identities in asking the site for access to personally identifiable information about themselves for purposes of correcting possible factual errors in the data.

Finally, Time Inc. sites will not use or transfer personally identifiable information provided to us in ways unrelated to the ones described above without also providing you with an opportunity to opt out of these unrelated uses.

Collection of Information by Third-Party Sites and Sponsors

The site may contain links to other sites whose information practices may be different than ours. You should consult the other sites' privacy notices, as we have no control over information that is submitted to, or collected by, these third parties.

We may sometimes offer contests, sweepstakes, or promotions that are sponsored by or co-sponsored with identified third parties. By virtue of their sponsorship, these third parties may obtain personally identifiable information that you voluntarily submit to participate in the contest, sweepstakes, or promotion. We have no control over the third-party sponsors' use of this information. We will notify you at the time of requesting personally identifiable information if third-party sponsors will obtain such information.

Cookies

To enhance your experience with our site, many of our web pages use "cookies." Cookies are text files we place in your computer's browser to store your preferences. Cookies, by themselves, do not tell us your email address or other personally identifiable information unless you choose to provide this information to us by, for example, registering. However, once you choose to furnish the site with personally identifiable information, this information may be linked to the data stored in the cookie.

We use cookies to understand site usage and to improve our sites. For example, we may use cookies to personalize your experience at our web pages (e.g. to recognize you by name when you return to our site) and save your password in password-protected areas.

We may also use small pieces of code called "web beacons" or "clear gifs" to collect anonymous and aggregate advertising metrics, such as counting page views, promotion views, or responses. These "web beacons" may be used to deliver cookies that conform to our cookie policy.

Our Commitment to Security

We have put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and help prevent unauthorized access, maintain data security, and correctly use the information we collect online.

How You Can Access or Correct Information

For instructions on how you can access the personally identifiable information that this site has collected about you online, or how to correct factual errors in such information, please click the Your Profile link on the homepage.

To protect your privacy and security, we will take reasonable steps to help verify your identity before granting access or making corrections.

Any information you give to us in surveys is combined anonymously with the responses of many others.

Resource Systems Group, Inc, our research partner for the FORTUNE Business Leader Council, is a leader in helping some of the world's most influential brands better understand their customers. Visit www.rsginc.com to learn more.

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