Privacy Policy
Thank you for visiting the IT Governance Forum website and reviewing our privacy policy. Our privacy policy is clear: The IT Governance Forum does not collect personal information when you visit our website unless you choose to provide that information to us.
Internet Security Policy
The IT Governance Forum protects information through the use of encryption with the use of industry standard secure sockets layer (SSL) technology to prevent information from being intercepted. We will take all reasonable steps to ensure the security of your personal information.
Information Collected and Stored Automatically
If you do nothing during your visit but browse through the website, read pages, or download information, we will gather and store certain information about your visit automatically. This information does not identify you personally. We automatically collect and store only the following information about your visit:
The Internet domain (for example, "domainname.com" if you use a private Internet access account, or "domainname.edu" if you connect from a university's domain) and IP address (an IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer whenever you are surfing the Web) from which you access our website;
The type of browser and operating system used to access our site;
The date and time you access our site;
The pages you visit;
and If you linked to the Governance Forum website from another website, the address of that website.
We use this information to help us make our site more useful to visitors -- to learn about the number of visitors to our site and the types of technology our visitors use. We do not track or record information about individuals and their visits.
Information You Provide
If you choose to provide us with personal information by sending an e-mail to one of our corporate or personal email addresses, or by filling out a form with your personal information and submitting it through our website, we use that information to respond to your message and to help us provide you with information that you request.
You voluntarily choose to provide your information when you register on our site or participate in the forum. If you do not want to provide your personal information, your registration will not be processed.
When registering on our site, you will be asked to enter your name, Email, company, title, address, and telephone number. A picture and fax number are optional. Once you register you can visit your profile at any time to add, change, or remove information. You are given the option to hide your personal information from other forum members.
Once you become a member, you may choose to provide questions, answers, or resources. This information is made public to the forum and may be retracted at any time by contacting the forum coordinator.
To close your account, please check the ‘Deactivate Account’ in the My Account section of your Member Account.
How We Use Your Information
As an exclusive forum for IT executives and enterprise architects, we interview each prospective member by phone.
To improve our website: we continually strive to improve the forum based on the information and feedback we receive from you.
If you choose not to hide your personal information you may, at any point, be contacted by other forum members.
Other use of personal information may be used to send alerts or deliver services such as updated information, new services, and event information.
How We Protect Your Information
Our employees may view information that you provide us in order to perform their jobs and provide service to you. We restrict access to nonpublic personal information about you to those employees who need to know that information in order to provide products or services to you. We may occasionally hire other companies to provide limited services on our behalf. We will only provide those companies the information they need to deliver the service, and they are prohibited from using that information for any other purpose.
Cookies
We may use cookies to improve our service to you. Cookies may help us recall a previous visit. The cookies we use do not collect personally identifiable information, and we do not use them to determine your identity. If you are not comfortable with this use, you may configure your browser to be notified when cookies are to be received and to provide you with the option of refusing cookies. However, refusing cookies may limit your ability to use our website in its entirety.
Outside Parties
We do not rent, sell, or share your personal information. The IT Governance Forum may disclose your personal information if required to do so by law or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on WebLayers or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of WebLayers and its family of websites, or (c) act in urgent circumstances to protect the personal safety of IT Governance Forum employees, users of IT Governance Forum products or services, or members of the public.
Links to Other Web Sites
Our website may contain links to websites that are provided and maintained exclusively by third parties. Websites provided and maintained by third parties are not subject to this privacy policy. Please review the privacy policies on those websites to understand their personal information handling practices. We make no representations concerning the privacy policies of these third party websites.
Terms of Use
Please visit our Terms of Use section for additional rights and responsibilities bestowed upon visitors of our site.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
This privacy policy may be updated at any time, with or without advance notice. In the event there are significant changes in the way we treat your personally identifiable information, we will display a notice on the IT Governance Forum website or send you an email. Unless stated otherwise, our current Privacy Policy applies to all information that we have about you and your account.
If you use the IT Governance Forum service after notice of changes have been sent to you or published on our site, you hereby provide your consent to the changed practices.
Contacting Us
If there are any questions regarding this privacy policy you may email us at governanceforum@weblayers.com.
Or you may contact us at:
WebLayers, Inc.
Attn: Privacy Policy Issues-Governance Forum
100 Cambridge Park Dr.
Cambridge, MA 02140
