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We collect your information when you subscribe to a newsletter or email, download digital materials (e.g. infographics, ebooks, white papers etc.), sign-up for a webinar or otherwise communicate with us through our websites.</p> <br /> <p>The data we collect from you can include personal information. Personal information is data that can be used to identify an individual (such as first and last name, e-mail address, address, telephone number etc.). Furthermore, to ensure that you have a genuine interest in our content, products and services, we may also ask for work-related information such as your job title, your company name, technologies you use, your area of work or industry, the type of business you work for or own, and your scientific interests. We do this to ensure that we are providing you with information that is relevant to you and your field of study or work. At no point will we ask for any “sensitive” information such as religious beliefs, political affiliation, racial or ethnic origin or any other information that does not pertain to your activity or interest in the sciences.</p> <br /> <p>Once registration is complete no further information is required for free access to this site. Additional personal information from visitors may be required to participate in online forums.</p> <br /> <p> <h3><b>Information We Collect</b></h3> </p> <p>To optimize our website, match content to your needs and deliver a more personalized user experience, Technology Networks also automatically collects information regarding your use of our websites. When visiting our brands online, we log information about your visit and also use tracking mechanisms such as cookies, pixels and scripts to collect information about your interaction with our websites or emails. These can be used to provide you with additional information that is relevant to your work or scientific areas of interest.</p> <br /> <p><b>Cookies</b> are digital text files placed on your computer. Using cookies is a common practice. We may place cookies on your computer to allow us to recognize you on our websites when you visit us, to measure online traffic, to present you with relevant products or services, or to customize your experience. We use session cookies to make navigating our website easier, and they expire when you close your browser. Additionally, tracking cookies are used to help us understand how you use our websites, they enhance your user experience, and they remain on your computer or device for an extended period of time.</p> <br /> <p>Your browser may include settings that allow you to block cookies or be notified when cookies are being used. 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We do not install or download any software to your computer as part of your user experience.</p> <br /> <p> <h3><b>Information From Other Sources</b></h3> </p> <p>We may also collect or purchase information from other scientific industry sources, such as scientific organizations, research conferences, academic institutions, scientific directories, etc. Your personal information is only collected and stored in our databases if it is publicly available and there is a clear link between your area of work and the content, products, and services we offer. We may also combine this information with information we have already collected about you in order to understand your needs better and provide you with a better user experience.</p> <br /> <p>If you are a resident of the European Union or the United States and all the information we have collected about you is from third-party scientific sources, we will only communicate with you on a trial basis with a limited number of attempts before we remove your information from our database. We will also only contact you about scientific content and topics that you have shown interest in or about scientific products you have purchased in the past that have been deemed relevant to you and your industry, job, scientific interests or area of work. If we see that you have not engaged with our communications or digital content, we will remove your personal information from our database. If you do engage with our communications and digital content before the end of our trial period, we will consider you an active contact for as long as you continue to engage with our content and our websites in the future, or until you choose to unsubscribe from future communications. We offer a means of unsubscribing on every communication that we send to you and through our privacy policy. If you would like to know more about how we engage with you, please <a href="/tn/contact-us/privacy">contact us</a>.</p> <br /> <p> Known Canadian residents may be contacted if they have provided their personal information through our websites, affiliated micro-sites, over the phone or at an event or conference where they have expressed consent to be contacted by Technology Networks and its affiliated brands. Canadian residents may be contacted, as allowed by law, if they have met one or more of the following conditions of implied consent: having an existing business relationship (EBR) based on a previous commercial transaction with the recipient; or having an existing non-business relationship based on, for example, membership in your club, or if the recipient participated as a volunteer for your charitable organization; persons who make their email address publicly available by publishing it on a website may be contacted if it is not accompanied by a statement indicating they do not want to receive commercial electronic messages at that address. If the statement is not present, the message must relate to the recipient’s business role, functions or duties in an official or business capacity. 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For this reason, we encourage you to regularly update your profile to provide us with the most accurate information possible.</p> <br /> <p>In addition, we may use your personal informations for other purposes that include:</p> <ul> <li>Facilitating, managing, personalizing and improving your online experience;</li> <li>Responding to your comments, questions and requests, providing customer service, sending you informational notices, and contacting you if we need to obtain or provide additional information;</li> <li>Sending you technical notices, updates, security alerts, support and administrative messages;</li> <li>Communicating with you about products, services, offers, promotions, coupons, newsletters, events and providing information we think will be of interest to you;</li> <li>Conducting research and analysis, including focus groups and surveys about current services or of potential new products and services;</li> <li>Preventing and addressing fraud, breach of policies or terms, and threats or harm; and</li> <li>Sending you advertisements and communicating with you regarding services, products, and events we think may interest you.</li> </ul>  <div style="height: 100px;" id="your_personal_information_and_how_we_may_share_it"></div> <div class="base_section_title"> <div class="content_type" style="width: 100%;"> Your Personal Information and How We May Share It </div> <div style="margin-left: auto;"> </div> </div> <p> <h3><b>Information Shared With Our Service Providers</b></h3> </p> <p>We may disclose your information to other companies to ensure the smooth provision of products and services that you have purchased or requested from us. 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