Our Privacy Policy is designed to assist you in understanding how ALM Events division collect and use the personal information you provide to us and to assist you in making informed decisions when using our site and our products and services.

What Information Do ALM Events division Collect?

When you visit our web site you may provide us with two types of information: personal information you knowingly choose to disclose that is collected on an individual basis and web site use information collected on an aggregate basis as you and others browse our web site.

1. Personal Information You Choose to Provide

Registration Information:-
You will provide us information about yourself, your firm or company, and your practices when you register to be a member of almevents.com, register for certain services, or register for email newsletters and alerts. You may also provide additional comments on how you see ALM Events division servicing your needs and interests.
Email Information:-
If you choose to correspond with us through email, ALM Events division may retain the content of your email messages together with your email address and our responses.

2. Web Site Use Information

Similar to other commercial web sites, the ALM Events division web site utilizes a standard technology called "cookies" (see explanation below, "What Are Cookies?") and web server logs to collect information about how our web site is used. Information gathered through cookies and web server logs may include the date and time of visits, the pages viewed, time spent at our web site, and the web sites visited just before and just after our web site. ALM Events division may also use small pieces of code called “web beacons” or “clear gifs” to determine the same information.

How Do ALM Events division use the Information That You Provide to Us?
Broadly speaking, ALM Events division use personal information for purposes of administering and expanding our business activities, providing customer service and making available other products and services to our customers and prospective customers. Occasionally, ALM Events division may also use the information ALM Events division collect to notify you about important changes to our web site, new services and special offers ALM Events division think you will find valuable. You may notify us at any time if you do not wish to receive these offers by emailing us at info@alm.com or by visiting http://rmvs.com/sri_o.asp

What Are Cookies?
A cookie is a very small text document, which often includes an anonymous unique identifier. When you visit a web site, that site's computer asks your computer for permission to store this file in a part of your hard drive specifically designated for cookies. Each web site can send its own cookie to your browser if your browser's preferences allow it, but (to protect your privacy) your browser only permits a Web site to access the cookies it has already sent to you, not the cookies sent to you by other sites.

How Do We Use Information We Collect from Cookies?
As you login on our Web site, the site uses its cookies to differentiate you from other users so your data is only available to you. In some cases, we also use cookies to prevent you from loging in more than is necessary for security. Cookies, in conjunction with our web server's log files, allow us to calculate the aggregate number of people visiting our web site and which parts of the site are most popular. This helps us gather feedback in order to constantly improve our web site and better serve our customers. Cookies do not allow us to gather any personal information about you and we do not generally store any personal information that you provided to us in your cookies.

Sharing Information with Third Parties
We may enter into alliances, partnerships or other business arrangements with third parties who may be given access to personal information including your name, address, telephone number and email for the purpose of providing you information regarding products and services that we think will be of interest to you. In connection with alliances, partnerships or arrangements, we may also provide certain information to third parties if we have determined that the information will be used in a responsible manner by a responsible third party. For example, some of our partners are sponsors of / exhibitors at the conferences you attend as a registered delegate. We also use third parties to facilitate our business, including, but not limited to, sending email and processing credit card payments. In connection with these offerings and business operations, our partners and other third parties may have access to your personal information for use in connection with business activities. As we develop our business, we may buy or sell assets or business offerings. Customer, email, and visitor information is generally one of the transferred business assets in these types of transactions. We may also transfer such information in the course of corporate divestitures, mergers, or any dissolution.

Notice of New Services and Changes
Occasionally, we may also use the information we collect to notify you about important changes to our web site, new services and special offers we think you will find valuable. As our customer, you will be given the opportunity to notify us of your desire not to receive these offers by sending us an email request at info@alm.com or by visiting http://rmvs.com/sri_o.asp.

How Do We Protect Your Information?

How Do We Secure Information Transmissions?
Email is not recognized as a secure medium of communication. For this reason, we request that you do not send private information to us by email. Some of the information you may enter on our web site may be transmitted securely via Secure Sockets Layer SSL, 128 bit encryption services, which are enabled by VeriSign, Inc. Pages utilizing this technology will have URLs that start with HTTPS instead of HTTP and the identifiable padlock icon on the browser window. Please contact info@alm.com if you have any questions or concerns.

Certain Disclosures
We may disclose your personal information if required to do so by law or subpoena or if we believe that such action is necessary to (a) conform to the law or comply with legal process served on us or Affiliated Parties; (b) protect and defend our rights and property, of ALM Events division, of almevents.com, the users of almevents.com, and/or our Affiliated Parties; (c) act under circumstances to protect the safety of users of the almevents.com, ALM Events division, or third parties.

What About Other Web Sites Linked to Our Web Site?
We are not responsible for the practices employed by web sites linked to or from almevents.com nor the information or content contained therein. Often links to other web sites are provided solely as pointers to information on topics that may be useful to the users of almevents.com.
Please remember that when you use a link to go from almevents.com to another web site, our Privacy Policy is no longer in effect. Your browsing and interaction on any other web site, including web sites which have a link to almevents.com, is subject to that web site's own rules and policies. Please read over those rules and policies before proceeding.

Your Consent
By using almevents.com you consent to our collection and use of your personal information as described in this Privacy Policy. If we change our privacy policies and procedures, we will post those changes on almevents.com to keep you aware of what information ALM Events division collects, how ALM Events division use it and under what circumstances ALM Events division may disclose it.