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Terms of Service

1. IDG TechNetwork Terms of Service Agreement

Terms and Conditions of Use

Welcome to IDG TECHNETWORK ("Service"), an online service of IDG and its Member Sites. Your use of the Service will be subject to the terms of this Terms of Service Agreement (TOS). The TOS may change from time to time. Use of Service after a change will subject you to the new terms. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THESE TERMS DO NOT USE THE SERVICE AS VIOLATION OF THE TERMS CAN LEAD TO LEGAL LIABILITY.

Participation and Conduct

During the term of this Agreement, IDG TECHNETWORK grants to you a terminable at will non-exclusive license to use and display the Service, and to download materials available through the Service, all solely for your personal, non-commercial use. You may not transfer, assign, sub-license, lend, or re-sell the rights granted under this license. Any use in violation of these limits shall constitute a violation of the terms of this license. Absolutely no framing of our site is permitted.

You may participate in any blog comment or messaging threads offered through the Service, but you agree not to post any material the content of which (i) is defamatory, libelous, obscene, indecent, abusive, threatening to others, or in violation of any law; or (ii) infringes the copyright, trademark right, or other intellectual property right of any third party. You will be solely responsible for all content that you post on the Service.

You agree to indemnify IDG AND ITS MEMBER SITES and its officers and employees from and against all liabilities, judgments, damages, and costs (including attorney's fees) incurred by any of them which arise out of or are related to the content that you post. Blog comments and messaging are intended only for the personal use of subscribers, and may not be used for commercial purposes or for organized political activity.

IDG TECHNETWORK reserves the right to monitor content posted on the Service, and to modify or remove any messages or postings that it deems, in its sole discretion, to be abusive, defamatory, in violation of the copyright, trademark right, or other intellectual property right of any third party, or otherwise inappropriate for the Service. IDG TECHNETWORK also reserves the right to edit or modify any submissions in response to requests for feedback, Letters to the Editor, or other commentary. Notwithstanding the foregoing, IDG TECHNETWORK is not obligated to take any such actions, and will not be responsible or liable for content posted by any subscriber in any blog, message board, or other area within the Service.

Copyright and Trademarks

The Service is the personal property of IDG AND ITS MEMBER SITES. IDG AND ITS MEMBER SITES retains the right to bar any individual or entity from the Service. Accessing the Service after being barred shall constitute an act of trespass. The Service and all materials published therein, including but not limited to articles, graphical images, interactive applications, audio clips, and video clips (collectively, the "Content"), are protected by copyright and are owned by IDG TECHNETWORK or Member Sites. You may not modify the Content or re-publish, re-transmit, or otherwise distribute directly or via links any Content to any third person except for your personal, non-commercial use, as permitted by the license granted above. It is understood that some of the content appearing on the site is news and as such releases are not obtained from individuals or entities for the use of the name, likeness, or trademarks. It is your sole obligation to a) determine if your uses require releases or permission, and b) to obtain the necessary releases.

IDG TECHNETWORK, and their respective logos are trademarks of International Data Group, Inc. All other trademarks on the Service are the property of their respective holders.

Exclusions of Warranty and Liability

THE SERVICE AND ANY EXECUTABLE PROGRAMS AND OTHER MATERIALS PROVIDED THROUGH THE SERVICE ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, AND ALL EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES ARE HEREBY EXCLUDED, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.IDG AND ITS MEMBER SITES DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THE SERVICE OR ANY MATERIALS OBTAINED THROUGH THE SERVICE ARE VIRUS-FREE. IF YOU DOWNLOAD EXECUTABLE PROGRAMS FROM THE SERVICE, THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE RESULTS AND PERFORMANCE OF SUCH PROGRAMS IS ASSUMED BY YOU. IDG AND ITS MEMBER SITES IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE ACCURACY OF OR ERRORS OR OMISSIONS IN ANY SUCH PROGRAMS, AND PIDG AND ITS MEMBER SITESCI DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THE OPERATION OF ANY SUCH PROGRAMS WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE, OR THAT ANY DEFECTS IN ANY SUCH PROGRAMS WILL BE CORRECTED. IDG AND ITS MEMBER SITES DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THE CONTENT OF ITS STORIES WILL BE ERROR FREE.

IDG AND ITS MEMBER SITES WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, DAMAGES RESULTING FROM LOST PROFITS OR REVENUE; LOSS OF USE OF OR RELIANCE ON THE SERVICE, INFORMATION PROVIDED OR OF ANY EXECUTABLE PROGRAMS; LOSS OF USE OF DATA OR EQUIPMENT; OR OTHER SIMILAR DAMAGES) ARISING OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE SERVICE OR ANY EXECUTABLE PROGRAM OBTAINED THROUGH THE SERVICE, EVEN IF IDG AND ITS MEMBER SITES HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE LIKELIHOOD OF SUCH DAMAGES. IN NO EVENT SHALL IDG AND ITS MEMBER SITES'S TOTAL LIABILITY TO YOU FOR ALL DAMAGES, LOSSES AND CAUSES OF ACTION (WHETHER IN CONTRACT, TORT, OR OTHERWISE) RELATING TO THE SERVICE EXCEED $100.

SOME STATES DO NOT ALLOW EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF IMPLIED WARRANTIES OR LIMITATION OF LIABILITY FOR INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, SO THE ABOVE LIMITATIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.

Notices

IDG AND ITS MEMBER SITES may give notice to you through general posting on the Service, through postal notification, or through email notification, in its sole discretion. You may give notice to IDG AND ITS MEMBER SITES via email at online@IDG TechNetwork.com, by postal mail to One Speen Street, Framingham, MA 01701 U.S.A., or via facsimile to (508) 879-0184.

IDG AND ITS MEMBER SITES reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to restrict or block the access of any subscriber to the Service, or any section thereof.

General

Any failure by IDG AND ITS MEMBER SITES to enforce any provision of this Agreement shall not be construed as a continuing waiver of any rights under such provision. In the event that any portion of this Agreement is held unenforceable, the remaining provisions of the Agreement shall remain in full force and effect.

Indemnity

In the event you breach the terms of this license, or if, any claims are made against IDG AND ITS MEMBER SITES (its employees, officers or directors resulting from your actions) you shall be liable to IDG AND ITS MEMBER SITES for all damages, costs, judgments, expenses (including reasonable attorney fees) which it incurs.

This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Massachusetts, as applied to contracts entered into and performed within Massachusetts. You agree to grant jurisdiction over yourself to the courts of Massachusetts and designate it as the forum for resolution of all disputes arising under this Agreement.

This Agreement states the entire agreement between the parties with respect to the Service, and all prior or contemporaneous agreements are merged herein and superseded hereby.

2. IDG TechNetwork Online Privacy Policy

The IDG TechNetwork Web site is maintained by:
IDG TechNetwork, Inc.
One Speen Street
Framingham, MA 01701.

All IDG TechNetwork Member sites are maintained by their respective owners.
IDG TechNetwork and it’s Member Sites collects personally identifying information and data about individuals, their company, and the companies demographics (personally identifying information and data) including (i) when you provide information to IDG TechNetwork and it’s member sites, such as when you register or sign up for any of our products such as publications, subscriptions, emails, contests, newsletters, memberships, RSS Feeds, Webcasts, White Papers, online seminars, conferences and other communications with IDG TechNetwork, (ii) when you register or sign up on the IDG TechNetwork or member sites or when you register for any other IDG Publishing Network products individually or through auto register, your information will be known to IDG TechNetwork and (iii) from time to time we may add other information that we collect from third party sources to enhance the information that you provided to IDG TechNetwork

Below is the current policy regarding the usage of personally identifying information and data collected by IDG TechNetwork and its member sites. We reevaluate this policy on an ongoing basis based on feedback from readers. IDG TechNetwork and its member sites reserves the right to change its privacy policy. However, if there are any changes to the use of personally identifying information and data that is different from that stated at the time of collection, we will notify you by posting a notice on our Web site.

IDG TechNetwork or one of our IDG affiliated companies, or third party partners may place a "cookie" in the browser files of a user's computer. The cookie itself does not contain any personally identifying information, except when such information has been supplied by a subscriber or registered user.

If you have registered with IDG TechNetwork or it’s member sites, the information in your "cookie" is used to provide a more personalized experience on our Web site.

For example, if you wish to add or unsubscribe from a certain newsletter, a cookie allows us to show you which news letters you current subscribe to. You may change your newsletter subscription preferences on our newsletter preferences page.

If you haven't registered with our site, we may place a cookie on your system to help provide a more personalized experience on IDGTechNetwork.com. This cookie identifies you as a unique user by means of a tracking ID. However, if you have not registered on our site, we cannot link that user ID with personal identifying information and data about you such as your name or email address.
Other cookies without personally identifying information and data are used to enable IDG TechNetwork to manage the banner advertisements presented or personalized information to the user.

Browsers or third-party software can allow you to block the use of cookies while you surf our site. Or, you can use third-party "anonymizer" services to mask information in your cookies, or even general data such as your IP address. In such cases you would not be able to take advantage of most of the personalization services offered by IDG TechNetwork and its member sites.

Blocking Third Party Cookies (including the Atlas cookie) Included below are instructions for blocking third party cookies in some of the most common browsers. If your browser or version is not listed here, or you wish to treat cookies in some other way, please refer to your browser's help menu or printed manual for instructions.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.x

  1. Menu: Tools-Internet Options
  2. Select Tab: Privacy
  3. Click Button: Advanced (just below center of the page)
  4. Check Box: "Override Automatic Cookie Handling"
  5. Click Radio Button corresponding to "Block" Third party cookies

Firefox (by Mozilla)

  1. Menu: Tools > Options
  2. Click the Privacy panel and then click on the Cookies label.
  3. Check Box: "for the originating Web site only"

Netscape Navigator 4.x and above

  1. Menu: Edit > Preferences
  2. Select Category: Advanced
  3. Find section: Cookies
  4. Select "Accept only cookies that get sent back to the originating server."

If you have a specific question or would like more information, please e-mail veronica_halbeck@idgtechnet.com.

The aggregated information we collect is used for a number of purposes including the following :

  1. to improve the content and design of the IDG TechNetwork Web site
  2. to enable our audit bureau to verify our claims of traffic to the site
  3. to help advertisers, potential advertisers or marketers assess the suitability of the site for their ad campaigns
  4. as clear GIFs, also known as pixel tags, provided by our ad-serving company to help manage online advertising. These clear GIFS let our ad-serving company recognize a browser's cookie when a user visits our site. The information we collect and share through this technology is not personally identifiable (It does not include your name, address, telephone number or email address). For more information about our ad-serving company or for your choices about not having this anonymous information used, please visit http://www.adify.com.
  5. IDG TechNetwork has contracted with Adify to serve all advertising on http://www.IDGTechNetwork.com, both on the Web site itself and through its email newsletters. When Adify is serving ads, it recognizes certain types of non-personally identifiable information, such as a user's IP address, browser version or type, operating system, service provider and time zone. Adify also uses cookies to note the general content of the sites that users visit over time in order to serve ads on this site and other sites. Any pages a user calls up on http://www.IDGTechNetwork.com or its member sites aren't connected with personally identifiable information collected either at http://www.IDGTechNetwork.com or elsewhere. For more details about the non-personally identifiable information Adify collects please visit https://app.adify.com/FooterPages/Privacy.aspx. We use Web metric vendors to gather information to help us understand how users utilize our Web sites and other electronic products.
  6. We may create and use aggregate customer data to understand more about the interests of our customers and may use the data to offer goods and services we believe may be of interest to our customers, on behalf of IDG TechNetwork, its sister IDG companies, or select organizations.

Postal addresses, and other personally identifying information and data will be used to promote IDG TechNetwork and other IDG companies' products and services, and may be rented and/or licensed to selected outside firms for promotional purposes. Offers for which the personally identifying information and data are rented and/or licensed for use and the users are required to target their offers carefully.

Telephone numbers of IDG TechNetwork subscribers are used by IDG TechNetwork, IDG and other IDG companies, affiliates and it's advertisers for promotional purposes. IDG TechNetwork may rent and/or license for use phone numbers to selected outside firms for promotional purposes. Offers for which the numbers are rented and/or licensed for use are required to target their offers carefully.

Email addresses of IDG TechNetwork subscribers may be used to collect feedback by members of our editorial or research team, to promote IDG TechNetwork and IDG products and services, and they may be rented to other firms and/or licensed for promotional purposes. When you provide your email address to us, you agree to receive email from IDG TechNetwork and its sister IDG companies, and the IDG Network. We allow users to "opt-out" of receiving email from outside firms, however, when email information is collected and with each email use of the user's address you can individually opt-out of receiving further email from outside firms, IDG TechNetwork, its member sites and sister IDG companies and the IDG Network If a user does not choose to opt-out at the time the email address is collected, or does not respond to the questions concerning how we may use their email address, the address may be rented and/or licensed for use to outside firms. Offers for which the email address is rented and/or licensed for use require the users to target their offers carefully.
Users who later decide they want to change their preferences may do so at http://www.IDG TechNetwork.com/

Personal identifying information submitted on portions of our site developed with outside third parties may be shared with those third parties, and the information will be governed by those parties' privacy policies as well as IDG TechNetwork's. IDG TechNetwork, nor any of its parent companies or any of its subsidiaries or affiliates do not bear any responsibility for any actions or policies of such third parties.

IDG TechNetwork users should be aware that when they disclose personal identifying information (e.g., user name, address, company name, telephone number, demographic information, buying information, other data and email address) in discussion forums, chat rooms or other areas that are publicly accessible by others, that information can be collected and used by others and may result in unsolicited messages from other posters or parties. IDG TechNetwork nor its parent company or any of its subsidiaries or affiliates are not responsible for any information that you provide in the above areas.

In the event that the ownership of IDG TechNetwork or any of member sites are sold or transferred, all lists and data which contains personally identifying information and data including for example user name, address, company name, telephone number, demographic information, buying information, other data and email address, will be transferred to the new owner.

3. IDG Publishing Network Online Registration Privacy Policy

Below is the current policy regarding the usage of personally identifying information and data collected by the IDG TechNetwork its Member sites and the IDG Publishing Network. We reevaluate this policy on an ongoing basis based on feedback from readers. IDG TechNetwork its Member sites and the IDG Publishing Network reserves the right to change its privacy policy. However, if there are any changes to the use of personally identifiable information and data that is different from that stated at the time of collection, we will notify you by posting a notice on our Web sites.

About the IDG Publishing Network

The International Data Group, Inc. (IDG) family of online and print publications consists of hundreds of award-winning titles including CIO, CSO, Darwin, InfoWorld, Computerworld, Game Pro, Network World, PC World, IDG TechNetwork and its member sites. The IDG Publishing Network is a growing collection of IDG Web sites that presently includes cio.com, csoonline.com, Computerworld.com, darwinmag.com, infoworld.com, networkworld.com, IDGTechNetwork.com and its member sites. A complete listing is available at www.idg.com and www.IDGTechNetwork.com.

To access restricted content on any IDG Publishing Network Web site, you must be a member of the IDG Publishing Network. To become a member of the IDG Publishing Network, you need to provide certain information about yourself. Any of the IDG Publishing Network sites may use this identifying information for internal analytical and business development purposes and, to send you email. However, other forms of communication, including postal mail, may be directed to you pursuant to the site's specific privacy policy, as may be updated from time to time.
You can "opt-out" of receiving further email by clicking the appropriate links that appear at the bottom of any email you receive. If you do not want to receive other types of communication, including as applicable, postal mail, from the editor and publisher of the site, please refer to the site's privacy policy for the procedure to follow.

The IDG Publishing Network is intended for individuals over the age of 13 years old. Personal information may not be provided by anyone under 13 years of age. Further no one under 13 years old may participate in the forums or chat rooms or any other areas where public discussions may take place. In addition no one under that age of 18 may conduct any transactions for the purposes or purchasing or selling any items. Parents should be sure that their children are not conducting any of the above activities on the IDG Publishing Network.
If you have any questions or comments regarding the IDG Publishing Network or its use of information please send email to IDGNetwork@idg.com or write to us at IDG Publishing Network, 3 Post Office Square, Boston, MA 02109.

Last updated: 27 February, 2008.