Privacy Policy

RISMedia Privacy Policy (as of July 6, 2006)

RISMedia recognizes the importance of protecting the personal information you provide at Web sites owned and/or controlled by RISMedia Inc. Thus, we maintain the following privacy policy:

1. We gather the following types of information needed to process your transactions,
fulfill your requests and maintain our membership records:

* Contact information you provide (i.e., personal and business addresses, e-mail address, phone
and fax numbers, firm affiliations and titles)
* Information you volunteer, via applications or surveys (i.e., education,
designations, specialties and general demographic data)

2. We use this information to:

* Improve and customize the content and layout of our sites and other communications tools, such as RISMedia?s Real Estate magazine online and in print
* Compile our annual Power Broker Survey & Report
* Notify you of relevant products and services
* Notify you of upcoming events and programs
* Compile specialty directories about which you will be made aware
* Track usage of our sites

3. RISMedia does not share, sell or
trade e-mail addresses, but may provide you with online informational or marketing messages that have been approved by RISMedia for the purposes described in Part 4 of this policy.

4. We will not share, sell or otherwise provide other information about you to third parties, except for:

* Exhibitors at RISMedia’s Leadership Conference trade show for the limited purpose of contacting
you one time immediately before and after trade shows, through marketing vehicles approved by RISMedia
* When required by law or valid legal process, or to protect the personal safety of our members or the public
* Some or all of the data collected during promotions or contests on our sites that are sponsored by third parties may be shared with the sponsor for the limited purpose of a one-time marketing follow-up by the sponsor. If information about you will be shared with a sponsor you will be notified prior to your participation in the promotion or contest and you can decide not to participate in the promotion or contest.

5. Credit card information that you and credit authorizers provide when you make payments by credit card or electronic check for products, registrations or other services via RISMedia’s Web site will only be used to process the transactions you request. This
information will be provided to and maintained by reputable credit reporting databases, but will never be sold, shared or provided to other third parties.

6. We use a strict Opt-Out policy for sending online notifications regarding services, products and programs. You may opt out of our Daily e-News by selecting the unsubscribe feature at the bottom of the Daily e-News e-mail or by e-mailing online@rismedia.com.

7. Some of our sites contain advertising placed by advertising networks pursuant to agreements between RISMedia and the advertising network. We do not control these advertising networks, the sites of third parties reached through links on our site or their information collection practices and RISMedia will not be responsible for the activities of these third parties. The advertising network uses cookies to collect certain non-personally identifiable information when you click on the banner ads appearing on our sites. This information is collected by the advertising network for purposes of measuring and reporting on the advertising to advertisers and RISMedia. The advertising network may also aggregate the information for certain other statistical and reporting purposes.