IBM/Palisades client privacy

Because this site wants to demonstrate its commitment to your privacy, it has agreed to disclose its information practices and have its privacy practices reviewed and audited for compliance. You can expect to be notified of:

• What information this site gathers/tracks about you
• What this site does with the information it gathers/tracks
• With whom this site shares the information it gathers/tracks
• This site's opt-out policy
• This site's policy on correcting and updating personally identifiable information
• This site's policy on deleting or deactivating your name from our database

As an organization who frequently advises organizations on Internet best practices, we believe it is important to practice what we preach. We believe that consumers have a keen interest in privacy. We also believe that by disclosing a Web site's data policy, organizations can proactively address this concern and gain consumer confidence. Consumer confidence is of critical importance, particularly as it relates to Internet commerce.

IBM/Palisades may capture implicit information from users who visit our Web site for aggregate statistical analysis and site customization. Implicit information is data that we can gather about the user without asking them. Importantly, aggregate statistical analysis means that IBM/Palisades reviews trends based on information as a whole, but does not do so in an effort to identify the individual identity of the visitor to its site.

We also may solicit email for site feedback, business development, press inquiries, and human resources inquiries. In select instances, this information may be shared with reputable third companies. However, IBM/Palisades does not willfully disclose human resource information solicited from our Web site to third parties.

IP addresses may be logged to track a user's session. An IP address is the unique numerical identity of your computer. When we "log" an IP address, it means that our Web site associates a visit or series of visits to that unique numerical identity. IBM/Palisades also uses cookies in order to assist in aggregate statistical analysis and sometimes provide site customization based on anonymous session tracking. In other words, IBM/Palisades uses cookies to determine trends for users as a whole, but not as means to learn about your individual identity. Cookies, by themselves, cannot be used to determine the actual identity of users. On their own, they can be used to identify a computer, but not who is using that computer. Because of this, if IBM/Palisades customizes the site based on cookies, we won't know who you are unless you tell us.

IBM/Palisades collects the visitor's domain name (e.g. whether the user is logged on from suck.com), referral data (e.g. we record the last URL a user visited prior to clicking to IBM/Palisades), as well as browser and platform type (e.g., a Microsoft browser on a Macintosh platform). We also count, track, and aggregate the visitor's activity into our analysis of general traffic flows at our sites (e.g., tracking where traffic comes from, how traffic flows within IBM/Palisades). When and if IBM/Palisades does present aggregated information to outside companies, no one would be able to identify you or contact you.

IBM/Palisades uses links throughout its web site to provide a visitor with the opportunity to contact us via email for a variety of purposes (including business development and human resource inquires). IBM/Palisades may file information from emails, review and discard the information, and share this information with third parties. Human resource information will not be shared with a third party without the express consent of the individual.