IANS respects your privacy. We want to make use of the personal identifying information that you provide to us for purposes of serving you better. Personal identifying information is information that enables us to identify you, such as your E-mail address, name, title and address. IANS uses your personal identifying information to personalize your experience on the IANS website and to selectively send you communications that may be of interest to you, whether electronically or otherwise.

IANS's policy regarding use of your personal identifying information, supplied to us or collected via our online website or other means, covers these areas:

1. Notices and Disclosure

This Privacy Statement is made available to you in order to make you aware of how IANS collects and uses personal identifying information.

IANS may collect the following information from you: domain name, name, information regarding what pages are accessed, information volunteered by you, such as survey information, E-mail address, or site registrations, and your preferred means of communication.

IANS does not make personal identifying information available to third parties for any purpose not approved by you. IANS may use such information to contact you for IANS's marketing purposes.

2. Choice/Consent

IANS gives its registered users the choice to opt out of having any personal identifying information provided in the registration process used for any purpose unrelated to the purpose for which such information was provided.

Additionally, when you sign up for an E-mail list on the IANS website, you will be given instructions at that time on how to remove yourself from that list.

Access to certain of IANS's resources requires a login and password or other forms of user authentication. The use of those resources, and the information or programs downloadable from those resources, may be governed by a written agreement between your employer and IANS. Any of the personal identifying information collected during your use of the resources may be retained by IANS to verify compliance with the agreement, to log software licenses granted, to track data or software downloaded from those pages, or to track usage of other applications available on IANS's resources.

3. Data Security

IANS is committed to taking reasonable steps to protect your personal identifying information from compromise or misuse.

4. Data Quality and Access

The accuracy of your personal identifying information is important to IANS. We are working on ways to make it practical for you to review and correct the information that IANS maintains about you.

5. Use of Cookies

A cookie is a small data file containing certain user information that websites save to your hard drive when you visit that site in order to track the pages of the website that you visit. The only personal information a cookie can contain is information you supply yourself. A cookie can't read data off your hard drive or read cookie files created by other websites. Some parts of IANS's resources may use cookies to track user traffic patterns. We do this in order to determine the usefulness of the information that we provide to our users and to see how effective our navigational structure is in helping users reach that information. IANS does not correlate this information with data about individual users, nor does it share this information or sell it to any third party.

If you prefer not to receive cookies on our website, you can set your browser to warn you before accepting cookies and refuse the cookie when your browser alerts you to its presence. You can also refuse all cookies by turning them off in your browser. You do not need to have cookies turned on to use any area of IANS's website.

6. Questions

Questions regarding the content, meaning, enforcement, compliance or concerns regarding this Privacy Statement should be directed to IANS’s Privacy Advocate via E-mail at jphillips@iansresearch.com or U.S. Mail/courier to:

Privacy Advocate, Institute for Applied Network Security, 15 Court Square, Suite 1100, Boston, MA 02108

This privacy statement was last updated on: January 1, 2006

Copyright 2006 Institute for Applied Network Security. All rights reserved.