Privacy Statement for ACM Crossroads Magazine

ACM Crossroads Magazine has created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy. The following discloses the information gathering and dissemination practices for this Web site: ACM Crossroads Magazine

Information Automatically Logged

We use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server and to administer our Web site. We also use the aggregate usage statistics to help us market and publicize our content.

Registration Forms

Our site's registration form requires users to give us contact information (like their name, and email).

Contact information from the registration forms is used to email information about our magazine. The customer's contact information is also used to get in touch with the customer when necessary.

Users may opt-out of receiving future mailings; see the choice/opt-out section below.

External Links

This site contains links to other sites. ACM Crossroads Magazine is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Web sites.

Special Relationships

Our "Technology News" page (http://www.acm.org/crossroads/resources/news.html) is "powered by" iSyndicate. iSyndicate owns the news content on that page. If they use cookies in their news feed, then they are the ones receiving the cooking information. We do not have access to any cookies they may place. We do not share any of our logged information with iSyndicate or collect information on their behalf.

Other services used by our website include a page-change monitoring service powered by NetMind; and a referral service powered by Recommend-It. We do not know if they use cookies in their services; if they do use cookies, we do not have access to that information. We do not share any of our logged information with them or collect information on their behalf.

Our webring service is run completely by Yahoo! and they do use cookies in their javascript navigation bar. We do not have access to the information in their cookie and we do not share our information with them or collect information on their behalf.

Public Forums

This site makes chat rooms, forums, message boards, and/or news groups available to its users. Please remember that any information that is disclosed in these areas becomes public information and you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information.

Security

This site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse, and alteration of the information under our control.

Choice/Opt-Out

Our site provides users the opportunity to opt-out of receiving promotional/marketing information from us via our "xrds-announce" and our "xrds-liaisons" mailing list.

  1. You can send email to crossroads@acm.org , listing the email address you want removed from the xrds-announce or xrds-liaisons list.
  2. To remove yourself from the xrds-announce mailing list: You can send an email to listserv@acm.org, with the body:
    unsubscribe xrds-announce Your-email-address
  3. To remove yourself from the xrds-liaisons mailing list: You can send an email to listserv@acm.org, with the body:
    unsubscribe xrds-liaisons Your-email-address

Data Quality/Access

This site gives users the following options for changing and modifying information previously provided:

  1. You can send email to crossroads@acm.org

Contacting the Web Site

If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this Web site, you can contact:

crossroads@acm.org


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