Updated June 25, 2023
Enterprise CIOs (eCIOs) regards the privacy and security of user information as a critical component of the products and
services that we offer on our website. The following privacy statement discloses our policies on the collection, use,
and disclosure of information on the Site.
This Privacy Policy has been written to describe the conditions under which this website is being made available to you.
The Privacy Policy discusses, among other things, how data obtained during your visit to this website may be collected
and used. We strongly recommend that you read the Privacy Policy carefully. By using this website, you agree to be bound
by the terms of this Privacy Policy. If you do not accept the terms of the Privacy Policy, you are directed to discontinue
accessing or otherwise using the website or any materials obtained from it. If you are dissatisfied with the website,
by all means contact us; otherwise, your only recourse is to disconnect from this site and refrain from visiting the site
in the future.
The process of maintaining a website is an evolving one, and eCIOs may decide at some point in the future, without advance
notice, to modify the terms of this Privacy Policy. Your use of the website, or materials obtained from the website,
indicates your assent to the Privacy Policy at the time of such use. The effective Privacy Policy will be posted on the
website, and you should check upon every visit for any changes.
Information Collected
Enterprise CIOs may collect both aggregate information and personally identifiable information on the site. Aggregate information describes the habits and other behavioral traits of the users of the site as a group but does not indicate the identity of a particular user. Generally, this information is collected through "traffic data" and may entail the use of "cookies", "IP addresses" or other numeric codes used to identify a computer. Personally identifiable information refers to information you voluntarily provide that tells us specifically who you are, such as your name, email address, company name, address, or telephone number.
Sites Covered by this Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy applies to all eCIOs-maintained websites, domains, information portals, and registries.
Links to Non-eCIOs Websites
eCIOs websites may provide links to third-party websites for the convenience of our users. If you access those links, you will leave the Operator's website. eCIOs does not control these third-party websites and cannot represent that their policies and practices will be consistent with this Privacy Policy. For example, other websites may collect or use personal information about you in a manner different from that described in this document. Therefore, you should use other websites with caution, and you do so at your own risk. We encourage you to review the privacy policy of any website before submitting personal information.
Types of Information Collected
Non-Personal Information
Non-personal information is data about usage and service operation that is not directly associated with a specific personal identity. eCIOs may collect and analyze non-personal information to evaluate how visitors use the Operator's websites.
Aggregate Information
eCIOs may gather aggregate information, which refers to information your computer automatically provides to us and that cannot be tied back to you as a specific individual. Examples include referral data (the websites you visited just before and just after our site), the pages viewed, time spent at our website, and Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. An IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer whenever you access the Internet. For example, when you request a page from one of our sites, our servers log your IP address to create aggregate reports on user demographics and traffic patterns and for purposes of system administration.
Log Files
Every time you request or download a file from the website, eCIOs may store data about these events and your IP address in a log file. eCIOs may use this information to analyze trends, administer the website, track users’ movements, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use or for other business purposes.
Cookies
Our site may use a feature of your browser to set a “cookie” on your computer. Cookies are small packets of information that
a website’s computer stores on your computer. The Operator's websites can then read the cookies whenever you visit our
site. We may use cookies in a number of ways, such as to save your password so you don’t have to re-enter it each time
you visit our site, to deliver content specific to your interests and to track the pages you’ve visited. These cookies
allow us to use the information we collect to customize your experience so that your visit to our site is as relevant
and as valuable to you as possible.
Most browser software can be set up to deal with cookies. You may modify your browser preference to provide you with
choices relating to cookies. You have the choice to accept all cookies, to be notified when a cookie is set or to reject
all cookies. If you choose to reject cookies, certain of the functions and conveniences of our website may not work properly,
and you may be unable to use those of the Operator's services that require registration in order to participate, or you
will have to re-register each time you visit our site. Most browsers offer instructions on how to reset the browser to
reject cookies in the “Help” section of the toolbar. We do not link non-personal information from cookies to personally
identifiable information without your permission.
Web Beacons
The Operator's website also may use web beacons to collect non-personal information about your use of our website and the websites of selected sponsors or members, your use of special promotions or newsletters, and other activities. The information collected by web beacons allows us to statistically monitor how many people are using our website and selected sponsors’ sites; how many people open our emails; and for what purposes these actions are being taken. Our web beacons are not used to track your activity outside of our website or those of our sponsors. eCIOs do not link non-personal information from web beacons to personally identifiable information without your permission.
Personal Information
Personal information is information that is associated with your name or personal identity. eCIOs use personal information to better understand your needs and interests and to provide you with better service. On some of eCIOs web pages, you may be able to request information, subscribe to mailing lists, participate in online discussions, collaborate on documents, provide feedback, submit information into registries, register for events, apply for membership, or join technical committees or working groups. The types of personal information you provide to us on these pages may include name, address, phone number, email address, user IDs, passwords, billing information, or credit card information.
Members-Only Web Sites
Information you provide on Operator's membership applications is used to create a member profile, and some information may be shared with other of the Operator's individual member representatives and organizations. Member contact information may be provided to other members on a secure website to encourage and facilitate collaboration, research, and the free exchange of information among the Operator's members, but we expressly prohibit members from using member contact information to send unsolicited commercial correspondence. The Operator's members may be automatically added to the Operator's mailing lists. From time to time, member information may be shared with event organizers and/or other organizations that provide additional benefits to the Operator's members. By providing us with your personal information on the membership application, you expressly consent to our storing, processing, and distributing your information for these purposes.
How We Use Your Information
eCIOs may use non-personal data that is aggregated for reporting about the Operator's website usability, performance, and
effectiveness. It may be used to improve the experience, usability, and content of the site.
eCIOs may use personal information to provide services that support the activities of the Operator's members and their
collaboration on the Operator's standards and projects. When accessing the Operator's members-only web pages, your personal
user information may be tracked by eCIOs in order to support collaboration, ensure authorized access, and enable communication
between members.
Credit card information may be collected to facilitate membership applications; or if you purchase a product or service
from our website, such information will not be kept longer than necessary for providing the services requested. Credit
card numbers are used only for processing payment and are not used for other purposes. Payment processing services may
be provided by a third-party payment service, and a management company external to eCIOs may provide support for the financial
activities of eCIOs. eCIOs may share your personal information with its partners to facilitate these transactions.
Information Sharing
eCIOs does not sell, rent, or lease any individual’s personal information or lists of email addresses to anyone for marketing
purposes, and we take commercially reasonable steps to maintain the security of this information. However, eCIOs reserve
the right to supply any such information to any organization into which eCIOs may merge in the future or to which it may
make any transfer in order to enable a third party to continue part or all of its mission. We also reserve the right to
release personal information to protect our systems or business, when we reasonably believe you to be in violation of
our Terms of Use or if we reasonably believe you to have initiated or participated in any illegal activity. In addition,
please be aware that in certain circumstances, eCIOs may be obligated to release your personal information pursuant to
judicial or other government subpoenas, warrants, or other orders.
In keeping with our open process, eCIOs may maintain publicly accessible archives for the majority of our activities.
For example, posting an email to any of the Operator's-hosted public mail lists or discussion forums, subscribing to
one of our newsletters or registering for one of our public meetings may result in your email address becoming part of
the publicly accessible archives.
On some sites, anonymous users are allowed to post content and/or participate in forum discussions. In such a case, since
no user name can be associated with such a user, the IP address number of a user is used as an identifier. When posting
content or messages to an eCIOs site anonymously, your IP address may be revealed to the public.
If you are a registered member of an eCIOs' website or email list, you should be aware that some items of your personal
information may be visible to other members and to the public. The Operator's member databases may retain information
about your name, email address, company affiliation (if an organizational member), and such other personal address and
identifying data as you choose to supply. That data may be visible to other of the Operator's members and to the public.
Your name, email address, and other information you may supply also may be associated in the Operator's publicly accessible
records with the Operator's various committees, working groups, and similar activities that you join, in various places,
including: (i) the permanently-posted attendance and membership records of those activities; (ii) documents generated
by the activity, which may be permanently archived; and, (iii) along with message content, in the permanent archives of
the Operator's email lists, which also may be public.
Please remember that any information (including personal information) that you disclose in public areas of our website,
such as forums, message boards, and news groups, becomes public information that others may collect, circulate, and use.
Because we cannot and do not control the acts of others, you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose information
about yourself or others in public forums such as these.
Given the international scope of eCIOs websites, personal information may be visible to persons outside your country
of residence, including to persons in countries that your own country’s privacy laws and regulations deem deficient in
ensuring an adequate level of protection for such information. If you are unsure whether this Privacy Policy is in conflict
with applicable local rules, you should not submit your information. If you are located within the European Union, you
should note that your information will be transferred to the United States, which is deemed by the European Union to have
inadequate data protection. Nevertheless, in accordance with local laws implementing European Union Directive 95/46/EC
of 24 October 1995 (“EU Privacy Directive”) on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal
data and on the free movement of such data, individuals located in countries outside of the United States of America who
submit personal information do thereby consent to the general use of such information as provided in this Privacy Policy
and to its transfer to and/or storage in the United States of America.
If you do not want your personal information collected and used by eCIOs, please do not visit the Operator's website
or apply for membership of any of the eCIOs' websites or email lists.
Access to and Accuracy of Member Information
eCIOs are committed to keeping the personal information of our members accurate. All the information you have submitted to us can be verified and changed. In order to do this, please email us a request. We may provide members with online access to their own personal profiles, enabling them to update or delete information at any time. To protect our members’ privacy and security, we also may take reasonable steps to verify identity, such as a user ID and password, before granting access to modify personal profile data. Certain areas of the Operator's websites may limit access to specific individuals through the use of passwords or other personal identifiers; a password prompt is your indication that a members-only resource is being accessed.
Security
eCIOs make every effort to protect personal information by users of the website, including using firewalls and other security measures on its servers. No server, however, is 100% secure, and you should take this into account when submitting personal or confidential information about yourself on any website, including this one. Much of the personal information is used in conjunction with member services such as collaboration and discussion, so some types of personal information such as your name, company affiliation, and email address will be visible to others, the Operator's members, and to the public. eCIOs assume no liability for the interception, alteration, or misuse of the information you provide. You alone are responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your personal information. Please use care when you access this website and provide personal information.
Opting Out
From time to time eCIOs may email you electronic newsletters, announcements, surveys or other information. If you prefer not to receive any or all of these communications, you may opt out by following the directions provided within the electronic newsletters and announcements.
Updated June 25, 2023
Enterprise CIOs (eCIOs) regards the privacy and security of user information as an important component of the applications we offer.
The following application privacy statement discloses our policies on the collection, use, and disclosure of information by our applications.
This Application Privacy Policy has been written to describe the information our applications collect, the conditions under which our applications collect that information, how the information is used, a description of our information retention and deletion policies, and how end users can revoke consent or request deletion of their data.
This Application Privacy Policy applies to all eCIOs-maintained applications.
The Application Privacy Policy discusses, among other things, how data obtained during use of our applications may be collected and used. We strongly recommend that you read the Application Privacy Policy carefully. By using our applications, you agree to be bound by the terms of this Application Privacy Policy in addition to the application’s License Agreement. If you do not accept the terms of the Application Privacy Policy, you are directed to discontinue using our applications. If you are dissatisfied with our applications, by all means contact us; otherwise, your only recourse is to not use our applications.
The process of developing applications is an evolving one, and eCIOs may decide at some point in the future, without advance notice, to modify the terms of this Application Privacy Policy. Your use of our applications indicates your assent to the Application Privacy Policy at the time of such use. The effective Application Privacy Policy will be posted on the website, and you should check upon every visit for any changes.
Information Collected
Enterprise CIOs only collects information related to the licensing and usage of our products.
Licensing Information
Our applications use licensing technology to verify a user’s licensing status, to confirm that our applications have been installed or uninstalled, the general location of where the application is installed, the computer’s device-id, the computer’s operating system version, the login name, and application usage statistics.
Personal Information
Personal information is information that is associated with your name or personal identity. eCIOs uses personal information to better understand your needs and interests and to provide you with better service. Purchased licenses are associated with an individual and/or a company. Trial licenses may or may not be associated with an individual or company. Personal information is not collected by our applications but is supplied by the user when downloading our applications from our website, or by a company that hosts our applications and collects personal user information and supplies it to us when our applications are made available to the user.
How We Use Your Information
The licensing information collected is used to identify a paid or trial user, and to confirm a user’s paid or trial license. Application usage statistics identify the number of times the application is run and the accumulated run duration.
Information Sharing
eCIOs does not sell, rent, or lease any individual’s personal information or lists of email addresses to anyone for marketing purposes, and we take commercially reasonable steps to maintain the security of this information. However, eCIOs reserve the right to supply any such information to any organization into which eCIOs may merge in the future or to which it may make any transfer in order to enable a third party to continue part or all of its mission. We also reserve the right to release personal information to protect our systems or business, when we reasonably believe you to be in violation of our agreements or if we reasonably believe you to have initiated or participated in any illegal activity. In addition, please be aware that in certain circumstances, eCIOs may be obligated to release your personal information pursuant to judicial or other government subpoenas, warrants, or other orders.
Third Party Information Access
eCIOs’ applications do not share information with third parties.
Data Retention and Deletion Policy
eCIOs retains user information related to the licensing of our products for a period up to ten years past the expiration of a license. Expired user information is not retained beyond ten years but may be deleted sooner.
Opting Out
Upon termination of an eCIOs application licensing relationship you can email eCIOs at opt-out@enterprisecios.com to have your information deleted.
If you want to revoke your consent of collection of application licensing information you only need not install or not run our applications. The collection of application licensing information is a requirement for running our applications.
From time to time eCIOs may email you electronic newsletters, announcements, surveys or other information. If you prefer not to receive any or all of these communications, you may opt out by following the directions provided within the electronic newsletters and announcements.