In order to help us provide the best possible user experience for our visitors we collect certain information about site usage and about visitors to our site, through, for example, the use of cookies.
The information on this page explains what information we collect, how we make use of it, and how you can manage the information that we have about you.
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Cookies
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Cookies are small pieces of information stored by us on your computer which enable us to identify your computer when you access our services or websites. You can find out more about web cookies, and the law governing their use at aboutcookies.org
We may use cookies to:
- provide you with access to services that require you to be a logged-in, registered user;
- prevent you from seeing certain advertisements or surveys more than once;
- help us to match the advertisements and related content that we show you more closely to the content you have chosen to view while on our site;
- prevent you from voting or submitting results more than once in a poll, survey, or competition;
- keep you logged in to our site throughout a session so that you do not have to log in repeatedly;
- monitor how you use the site, so that we can improve our services to you (see web activity reporting, below).
Some of our third-party partners - for example advertisers - may also serve cookies to you via our site.
Managing cookies
You have the option to refuse to accept cookies from both our site and partners. However, if you choose to refuse these cookies you may find that some aspects of the site, in particular those requiring user registration, will not work.
To find out how to manage which cookies you will and will not accept, please go to aboutcookies.org.
Personal details
If you register with any of the services on our site that require registration (for example, our email newsletter registration, magazine and digital magazine subscription forms, and competitions), we will use your contact details and other information provided by you in order to provide you with any services requested by you and also to tell you about important changes to the site and the services that you have requested. Your details will be stored and processed in the UK.
Contact details will also be used by us and by other businesses within TechTarget and its associated companies to provide you with information about other services and products, unless you specify otherwise by means of the registration form at the time of registering, or later, by editing your profile. Details may also be disclosed to third party businesses and advertisers for the same purposes - again, you may opt out of such contact by editing your preferences on the profile page at, or after, registration.
If you do not wish to be contacted for these purposes, please log in and indicate your preferences on the manage profile page.
Aggregate statistical information provided by us to our advertisers or others regarding sales or website usage will not include personally identifying information.
Web activity reporting
In order to help us to improve our service, we use cookies and third-party software to gather information about how our users navigate around through the site. At present, our analytics providers are Google Analytics and HitBox (owned by Omniture). You can find their privacy policies here (Google Privacy Center) and here (Omniture Privacy Statement).
Statistical information
From time to time we provide aggregate statistical information to our advertisers and other partners, typically regarding website usage patterns. This statistical information does not include personally identifying information.
Commercial advertising
The advertisements on our site are served using the AdTech and DoubleClick advertising platforms. You can find their privacy statements here (AdTech Privacy Policy, DoubleClick Privacy).
Email newsletters
Our email newsletters include a small transparent image, or 'beacon', that lets us know whether or not the emails we send out are being opened. This helps us to improve the service we offer, contact you about changes to your newsletter subscriptions and provide aggregated statistical information to advertisers about readership levels.
By downloading images when you open the newsletter you will activate the beacon; if you do not wish to do this you can choose either not to download images in emails from us, or to receive all emails as plain text, by amending the settings and rules within your email client. However, this will also mean that you will be unable to see any pictorial or multimedia content contained within the newsletters
Access to data
You have the right to be told what personal information we hold about you on our databases. You should write to us, Reedbusiness.co.uk Update.net at Reed Business Information, Quadrant House, Sutton, Surrey, SM2 5AS, UK stating your full name, your address and all publications or services from RBI to which you know you subscribe. A small administrative charge will be made for fulfilling this request.
