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PRIVACY STATEMENT EarthWeb provides interactive environments on the Internet to enable information technology professionals from around the world to find, use and share the information they need to do their jobs better and more efficiently. We recognize and support the need to protect the privacy rights of our members through disclosure of our practices for collection and use of member information. In general, you can visit many of the EarthWeb sites on the Web at any time without telling us who you are or revealing any information about yourself. We log the IP address, type of operating system and browser software used by each visitor to an EarthWeb site, and from this information we can derive the identity of the visitor's geographic location and Internet Service Provider. We use this data in aggregate form to build higher quality, more useful facilities by analyzing the collective characteristics of our members and measuring usage of each area of our sites. We also provide statistical information based on this aggregate data to our advertisers, potential advertisers and other business partners. In some circumstances we will ask you to provide us with certain personal information, such as when you apply for membership in ITKnowledge,make a purchase through EarthWeb Direct,submitting your announce availability form on dice.com or in connection with entering certain EarthWeb-sponsored contests and promotions. We may also provide information about you to third parties who provide goods and services that may be of interest to you. In all cases where we ask you for personal information we will: * notify you that such information is being collected, and * identify which informational items are required and which are optional, and * offer you the opportunity to opt out of receiving information from our partners and third parties. EarthWeb will not disclose to third parties your credit card information, except to the extent necessary to complete a transaction initiated by you. COOKIE DISCLOSURE STATEMENT There is a technology called "cookies" which is a file transferred from a website to the hard drive of your computer so that the website operator may track activities on the site. EarthWeb uses cookies to help track activity at EarthWeb's sites so that EarthWeb can make its sites more interesting and useful to visitors. Cookies allow us to understand who has seen which pages and ads, to determine how often particular pages are visited, and to track the most popular areas of each EarthWeb site. Cookies also allow us to make our sites more convenient to use by, for example, allowing us to save your password so that you do not have to reenter it each time you visit an EarthWeb site. A cookie will NOT permit a website operator to learn any personally identifying information about you, such as your real name or address, unless you have previously provided that information to the website operator or you have set the preferences in your browser to provide this information. We note that you can set your browser to notify you when you receive a cookie, giving you the opportunity to decide whether to accept it. THIRD PARTY LINKS EarthWeb's sites contains links to other Internet sites. We encourage all of our partners, contributors and third parties to implement policies and practices that respect the privacy of our users. However, EarthWeb is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such websites. Please note that we review our privacy practices from time to time, and that such practices are subject to change. We ask that our visitors periodically review this page to ensure familiarity with the most current version of our privacy statement.. If you have any questions or comments about our privacy practices, you can contact us at: privacy@earthweb.com Copyright & Copy; 1996-2000 EarthWeb Inc. All rights reserved.
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