PRIVACY POLICY

The Advisory Board Program^TM is committed to safeguarding your privacy online.  The following policy will help you understand how your personal information will be treated as you make full use of our web community.  This policy may change from time to time, so please check back periodically.

What personally identifiable information does The Advisory Board Program^TM collect?

The Advisory Board Program^TM collects information in several ways from different parts of our web site.  Some personal information is gathered any time you register on our web site.  During registration, The Advisory Board Program^TM asks for your name, email address, and other personal information.  The more information you volunteer (and the more accurate it its), the better we are able to customize your experience.  Once you register, you are no longer anonymous to The Advisory Board Program^TM and you are able to take full advantage of The Advisory Board Program’s^TM many offerings.  In the future we may ask you for other personal information.  These occasions may include (but are not limited to) when you register for our email newsletters; enter a sweepstakes, contest or promotion sponsored by The Advisory Board Program^TM and /or our many partners; when you make a purchase from our web site; and when you report a problem to our web site.  If you contact The Advisory Board Program^TM, we may keep a record of that correspondence.  The Advisory Board Program^TM may also occasionally ask users to complete surveys that we use for research purposes.

Cookie Technology

A cookie is a string of information that’s sent by a Web site and stored on your hard drive or temporarily in your computer’s memory.  This avoids the potentially time-consuming task of checking our registration database each time a page is requested.  We also employ cookie technology to store subscribers’ User Names and Passwords. 

How does The Advisory Board Program^TM use my information?

The Advisory Board Program’s^TM primary goal in collecting personal information is to provide you, the user, with a customized experience on our web community.  This includes providing content, personalization services, interactive communications, online shopping and many other types of services.  By knowing a little about you, The Advisory Board Program^TM is able to deliver more relevant content, and hence better service, to you. Only The Advisory Board Program^TM has access to individuals’ information.  You will only receive email newsletters from The Advisory Board Program^TM and only if you ask to receive them.

Who is collecting information?

When you are on the The Advisory Board Program^TM web site and are asked for personal information, you are sharing that information with The Advisory Board Program^TM alone, unless it is specifically stated otherwise, or The Advisory Board Program^TM is providing back-end services to our business partners.  Some of The Advisory Board Program^TM services are offered in conjunction with a partner company.  In order to provide this service to you it is necessary for us to share your personal information with some of those partner companies.  If data is being collected and/or maintained by any company other than The Advisory Board Program^TM, you will be notified prior to the time of the data collection or transfer.  Please be aware that The Advisory Board Program^TM advertisers or web sites that have links on our site may collect personally identifiable information about you.  The information practices of those web sites linked to The Advisory Board Program^TM are not covered by this privacy statement.

With whom does The Advisory Board Program^TM share my information?

As a general rule, The Advisory Board Program^TM will not disclose any of your personally identifiable information except when we have your permission or under special circumstances, such as when we believe in good faith that the law requires it or under the circumstances described below.  The following describes some of the ways that your information may be disclosed. 

Business Partners & Sponsors: The Advisory Board Program^TM may disclose your personal information to business partners or sponsors, but this is specifically described to you prior to data collection or prior to transferring the data.  If personally identifying data about you will be shared, we will tell you before we collect or transfer the data.  Many services offer opportunities to request additional information from our business partners.  By requesting more information, you give The Advisory Board Program^TM permission to transfer your personal information to the business partner so they can fulfill your request.  In many instances, only your email address will be shared.  If more information will be shared with the sponsor, you will be notified prior to the transfer.

Intermediary Service Providers: We provide some information to companies that we use to perform certain services for us.  For example, when you provide us with credit card information, such as when ordering a product or service or a pay-per-view event, credit card numbers are sent to a credit card processing company for billing, and address information may be given to a to a fulfillment company that sends you the product you have purchased.  These companies are not authorized to release this information to other third parties.  Please note that this policy applies only to The Advisory Board Program^TM, and that different policies may be applied by third party vendors and suppliers of services through The Advisory Board Program^TM.

Third Party Data & Data in the Aggregate: Under confidentiality agreements, The Advisory Board Program^TM may match user information with third party data.  Also The Advisory Board Program^TM discloses aggregated user statistics (for example, 45% of our users are female) in order to describe our services to prospective partners, advertisers, and other third parties, and for other lawful purposes.

Other: The Advisory Board Program^TM may also disclose account information in special cases when we have reason to believe that disclosing this information is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be violating The Advisory Board Program’s^TM Terms of Service or may be causing injury to or interference with (either intentionally or unitentionally) The Advisory Board Program’s^TM rights or property, The Advisory Board Program^TM users, or anyone else who could be harmed by such activities.  The Advisory Board Program^TM may disclose or access account information when we believe in good faith that the law requires it and for administrative and other purposes that we deem necessary to maintain, service, and improve our products and services.

What are my choices regarding collection, use and distribution of my information?

The Advisory Board Program^TM does not sell or rent user information to anyone.  We will notify you at the time of data collection or transfer is your data will be shared with a third party and you will always have the option of not permitting the transfer.  In addition, if you do not wish to allow your data to be shared, you can choose not to use a particular service.  You also have choices with respect to cookies.  By modifying your browser preferences , 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 all cookies you will be unable to use those The Advisory Board Program^TM services that require registration in order to participate.  You can still use many features on the The Advisory Board Program^TM web site, even if you do not accept cookies.

What security precautions are in place to protect the loss, misuse or alteration of my information?

Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure.  As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, The Advisory Board Program^TM cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us or from our online products or services, and you do so at your own risk.  Once we receive your transmission, we make our best effort to ensure its security on our system.

Internet Commerce

The online store at The Advisory Board Program^TM is designed to give you options concerning the privacy of your credit card information, name, address, e-mail and any other information you provide us.  The Advisory Board Program^TM is committed to data security with respect to information collected in our community.  We offer the industry standard security measures available through you browser.