Types of Information We Collect. The information we collect from you falls into the following two categories:

• Personal Information — information that tells us who you are or that provides information about you, and
  
• Technical Information — information about your visit that is not linked to your identity

The Personal Information we collect when you use our Site may include your name, email address, and employer. We request Personal Information when you register for newsletters or participate in certain promotional activities, fill out surveys, and correspond with us.

When you visit our Site, we also collect technical information such as the website you visited before our Site, the pages you visit on our Site, the website you visit next, the browser you use, your computer’s IP address, and any search terms entered on our Site. We use cookies (see section “Our Use of Cookies”) and other technology to collect this data. In general, we do not connect this Technical Information with the Personal Information we collect from you.

How We Use Information. We use all the information we collect to provide our clients with superior service and a smooth, efficient, and personalized experience when using our Site. In particular, we use information for the following types of activities:

We use Personal Information for email subscriptions and information requests.

We use Technical Information, on an aggregated basis, to help run our Site more efficiently and monitor the level of activity on our Site, and to evaluate the effectiveness of our newsletters.

If you contact us, we may also save your correspondence or comments. We use this information to help us provide better service in the event you contact us again.

When We May Disclose Information to Others. In general, we do not disclose client information to other companies.

Your Choices. Receiving electronic newsletters from us is strictly voluntary. If you believe you received emails to which you did not subscribe or if you wish to cancel a subscription, please manage your subscriptions by visiting the applicable subscriber link on the left bar.

Please be aware that by selecting the option to opt out of receiving emails, you will no longer be notified when additional newsletters become available.

Our Use of Cookies. A "cookie" is a small data file transferred by a website to your computer's hard drive. We send cookies when you browse our Site, respond to online surveys or polls, or request information. Accepting the cookies used on our Site does not give us access to your Personal Information, but we can use the cookies to identify your computer. The aggregate information collected permits us to analyze traffic patterns on our Site. This can enable us over time to provide you with a better experience on our Site, by improving the content and making it easier to use.

Most browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually refuse cookies or selectively accept certain cookies, by adjusting the preferences in your browser. If you turn off cookies, there may be some features of our Site that will not be available to you and some web pages may not display properly. You can find information on popular browsers and how you can adjust them to control cookies at the following websites:

Mozilla Firefox: http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/options#privacy
Microsoft Internet Explorer: http://www.microsoft.com/info/cookies.mspx

Links to other Websites. Parts of our Site contain links to other websites for your convenience and information. If you use these links, you will leave our website. These other websites can, if they chose, track or record from which website you have just come. No information, other than our web address is transferred to these other websites.

Children's Privacy. Our Site is not targeted at children of any age, and we do not collect information from any children under age 13.

Changes to this Privacy Notice. If there are changes to the terms of this Privacy Notice, we will post those changes here. Please be sure to check this page occasionally. If we make material changes to this Notice, such as changes in the way we use or disclose Personal Information, we will provide you with notice of the change and a chance to choose not to have your information used or disclosed under the new policy.

We recognize the sensitive nature of personal and business financial information and take every precaution to protect your privacy. Also, we recognize your responsibility to safeguard the privacy of your clients' data. When you entrust us with information, you can be certain it will be used only within our strict guidelines.

We want you to know that we use information responsibly to provide you with the services you've requested. Under no circumstance do we provide personal information to unrelated 3rd parties for the purpose of independent telemarketing or direct mail marketing of any products or services of those companies.

Your Client's Data

• All client data is treated as strictly confidential.
• Access to your client's information is limited to those employees with a business reason for using such information.
• We continually educate our employees on the confidential nature of this information, your needs for privacy, as well as incorporating policies and procedures for this purpose. We will never disclose your client information to third parties without your permission.
• We destroy all hard copies of data before disposing of it.
• In order to continue to provide high-quality software, we periodically utilize live data for follow-up testing. When the need for this testing is completed we destroy and dispose of the data.

Outside Service Providers

At times, we enter into arrangements with companies whose expertise is essential for our own services to function properly. For example, we work with specialized firms that manage services with which our products integrate. In any outside company situation, we share the information we obtain about you (as described previously) only to the extent necessary to allow these companies to perform services for us, or to provide you with products or services.

We are extremely selective when choosing outside companies to become our partners. So we require them to conform to our own strict confidentiality and privacy standards. An outside company is never allowed to sell your information, or to use it for any purpose other than providing the specific product or service we intended the company to provide.

Protecting Your Information

To protect client information, we maintain extensive physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards. For example:

• We have a solid foundation of security policies that define acceptable use of our information systems and data hosted on those systems. These high-level security policies are implemented, supported and enforced by more detail level policies, standards and guidelines covering specific functional areas and technologies.
• We educate our employees about the importance of confidentiality and privacy, and we train them in related policies and procedures. All employees and consultants sign non-disclosure agreements to protect your data and your clients' data. We also take appropriate disciplinary measures whenever necessary to enforce these rules.
• Upon hire our employees all agree to confidentiality statements in both our offer letter and in the Thomson Code of Business Conduct and Ethics.
• User identification and authentication helps ensure that authorized users only access the information you provide us.