Privacy
To better protect your privacy we provide this notice explaining BIE's treatment of personally identifiable information that BIE collects when you are on our site.
To make this notice easy to find, we make it available on our homepage and at every point where personally identifiable information may be requested. This policy does not apply to the practices of companies that BIE does not control, or to people BIE does not employ or manage.
1. What information does BIE collect from you and what do we do with it?
This policy applies to all information collected or submitted on BIE's website. During the course of your business interactions with BIE, we may acquire two different types of information. First, BIE automatically receives and records information on our server logs including your IP address and the page(s) you requested. This information is used for internal reporting and site usage analysis. We use this non-identifying and aggregate information to better serve you and facilitate your use of our web site. Second, we may acquire personal information from you through registration forms or e-mail messages to us. When you register with BIE, we ask for information such as your name, title, company, address, phone number, and e-mail address. BIE uses the data collected from registration forms to respond to your requests for information. You will receive information from BIE solely if you have indicated a desire to receive information. For example, if you sign up for our newsletter we will use your information to send the newsletter to you. In addition, we may use your personal information to dynamically generate certain pages on our web site.
BIE uses third party web analytics services to monitor users individual browsing sessions. We do this to find out which areas of our website are performing well... and which areas need some attention. It's important to us that we provide the information you want, and that you can navigate our website easily.
2. Will BIE reveal any information to a third party?
At BIE, we take the issue of privacy very seriously and believe that any information you may provide us should be protected from disclosure to others. BIE will not sell or otherwise disclose personal information to any third parties for any purpose, unless BIE reasonably believes such disclosure is required by law or is necessary to protect BIE's users, rights or property. Any personal information collected by BIE will be maintained securely to prevent disclosure to the very best of our ability. Only those BIE employees who need this information to do their jobs will have access to this personal information. If, despite BIE's security precautions, personal information is inadvertently disclosed, BIE will promptly work to limit and remedy the disclosure. BIE, however, accepts no liability for any inadvertent or unauthorized disclosures. Only those BIE employees who need this information to do their jobs wiml have access to this personal information.
3. How do you review, correct, or update any information about yourself?
To remove or update your information, simply e-mail to BIE Webmaster. To protect your privacy and security, we may also take reasonable steps to verify your identity before making corrections.
4. Opt-In / Opt-Out Provision
You have the choice of opting how to send your personal information, or after!having sent it, of having your information removed from BIE's database.
5. Cookies
Cookies are small pieces of information that BIE places on your hard drive to enable us to make your visits to our site more enjoyable. Cookies give us the ability to recognize certain user patterns and enable us to tailor each visitor's experience according to their preferences. BIE does not use cookies to obtain information about a user that has not been previously provided. The cookie itself dods not contain any personally identifiable information about a user, and BIE does not use cookies in order to obtain such information. Links to websites outside of ours may contain cookies that we do not control.
6. Changes to this Privacy Policy
BIE may edit this policy from time to time. If we make any substantial changes, we will notify you by posting a prominent announcement on our pages.
