Personal
Information
In general, you can visit Whistle Communications,
an IBM Company on the Web without telling us who you are are or revealing
any information about yourself. There are times, however, when we
may need information from you, such as your name and address. It is
our intent to let you know before we collect personal information
from you on the Internet.
If you choose to give us personal information
via the Internet that we or our business partners may need -- to correspond
with you, process an order or provide you with a subscription, for
example -- it is our intent to let you know how we will use such information.
If you tell us that you do not wish to have this information used
as a basis for further contact with you, we will respect your wishes.
However, we will continue to use this
information to communicate
with you or others in support of any products and services you acquire
from us. We do keep track of the domains from which people visit us.
We analyze this data for trends and statistics, and then we discard
it.
IBM, our parent company, has implemented
these practices for the IBM Web site (www.ibm.com),
and Whistle Communications, an IBM Company, has adopted consistent
practices for this site (www.whistle.com).
Business
relationships
The Whistle site contains links to other
Web sites. Whistle Communications is not responsible for the privacy
practices or the content of such Web sites.
Cookies
There is a technology called "cookies"
which can be used to provide you with tailored information from a
Web site. A cookie is an element of data that a Web site can send
to your browser, which may then store it on your system. Some Whistle
Web pages may use cookies so that we can better serve you when you
return to our site. You can set browser to notify you when you receive
a cookie, giving you the chance to decide whether to accept it. For
more information, please see "How
to work with Cookies".
Additional
Support of Your Privacy
IBM is also supporting the development
of some technologies that will let you manage and control the release
of your personal information wherever you go on the Internet. From
time to time, Whistle and IBM will be sharing information with you
about efforts underway in organizations such as the World Wide Web
Consortium and TRUSTe.
If you have any question or comments
about IBM's
privacy practices, you can contact them at askibm@vnet.ibm.com.
Privacy
