Privacy Statement

International Business Machines Corporation is committed to protecting the privacy and security of visitors to the Transition2.org website. For more information on each of the employment sectors available through Transition2.org and and the Transition2.org sector sponsors involved in those sectors, please visit the ‘About the Sector Sponsors” section of this site.

This privacy policy may be revised from time to time as features of the site are developed or if changes are required. Amendments to this statement will be posted at this URL and will be effective when posted. Your continued use of this site following the posting of any amendment, modification or change shall constitute your acceptance thereof. Our policy to never sell, exchange, rent, trade, or give contact information to third parties without your explicit consent will never be altered.

Use of the Transition2.org website is restricted to employees of the companies currently participating in the Transition2.org program. Each company so participating will require website visitors to validate themselves as eligble participants by supplying company specific credentials at the time of registration. This policy will be updated as additonal companies join and/or leave the program to reflect any additonal privacy requirements specific to that company.

Transition2.org Registration

Only personal information necessary for participant registration will be collected through this website. The registration process for use of the Transition2.org site will collect the user’s name and email address only. Contact information obtained through registration is used to support your participation in various functions of the site, to support site administrative functions, and to provide you with Transition2.org related correspondence.

The sector sponsors may, on their own websites, collect additional personal information from users visiting such websites and the collection, handling and storage of personal information by the sector sponsors will be in accordance with the privacy policies of the sector sponsors, not this privacy policy. We will not use the personal information you submit through registration for the Transition2.org site for marketing purposes or to provide you information on new programs, products, services and offerings of the Transition2.org program. Moreover, we will never sell or share the personal information you provide or we collect through this website to third parties without your consent.

In some cases Transition2.org administrators may use aggregated and/or anonymous information for marketing, product development, strategic or research purposes. These administrators include individuals from IBM and other companies who participate in the program.

People who are contacted by Transition2.org are provided with a means of informing us that they would not like to receive such information through the “opt-out” process detailed below. However, contacts from our other sector sponsors to you are based solely on registration information you provide to them via their user interface(s). We will always notify you when you are leaving the Transition2.org site and proceeding to a sector sponsor site as the transition process may sometimes require.

All registration data and information provided by you is hosted in a secure environment at:

Connectria Internet Data Center located at

210 North Tucker

St. Louis, MO 63141

Cookies

A cookie is a small piece of information that a website stores in the web browser. The cookie might reside in memory, or it might be placed in a special folder on the hard drive so it can be retrieved by the website later. Only the website that sets the cookie can read it. This website uses cookies to provide an interactive and dynamic Web application for example when you select the option to have the website remember your user login credentials.

IP Addresses and Log File Data

IP addresses are ID numbers for the location of your computer or network on the internet. Log files are recordings of the traffic to and from a server. IP addresses are logged for systems administration and troubleshooting. We track page hits in the aggregate to track the popularity of pages that people visit and for broad demographic information. With that information we can improve the quality of the site. We do not use these files to collect personally identifying information, and log files and IP addresses are neither stored with nor used in conjunction with personal information.

Security

Only select staff of IBM have access to personally identifiable information provided by registered particpants of the Transition2.org . Connectria uses industry-standard encryption technologies when transferring and receiving sensitive personal and financial data from our site. These security measures will protect against loss, misuse and alteration of your information. In addition, we have taken appropriate security measures with our hosting providers to protect against the loss, misuse and alteration of information that you’ve provided to this website.

Links

This site contains links to the sector sponsor’s sites. The owner of each respective sectors sponsor site is responsible for their privacy practices and content. This site also contains links to other third party sites. IBM is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of sector sponsor or other third party websites.

Public Forums

This site may make message boards, news groups, and other social networking, and web 2.0 functionality available to its users. Any information that is disclosed in these areas becomes public information and users should exercise caution when deciding to disclose personal information.

Changing your information

If you registered with Transition2.org and submitted personal information on this website, you will be able to change your information at any time using the secure user profile of the site after you login.

Choice/Opt-Out/Corrections/Contacting Us for Support

Transition2.org provide visitors with the opportunity to opt-out of receiving communications from our site only during the registration process. You can update this option the same way you update the rest of your resitration information as detailed above.

If at any time you want to remove your registration completely from the site or seek any other type of support please send a request to the transition2.org technical staff. Their contact information is specified under the ‘Support’ section on the site.

If you have any questions about our privacy policy, please fell free to contact site administrators and/or support team. Contact information can be found in the ‘Support’ section of this site.

Please Note

IBM plans to regularly update and add new features to the Transition2.org website. Because of this, the privacy policy may be modified from time to time as the site develops. Such amendments will be posted in the privacy policy section of the site. As stated above, the spirit of this policy will be maintained, and our policy to never sell, exchange, rent, trade, or give email lists to third parties will never be altered.