Privacy Policies

All e-mail mailing lists maintained by FCW Government Technology Group contain the names of people who requested to receive information from us.

Currently, e-mail addresses may be used by FCW Government Technology Group to promote FCW and IDG products and services, surveys, and for editorial consultations with users. When a user has given us explicit permission, his/her e-mail address may be rented to outside firms for promotional purposes. We allow users to "opt out" of receiving e-mail from outside firms and/or from FCW Government Technology Group and its sister companies when e-mail information is collected. Users who later decide they want to change their preferences may do so by sending e-mail to subscriptions@fcw.com.

While FCW Government Technology Group will seek to require third parties with whom it has agreements to follow appropriate privacy policies, we do not bear any responsibility for any actions or policies of such third parties.

fcw.com collects no personally identifying information about individuals except when specifically and knowingly provided by such individuals. In addition, fcw.com may place a "cookie" in the browser files of a user's computer. The cookie itself does not contain any personally identifying information although it will enable fcw.com to manage the banner advertisements presented to the user.

The aggregated information we collect is used for the following purposes:

to improve the content and design of the fcw.com Web site
to help advertisers and potential advertisers asses the suitability of the site for their ad campaigns

"Cookies"
"Cookies" are a form of software technology used to collect non-personal information about visitors to any particular site. This type of information includes: type of browser used to access the Internet (i.e. Netscape3.0, Internet Explorer 4.0), type of operating system (i.e. Windows 95, Macintosh) and the domain of the visitor's Internet service provider.

The fcw.com contracts with DoubleClick to sell and manage the advertisements that you see on the site. The advertisements help us bring you the fcw.com site without charge.

DoubleClick uses cookies to make sure that you do not see the same advertisements repeatedly and when possible, shows advertising that is relevant to you based on what you have seen previously. Cookies are anonymous. Neither FCW Government Technology Group nor DoubleClick knows the name, e-mail address, phone number, or home address of anybody who visits the fcw.com site or any other site in the DoubleClick Network.

The fcw.com Web site is maintained by

FCW Government Technology Group
3141 Fairview Park Drive
Suite 777
Falls Church, VA 22042
703-876-5100

The fcw.com privacy policy, and our link disclaimer.
fcw.com complies with the ASME Guidelines with IDG extensions for new media.