Privacy Policy - Questions and Answers

Our goal is to become your destination for networking within the user community by providing information and promotional product offerings that are most relevant to you in the most convenient way. To achieve this goal, SUN website may collect information about site visitors. Information collected online is usually defined as being either anonymous or personally identifiable.

Anonymous information refers to data that cannot be tied back to a specific individual. SUN may collect some information each time a visitor comes to the SUN website, so we can improve the overall quality of the visitor's online experience. For example, SUN May collect the visitor's IP address, browser, and platform type (e.g., a Netscape browser on a Windows platform). Gathering this data helps us to learn what browsers we need to support. Other anonymous information helps us determine what sections of SUN website are most popular and how many visitors come to our site. You do not have to register with SUN website before we can collect this anonymous information.

Personally identifiable information refers to data that tells us specifically who you are (e.g., your name and postal address). You are only required to provide such information if you want to take advantage of optional promotional products or membership provided through our website.

SUN collects personal information in the following ways from different parts of its website:

1. SUN Membership Applications: You are sharing personally identifiable information, including your name and mailing address, with us when you join SUN or renew your SUN membership through our website. SUN members are given a SUN Membership number (or ID number), and this member ID and password enables members to take advantage of restricted content and features on the SUN website.
   
   
2. Other Registration: You may be asked for personal information when registering for specific features. For example, if you subscribe to an e-mail newsletter, you will be asked to provide your e-mail address.
   
   
3. Online Purchases: We also ask for personal information when you make a purchase from our Promo Items. The number and variety of useful features on SUN website that may require collection of personally identifiable information will continue to grow in the future.
   

A cookie is a small text file containing a unique identification number that is transferred from a website to the hard drive of your computer. This unique number identifies your web browser - but not you - to SUN hosting computers whenever you visit SUN website. A cookie will not provide personally identifiable information about you, such as your name and address. The use of cookies is now an industry standard, and cookies are currently used on most major websites. Most web browsers are initially set up to accept cookies. If you prefer, you can reset your browser to notify you when you have received a cookie. You can also set your browser to refuse to accept cookies altogether. While SUN does not require you to use cookies, keep in mind that certain features may not function properly if you set your browser to refuse all cookies.

To help serve you better, SUN generally might use cookies to:

Identify return visitors. Cookies will allow us to identify SUN Members who are returning to the site, so you might not have to re-enter a member ID and password the next time you visit.

· Display advertisements. In the future if SUN displays SUN-approved ads on our website. While we use cookies on other parts of our website, the cookies received with banner ads are collected. These cookies allow SUN to manage the delivery of ads and do not collect personally identifiable information.

Data collected through SUN's website is generally collected and maintained solely by SUN More specifically:

A. Personally identifiable information. When you provide personally identifiable information on SUN website to register for membership, buy a promotional product, to take advantage of a promotion, that information is collected and maintained solely by SUN, unless specifically stated otherwise at the point of collection. SUN will inform you at the point of collection if your personal data is being shared with another organization. If you do not want to share your information with that company, you can choose not to use that feature.

If you join SUN Or renew your membership through our website, you provide personally identifiable information on the membership application. SUN Does not sell member mailing lists or e-mail addresses to third parties.

B. Anonymous information. Be aware that SUN's member companies, , and other software related content providers may have links on our site that take you to other websites. For example, when you click on a highlighted link or company displayed on SUN website, you are linked to another site. Please note also that links to other websites are provided throughout SUN website for users' information and convenience. SUN hopes that all third parties involved adhere to our policies regarding the privacy of our users. However, SUN's Online Privacy Policy does not cover third-party data collection practices, and SUN website does not assume any responsibility for any actions of third parties.

SUN Collects information to provide you with the services you request and to improve our website.

If you join SUN Or renew your SUN Membership through our website, we use the personally identifiable information you provide in the membership application to send you SUN publications, information about member benefits and conferences, and other information that SUN believes is relevant and useful to its members.

SUN May use this aggregate, anonymous data to perform statistical analyses of the collective characteristics and behavior of our site visitors; to measure user interests regarding specific areas of the SUN website; and to analyze how and where best to use our resources. Without such data, we would not know which parts of the SUN website are the most popular, and we would not be able to change and update the content and services appropriately.

SUN May be required by law enforcement or judicial authorities to provide information on individual users to the appropriate governmental authorities. In matters involving a danger to personal or public safety, SUN May voluntarily provide information to appropriate governmental authorities.

Question #5
How can SUN Members modify their personal information?

SUN Members have the following options for changing and modifying information previously provided.

SUN provides members the opportunity to opt-out of receiving communications from us. If you no longer wish to receive specific communications or services, you have the following options:

Question #7
What kinds of security procedures are in place to protect against the loss, misuse or alteration of your information?

The SUN website has security measures, such as firewalls, in place to attempt to protect against the loss, misuse and alteration of your user data under our control. SUN has implemented strict rules for board members and contract employees who have access either to the databases that store user information or to the servers that host our services. While we cannot guarantee that loss, misuse or alteration to data will not occur, we take many precautions to prevent such unfortunate occurrences. Any other particularly sensitive information, such as your credit card number, collected for a commerce transaction is encrypted prior to transmission.

You are ultimately responsible for the security of your SUN member ID and password. You may not share your SUN Member ID and password with other companies or colleagues outside of your company so they can access content or features on the SUN website that are restricted to SUN Members only. You should log out of your browser at the end of each computer session to ensure that others cannot access your personal information and correspondence, especially if you are using a computer in a public place like a library or Internet café.

This site may make bulletin boards, discussion lists, and moderated chats available to its members. Any information that is disclosed in these areas becomes public information, and you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information. Although users may post messages that will appear on the message boards anonymously, SUN Does retain a record of who posts all notes.

A. Know the risks. The opportunity to network in an online community (chat room, forum, message board, etc.) is one of the best things about the Internet, but you should always be careful about disclosing personal information such as an actual name, member name, e-mail address, and so on. This information may be collected and used by others within the online community to send unsolicited e-mail messages outside SUN website. Some of the messages you receive may be useful to you but some may not.

B. Educate yourself. Search the Web for as much information as you can about how to protect your privacy. Look for a privacy policy on the websites you visit. A good place to start is TRUSTe - an independent, non-profit organization with a mission to build trust and confidence in the Internet. The Federal Trade Commission has a website with useful information on being a savvy Internet user along with other privacy initiatives.

C. Tell your children: "Never talk to strangers!" While SUN website does not include material directed to children, it's a good rule of thumb to teach children that they should not reveal their names or other personal information to anyone they encounter on the Internet. They should also be instructed not to fill out any forms or register at any website without your knowledge and consent.