This statement discloses the privacy practices for marketspaceU.com, an online product of Marketspace™, a Monitor Group company. We have created this privacy and security statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy and security and to provide the basis for our customer relationships. These guidelines have been developed with the recognition that Internet technologies are rapidly evolving, and that underlying business models are still not established. Accordingly, guidelines are subject to change. Any such changes will be posted on this page.

marketspaceU.com and Marketspace™ are not responsible for the content or the privacy policies of websites to which this site may link.

Registration and verification. marketspaceU.com requires that users complete a registration process, and to insure the security of the site, such registrations will be verified by marketspaceU.com prior to issuing a username and password. In order to complete this verification, marketspaceU.com may have to share portions of your registration information with its publisher, Irwin/McGraw-Hill. All registered users must agree to the marketspaceU.com terms of use.

Cookies. A cookie is a small data file that certain websites write to your hard drive when you visit them. A cookie file can contain information such as a user ID that the site uses to track the pages you've visited and to allow easy access to restricted areas of the website. marketspaceU.com uses cookies to recognize you and your access privileges on marketspaceU.com. For security reasons, we have explicitly disenabled the site's ability to save your password; each registered user of marketspaceU.com must enter a username and password to gain access to the site each time they visit the site. Cookies are also used to track your individual usage patterns on marketspaceU.com.

Contrary to what you may have heard from other sources, cookies cannot get information from your hard drive against your will, cannot destroy files and cannot send you viruses.

IP addresses. marketspaceU.com logs your IP address (the location of your computer on the Internet). We use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server, and to administer our website. We do not use IP address logs to track your specific session or behavior on our site, but they are used to determine aggregated patterns.

E-mail addresses. marketspaceU.com offers a service that allows faculty members to forward information via e-mail to their students by filling in the relevant forms and clicking the submit button at the bottom of the page. The faculty member must provide his or her e-mail address, as well as those of the recipients. This information is used only in the case of transmission errors and to let the recipient know who sent the information. The information is not used for any other purpose.

marketspaceU.com uses any information voluntarily given by our users to enhance their experience, whether to provide interactive or personalized elements on the site or to better prepare future content based on the interests of our users.

E-mail. Using the e-mail address you provide at registration, marketspaceU.com may periodically send promotional e-mail to you about services offered by marketspaceU.com and our partners. marketspaceU.com may contact you regarding account status, changes to the terms of use and to confirm registration.

Statistical analysis. marketspaceU.com may perform statistical analyses of user behavior in order to measure interest in the various areas of our site, both in the aggregate for product-development purposes. We use data about individual user behaviors to tailor our visitors' experiences at our site, showing them content that we think they might be interested in and displaying the content according to their preferences.

Data security. To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy and ensure the appropriate use of information, we have put in place appropriate physical, electronic and managerial procedures to protect the information we collect online.

Partners. marketspaceU.com may share the information it gathers, in aggregate form, with its partners. At your request, marketspaceU.com will provide you with all of the personal information we have gathered about you. This information will be sent only to the e-mail address on file for your subscriber account.

Public message boards. This site makes chat rooms, forums, message boards and/or newsgroups available to its users. You should be aware that any information that is disclosed in these areas becomes public information, and you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information. Moreover, subscribers who post a message in our boards may make their e-mail address available to others through a feature of our message-board software, which could result in unsolicited e-mail from other subscribers or parties.

Upon request, marketspaceU.com will a) remove you and your personal information from our database, thereby canceling your registration; b) correct personal information that you state is erroneous.To request a correction or cancellation, send e-mail to help@marketspaceU.com.

If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site or your dealings with this website, you can contact:

Steve Szaraz
marketspaceU.com
Monitor Group
2 Canal Park
Cambridge MA 02141
steve@marketspaceU.com.