Privacy Policy and Terms of Use

Stakeholders, Inc.  (Stakeholders) takes your privacy seriously. Please read the following to learn more about our privacy policy.

What This Privacy Policy Covers

• This policy covers how Stakeholders treats personal information that Stakeholders collects and receives, including information related to your past use of Stakeholder, Inc.  products and services. Personal information is information about you that is personally identifiable like your name, address, email address, or phone number, and that is not otherwise publicly available.

Information Collection and Use
General

• Stakeholders collects personal information when you when you use Stakeholder products or services.   For example, when you register for Stakeholder Net™ or the Stakeholder 100, we ask for information such as your name, email address, birth date, gender, ZIP code, occupation, industry, and personal interests.
• Stakeholders automatically receives and records information on our server logs from your browser, including your IP address, cookie information, and the page you request.
• Stakeholders uses information for the following general purposes: to customize the content you see, fulfill your requests for products and services, improve our services, contact you, conduct research, and provide anonymous reporting for internal and external clients.

Information Sharing and Disclosure

• Stakeholders does not rent, sell, or share personal information about you with other people or nonaffiliated companies except to provide products or services you've requested, when we have your permission, or under the following circumstances:
• We respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims.
• We transfer information about you if Stakeholders is acquired by or merged with another company. In this event, Stakeholder notify you before information about you is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.

Cookies

• Stakeholders may set and access Stakeholder cookies on your computer.

Confidentiality and Security

• We limit access to personal information about you to employees who we believe reasonably need to come into contact with that information to provide products or services to you or in order to do their jobs.
• If you have questions or suggestions, please contact us at 202-756-5040

Terms of Use
Your access to and use of this site is subject to the following terms and conditions and all applicable laws. By accessing and using this site, you accept the following terms and conditions, without limitation or qualification.

Unless otherwise stated, the contents of this site including, but not limited to, the text and images contained herein and their arrangement are the property of Stakeholders, Inc. All trademarks used or referred to in this website are the property of their respective owners.
Nothing contained in this site shall be construed as conferring by implication, estoppel, or otherwise, any license or right to any copyright, patent, trademark or other proprietary interest of Stakeholders, Inc. or any third party. This site and the content provided in this site, including, but not limited to, graphic images, audio, video, html code, buttons, and text, may not be copied, reproduced, republished, uploaded, posted, transmitted, or distributed in any way, without the prior written consent of Stakeholders, Inc., except that you may download, display, and print one copy of the materials on any single computer solely for your personal, non-commercial use, provided that you do not modify the material in any way and you keep intact all copyright, trademark, and other proprietary notices.

The information provided on this site is free of charge and for informational purposes only and does not create a business or professional services relationship between you and Stakeholders, Inc. Links on this site, if any,  may lead to services or sites not operated by Stakeholders, Inc. No judgment or warranty is made with respect to such other services or sites and Stakeholders, Inc. takes no responsibility for such other sites or services. A link to another site or service is not an endorsement of that site or service. Any use you make of the information provided on this site, or any site or service linked to by this site, is at your own risk.

This site and its contents are provided "as is" and Stakeholders, Inc. makes no representation or warranty of any kind with respect to this site or any site or service accessible through this site. Stakeholders, Inc. expressly disclaims all express and implied warranties including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, and non-infringement. In no event will Stakeholders, Inc. be liable to any party for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, exemplary, consequential, or other damages (including, but not limited to, lost profits, business interruption, loss of programs or data) without regard to the form of action and whether in contract, tort, negligence, strict liability, or otherwise, arising out of or in connection with this site, any content on or accessed through this site or any site service linked to, or any copying, displaying, or use thereof.

Stakeholders, Inc. maintains this site in the State of Maryland and you agree that these terms of use and any legal action or proceeding relating to this site shall be governed by the laws of the State of Maryland without reference to its choice of law rules. If you attempt to bring any legal proceedings against Stakeholders, Inc. you specifically acknowledge that Stakeholders, Inc. is free to choose the jurisdiction of our preference as to where such action against us may be held. As you have agreed by using this site to choose the laws of the State of Maryland to govern any such proceedings, we will probably choose to defend any such action in Maryland and we can make this decision entirely as it suits us, without regard to where in the world you are located, or from where in the world you visited this site.

You are responsible for complying with the laws of the jurisdiction from which you are accessing this site and you agree that you will not access or use the information on this site in violation of such laws. Unless expressly stated otherwise herein, any information submitted by you through this site shall be deemed non-confidential and non-proprietary. You represent that you have the lawful right to submit such information and agree that you will not submit any information unless you are legally entitled to do so. Because of the open nature of the Internet, we recommend that you not submit information you consider confidential.

Stakeholders, Inc.
Customer Care - Privacy Policy Issues
(P) 202-756-5040

Effective Date: February 1, 2007