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Granite Bridge Advisors, Incorporated reserves all copyrights to the content of this site. Unless otherwise stated, no part of this site may be reproduced in any form without the written consent of Granite Bridge Advisors, Incorporated. Copyright of publications posted on this site remain with the author and/or publisher of the individual publication.

The registration of the phrase "Senior IT Professionals—The Difference that Counts" as a trademark of Granite Bridge Advisors, Incorporated is pending.

Types of Information Collected

When you register to use our Web site, we ask for and store the information supplied in the registration process including your name, address, email address and other identifying contact data. In addition to this initial registration, we may ask you to fill out surveys and questionnaires in order to access certain portions of the Web site, to obtain advance releases and updates of our products, or to participate in promotions or contests. Finally, we may keep records of your interactions with our customer service department and records of any transactions made on the Web site.

Beyond this personally identifiable information, Granite Bridge Advisors, Incorporated keeps track of your use of our Web site. So, for example, each time you visit our Web site, we record the IP address you are using to access the Web site as well as the dates and times of your visit and other non-personally identifiable information about the interaction of your computer with our Web site. In addition, we record the pages within our Web site that you visit and the amount of time you spend on those pages.

Use and Disclosure of Information

We use the personally identifiable information you provide in order to gain a better sense of who is using our Web site and our products, and to improve and some day personalize those offerings. We may also use the contact information you provide in order to alert you to new features on the Web site, new products, and/or upcoming events. The information we gather on your use of our Web site lets us track overall Web site traffic patterns (such as how many first-time guests visited a specific Web page on a particular day) and helps us improve our Web site and services. It is also used for administrative purposes including, for example, to enforce our terms of use agreement, and to verify transactions.

Except when Granite Bridge Advisors, Incorporated reasonably believes disclosure is required by law or is necessary to protect its rights or the safety of others, it will not disclose any of the personally identifiable information you provide without your explicit consent. We may combine your personally identifying information, and information about your preferences and activities, with those of all or a particular group of our users to prepare collective profiles of our users and their activities. For example, we might track the number of our users who view certain pages or use certain features or compile the total dollar amount of sales conducted through our Web site in a particular geographic region. We might also disclose general aggregated demographic information to a potential advertiser - for example, half of our users are males between 25 and 35 years of age. These types of disclosures allow us to build partnerships, attract new business, investment, and advertisers. Such disclosures, however, will not reveal the identities of an individual user, nor any other personally identifiable information about that user.

Finally, Granite Bridge Advisors, Incorporated reserves the right to transfer any information it has collected through its Web site in connection with the sale of all or substantially all of its assets, or in connection with a corporate acquisition or merger.

A Few Words on Cookies

Cookies are used by some Web sites to save information on your individual preferences and Web site usage in order to personalize Web pages and content for greater convenience. Currently, Granite Bridge Advisors, Incorporated uses cookies in the password-protected portion of the Web site to verify the session state of a logged-in user.

Advertisers on Web sites also send cookies to better target advertising. Granite Bridge Advisors, Incorporated currently does not have such advertisers on its Web site. If, in the future, we do support this type of advertising, we will revise this privacy policy to reflect that change and keep you up-to-date on the use of cookies.

Most Web browsers (such as later versions of Netscape® browser software and Microsoft® Internet Explorer) can be set to refuse cookies from Web sites. You're free to choose this option when visiting our Web site, though it may prevent you from taking advantage of certain Web site features if and when we provide content personalization. Declining cookies won't have any effect on your use of our Web site in its current form. In any case, please do what makes you feel most comfortable.

Areas powered by third parties

Granite Bridge Advisors, Incorporated may offer user services or features that are delivered by third parties (for example, a credit card transaction feature provided by an on-line credit verification service), in which personal information you submit is covered by third-party privacy guidelines different from ours. In such cases, we'll post clear notices to alert you and identify the third party who is handling the transaction. If you're not comfortable with their privacy guidelines or for any other reason, you'll always have the choice not to use those features or services.

Opting Out of Emails

You may request that Granite Bridge Advisors, Incorporated remove you from the mailing list it uses to send out promotional and informational messages about our products and events by sending an email message to webmaster@granitebridgeadvisors.com. Please note, however, that even if you request removal from this mailing list, Granite Bridge Advisors, Incorporated reserves the right to send you important messages about your account or changes to our Web site.

Amendments to this Policy

The Granite Bridge Advisors, Incorporated Privacy Policy applies to the use of our Web site only. We will also update this Web site policy from time to time, so it's a good idea to check back here periodically. In the end, it's every Web site user's responsibility to stay informed on the privacy policies in effect at any Web site visited, and we'll do our part by posting the updated policies here and noting the date of the last revision. That way, you'll always be able to know if the policy has been altered since your last visit. If at any time we intend to modify our policy concerning disclosure of personally identifiable information, we will alert via electronic mail at least thirty (30) days before any modifications take effect, and give you the opportunity to modify or delete any personally identifiable information.