IDC does not provide your information to any third party.

Specifically:

• We do not sell lists or usage information.
• We do not report usage or user information to any third party.
• We do not accept any advertising on our site and therefore have no information reporting requirements to any third party.

IDC employs SSL encryption on all credit card transactions.
The secure server software (SSL) encrypts all information you input before you send it to us.

Corporate Administrators at our client organizations have access to usage statistics for their account base.
If your user account is part of a corporate account, then a Corporate Administrator at your company may access your user and usage information. Corporate Administrators can access user information only for individuals within their corporate profile.

Cookies
idc.com places 3 "cookies" on your machine; one that stores your login name for up to 1 year, and 2 cookies that maintain your presence when you log into the site for up to 8 hours. The cookies tell idc.com only who you are, and that you have logged in to the site successfully. The identity cookie resides only on the computer that you used to login to idc.com and the 2 session cookies expire within 8 hours of your session.

No one external to IDC has access to user information for individual accounts (individuals not part of a corporate account).