Privacy Policy

Effective Date: 22/08 /2005

Collection and Use of Non-Personal Information

The DoubleClick.com website uses cookies.

A "cookie" is a small text file that contains a string of alphanumeric characters. There are two types of cookies that may be used at the DoubleClick.com website: a persistent cookie and a session cookie. A persistent cookie gets entered by your Web browser into the cookie folder on your computer. A persistent cookie remains after you close your browser. Persistent cookies may be used by your browser on subse-quent visits to the site. A session cookie is temporary and disappears after you close your browser. The DoubleClick.com website may also use Web beacons (also called "clear GIF’s" or "pixel tags"). Web bea-cons are small strings of code that are placed in a Web page.

If you have arrived at this website by clicking on a banner ad for one of our products or services, as ses-sion cookie may be used. This cookie will contain either an identification number for the ad that you clicked on, or will contain an identification number for the site that you were visiting when you clicked on the banner ad. If you choose to request further information from us about or products and services, the personal information that you provide in that request will be linked to the information in the session cookie so that DoubleClick’s Marketing Department can measure the effectiveness of our advertising. This "link-ing" will not be used to target future advertisements to you or to send you emails about future goods and services. You will receive emails about our products only if you tell us on the product request page that you want us to send them to you. Because this is a session cookie, it will disappear once you have closed your browser. If you return to our site via another one of our ads, you will appear as a new visitor unless and until you provide further personal information.

The DoubleClick.com website may use persistent cookies, Web beacons and information collected in our log files (such as Internet Protocol Address, referring URL’s. etc) about your activity at this site to better understand how the website is used, resolve technical problems, and enhance your experience at this site. Information about website usage is not combined with information from any other DoubleClick cookie. The information from the persistent website analysis cookie is also not combined with information collected in our log files. If you give us your email address at this site, this website analysis cookie may be linked with your email address to send you emails about DoubleClick goods and services. To opt out of the persistent website analysis cookie that may be used on the DoubleClick.com site, please click here.

In addition, DoubleClick may serve ads on this website. In doing so, our ad server will place or read a unique ad-serving cookie on your computer and will use non-personal information about your browser and your activity at this site to serve ads on this and other sites. The ad-serving cookie is a persistent cookie and the information linked to it is not combined with that of the persistent website analysis cookie. Please click here. for more information about DoubleClick ad serving or to opt-out of the DoubleClick ad serving cookie.

Collection and Use of Personal Information

You may be asked to provide personal information in certain fields on this website. The personal information collected on this site is used for the purpose for which it is requested:

1. Contact information for potential clients or persons seeking business information is collected in order for us to contact that person to provide information about our services. This information may be stored on our servers in the United States. Such information is usually deleted as space re-quires or in the normal course of business, but can be amended or deleted upon request. To up-date your information, please contact your account manager or sales representative.

2. Contact information, such as your name, address, telephone number, or email address, submit-ted by existing customers with questions, concerns, complaints, or technical support questions, is used only to respond to those inquiries. This contact information may be stored on our servers in the United States. Such information is usually deleted as space requires or in the normal course of business. To update your information, please contact your account manager.

3. When you sign up for an email newsletter or alerts about our products and services, DoubleClick will use that address to deliver the email newsletter requested. To review or delete your information or to opt-out of any newsletter, please go to http://www.emea.com/uk/subscriptions and enter the email address at which the newsletter is received.

Click here to visit the US website of DoubleClick, a global company headquartered in the United States. The privacy policy explains DoubleClick’s commitment to your privacy, provides information on the ways in which our clients may choose to use our products and services in their marketing campaigns, and gives you a means to opt out of DoubleClick cookies. The policy also governs collection and use of your infor-mation as you visit the web site itself.