Privacy Policy

Simpler Media Group (the publisher of the CMSWire, Reworked and VKTR websites) also referred to as “SMG” provides this Privacy Policy (“the Policy”) to inform users of our policies and procedures regarding the collection, use and disclosure of personally identifiable information received from users of our websites, located at www.simplermedia.com, www.reworked.co, www.cmswire.com and www.vktr.com (“Sites”) or collected through our other services, including via email subscriptions and survey tools (“Services”).

This Privacy Policy may be updated from time to time for any reason; each version will apply to information collected while it was in place. We will notify you of any material changes to our Privacy Policy by posting the new Privacy Policy on this website. You are advised to consult this Privacy Policy regularly for any changes.

By using our Sites and Services you are consenting to our processing of your information as set forth in this Privacy Policy now and as amended by us.

Respecting Your Privacy

We respect your privacy and dislike spam as much or more than you do. All of our email communications strive for 100% compliance with the 2003 CAN-SPAM Act. We will never sell, rent, lease or give away your information (name, address, email, etc.) to any third party unless you explicitly consent to this during the process of providing this information. The exception to this practice is detailed below in the section entitled “Third Party Sponsors”.

If you sign-up for our email alerts service, then we will send you emails relating to the mailing list(s) or service(s) you joined, as well as marketing offers from our partners from time to time.

Financial information, such as credit card numbers and expiration dates, is used only to charge you for the service you are purchasing. This will never be given to any third party (other than our credit card authorization processor) and we do not keep or store this information in any form.

Protecting Your Information

In order to prevent unauthorized access, we use strict security procedures in the storage and disclosure of information which you have given to us. We take all reasonable precautions to ensure the security of personal data stored on our system.

Sharing of Information

Your personal information is being provided only to SMG (the publisher of this website) unless we specifically state otherwise (e.g., by indicating that a piece of content or an event is sponsored by a third party).

We will not disclose your personally identifiable information to any person or company except where you have given us permission to do so or if the law requires it, or where in good faith we believe such action is necessary to comply with a legal process. The exception to this practice is in the case of third party sponsors of content or events (see below).

We do not share or “rent” our newsletter subscriber list.

Third Party Sponsors

If you have elected to register for one of our sponsored webinars or events, or to access sponsored research or content from SMG, we may share your Information (including Personally Identifying Information) with business partner(s) and/or sponsor(s) of the webinar, event, research and/or content.

By registering for this content or these events you agree that these sponsor(s) and/or business partner(s) may use your Personally Identifying Information to contact you to provide additional information about their products or services.

Use of Cookies

Cookies are pieces of information that an interactive service (e.g., website, digital TV, etc.) transfers to your hardware (e.g., computer, mobile phone, set-top box, etc.) for record keeping purposes.

We do use cookies in our websites. In order to use the full functionality of the CMSWire.com websites, you should enable cookies for “cmswire.com”, “reworked.co”, “dxsummit.com”, “dwexperience.com” and “simplermedia.com”.

We use cookies for general web analytics purposes and also to optimize your experience when visiting this website. For example, if you have already taken a survey, we do not want to prompt you a second time to take the survey. If you are already signed up for our newsletter, we do not want to bother about signing up again.

Our goal is to use to cookies to improve the quality of your visits to our websites. The information we store in our cookies is not viewable by third parties. We do not store Personally Identifying Information in our cookies.

Non-personally Identifiable Information

The SMG Sites also collect and use information in aggregate form to track the number of visitors to each page of the Sites, the visitor’s IP address and other technical information. This technical information does not by itself identify a specific individual. We use this data to understand how the SMG Sites are being used, what content is popular, what browser sizes are most common, etc.

Third-party Web Beacons

We use third-party web beacons from Google, LinkedIn, Adobe/Marketo and other similar software, to help analyze where visitors go and what they do while visiting our Sites. These service providers may also use anonymous information about your visits to our Sites and other websites in order to improve its products and services and provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you.

How We Respond to “Do Not Track” Signals

Internet browsers can be configured to send “Do Not Track” signals to the online services that you visit. California Business & Professions Code Section 22575(b) (as amended effective January 1, 2014) provides that California residents are entitled to know how we respond to “Do Not Track” browser settings.

There currently is no consensus among industry participants as to what “Do Not Track” means in this context. Therefore, like many websites and online services, the Services do not alter their practices when they receive a “Do Not Track” signal from a visitor’s browser. You can learn more about “Do Not Track” here.

Communication Preferences & Email Subscriptions

You can update your SMG communication preferences here. If you encounter any issues with communication preference changes, you may email [email protected] at any time and SMG will respond to your request as soon as is reasonably practical.

You may opt out of receiving future email mailings from SMG at any time. We always include a link in the footer of our emails for this purpose.

Retaining, Modifying and Deleting Your Personal Data

You may request access to the information you have provided to us or deletion of your personal information at any time by emailing [email protected].

We will comply with your request as soon as reasonably practicable — in most cases in less than 5 business days, but in all cases no more than 30 calendar days.

Please note that we will maintain personal information in our database whenever we are required to do so by law, for necessary operational reasons, or to maintain uniform business practices.

Please also note that we need to retain certain information for record keeping purposes, to complete any transactions that you began prior to requesting such change or deletion (for example, when registering for a webinar that has not yet been delivered or purchasing a ticket to an event that has not yet taken place, etc.). We will retain your personal information for the period necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this policy unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law.

Children

Our Sites and Services are targeted at a professional audience interested in information technology topics. We do not aim to attract children. Accordingly, we do not intend to collect Personal Information from anyone we know to be under 13 years of age. If we are made aware that information is or has been submitted by or collected from a child aged 12 or younger, we will delete this information.

Public Information

If you post any personally identifiable information in a Simpler Media Group website — for example, in a comment or a job posting — then this information may be displayed publicly.

Contacting Us & Privacy Policy Coordinator

If you have any concerns or questions about any aspect of this policy, please feel free to contact our Privacy Policy Coordinator as follows:

Privacy Policy Coordinator
[email protected]
Simpler Media Group, Inc.
600 California St., 11th FL
San Francisco, CA 94108
United States

Make sure to include enough information for us to help you, including for example your name, contact information, and the specific website, mobile site, application, and/or other service you’re contacting us about.

Note: Only inquiries about this policy or your personal information should be sent to the Privacy Policy Coordinator. No other communications will be accepted or responded to.

For communications on other matters, please contact us through the means described on the Site or Service, if available (for example, in the “Contact Us” section) or via the information contained in SMG’s contact information page.

Policy Changes

This Privacy Policy came into effect in 2009 and was last updated on April 28, 2020. Any updates to this policy will be published on this page.