This privacy statement discloses the privacy practices for TM Forum's website (tmforum.org)

TM Forum is a non-profit organization dedicated to overall excellence in communications management and OSS integration.  This privacy statement is designed to inform you of:

• What personally identifiable information of yours or third party personal identification is collected from you through the website
• The organization collecting the information
• How the information is used
• With whom the information may be shared
• What choices are available to you regarding collection, use and distribution of the information
• The kind of security procedures that are in place to protect the loss, misuse or alteration of information under the TM Forum's control
• How you can correct any inaccuracies in the information.
• If you feel that we are not abiding by this posted privacy policy, you should e-mail websupport@tmforum.org.

Information Collection and Use
TM Forum is the sole owner of the information collected on this site. We will not sell, share, or rent this information to others in ways different from what is disclosed in this statement. TeleManagement Forum collects information from our users at several different points on our website.

Registration
In order to use this website, a user must first complete the registration form. During registration a user is required to give basic contact and some demographic information (such as name, email address, country, industry sector, area of responsibility and professional affiliation). This information may be used to contact the user about services on our site, as we further refine and develop the website. It is optional for the user to provide some demographic information, and unique identifiers, but encouraged so we can provide a more personalized experience on our site.

Log Files
We use IP addresses to analyze trends, administer the site, track user's movement, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use.

Sharing
We will share aggregated demographic information with our partners and advertisers. This is not linked to any personal information that can identify any individual person.

We sometimes partner with another party to provide specific services. When the user signs up for these services, we will share names, or other contact information that is necessary for the third party to provide these services. We do not allow these parties to use personally identifiable information except for the purpose of providing these services.

Links
This website contains links to other sites. Please be aware that TM Forum, is not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every website that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by TM Forum via our web services.

Security
This website takes appropriate precautions to protect our users' information.

If you have any questions about the security at our website, you can send an email to websupport@tmforum.org

Communications with Users
We send all new users a welcoming email to verify password and username. We also send the user site and service announcement updates.  A user cannot opt out of receiving these communications, which contain important information about the service.  Users will also occasionally receive information on products, services, special deals, and a newsletter. Out of respect for the privacy of our users we present the option to not receive these types of communications. This option is available at the time of registration. Please see our choice and opt-out below.

Correction/Updating Personal Information
If a user's personally identifiable information changes (such as your email address), or if a user no longer desires our service, you may update your details by first logging in and then accessing the ' My Profile' area of the website. If you wish to cancel your registration to our web services you should e-mail websupport@tmforum.org

Choice/Opt-out
Our users are given the opportunity to 'opt-out' of having their information used for purposes not directly related to our site at the point where we ask for the information. For example, our registration form has an 'opt-out' mechanism so users who subscribe to our services, but don't want any marketing material, can keep their email address off of our lists.

Users of our site are always notified when their information is being collected by any outside parties. We do this so our users can make an informed choice as to whether they should proceed with services that require an outside party, or not.

Notification of Changes
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on our Homepage so our users are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under circumstances, if any, we disclose it. If at any point we decide to use personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time it was collected, we will notify users by way of an email to the email address that the user provided. Users will have a choice as to whether or not we use their information in this different manner. We will use information in accordance with the privacy policy under which the information was collected.