Privacy Information
We are committed to the privacy of our visitors. We collect no personal information about
you when you visit our Web site unless you choose to provide that
information to us.
The following is how we handle information about your visit to our Web
site.
Information Collected and Stored Automatically
If you do nothing during your visit but browse
through the Web site, read pages or download information, we will gather
and store certain information about your visit automatically. This
information does not identify you personally. We automatically collect
and store the following information, but not necessarily limited to this
information, concerning your visit.
- The Internet domain (for example, "xcompany.com" if you use a private Internet access
account, or "yourschool.edu" if you connect from a
university's domain).
- Your IP address (an IPaddress is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer
whenever you are surfing the Web) from which you access our Web site.
- The type of browser and operating system used to access our site.
- The date and time you access our site.
- The pages you visit.
- If you linked to our Web site from another Web site, the address of that Web site.
We use this information to help us make our site more useful to
visitors and to learn about the number of visitors to our site and the types
of technology our visitors use.
Information Protection
For site security purposes and to ensure that this service remains
available to all users, this computer system employs software programs
to monitor network traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to upload,
download or change information, or otherwise cause damage. If such
monitoring reveals evidence of possible abuse or criminal activity, such
evidence may be provided to appropriate law enforcement officials.
Unauthorized attempts to upload, download or change information on this
server are strictly prohibited and may be punishable under the Computer
Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 and the National Information Infrastructure
Protection Act or other law.
Information That You Voluntarily Provide
We do not collect personally-identifiable information unless you choose
to provide it to us. If you provide us with personally identifiable
information, for example by sending an e-mail or by filling out a form
and submitting it through our Web site, we use that information only to
respond to your message and to help us provide you with the information
and services that you request. We will not sell or SPAM your email
address.
Submitting voluntary information constitutes your consent to the use of the information for
the stated purpose. When a user clicks the "Submit" button on
any of the Web forms found on our site they are indicating voluntary
consent to use of the information they submit for the stated purpose. We
do not collect or use information for commercial marketing.
Retention of Information
We destroy the information we collect when the purpose for which it was
provided has been fulfilled unless we are required to keep it longer by
statute or official policy. Electronically submitted information is
maintained and destroyed according to the principles of the Federal
Records Act and the regulations and records schedules approved by the
National Archives and Records Administration, and in some cases
information submitted to us may become an agency record and therefore
might be subject to a Freedom of Information Act request.
Links to Other Sites
This site may have links to the Web sites. Once you go to another
site, you are subject to the privacy policy of the new site. It is
always a good idea to read the Privacy Policy of any Web site that you
visit.
Cookies
"Cookies" are small bits of text that are either used for the
duration of a session ("session cookies"), or saved on a
user's hard drive in order to identify that user, or information about
that user, the next time the user logs on to a Web site
("persistent cookies"). One or more of our component sites may
use session cookies to provide streamlined navigation.
