This
is how we will handle information we learn about you from your visit to our
website. The information we receive depends on what you do when visiting
our site.
We will not obtain personally-identifying information about you when you visit our site, unless you choose to provide such information to us. Except as might be required by law, we do not share any information we receive with outside parties. If you have any questions or comments about the information presented here, please forward them to us.
If you visit our site to read or download information, such as
maps, fact sheets or press releases, we
collect and store only the following: the name of the
domain from which you access the Internet (for example, aol.com, if you are
connecting from an America Online account, or princeton.edu if you are connecting
from Princeton University's domain); the date and time you access our site;
and the Internet address of the website from which you linked directly to
our site. We do not store any personal identifiers. This information is not
stored in any particular fashion, but is part of a systems log file.
Some information is collected for statistical purposes. This
government computer system uses software programs to create summary statistics,
which are used for such purposes as assessing what information is of most
and least interest, determining technical design specifications, and identifying
system performance or problem areas. We use the information we collect to
measure the number of visitors to the different sections of our site, and
to help us make our site more useful to visitors. This information is only
used internally, does not contain personal identifiers, and will only be
used for internal management purposes. If you identify yourself by sending
an E-mail:
You
also may decide to send us personally-identifying information, for example,
in an electronic mail message containing a comment or question. We use personally-identifying
information from site visitors in various ways to further our customer's
protection and to provide better service. This may be to correct broken links
that you have identified or provide additional information that you have
requested.
Last Modified May 20, 2002.
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