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. Here 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 information
like the following concerning your visit.
Your IP address (an IP address 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; and
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—to learn about the number of
visitors to our site and the types of technology our visitors
use.
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
Links to Other Sites
This site may have links to the Web sites of other federal
agencies. There may be links to private organizations,
with their permission. 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").
This Web site does not use persistent cookies or any other
persistent tracking technology. One or more of our component
sites may use session cookies to provide streamlined navigation.
These session cookies are deleted from the component's
server after your session ends and information from them
is not collected or saved.
Ad Servers
To try and bring you offers that are of interest to you,
we have relationships with other companies that we allow
to place ads on our Web pages. As a result of your visit
to our site, ad server companies may collect information
such as your domain type, your IP address, and click stream
information.