Privacy Act Notice
For site management, information is collected for
statistical purposes. The Department of State Foreign Affairs Network
uses software programs
to create summary statistics for such purposes as assessing what information
is of most and least interest or identifying system performance or
problem
areas. The following is the type of information collected about your
visit to our web site: the name of the Internet domain from which
you
access State Department web sites (for example, "aol.com" if
you would be connecting from America Online) and the date and time
you access our site. If you choose to provide us with personal information
in an email message, we use it only to respond to your email.
For site security purposes and to ensure that this service remains
available to all users, the State Department uses software programs
to monitor network traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to upload
or change information or otherwise cause damage. Unauthorized attempts
to upload information or change information on this service are strictly
prohibited and may be punishable under the Computer Fraud and Abuse
Act of 1986. Information also may be used for authorized law enforcement
investigations. Except for the above purposes, no other attempts are
made to identify individual users or their usage habits.
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Search Disclaimer
This search is based upon locating specified words in the electronic
text of documents. However, in many cases, this is dependent upon the conversion of the text in paper documents to electronic text through optical character recognition (OCR). Because of age and condition of some paper documents, the OCR may not recognize certain characters and words correctly. Please keep this in mind when using full text search, as these inaccuracies may decrease your chance of finding all relevant documents for your search criteria.
Private Use of Government Information:
The private sector may download government information that is in the
public domain and provide enhancements or "added value." We
encourage private sector initiatives to further disseminate government
information. However, we caution users that the "official"
version is the version which appears on government web sites. Please
be aware that government information on private sector web sites may
not necessarily be as up to date and that the "value added"
information is not provided by the government.
Computer Fraud and Abuse Act:
Unauthorized attempts to upload information or change information on
these web sites are strictly prohibited and punishable under the Computer
Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986.
Viewing Our Site
In an effort to achieve compliance with the Americans with Disabilities
Act (ADA), we have taken many steps that can only be fully revealed
using certain versions of common browsers.
Our site can be viewed using older Netscape Navigator
versions, but to view the complete functionality of our site we suggest
that users
choose the latest version of Netscape Navigator. For similar reasons,
we suggest that users choose Microsoft's Internet Explorer
to get total utility from our site.
We must stress that the site is visible using other browsers, but in
order to utilize the Cascading Style Sheets, keyboard navigation and
alternative text, all of which are necessary for ADA compliance; users
must view our site using either of the above browsers. Users can download
these browsers by following the links below.
Browsers
Microsoft
Internet Explorer Netscape
Navigator
For viewing PDF Documents get
Adobe Acrobat Reader
Keyboard Navigation
If you are visiting this site with one of the browsers
listed above, then it is possible to navigate the site using only your
keyboard (e.g. without a mouse). These are the keys that you will need
to navigate the site using only your keyboard:
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