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Security Notice

This web site is served by a computer system on a U.S. Government owned network. The Department of Energy and Fermilab computer security personnel monitor this web site for security purposes to ensure it remains available to all users and to protect information in the system. By accessing this web site, you are expressly consenting to these monitoring activities.

Unauthorized attempts to defeat or circumvent security features, to use the system for other than intended purposes, to deny service to authorized users, to access, obtain, alter, damage, or destroy information, or otherwise to interfere with the system or its operation are prohibited. Evidence of such acts may be disclosed to law enforcement authorities and result in criminal prosecution under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 (Pub. L. 99-474) and the National Information Infrastructure Protection Act of 1996 (Pub. L. 104-294), (18 U.S.C. 1030), or other applicable criminal laws.

The public is authorized to read all pages that are not protected by password or other access controls, whether or not those pages were intended for the general public's interests.

Fermilab policy and rules for computing, including appropriate use, may be found at http://www.fnal.gov/cd/main/cpolicy.html

Privacy Notice

We collect no information about you when you visit this site except whatever you choose to send, for example through web-based forms or email, and some portion of whatever your web browser automatically sends to web sites you visit.

The information we do automatically collect and store includes the following:

• the Internet Protocol (IP) address from which you access the Internet (e.g., 192.255.238.66), whether your own or provided as a proxy by your Internet Service Provider (ISP),
• the date and time you access our site,
• the pages you visit (recorded by the text and other files that compose that page),
• the URL of the web page (if any) from which you linked directly to our site,
• the total number of packets and bytes you exchange with our site, categorized by protocol header information.

If your web browser includes additional unsolicited information with its requests, some of that may be logged by our servers, even if we have no use for it.

We use summary statistics of the above information to help us make our site more useful to visitors, such as by assessing what information is of most and least interest to visitors, and for other purposes such as determining the site's technical design specifications and identifying system performance or problem areas.

This information is not shared with anyone for any commercial purpose whatsoever. It is used as a source of anonymous statistical information and to diagnose network problems and intrusion attempts.

Email you send us may be forwarded as needed in order to make the best possible response. Also, you should be aware that email to some destination addresses may be archived, possibly in a way visible to the public. Unless you have reliable information to the contrary, you should never assume that email you send is confidential or ephemeral.

We endeavour to avoid the use of cookies on pages intended for the general public. Cookies may be present either inadvertently, as a result of incorrect or default installation settings, or intentionally on pages intended only for internal technical and administrative use. If you access such pages and provide information it may be collected automatically. However, it is our policy that information from the general public collected in this way will not be examined or used for any purpose.

Notwithstanding everything in this Privacy Notice, any information we can collect may be used for security purposes as explained in our Security Notice.

Fermilab Disclaimers, Copyright Status and Site Use Notice

Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) is operated by Universities Research Association, Inc. for the U.S. Department of Energy under contract DE-AC02-76CH03000. As such the following rules apply:

DISCLAIMER OF LIABILITY: Documents available from this server were prepared as accounts of work sponsored by an agency of the U.S. Government. Neither the U.S. Government nor any agency thereof, nor Universities Research Association, Inc., nor any of their employees or officers, makes any warranty, express or implied, or assumes any legal liability or responsibility for the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any information, apparatus, product or process disclosed, or represents that its use would not infringe privately owned rights.

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SITE USE NOTICE: This site is for Fermilab business and services only. Individuals using this site are subject to having all activities monitored. Anyone using this site expressly consents to such monitoring. Unauthorized access to nonpublic portions of this site and/or abuse of this site is not permitted and is subject to applicable penalties under Federal and State law.