Privacy, Security, and E-Mail Policy

You are entering an official United States Government System which may be used only for authorized purposes. Thank you for visiting the Federal Acquisition Council's web site; we are committed to protecting your privacy rights. These rights are ensured through the Privacy Act and other federal statutes. We will not collect personal information about you just because you visit this site.

If you send us e-mail, do not sent information that you would not want a third party to read. Be advised that the confidentiality of Internet transmission is not guaranteed. In reply, we will furnish only general information by e-mail. We will not share the information that you provide to us via email with anyone unless required by law to do so. We will not collect or sell your information for commercial purposes.

The Government may monitor and audit usage of this system and all persons are hereby notified that use of this system constitutes consent to such monitoring and auditing. Unauthorized attempts to upload information and/or change information on these web sites are strictly prohibited and are subject to prosecution under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 and Title 18 U.S.C. Sec.1001 and 1030. In order to improve the usefulness of our web site for our visitors, we automatically collect and maintain statistical information from our site's data logs that concern network traffic flow and volume. This information consists of the name of the domain from which you access the Internet (e.g., "erols.com," "Harvard.edu," or "irs.gov"); the date and time you accessed our site; the item you requested from the server; and the Internet address of the web site from which you linked to our site. We also record the type of request, the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) version, and the status code of the request (success/failure). This information does not identify individual visitors. We do not use "persistent cookies," however our search engine uses "session cookies" that are temporary and only used during the duration of the search. No attempts are made to identify individual users unless illegal behavior is suspected. We also monitor network traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change information or otherwise cause damage to the web service. We focus on web site security so that this service remains available to you and other visitors.

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