PRIVACY NOTICE

Welcome to the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. We collect no personal information about you when you visit our web site unless otherwise stated or unless you choose to provide this information to us. However, we collect and store certain information automatically:

• Internet Protocol (IP) address of the domain from which you access the Internet (i.e., 123.456.789.012), either your individual address or the proxy provided by your Internet Service Provider (ISP).
• Date and time you access our site.
• Pages you view (recorded by the text and graphics files that compose that page).
• Web address of the site from which you linked directly to our site.
• Browser version and operating system of the computer you are using.

This information is not shared with anyone beyond the web site support staff, except when required by law enforcement investigation, and is used only as a source of anonymous statistical information.

We use the summary statistics to help us make our site more useful to visitors, such as 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.

Sending Comments/Online Forms

You may choose to provide us with personal information, by sending e-mail with questions or comments or by filling out an online form and submitting it to us through our web site. We use this information to

• Respond to your message.
• Gather the requested information, such as to attend an LBNL hosted conference.

We do not create individual profiles with the information you provide. If information is collected, it will be used solely in connection with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory or for such other purposes as are described at the point of collection. We do not give, sell, or transfer any personal information to a third party.

However, your e-mail message, question, or comment may be forwarded to other LBNL employees who may be better able to help you. Except for authorized law enforcement investigations, we do not share our e-mail with any other outside organizations. However, e-mail and on-line forms are not secure against interception and senders cannot expect privacy. If you are concerned about transmitting personal information such as bank account, charge card, or social security numbers, contact the web page owner for an alternative method to provide the necessary information.

Terms of Use

Please read these Terms of Use ("Terms") carefully before accessing the web site. By accessing the LBNL web site you indicate that you have read the following terms and agree to be bound by and comply with them. If you do not so agree, please promptly exit.

SECURITY NOTICE

Information from this server resides on a computer system funded by the U.S. Department of Energy. This computer system is the property of the United States Government and is for authorized use only. The use of this system may be monitored for computer security purposes. Any unauthorized access to this system is prohibited and is subject to criminal and civil penalties under Federal Laws including but not limited to Public Laws 83-703 and 99-474.

Each time you use this system (from here, from home, or on your personal laptop connected to an LBNL system), you consent to such interception, auditing, and related activity by authorizing personnel; further, LBNL may detain, access, and copy files from a non-LBNL computer when there is reason to believe misuse has occurred.

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