Privacy and Security Notice
- The Command and General Staff College Web Site is provided as a
public service by the Command and General Staff College and the
Directorate of Educational Technology.
- Information presented on the CGSC web site is considered public
information and may be distributed or copied. Use of
appropriate byline/photo/image credits is requested.
- For site management, information is collected
for statistical purposes. This government computer
system uses software programs to create summary statistics, which
are used for such purposes as assessing what information is of
most and least interest, determining technical design
specifications, and identifying system performance or problem
areas.
- For site security purposes and to ensure that this service
remains available to all users, this government computer system
employs software programs to monitor network traffic to identify
unauthorized attempts to upload or change information, or
otherwise cause damage.
- Except for authorized law enforcement investigations, no other
attempt are made to identify individual users or their usage
habits. Raw data logs are used for no other purposes and are
scheduled for regular destruction in accordance with National
Archives and Records Administration Guidelines.
- 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 1987 and the
National Information Infrastructure Protection Act.
- If you have any questions or comments about the information
presented here, please forward them to the CGSC Webmaster.
Example: Information Collected From
CGSC Web Site for Statistical Purposes
Below is an example of the information collected based on a
standard request for a World Wide Web document:
xxx.yyy.com--[12/Mar/2001:08:15:01 -0500]"GET/CGSC/index.htm
HTTP/1.0" 200 16704 Mozilla 3.0/www.mysite.com
xxx.yyy.com (or 123.123.23.12) -- This is the host name (or IP
address) associated with the requester (you the visitor). In
this case, (...com) the requester is coming from a commercial
address. Depending on the requester's method of network
connection, the host name (or IP address) may or may not identify a
specific computer. Connections via many Internet Service
Providers assign different IP addresses for each session, so the host
name identifies only the ISP. The host name (or IP address) will
identify a specific computer if that computer has a fixed IP address.
[12/Mar/2001:08:15:01 -0500] -- This is the date and time of the
request
"GET/CGSC/index.htm HTTP/1.0" -- This is the location of
the requested file on the CGSC web site
200 -- This is the status code - 200 is OK - the request was filled
16704 -- This is the size of the file in bytes
Mozilla 3.0 -- This identifies the type of browser software used to
access the page, which indicates what design parameters to use in
constructing the pages
www.mysite.com
-- This indicates the last site the person visited, which indicates
how people find the CGSC web site
Request for other types of documents use similar information.
No other user-identifying information is collected.
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