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PRIVACY
The PACER Service Center values your privacy. If you visit
our site to read or download information, we collect and store
only the following information:
The name of the domain from which you access the Internet.
The date and time you access our site.
PACER staff will not give, sell or transfer any personal
information to third parties, except in the following cases:
To secure payment of delinquent fees, identifying
information may be transmitted to a collection agency.
If compelled by law.
If you direct us to do so.
In other legally limited circumstances
(for example, to protect your account from fraud).
For billing purposes, when you access court documents, we
keep track of basic information about each transaction, such
as the account, court, document type, search criteria,
case number, time, date and number of pages. We also use
session cookies to identify users. We will not provide this
information to anyone, except for the situations set out above.
You also may decide to send us personal identifying
information--your mailing address, for example--in a request
for information. Information collected in this manner is used
solely for responding to requests for information. You should
NEVER send your PACER password to us in an electronic mail
message.
When making payment by check, your check will be converted from
a paper transaction to an electronic funds transfer in most cases.
The conversion will be made by our authorized financial
institution, in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Treasury,
Financial Management Service (FMS). Check conversion information
will be maintained by FMS in its Master Verification Database,
which contains information on negative check information or
failed Automated Clearing House (ACH) debit entry transactions
for certain checks that have been presented electronically to
Federal agencies. Federal agencies will have access to check
verification databases to determine the validity and/or check
writing history of the payor. FMS will not disclose information
from the Master Verification for purposes of check verification.
Information may be used for law enforcement purposes and for
other routine uses, such as systems development
(See 68 Fed Reg. 5691 (2003) for a complete list of possible
uses). Making payment by check is voluntary but a decision not
to do so will require you to make payment by some other method.
For site management, information is collected for statistical
purposes, such as assessing the number of visitors to the
different sections of our site, identifying what information
is of most and least interest, determining technical design
specifications, and identifying system performance or problem
areas. This information will be kept confidential.
SECURITY
To identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change
information, or otherwise cause damage, this Official
United States Government System employs software programs
to monitor network traffic . Unauthorized attempts to upload
or change information stored on this system may result in
criminal prosecution.
To avoid unauthorized use of the PACER system, the PACER
Service Center recommends that you do not leave your terminal
unattended after logging into the PACER system. If you must
leave your terminal unattended, close your open browsers.
The PACER Service Center also recommends not bookmarking
pages past the login screen of all Web PACER applications,
and using a password protected screen saver.
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