Privacy policy and security notice
In general, the
NOAA privacy policy
also applies to the CDC web site. Information provided below
overrides the NOAA policy
where applicable.
- Disclaimer
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These World Wide Web pages are provided as a public
service by the
NOAA-
CIRES
Climate Diagnostics Center.
Please see the full disclaimer.
- Secondary Use of Site Contents
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In general, information presented on pages served
from www.cdc.noaa.gov is
considered public information and may be distributed or
copied.
Figures generated via our Web site are in the public domain, and may
be downloaded freely. We appreciate acknowledgement of the
NOAA-CIRES Climate Diagnostics Center in your use of any of our Web
products. This may be done by including text such as:
Image provided by the NOAA-CIRES Climate
Diagnostics Center, Boulder, Colorado, USA, from their Web site at
http://www.cdc.noaa.gov/.
- Collection of User Data
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Session Cookies: Access to some of our climate
data is restricted, and the user must accept (or decline) the
terms of use before using the data. The user response is recorded
in a session cookie, which expires upon exiting the current
browser session. Only the user response and a dataset identifier
are included in the cookie. No other personal information is
recorded as part of this process.
Statistical information:
Statistical information is collected
for site management 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 to the user
population, determining
technical design specifications, and identifying system
performance or problem areas.
These summary statistics contain the
site and domain identifiers of sites
accessing our documents. No other individual user information is
displayed to the public in the statistical output.
NCEP Reanalysis Tape Orders: Users of our
NCEP Reanalysis tape
order interface are asked to provide contact information for
delivery of the requested products. We archive this information
so that we may contact users in the event that data needs to
be replaced or updated. The
wait queue display
lists users' host institutions.
We do not release any other portions of users' contact information
to the public or to other sites.
E-mail: We archive questions and comments sent to us
via e-mail indefinitely. These records are used to help us identify
the information of most and least interest to the user
population, possible improvements to our
technical design specifications, and system performance or problem areas.
Security: 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.
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 1986 and the National Information
Infrastructure Protection Act.
Except for authorized law enforcement
investigations, no other attempts besides those described
here are made to identify individual users or their usage habits.
If you have any questions or comments about the
information presented here, please forward them to
cdc.webmaster@noaa.gov.
NOAA-CIRES
Climate Diagnostics Center
Document maintained by
cdc.webmaster@noaa.gov
Updated: Dec 16, 2003 19:31:43 MST
http://www.cdc.noaa.gov/policy/privacy.html