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Thank you for visiting the EGov.gov
web site and reviewing our privacy policy. Our privacy policy
is clear: We will collect no personal information about you
when you visit our web site.
We do collect some technical information
when you visit to make your visit seamless. The section
below explains how
we handle and collect technical information when you
visit our web site.
Information Collected and Stored
Automatically
When you browse, read pages or download information on
EGov.gov, we automatically gather and store certain
technical information
about your visit. This information never identifies
who you are. The information we collect and store about
your
visit
is listed below:
- The Internet domain (for
example, “xcompany.com” if
you use a private Internet access account, or “yourschool.edu” if
you connect from a university’s domain)
and IP address (an IP address is a number that
is automatically assigned
to your computer whenever you are surfing the
Web) from which you access our web site;
- The type
of browser (e.g., Netscape, Internet Explorer)
and operating system (Windows, Unix) used to
access
our site;
- The date and time you access
our site;
- The pages you visit; and
- If you
linked to the egov.gov web site from another web site,
the address of the web site.
This information is only
used to help us make the site more useful for you. With this data we learn
about
the number
of visitors to our site and the types of technology
our visitors use. We never track or record information
about
individuals
and their visits.
Site Security
- For site security purposes
and to ensure that this service remains available to
all users, this government computer
system employs commercial 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
attempts 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 1986 and the
National Information Infrastructure Protection Act.
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