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is how we will handle information we learn about you from your
visit to our website. The information we receive depends upon
what you do when visiting our site.
If you visit our
site to read or download information, such as consumer brochures
or press releases:
- We collect and store only
the following information about you: the name of the domain
from which you access the Internet (for example, aol.com,
if you are connecting from an America Online account, or
princeton.edu if you are connecting from Princeton University's
domain); the date and time you access our site; and the
Internet address of the website from which you linked directly
to our site. We do not store any personal identifiers.
This information is not stored in any particular fashion,
but is part of a systems log file.
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- 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. We use the information we collect to measure the
number of visitors to the different sections of our site,
and to help us make our site more useful to visitors. This
information is only used internally, does not contain personal
identifiers, and will only be used for internal management
purposes.
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If you identify yourself
by sending an E-mail or filling out a questionnaire or guestbook:
- You also may decide to send
us personally-identifying information, for example, in an
electronic mail message containing a complaint. We use personally-identifying
information from consumers in various ways to further our
customer's protection and to provide better service.
This may be to correct broken links that you have identified
or provide additional information that you have requested.
Visit Talk
to Us to learn what can happen to the information
you provide us when you send us e-mail or fill out a questionnaire
or guestbook.. Any information that we collect via
a questionnaire or a guestbook may be subject to disclosure,
but will be handled in accordance with the requirements
of the Privacy
Act and the Freedom
of Information Act to ensure the greatest protection
of personal privacy in the face of any required disclosure.
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- We want to be
very clear: We will not obtain personally-identifying information
about you when you visit our site, unless you choose to
provide such information to us. Except as might be required
by law, we do not share any information we receive with
outside parties.
If you have any questions
or comments about the information presented here, please forward
them to us:
U.S. Department of the Interior
FOIA/Privacy Staff
OS/PIR, MS-5312
1849 C Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20240
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