Use of this site implies consent to this notice (updated 2003-11-09).
How we maintain your privacy.
Information we collect and retain on visitors to this site.
How this information is used.
How this information is protected.
What you can do.
Links to other sites.
Changes to this notice.
How we maintain your privacy.
- We do not keep information on or retrieve information from your computer using cookies or through any other means including clear gifs (aka web beacons or web bugs).
- We do not obtain any personally identifying information on your visit to the site unless volunteered via email.
- We do not disclose any personally identifying information volunteered to us to any third-party unless you authorize us to do so, or unless we are legally obliged to do so.
Information we collect and retain on visitors to this site.
- The internet address of the web site or computer from which the site was accessed. This address does not directly identify you.
- The date and time the site was accessed.
- Which links were accessed.
- Which browser or client was used to access the site.
- The quantity of information, measured in bytes, transferred from our site to you.
- Any emails sent to the site together with attachments.
How this information is used.
- Generate statistics on the number of visitors accessing the site.
- Determine which information is of interest.
- Determine which browsers or other clients are used to access the site in order to ensure the site is accessible.
- Determine bandwidth utilization for planning purposes.
- Respond to email received.
- Maintain an email relationship with you in the context of this site and from which you may 'opt out' at any time by sending us an email for this purpose.
- Monitoring activity to ensure security as well as detect and prevent abuse.
- We reserve the right to forward any information which is specifically related to a site intrusion or abuse event to the relevant intrusion monitoring organization, authority or authorities.
- We reserve the right to publish, use as evidence in court, or forward to a law enforcement authority any email containing but not limited to real, perceived, or veiled threats, intimidation and harassment, together with available personally identifying information for such email.
- We reserve the right to provide any available information in response to a search warrant, subpoena, or court order, when received from a legal authority.
How this information is protected.
Security measures are in place to protect against the loss, misuse, and alteration of personally identifiable information you have volunteered to us.
- Access to the site is controlled by a firewall, with traffic filtered for viruses, trojans, and worms.
- We restrict non-public access to the site using 128-bit encryption and strong passwords which are changed often.
- We monitor, detect, verify, and report site intrusion and abuse events to law enforcement authorities.
- We automatically filter and remove un-solicited email, or SPAM.
- We filter email for viruses, trojans, and worms.
- Federal, state and other statutes protect this site. Unauthorized use of or tampering with this site may violate legal statutes and result in civil or criminal penalties.
What you can do.
If you have provided this site with personally identifying information about your self or your organization, you may exercise your rights for such provided information by sending us an email in order to:
- Make corrections to the information.
- Have the information removed from the site.
- Have the information removed from our records.
- Opt-out of receiving email from us.
- Opt-in to receiving email from us.
Links to other sites.
This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by this site. This site is not responsible for the privacy practices of web sites for which links are provided for your convenience.
Changes to this notice.
We reserve the right to alter this notice at any time. If our policy on the collection and use of your personally identifiable information is changed in a manner different from that stated at the time of collection we may notify you via email if you have not already 'opted out'. You may choose to subsequently 'opt out' in the manner prescribed in the email.