Privacy Notice
1. This website is provided as a
public service by the
USDA Forest Service.
2. Information presented on this
website is considered public
information and may be distributed
or copied unless otherwise
indicated. Use of appropriate
byline/photo/image credit is
requested.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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 than those stated
in this notice.
6. 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 1987 and the
National Information Infrastructure
Protection Act.
7. If you have any questions or
comments about the information
presented here, please forward them
to us using the Comment Form.
8. To protect your privacy, this
site does not use persistent
"cookies."
Example: Information Collected from
the USDA Forest Service Website for
Statistical Purposes
Below is an example of the
information collected based on a
standard request for a World Wide
Web document:
xxx.yyy.com - -
[28/Jan/1997:00:00:01 -0500] "GET
/news/nr012797.html HTTP/1.0" 200
16704 Mozilla 3.0/www.altavista.digital.com
xxx.yyy.com (or 123.123.23.12)--
this is the host name (or IP
address) associated with the
requester (you as the visitor). In
this case, (.com) the requester is
coming from a commercial address.
Depending on the requester's method
of network connection, the host name
(or IP address) may or may not
identify a specific computer.
Connections via many Internet
Service Providers assign different
IP addresses for each session, so
the host name identifies only the
ISP. The host name (or IP address)
will identify a specific computer if
that computer has a fixed IP
address.
[28/Jan/1997:00:00:01 -0500] --
this is the date and time of the
request
"GET /news/nr012797.html
HTTP/1.0" -- this is the location of
the requested file on the web server
200 -- this is the status code - 200
is OK - the request was filled
16704 -- this is the size of the
requested file in bytes
Mozilla 3.0 -- this identifies
the type of browser software used to
access the page, which indicates
what design parameters to use in
constructing the pages
www.altavista.digital.com - this
indicates the last site the person
visited, which indicates how people
find our site
Requests for other types of
documents use similar information.
No personally-identifying
information is collected. |