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Thank you for visiting the North Carolina State Government
Portal, NC.Gov, and reviewing the Privacy Statement. The statement sets forth
the information that is collected from you during your visit as well as the use
of that information.
The statement addresses the following:
Information Collected and Stored
Automatically
Public Disclosure
Web Site Security
Cookies
Disclaimer
Links to Other Sites
Information Collected and
Stored Automatically
When you visit our Web site to browse, read pages, or download
information, we automatically collect and store only the following information:
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The Internet domain and IP address from which you access our
portal;
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The date and time you access our site;
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The pages you visit; and
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If you linked to NC.Gov from another Web site, the address of
that Web site.
NC.Gov uses this information to help make the site more useful
to visitors – to learn about the number of visitors to the site and the types
of technology visitors use.
Web Site Security
For Web site security purposes and to ensure that this service remains
available to all users, this computer system employs software programs to
monitor network traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change
information, or otherwise cause damage.
Public Disclosure
Government records in North Carolina generally are public in nature. The public
policy of the State of North Carolina as established by the General Assembly is
to "provide that, as a general rule, the public would have liberal access to
public records."
The North Carolina Public Records Law states that public records “shall mean
all documents papers, letters, maps, books, photographs, films, sound
recordings, magnetic or other tapes, electronic data-processing records,
artifacts, or other documentary material, regardless of physical form or
characteristics, made or received pursuant to law or ordinance in connection
with the transaction of public business by any agency of North Carolina or its
subdivisions.” For information to be confidential, a specific provision must be
made in the law.
Email
If you e-mail us and include personal information, we may use that information
in responding to your request. E-mail is not necessarily secure or
confidential. Send only the information that is necessary for us to answer your
question or process your request. The e-mail is subject to the North Carolina
Public Records Law.
Cookies
A persistent cookie is generally defined as a piece of data that is stored on
the user's hard drive. We do not use persistent cookies on our website or in
our web applications.
Temporary or session cookies are used on all NC.Gov web site pages. These
cookies are stored in memory and are only available during an active browser
session. Session cookies are also used by some of the applications deployed on
our web site to temporarily save information entered by a user as long as the
user's browser is open. These cookies do not collect personal information on
users, and they are erased as soon as you close your web browser. No personally
identifiable information about you is maintained as a result of a temporary or
session cookie.
You can configure your web browser to accept or decline cookies, or to alert
you when cookies are in use. You do not have to accept cookies from us, but if
you choose not to, some of the functions on our site may not be available to
you.
Links to Other Sites
Our site provides links to other web sites. The privacy policies described here
do NOT necessarily apply to any external sites. Read the privacy policies of
other sites you visit. Be informed. You are the person best qualified to
protect your own privacy.
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