OPUS Privacy Policy |
We are committed to the privacy of our visitors. We collect no
personal information about you when you visit our Web site unless you choose to
provide that information to us.
Information Collected and Stored Automatically: If you do nothing
during your visit but browse through the Web site, read pages or download
information, we will gather and store certain information about your visit
automatically. This information does not identify you personally. We
automatically collect and store information like the following concerning your
visit.
We use this information to help us make our site more useful to
visitors—to learn about the number of visitors to our site and the types of
technology our visitors use.
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. If such monitoring reveals
evidence of possible abuse or criminal activity, such evidence may be provided
to appropriate law enforcement officials. Unauthorized attempts to upload or
change information on this server are strictly prohibited and may be punishable
under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 and the National Information
Infrastructure Protection Act or other law.
We do not collect personally-identifiable information unless you
choose to provide it to us. If you provide us with personally identifiable
information, for example by sending an e-mail or by filling out a form and
submitting it through our Web site, we use that information only to respond to
your message and to help us provide you with the information and services that
you request.
Submitting voluntary information constitutes your consent to the
use of the information for the stated purpose. When a user clicks the
"Submit" button on any of the Web forms found on our site they are
indicating voluntary consent to use of the information they submit for the
stated purpose. We do not collect or use information for commercial marketing.
Users voluntarily submit to OPUS
The National Geodetic Survey
does not share the information you submit with any other government
agency or with the private sector unless required by law. In limited circumstances, such as responses
to requests from Congress and private individuals, we may be required by law to
disclose information you submit.
We destroy the information we collect when the purpose for which
it was provided has been fulfilled unless we are required to keep it longer by
statute or official policy. Electronically submitted information is maintained
and destroyed according to the principles of the Federal Records Act and the
regulations and records schedules approved by the National Archives and Records
Administration, and in some cases information submitted to us may become an
agency record and therefore might be subject to a Freedom of Information Act
request.
This site may have links to the Web sites of other federal
agencies. There may be links to private organizations, with their permission.
Once you go to another site, you are subject to the privacy policy of the new
site. It is always a good idea to read the Privacy Policy of any Web site that
you visit.
"Cookies" are small bits of text that are either used
for the duration of a session ("session cookies"), or saved on a user's
hard drive in order to identify that user, or information about that user, the
next time the user logs on to a Web site ("persistent cookies"). This
Web site does not use persistent cookies or any other persistent tracking
technology. One or more of our component sites may use session cookies to
provide streamlined navigation. These session cookies are deleted from the
component's server after your session ends and information from them is not
collected or saved.
This Web site may offer educational content to children under 13.
No personally identifiable information is collected from them unless
voluntarily submitted as a request for information or services. The information
collected is used to respond to user inquiries or to provide services requested
by our users.
More information about the Privacy Act can be found at the
following off-site link: http://www.cftc.gov/foia/foiprivacyact.htm
Last updated by ngs.opus on November 9, 2007 |
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