Privacy Policy

Thank you for visiting the Mountain Region Security Office (MRSO) Website and reviewing our privacy
policy. Our privacy policy is clear: We will collect no personal information about you when you visit our website
unless you choose to provide the information to us.

If you do nothing during your visit but browse through the website, 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 only the following information about your visit:

  1. The Internet domain (for example, "xcompany.com" if you use a private Internet access account, or
    "yourschool.edu" if you connect from a university's domain) and IP address (an IP address is a number that is
    automatically assigned to your computer whenever you are surfing the Web) from which you access our website;
  2. The type of browser and operating system used to access our site
  3. The date and time you access our site
  4. The pages you visit; and
  5. If you linked to the MRSO Website from another website, the address of that website.

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. We do not track or record information about individuals and their visits. 

If you contact us by using electronic mail or fillable forms available on our website the information may be seen by various people in the attempt to respond to your request.

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.

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 and are scheduled for regular destruction in accordance with [National Archives and Records Administration General Schedule 20].

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 1986 and the National Information Infrastructure Protection Act.

If you have any questions or comments about the information presented here, please forward them to
wmonroe@doc.gov

Updated: 8/7/2007