PRIVACY POLICY
Thank you for visiting my web site. Protecting the personal privacy
of individuals who use the Internet is a priority of mine, and I
appreciate the opportunity to describe to you the policies I have
put in place to safeguard the privacy of individuals who visit my
web site. If you have questions or concerns about my Internet privacy
policy, or any other issues involving the Internet, I want to hear
about them and hope you will contact me, by electronic mail, telephone,
or mail, to let me know your opinions.
My basic Internet privacy policy is simple: my web site collects
no personal information about you when you visit the site unless
you choose to provide that information to me during your visit so
that I can contact you about an issue you have raised or help you
with a problem. Let me describe more specifically the type of information
that may be gathered when you visit my web site and how that information
is handled.
Information Collected and Stored Automatically
The U.S. Senate collects aggregate data about
visits to Senate web sites, such as statistics that show which parts
of each web site were visited the most. The following information
is also collected when you visit any U.S. Senate web site: the domain
from which you access the Senate web site, the date and time of
your visit, the pages you visit, and the address of the web site,
if any, that provided the link from which you reached the Senate
site. This information is gathered only for the purpose of enabling
us to improve the online service we provide to visitors to Senate
web sites.
No individual identifying or personal information
(such as your name) is automatically gathered when you visit any
Senate web site. My web site does not use "cookies" or
other means to track your visit to my site in any way. To learn
more about the Senate's Internet security and privacy policy online,
please go to this address: http://www.senate.gov/security.html.
If You Send Us Personal Information
My web site is set up not to collect any personal
information about you when you visit the site unless you choose
to provide that information to us. My web site has an online web
form that you can use to contact me by sending me an electronic
mail message expressing your views or concerns or asking for assistance
with a particular problem involving a federal agency. To send me
email, the online web form asks you for your name, address, email
address, and, if you wish, your home or work telephone numbers.
I use this information provided by you to contact you about the
matter you expressed your views about and to provide any casework
assistance I can regarding problems you may be experiencing in dealing
with a government agency. This information will be available to
members of my staff so they can help me in responding to your message
or request.
If you are requesting help with a casework matter,
it also may be necessary for my office to share the information
you provide with the government agency from which you are requesting
assistance, in order to respond to your request. Other than when
needed to perform constituent casework at your request, or in the
course of an authorized law enforcement investigation or emergency
posing an imminent risk to public safety, my office will share no
personal information communicated through my web site with any outside
organization or individual.
My office tabulates comments received through
my web site concerning legislation and government policy issues
so that I will be fully informed about the views of constituents.
From time to time, I come across a comment made by a constituent,
or a situation described by a constituent, in an e-mail message
(as well as postal mail, phone calls, and faxes) that I feel makes
a point of such general interest that I would like to refer to it
in a speech, or include it in the Congressional Record, or make
some other use of it, either in connection with debate in the Senate
or by sharing it with the relevant government agency. My staff makes
every effort in such cases to contact the author first. If you intend
your message to be confidential, and would prefer that it not be
used in such a way, please feel free to advise me of your preference
in the message, so I can be sure to respect your wishes and see
that your views are held entirely within my office.
Links to Other Sites
My web site has links to other useful sites on
the Internet, including sites of other government agencies and sites
relating to New Hampshire. If you follow any link that takes you
to a location that does not include 'senate.gov' in the address,
you will have left the Senate web server and you will need to refer
to that site's own privacy policy.
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