Privacy Statement

We collect no personal information about you when you visit our website unless you choose to provide this information to us. However, we collect and store certain information automatically. Here is how we handle information about your visit to our website.

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 our website from another website, the address of that website.

We use the information we collect to count the number and type of visitors to the different pages on our site, and to help us make our site more useful to visitors like you.

This site uses session cookies to facilitate your interaction with the web server. A cookie is a small piece of information that is sent to your browser - along with a web page - when you access a website. Your browser will only return this cookie information to the domain where the cookie originated. No other site can request it. Session cookies are not saved on your computer - they are deleted when you close your browser. The session cookie used by this site does not contain any personally identifiable information about the user.

You may choose to provide us with personal information, as in an e-mail, a feedback or a registration form. We use the information to improve our service to you or to respond to your request. Sometimes we forward your comments to other employees who may be better able to help you. Except for authorized law enforcement investigations, we do not share such compiled data with any other outside organizations.

Our website has many links to additional sites, especially other federal agencies. In some cases we link to private organizations. PLEASE NOTE: When you follow a link to another site, you are no longer on our site nor protected by our privacy policy. You are then subject to the privacy policy of the new site.

Disclaimer and Limitation of Liability

This website and the information it contains is provided as a public service by the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT). This system is monitored to ensure proper operation, to verify the functioning of applicable security features, and for other like purposes. Anyone using this system expressly consents to such monitoring. Unauthorized attempts to modify any information stored on this system, to defeat or circumvent security features, or to utilize this system for other than its intended purposes are prohibited and may result in criminal prosecution.

The DOT makes no claims, promises or guarantees about the accuracy, completeness, or adequacy of the contents of this website and expressly disclaims liability for errors and omissions in the contents of this website. No warranty of any kind, implied, expressed or statutory, including but not limited to the warranties of non-infringement of third party rights, title, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and freedom from computer virus, is given with respect to the contents of this website or its hyperlinks to other Internet resources. Reference in this website to any specific commercial products, processes, or services, or the use of any trade, firm or corporation name is for the information and convenience of the public, and does not constitute endorsement, recommendation, or favoring by DOT.

Information presented on this website is considered public information and may be distributed or copied. However, all information submitted to DOT via this site shall be deemed and remain the property of DOT, except those submissions made under separate legal contract. DOT shall be free to use, for any purpose, any ideas, concepts, or techniques contained in information provided to DOT through this site.

Your Rights Under the Privacy Act of 1974

The Privacy Act of 1974 protects the personal information the federal government keeps on you in "systems of records (SOR)" (information an agency controls that can be retrieved by name or some other personal identifier). The Privacy Act regulates how the government can disclose, share, provide access to, and maintain the personal information that it collects. Not all information collected online is covered by the Privacy Act.

The Act's major provisions require agencies to:

• Publish a Privacy Act Notice in the Federal Register explaining the existence, character and uses of a new or revised SOR;
• Keep information about you accurate, relevant, timely, and complete to assure fairness in dealing with you; and
• Allow you to, upon request, access and review your information held in a SOR and request amendment of the information if you disagree with it.

When the Federal Highway Administration collects information from you online that is subject to the Privacy Act (i.e., information to be kept in a SOR), we will provide you, through a link on the Web page from which we collect information, access to our Privacy Act Notice. This Privacy Act Notice will inform you what portion of the information is maintained and retrieved by your name or other personal identifier.

Each Privacy Act Notice will also notify you of the following:

• The authority for and purpose and use of the collection of information subject to the Privacy Act;
• Whether providing the information is voluntary or mandatory; and
• The effects on you if you do not provide any or all of the requested information.

Click here to view our Privacy Act Notices

To Find Out More About Our Privacy Practices

The FHWA Privacy Officer is Jim Kabel. For more information on our privacy practices, or for comments and concerns, please contact the FHWA Privacy Co-Coordinator:

Email: Greg Trussell
Phone: 202-366-5262