U.S. Department of the Interior (USDOI)
Privacy Policy for this Website
This is how we will handle information we learn about you from your
visit to our website. The information we receive depends upon what you do
when visiting our site.
If you visit our site to read or download information, such as consumer
brochures or press releases:
We collect and store only the following information about you:
the name of the domain from which you access the Internet (for example,
aol.com, if you are connecting from an America Online account, or
princeton.edu if you are connecting from Princeton University's domain);
the date and time you access our site; and the Internet address of the
web site from which you linked directly to our site. We do not store
any personal identifiers. This information is not stored in any
particular fashion, but is part of a systems log file.
For site management, information is collected for statistical
purposes. This government computer system uses software programs to
create summary statistics, which are used for such purposes as assessing
what information is of most and least interest, determining technical
design specifications, and identifying system performance or problem
areas. We use the information we collect to measure the number of
visitors to the different sections of our site, and to help us make our
site more useful to visitors. This information is only used
internally, does not contain personal identifiers, and will only be used
for internal management purposes.
If you identify yourself by sending an E-mail or filling out a
questionnaire or guestbook:
You also may decide to send us personally-identifying information,
for example, in an electronic mail message containing a complaint. We
use personally-identifying information from consumers in various ways to
further our customer's protection and to provide better service. This
may be to correct broken links that you have identified or to provide
additional information that you have requested. Visit Talk to Us to learn
what can happen to the information you provide us when you send us
e-mail or fill out a questionnaire or guestbook. Any information that we
collect via a questionnaire or a guestbook may be subject to disclosure,
but will be handled in accordance with the requirements of the Privacy Act (950K) and
the Freedom of
Information Act (112K) to ensure the greatest protection of personal
privacy in the face of any required disclosure.
We want to be very clear: We will not obtain
personally-identifying information about you when you visit our site,
unless you choose to provide such information to us. Except as might be
required by law, we do not share any information we receive with outside
parties.
If you have any questions or comments about the information presented
here, please forward them to us:
U.S. Department of Interior
Bureau of Land
Management
FOIA and Privacy Officer
Phone: 202-452-5013