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Privacy
Policy
Thank you for visiting
the National Science Foundation web site. Please note that we collect
no personal information about you when you visit our web site unless
you choose to provide that information to us. All information submitted
by visitors is voluntary.
If you are visiting the NSF home page to browse through our 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
only the following information about your visit:
- 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 web
site;
- The type of browser and operating
system used to access our
site;
- The date and time you access our site;
- The pages you visit;
and
- If you linked to the National Science Foundation site
from another web site, the address of
that web site.
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 personal information about individuals and their visits.
If you request information or services from NSF and submit personal
information to facilitate response to your request, we use the
information provided to respond to your message. Pressing the “submit” button
indicates your consent to use the information you provide for this
purpose. We will not share the information you give us with another
government agency unless your inquiry relates to that agency, or
as otherwise provided by law
Subscribers to National Science Foundation Update fill out a simple form when setting up their accounts. A National Science Foundation Update account cannot be created without a valid e-mail
address. However, NSF makes no attempt to identify individual subscribers
or their selections. We do not create individual profiles with
the information you provide or collect information for commercial
marketing.
Some NSF websites use “session cookies” to facilitate
a visitor’s activity within a single session, but these cookies
are not written as files to your computer’s hard drive and
do not persist after you close your browser. The site does not
currently make use of “persistent cookies.” If, in
the future, we do start using a “persistent” cookie
in order to customize your experience on the website, such a cookie
will adhere to our longstanding policy—namely, the cookie
will contain no personally identifiable information about you,
will not be readable by servers other than www.nsf.gov, will be
totally voluntary, and will be solely for your use.
For website security purposes and to ensure that this service
remains available to all users, NSF employs software programs to
monitor network traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to upload
or change information, or otherwise cause damage to the information
on our Web sites. 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 questions or concerns about NSF's privacy policy,
please contact Leslie Jensen, Office of the General Counsel, phone:
703-292-5065, email: ljensen@nsf.gov.
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