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Privacy policy and security notice
In general, the NOAA privacy policy also applies to the PSD web site. Information provided below overrides the NOAA policy where applicable.- Disclaimer
- These World Wide Web pages are provided as a public service by the ESRL/PSD Climate Analysis Branch. Please see the full disclaimer.
- Secondary Use of Site Contents
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In general, information presented on pages served
from www.cdc.noaa.gov is
considered public information and may be distributed or
copied.
Figures generated via our Web site are in the public domain, and may be downloaded freely. We appreciate acknowledgement of the ESRL/PSD Climate Analysis Branch in your use of any of our Web products. This may be done by including text such as: Image provided by the ESRL/PSD Climate Analysis Branch, Boulder, Colorado, USA, from their Web site at http://www.cdc.noaa.gov/.
- Collection of User Data
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Session Cookies: Access to some of our climate data is restricted, and the user must accept (or decline) the terms of use before using the data. The user response is recorded in a session cookie, which expires upon exiting the current browser session. Only the user response and a dataset identifier are included in the cookie. No other personal information is recorded as part of this process.
Statistical information: Statistical information is collected for site management 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 to the user population, determining technical design specifications, and identifying system performance or problem areas. These summary statistics contain the site and domain identifiers of sites accessing our documents. No other individual user information is displayed to the public in the statistical output.
E-mail: We archive questions and comments sent to us via e-mail indefinitely. These records are used to help us identify the information of most and least interest to the user population, possible improvements to our technical design specifications, and system performance or problem areas.
Security: 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. 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.
Except for authorized law enforcement investigations, no other attempts besides those described here are made to identify individual users or their usage habits.
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