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Our privacy policy is clear: We collect no personally identifiable information when you visit our Web site unless you specifically and knowingly provide that information to us.
Personally identifiable information includes your name, e-mail, mailing address, phone number, or other information that identifies you personally. The Privacy Act of 1974 establishes certain controls over what personal information is collected by the National Transportation Safety Board how it is used.
The following external link provides additional information on your rights under the Privacy Act: http://www.pueblo.gsa.gov/cic_text/fed_prog/foia/foia.htm.
Information Collected and Stored Automatically
As you browse through the Web 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 name of the domain from which you access the Internet; the date and time you access our site; the pages you visit within our site; and the Internet address of the site from which you linked directly to our site.
We use this information to measure the number of visitors to the different sections of our site, and to help us make our site more useful to visitors. These statistics help us assess what information is of most and least interest, determine technical design specifications, and identify system performance or problem areas. Raw data logs are used for no other purposes.
Except for authorized law enforcement investigations, no other attempts are made to identify individual users or their usage habits.
Online Subscription/Newsletter Services and Mailing Lists
We offer a variety of listserv services, to include either NTSB News about all our products and programs, or News by Modal Offices (Aviation, Highway, Marine, Pipeline and Hazmat, and Railroad, and also the NTSB Training Center e-Newsletter.
We do not require you to provide any personal information to access our Web site or to use most of our services. If you desire to participate in one of our subscription or newsletter services we ask that you provide an email address and/or additional information to receive information provided by the service.
You may subscribe or unsubscribe to any of our several mailing lists by visiting our Registration page, at http://www.ntsb.gov/registration/registration.htm. To subscribe you will need to provide your name and mailing address (work preferred). We retain and use mailing list information only to keep you informed about our products and services. You may log on to our Web site at any time to remove your name from the mailing list or to change and update your personal information.
We do not rent out or sell personal information for commercial purposes. We also do not give, sell or transfer personal information to third parties, unless required by law.
Contacting Us
Your comments, questions, and suggestions are extremely important to us. You may contact us electronically by completing the online request form on our "Contact Us" web page, at http://www.ntsb.gov/Info/sources.htm. You may also contact us by using the telephone numbers, mailing addresses, and e-mail addresses provided on the web site. Before contacting us, there are a few things you should know.
You are not required to provide your name or any other personally-identifying information in order to contact us. If you want us to respond to a question or other place an inquiry, however, you will need to provide sufficient information for us to contact you.
Our authority for collecting information when you contact us is section 301 of title 5, United States Code.
We may forward your correspondence, including any personally identifiable information you choose to send, to other government employees or government contractors to process your request or research and answer your questions. We may also share this information with contractors for purposes of statistical analysis and may track e-mails for purposes of improving our response times and identifying message turn-around times. If you choose to transmit or receive personal information electronically, you should be aware that we cannot guarantee confidentiality across the Internet. If your communication is very sensitive you may want to send it by postal mail instead of using e-mail.
Use of Cookies
Some Web sites generate pieces of text known as cookies, which are stored on your computer and accessed during subsequent visits. Some cookies collect personal information to recognize your computer in the future. The National Transportation Safety Board Web site is a government Web site, and cannot perform such tracking - we only use non-persistent cookies or "session cookies." These cookies are stored only in your computer's memory and will be erased when you close your browser.
We use session cookies for technical purposes such as:
Our use of cookies is intended primarily for your convenience. We do not use cookies to store personally identifiable information or to track your actions over time or across non-National Transportation Safety Board web services. We do not retrieve any information from your computer that is not part of the original cookie sent by us. You may configure your browser to accept or decline cookies, or to alert you when cookies are in use so you can decide whether or not to accept them. You are not obligated to accept cookies from us, but if you do not, some of the functions on our site may not be available to you.
Children's Privacy
This Web site does not currently offer educational content created for children. NTSB makes no attempt to collect personally-identifiable information online from children. If a child voluntarily initiates a request for information or services through our "Contact Us" Web page, the information collected will be used solely for the purpose of responding to the request. We take children's privacy very seriously, and encourage parents to contact us with any questions or concerns they may have.
Security Notification
When you access our site you are entering an Official United States Government System, which may be used only for authorized purposes. The Government may monitor and audit usage of this system, and all persons are hereby notified that use of this system constitutes consent to such monitoring and auditing. For Site Security purposes and to ensure that this service remains available to all users, we employ 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.
To ensure the security and confidentiality of personally identifiable information, we use security software to prevent unauthorized access, and conduct periodic tests of security safeguards. Learn more about our Security Policy here!
Links to Other Sites
Our Web site has links to the Web sites of other federal agencies, and in a few cases, links to private organizations. The following image informs you that a link you see or are about to visit is taking you to Web sites outside of the agency:
Learn more about our Linking Policy here!
Once you link to another Web site, you are subject to the privacy policy of the new site. Any link to another Web site is provided solely for the convenience of the user and does not constitute endorsement by the National Transportation Safety Board or the United States Government of that site or its information, products, or services. We assume no responsibility for the content or operation of other Web sites.
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