SECURITY NOTICE
This web site is part of a Federal computer
system used to accomplish Federal functions. The Department
of Energy uses software programs to monitor this web
site for security purposes to ensure it remains available
to all users and to protect information in the system.
By accessing this web site, you are expressly consenting
to these monitoring activities.
Unauthorized attempts to defeat or circumvent
security features, to use the system for other than
intended purposes, to deny service to authorized users,
to access, obtain, alter, damage, or destroy information,
or otherwise to interfere with the system or its operation
is prohibited. Evidence of such acts may be disclosed
to law enforcement authorities and result in criminal
prosecution under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of
1986 and the National Information Infrastructure Protection
Act of 1996, codified at section 1030 of Title 18 of
the United States Code, or other applicable criminal
laws.
GENERAL DISCLAIMER
This system is made available by an agency
of the United States Government. Neither the United
States Government nor any agency thereof, nor any of
their employees, makes any warranty, express or implied,
or assumes any legal liability or responsibility for
the accuracy, Completeness, or usefulness of any information,
apparatus, product or process disclosed, or represents
that its use would not infringe privately owned rights.
Reference herein to any specific commercial product,
process, or service by trade name, trademark, manufacturer,
or otherwise, does not necessarily constitute or imply
its endorsement, recommendation, or favoring by the
United States Government or any agency thereof. The
views and opinions of originators expressed herein do
not necessarily state or reflect those of the United
States Government or any agency thereof.
PRIVACY NOTICE
We collect no personal information about
you when you visit a DOE Web site, unless otherwise
stated, unless you choose to provide this information
to us. However, we collect and store certain information
automatically. What we collect and store automatically
is as follows:
- the Internet Protocol (IP) address
of the domain from which you access the Internet (i.e.
123.456.789.012) whether yours individually or provided
as a proxy by your Internet Service Provider (ISP)
- the date and time you access our site
- the pages you peruse (recorded by the
text and graphics files that compose that page)
- the Internet address of the Website
from which you linked directly to our site.
We use the summary statistics to help
us make our site more useful to visitors, such as assessing
what information is of most and least interest to visitors,
and for other purposes such as determining the site's
technical design specifications and identifying system
performance or problem areas.
This information is NOT shared with anyone
beyond the support staff to this web site, except when
required by Law Enforcement investigation, and is used
only as a source of anonymous statistical information.
COMMENTS SENT BY E-MAIL
You may choose to provide us with personal
information, as in an e-mail message containing your
comments or questions. We use this information to improve
our service to you or to respond to your request. There
are times when your message is forwarded, as e-mail,
to other Department of Energy employees who may be better
able to help you. Except for authorized law enforcement
investigations, we do not share our e-mail with any
other outside organizations.
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