Privacy
and Security Notice
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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