Thank
you for visiting my Web site. Protecting the personal privacy
of individuals who use the Internet is one of my priorities.
Accordingly, I appreciate the opportunity to describe to you
the policies I have put in place to safeguard the privacy of
individuals who visit my own Web site. If you have questions
or concerns about my Internet privacy policy, please contact
me through my Web page, by telephone or U.S. Mail.
My Internet privacy policy is
simple: my Web site collects no personal information about you
when you visit the site--unless you choose to provide that
information to me during your visit so that I can contact you
about an issue you have raised or help you with a
problem. Specifically, the type of information that may
be gathered when you visit my Web site and how that
information is handled:
Information Collected and Stored
Automatically
The U.S. House of Representatives collects
aggregate data about visits to House Web sites, such as
statistics that show which parts of each Web site were visited
the most. The following information is also collected when you
visit any U.S. House of Representatives Web site:
- The name of the domain from
which you access the Internet (for example, aol.com, if
you are connecting from an America Online account).
- The date and time you
access the site.
- The Internet address of the
web site from which you linked directly to the site or the
Internet address of the computer used to link to the site.
This information is gathered
only for the purpose of enabling us to improve the on-line
service we provide to visitors to House Web sites.
No individual identifying or
personal information (such as your name) is automatically
gathered when you visit any House of Representatives Web site.
My Web site does not use any sort of 'cookies' or other means
to track your visit to my site in any way. To learn more about
the House’s Internet security and privacy policy on-line,
please go to this address: http://www.house.gov/house/privacy.htm.
If You Send Me Personal Information
My Web site is set up not to collect any
personal information about you when you visit the site unless
you choose to provide that information. My Web site has an
on-line Web form that you can use to contact me by sending me
an electronic message expressing your views or concerns or
asking for assistance with a particular problem involving a
federal agency. To send me an electronic message, the on-line
Web form asks you for your name, address and e-mail address. I
use this information provided by you to contact you regarding
the matter about which you expressed your views and to provide
any casework assistance I can regarding problems you may be
experiencing in dealing with a government agency. This
information will be available to members of my staff so they
can help me in responding to your message or request.
If you are requesting help
with a casework matter, it also may be necessary for my office
to share the information you provide with the government
agency from which you are requesting assistance, in order to
respond to your request. Other than when needed to perform
constituent casework at your request, or in the course of an
authorized law enforcement investigation or emergency posing
an imminent risk to public safety, my office will share no
personal information communicated through my Web site with any
outside organization or individual. Such information will not
be used, sold or offered for any commercial purposes. If you
are concerned about the security of transmitting information
to my office over the Internet, please contact my office
through the U.S. Mail at 333 F Street Suite A, Chula Vista CA
91910.
My office tabulates comments
received through my Web site concerning legislation and
government policy issues so that I will be fully informed
about the views of constituents. From time to time, I come
across a comment made by a constituent, or a situation
described by a constituent, in an electronic message (as well
as U.S. Mail, phone calls, and faxes) that I feel makes a
point of such general interest that I would like to refer to
it in a speech, or include it in the Congressional Record, or
make some other use of it, either in connection with debate in
the House or by sharing it with the relevant government
agency. If you intend your message to be confidential, and
would prefer that it not be used in such a way, please feel
free to advise me of your preference in the message, so that I
can be sure to respect your wishes and see that your views are
held entirely within my office.
Links to Other Sites
My Web site has links to other useful sites
on the Internet, including sites of other government agencies
and sites relating to California. If you follow any link that
takes you to a location that does not include ‘house.gov' in
the address, you will have left the House Web server and you
will need to refer to that site's own privacy policy.
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