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Monterey
Bay National Marine Sanctuary
Privacy and Security Notice
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- These
World Wide Web pages are provided as a public service by the National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
- Information
presented on these pages is considered public information and may be
distributed or copied. Use of appropriate byline/photo/image credits
is requested.
- For site
management, information is collected for statistical
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, determining technical
design specifications, and identifying system performance or problem
areas.
- 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.
- Except
for authorized law enforcement investigations, no other attempts are
made to identify individual users or their usage habits. Raw data logs
are used for no other purposes and are scheduled for regular destruction
in accordance with [National Archives and Records Administration General
Schedule 20].
- 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.
- If you
have any questions or comments about the information presented here,
please forward them to the MBNMS
webmaster.
Example
of Information Collected
For Statistical
PurposesBelow is an example of the information collected based on a standard
request for a World Wide Web document:
xxx.yyy.com
- - [28/Jan/1997:00:00:01 -0500] "GET index.html HTTP/1.0" 200
1928 Mozilla 3.0/www.altavista.digital.com
xxx.yyy.com
(or 123.123.23.12)-- this is the host name (or IP address) associated
with the requester (you as the visitor). In this case, (....com) the requester
is coming from a commercial address. Depending on the requesters
method of network connection, the host name (or IP address) may or may
not identify a specific computer. Connections via many Internet Service
Providers assign different IP addresses for each session, so the host
name identifies only the ISP. The host name (or IP address) will identify
a specific computer if that computer has a fixed IP address.
[28/Jan/1997:00:00:01
-0500] -- this is the date and time of the request
"GET
index.html HTTP/1.0" -- this is the location of the requested
file
200
-- this is the status code - 200 is OK - the request was filled
1928
-- this is the size of the requested file in bytes
Mozilla
3.0 -- this identifies the type of browser software used to access
the page, which indicates what design parameters to use in constructing
the pages
www.altavista.digital.com
-- this indicates the last site the person visited, which indicates how
people find our Web pages
Requests
for other types of documents use similar information. No other user-identifying
information is collected.
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