Thank you for visiting this Office of
Health, Safety and Security (HSS) web site and reviewing
our position on security and privacy.
SECURITY NOTICE
This web site is part of a Federal computer system
and is the property of the United States Government.
It is for authorized use only. The Department of Energy
monitors this web site for security purposes to ensure
it remains available and to protect information in
the system. The Department of Energy uses software
programs and additional equipment to monitor network
traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to access,
obtain, alter, damage or destroy information, or otherwise
to interfere with the system or its operation. Any
and all uses of this system and all files on this
system may be intercepted, monitored, recorded, copied,
audited, inspected, and disclosed to authorized site,
Department of Energy, and law enforcement personnel,
as well as authorized officials of other agencies,
both domestic and foreign.
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.
By continuing to use this system you indicate your
awareness of and consent to these terms and conditions
of use. If you do not agree to the conditions stated
in this notice, LOG OFF IMMEDIATELY.
PRIVACY NOTICE
Our privacy policy is clear: We will collect no
personal information about you when you visit our
website unless you choose to provide that information
to us.
Here is how we handle information about your visit
to our website:
Information Collected and Stored Automatically
If you do nothing during your visit but browse through
the website, 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 Internet domain (for example, "xcompany.com"
if you use a private Internet access account, or
"yourschool.edu" if you connect from a university's
domain) and IP address (an IP address is a number
that is automatically assigned to your computer
whenever you are surfing the Web) from which you
access our website
- The type of browser and operating system used
to access our site;
- The date and time you access our site;
- The pages you visit; and
- If you linked to the Portal from another website,
the address of that website.
- If a logon identifier was required to access this
site it may be used in a security processor to enhance
the user's experience of this site;
We use this information to help us make our site
more useful to visitors – to learn about the number
of visitors to our site and the types of technology
our visitors use. We do not track or record information
about individuals and their visits.
If You Send Us Personal Information
If you choose to provide us with personal information
-- as in an e-mail to or by filling out a form with
your personal information and submitting it to us
through our website -- we use that information to
respond to your message and to help us get you the
information that you have requested. We do not collect
personal information for any purpose other than to
respond to you. We only share the information you
give us with another government agency if your inquiry
relates to that agency, or as otherwise required by
law. Moreover, we do not create individual profiles
with the information you provide or to give it to
any private organizations. The HSS Web Site does not
collect information for commercial marketing.
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