Thank you for visiting our Web site and for your interest in our
Web policies and disclaimers. On this page, you may link to our
policies and disclaimers on the following topics:
The content that is published on or collected via our Web site
is public information as described in the Public
Information Act. The following discloses the information gathering
and dissemination practices for the Texas State Library and Archives
Commission Web site:
Privacy Policy
We do not collect personal information on our users in
the logs we keep to compile our Web site statistics. See the Web
Site Statistics section on this page for more information
about the information we do collect.
"Cookies" are used to authenticate registers users
of online database. For more information please see the Cookies
section on this page.
Electronic mail questions or comments or web forms sent to the
Texas State Library containing personally identifiable information
will only use the personally identifiable information to respond
to your request. We may redirect your message to another government
agency or person in order to better answer your question. See
the e-mail section on this page for more
information.
Cookies
A "cookie" in Internet terminology is a small text
file that is placed on your hard drive via your web browser so
the file can later be read by that browser.
Our TexShare Databases
use cookies solely to authenticate registered users of its online
databases. These cookies collect the logon and password of registered
users of these subscribed databases, and they allow registered
users access to the online databases without requiring re-entry
of logons and passwords. Additionally, these cookies are not
library-specific and therefore do not identify libraries in this
process. See the Online Database Services section
on this page. See also the Eligibility
for Online Databases page for more information.
Our Texas Record and Information
Locator (TRAIL) service and our Library
Catalog of Texas State Agencies uses cookies to store the
randomly-generated session data strictly to return the appropriate
search results to the proper requestor during simultaneous use
of the databases that make up the TRAIL and/or Library Catalog
of Texas State Agencies services. These cookies do not
collect personal information on the user.
E-mail
In keeping with the provisions of Government Code §441, we consider
e-mail messages to be official state records. E-mail messages
are managed in accordance with the agency’s authorized records
retention schedule and e-mail messages residing on agency computers
will be made available to the public upon request under the Public
Information Act unless the record fits an exception to disclosure
described in Government Code §§552.101 through 552.132.
IP Addresses
We use visitors' IP addresses to help diagnose problems with
our Web server, and to administer our Web site.
Linking to Sites Other Than Our Own
Our Web site contains links to Web sites other than our own.
Even though we attempt to ensure the accuracy and usefulness of
our own Web site, we make no claims about the accuracy of materials
and Web sites other than our own.
External links to other sites are intended to be informational
and do not have the endorsement of the Texas State Library and
Archives Commission. We are not responsible for the privacy practices
or the content of other such Web sites.
Online Database Services
Users of online database services may change their information,
or opt out of these online databases services by using the following
methods:
- E-mail: databases@tsl.state.tx.us
- Send mail to the following postal address:
LRS Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission,
PO Box 12927, 1201 Brazos Street, Austin, Texas 78711
- Or call the following telephone number: 512-463-7610
In order to activate registration to the database services, the
information users submit on the registration forms is submitted
to the database providers. Check eligibility
requirements for use.
Online Order Forms
Our Library Development Division provides online order forms
for requesting materials such as reading club promotional items,
newsletter subscription requests, and grant guidelines, and the
contact information is used to complete these requests.
Our Interlibrary Loan program provides an online order form for
librarians to request interlibrary loan materials, and their contact
information is used to send requested orders.
Our Library Development Division provides an online order form
for Texas residents wishing to register to borrow from the Library
Science Collection, check out materials from the Library Science
Collection, and request subject information in the field of library
and information science. Contact information is requested in accordance
with the Texas State Library & Archives customer service policy
on registration.
Online Registration Forms for
Training and Continuing Education Workshops
Our Library Development Division and Texas Record Information
Locator (TRAIL) online registration forms require users to give
contact information (such as their name and e-mail address) in
order that we may contact the user when necessary and to make
arrangements for workshops. See our Continuing
Education page for links to our various workshops and trainings.
Security
This site has security measures in place to protect the loss,
misuse and alteration of the information under our control. Unauthorized
use of this Web site is an offense under the Texas Penal Code.
You may contact our Webmaster
if you have questions about our Web security measures.
TRAIL Data Entry Screens
In order to protect the integrity of the data that is entered
into the Texas Record and Information Locator (TRAIL) service,
state agency electronic-publications liaisons must authenticate
access to "authorized users" data entry screens by using
a login and password provided to them by the TRAIL coordinator.
See the About TRAIL page for more
information.
Web Site Statistics
We use server log analysis tools to create monthly summary statistics
of our Web site's usage. These statistics are used to reflect
usage summaries such as: general access (number of hits received),
resources accessed (our most and least popular pages), visitors
and demographics (IP addresses and domains), activity statistics
(most/least active days), technical statistics (client errors),
referrers and keywords (search engines and sites that point to
our site), and browsers and platforms.
The following information is collected for this analysis:
- User Client hostname - The hostname (or IP address
if DNS is disabled) of the user/client requesting access.
- HTTP header, "user-agent" - The user-agent
information includes the type of browser, its version, and the
operating system it's running on.
- HTTP header, "referrer" - The referrer specifies
the page from which the client accessed the current page.
- System date - The date and time of the user/client
request.
- Full request - The exact request the user/client made.
- Status - The status code the server returned to the
user/client.
- Content length - The content length, in bytes, of the
document sent to the user/client.
- Method - The request method used.
- Universal Resource Identifier (URI) - The location
of a resource on the server.
- Query string of the URI - Anything after the question
mark in a URI.
- Protocol - The transport protocol and version used.
See our Web Site Statistics
page to view our monthly statistics.
