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The Office of Coast Survey (OCS), an Office of the National Ocean Service (NOS), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adminstration (NOAA), states that links to non-Federal Government Web sites do not imply endorsement of any particular product, service, organization, company, information provider or content (Cooperative Research and Development Agreement exceptions).
The Office of Coast Survey (OCS), also operates this World Wide Web server as a public service. Information presented on these pages is considered public information and may be distributed or copied. Use of appropriate photo and image credits is requested.
In addition, all web servers need to collect technical information in order to share their contents with visitors. The technical information (see example below) identifies what part of the Web site a visiting computer wishes to reach and where to send the requested information once it is found. For site management, this technical information is also used for statistical purposes. Summary statistics are used for such purposes as assessing what information is of most and least interest, identifying usage trends over time, determining technical design specifications and identifying system performance or problem areas. These aggregate statistical summaries are posted on the Web site and are available to the public. Electronic mail sent to addresses listed on this site are treated no differently than any other electronic mail. All electronic mail transactions are handled by electronic mail servers and do not pass through this site nor are they monitored or recorded by this site in any way. This site does not use Persistent Tracking Technologies For site security purposes and to ensure that this service remains available to all users, this government computer system employs hardware and software to monitor network traffic and to identify unauthorized attempts to add or alter information, or otherwise cause damage or interfere with information delivery. Except for authorized law enforcement investigations, no attempt is made to identify individual users or their usage habits. Raw data logs may be stored indefinitely for use in statistical analysis or to protect the security and integrity of the computer system. Unauthorized attempts to add information or alter 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. Please note that other National Ocean Service Web sites may have different information collection practices. If interested, please consult their site-specific privacy statements for details on such policies. If you have any questions or comments about this information, please contact Barbara.Hess@noaa.gov Web servers keep a record of their activity in a log file. Every time a visiting computer requests a file from the Web server, a log entry is recorded. A typical log file entry for the Office of Coast Survey Web site looks like this: 10/04/00 13:19:18 OK 200 somemachine.somenetwork.com Mozilla/4.75 (Macintosh; U; PPC) http://othermachine.othernetwork.com/neatsites.html "chartmaker.ncd.noaa.noaa.gov" :welcome.html 15208 What this entry means:
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Revised Friday December 09 2005by OCS Webmaster