CSREES Privacy Policy
Thank you for visiting the CSREES Web
site and reviewing our privacy statement.
Our privacy policy is clear: We will collect
no personal information about you when
you visit our Web site unless you choose
to provide that information to us.
Here is how we handle information about
your visit to our Web site:
Information Collected and Stored Automatically
If you do nothing during your visit but
browse through the Web site, 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 Web site;
- 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 U.S. Department
of Agriculture Web site from another
Web site, the address of that Web 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
are using. 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 the Secretary
of Agriculture or someone else or by filling
out a form with your personal information
and submitting it to us through our Web
site, we use that information to respond
to your message and to help us locate for
you the information you have requested.
We treat e-mails the same way that we regard
letters sent to the U.S. Department of
Agriculture. We are required to maintain
many documents under the Presidential Records
Act for historical purposes, but 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. USDA does not collect information
for commercial marketing.
When You Visit USDA Agency/Staff Office
Web Sites
Please read the USDA Agency/Staff Office
Privacy Statement when you visit those
Web sites. Where necessary, an Agency/Staff
Office may have additional privacy criteria,
conditions, or information that you should
know.
Information Systems Security Program Manager
(ISSPM)
The CSREES ISSPM is
part of the Information Systems and Technology
Management Unit
Links to Other Sites
Our Web site has links to many other federal
agencies. In a few cases we link to private
organizations, with their permission. Once
you access another site through a link
that we provide, you are subject to the
privacy policy of the new site.
Web Site Security
Information presented on the USDA Web
site is considered public information and
may be distributed or copied. Use of appropriate
byline/photo/image credits is requested.
- 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.
Children's Online Privacy
Information on children's online privacy
protection can be found at the following
site: Children's
Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998. |