Thank you for visiting the
MMS website and reviewing our Children's Privacy Policy. The MMS Kids
Page is a gateway to other information which you may enjoy. That means
that when you click on our list of links, you will be leaving our
site. As a gateway we are not responsible for writing or maintaining
the information on the sites that we link to. If you have questions or
comments about the information, you should use the email links or
forms that site has provided.
Children's Privacy on Our Site
The MMS Kids' Page does not ask for or
collect personal, individually-identifiable information from children.
We do use computer log files so we can see how many visitors we have,
but we can't tell personal information from them. If any visitor to
the site chooses to provide us with personal information, as in an
email inquiry, that information will be used only to respond to the
message. The information will not be used for any purpose other than
to respond to the inquiry. We do not create individual profiles from
the information provided or distribute the information to other
organizations.
For more information see "Children's
Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998."
Message to Children - Be Careful on the Web
The MMS Kids' Page is a gateway. That
means that when you click on a link, you will be leaving our site.
Government sites that we provide links to also have to follow special
rules for their kid's sites, but non-government sites do not have to
follow the same rules. You may click to a site that will ask you for
personal information, like your name, address, telephone number, or
email address. Before you provide any information, show your parent or
some other responsible adult what you are doing. Be safety smart!
Message to Parents and Guardians
The MMS Kids' Page is a gateway that
will take your children to other sites. A majority of the links we
provide will take your children to other government sites. It is
important that you monitor your children's communication on-line to
insure that they do not provide personally identifiable information to
websites that you feel are unacceptable. Tell your children to ask you
or another adult to look at what they are doing first if they wish to
provide their name, address, telephone number, or email address to a
website.
The following is how we handle
information we learn about you from your visit to our website. The
information we receive depends upon what you do when visiting our
site.
Information Collected and Stored Automatically
We collect no personal information
about you when you visit our website unless you choose to provide that
information to us. We collect and store only the following information
about you: the name of the domain from which you access the Internet
(for example, aol.com, if you are connecting from an America Online
account, or princeton.edu if you are connecting from Princeton
University's domain); the date and time you access our site; and the
Internet address of the website from which you linked directly to our
site.
We use the information we collect to
measure the number of visitors to the different sections of our site,
and to help us make our site more useful to visitors.
If You Identify Yourself by Sending an E-mail
If you send us personal identifying
information by e-mail (for example, in a message containing a question
or comment, or by filling out a form that e-mails us this
information), we use it to respond to your requests. We may forward
your e-mail to other Government employees or contract personnel who
are better able to answer your questions. We do not keep or distribute
lists of e-mail addresses to any parties outside of the Department
except as necessary to conduct official U.S. Government business. In
no event, do we distribute lists of e-mail addresses to non-Government
entities.
We want to be very clear: We will not
obtain personally-identifying information about you when you visit our
site, unless you choose to provide such information to us.
Security Notice
For site security purposes and to
ensure that this service remains available to all users, Department of
the Interior (DOI) web servers employ industry-standard methods to
monitor network traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or
change information, or otherwise cause damage. Unauthorized attempts
to upload information or change information on DOI servers are
strictly prohibited and may be punishable by law, including the
Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 and the National Information
Infrastructure Protection Act. In the specific context of this
security monitoring, there is no expectation of privacy. However, only
in the case of actual law enforcement investigations, will we attempt
to identify individual users or their usage habits.
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