Privacy Policy
Notice: This is a U.S. Government Web Site
- This is a World Wide Web site for official information about the Department of the
Navy Chief Information Officer. It is provided as a public service by the Department
of the Navy Chief Information Officer. The purpose is to provide information and
news about the Department of the Navy Chief Information Officer to the general public.
- All information on this site is public domain and may be distributed or copied unless
otherwise specified. Use of appropriate byline/photo/image credits is requested.
- Unauthorized attempts to upload information or change information on this web site
are strictly prohibited and maybe punishable under the Computer Fraud and Abuse
Act of 1986 and the National Information Infrastructure Protection Act.
- 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 investigation and to maintain required correspondence
files, no other attempts are made to identify individual users or their usage habits.
Raw data logs are used to simply determine how many
users are accessing the site, which pages are the most popular, and from time to
time, from which top level domain users are coming. This data is scheduled for regular
destruction in accordance with National Archive and Records Administration guidelines.
- Cookie Disclaimer: The Department of the Navy Chief Information Officer does not
use persistent cookies, i.e., tokens that pass information back and forth from your
machine to the server and remain after you close your browser.
- The Department of the Navy Chief Information Officer does use session cookies, i.e.,
tokens that remain active only until you close your browser, in order to (make the
site easier for you to use). No database of information obtained from these cookies
is kept, and when you close your browser, the cookie is deleted from your computer.
- The Department of the Navy Chief Information Officer uses cookies in the following
ways:
i. To save you time in filling out forms
ii. To provide the ability to display
relevant error messages
iii. To maintain search criteria across
search results pages
iv. To maintain a relationship between
the image and the correct link
- You can chose not to accept these cookies and still use the site, but (you may need
to enter the same information repeatedly, and clicking on some images will not take
you to the correct link). The help information in your browser software should provide
you with instructions on how to disable cookies.