The Herbert Hoover Library-Museum's
Website Privacy Statement
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We consider "personally identifying information" to be: your name or a unique identified (such as an IP address), your e-mail address, your mailing address, your telephone number, and any financial information relating to your or your accounts that you may provide us.
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As you use our website, our system collects server log data which will included your IP address, your domain name, the type of browser and operating system you use, the pages you view, search requests, in some cases data you submitted via web forms, and, if you linked to our site from another website, that website's address. After three months from the time of collection, we aggregate this data and use it for statistical purposes. This is how we discover how many "hits" our site received. The aggregated data helps us to ascertain, for example, the volume of our website users' interest in portions of our website, and to help us understand how to improve the navigation and content of our website.
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Personally identifying information that you provide by e-mail or web forms will be used only for such purposes as are described at the point of collection (for example on a web form), such as to send information or products to you, or to respond to your questions or comments. If you provide contact information, Hoover Library staff or its contractors may contact you to clarify your comment or question, or to learn about your level of customer satisfaction with our services.
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We do not sell any personal information to third parties.
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We may transfer personal information to a third party only in the following cases:
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A bank or United States Department of the Treasury account must receive payment for a transaction that you initiated;
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A company that agrees not to sell or use personal information for other purposes, is contracted to assist us with specific services; or
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We suspect that you are attempting to change or otherwise damage this website, or your are using it in violation of Federal or local laws, and we decide to provide personal information to legal authorities.
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This information is subpoenaed by Congress or a court.
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Although questions, comments and other communications that we receive generally are not retained as permanent records, please note that it is possible that any mail--electronic or paper--that we (or any Federal agency, for that matter) receive could become part of the permanent record of the Hoover Library, if the mail is part of materials that are scheduled for permanent retention.
