This system is made available by an agency of
the United States Government. Neither the United
States Government nor any agency thereof, nor
any of their employees, makes any warranty,
express or implied, or assumes any legal
liability or responsibility for the accuracy,
completeness, or usefulness of any information,
apparatus, product or process disclosed, or
represents that its use would not infringe
privately owned rights. Reference herein to any
specific commercial product, process, or service
by trade name, trademark, manufacturer, or
otherwise, does not necessarily constitute or
imply its endorsement, recommendation, or
favoring by the United States Government or any
agency thereof. The views and opinions of
originators expressed herein do not necessarily
state or reflect those of the United States
Government or any agency
thereof.
Privacy Notice
We collect no personal information about you
when you visit a DOE Web site, unless otherwise
stated, unless you choose to provide this
information to us. However, we collect and store
certain information automatically. What we
collect and store automatically is:
the Internet Protocol (IP) address of the
domain from which you access the Internet (i.e.
123.456.789.012) whether yours individually or
provided as a proxy by your Internet Service
Provider (ISP)
the date and time you access our site
the pages you peruse (recorded by the text
and graphics files that compose that page)
and, the Internet address of the Website
from which you linked directly to our
site.
We use the summary statistics to help us make
our site more useful to visitors, such as
assessing what information is of most and least
interest to visitors, and for other purposes
such as determining the site's technical design
specifications and identifying system
performance or problem areas.
This information is NOT shared with anyone
beyond the support staff to this home page,
except when required by Law Enforcement
investigation, and is used only as a source of
anonymous statistical information.
Interaction
with Children
This Web site may offer educational content
to children under 13. No personally identifiable
information is collected from them unless
voluntarily submitted as a request for
information or services. The information
collected is used to respond to user inquiries
or to provide services requested by our
users.
Your Rights Under the Privacy Act and
Other Privacy Laws
Additional information regarding your rights
is available via the FOIA/Privacy Act Reference
Materials posted by the Federal Consumer
Information Center at USA.gov.
Comments Sent by E-Mail
You may choose to provide us with personal
information, as in an e-mail message containing
your comments or questions. We use this
information to improve our service to you or to
respond to your request. There are times when
your message is forwarded, as e-mail, to other
Department of Energy employees who may be better
able to help you. Except for authorized law
enforcement investigations, we do not share our
e-mail with any other outside organizations.
Security Notice
This web site is part of a Federal computer
system used to accomplish Federal functions. The
Department of Energy uses software programs to
monitor this web site for security purposes to
ensure it remains available to all users and to
protect information in the system. By accessing
this web site, you are expressly consenting to
these monitoring activities.
Unauthorized attempts to defeat or circumvent
security features, to use the system for other
than intended purposes, to deny service to
authorized users, to access, obtain, alter,
damage, or destroy information, or otherwise to
interfere with the system or its operation is
prohibited. Evidence of such acts may be
disclosed to law enforcement authorities and
result in criminal prosecution under the
Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 and the
National Information Infrastructure Protection
Act of 1996, codified at section 1030 of Title
18 of the United States Code, or other
applicable criminal laws.