Privacy Policy
Thank you for visiting
our web site. Protecting the personal privacy of individuals who use
the Internet is a priority of ours, and we appreciate the
opportunity to describe to you the policies we have put in place to
safeguard the privacy of individuals who visit our Web site. If you
have questions or concerns about our Internet privacy policy, or any
other issues involving the Internet, we want to hear about them and
hope you will contact us, by electronic mail, telephone, or mail, to
let us know your opinions.
Our basic Internet
privacy policy is simple: our web site collects no personal
information about you when you visit the site unless you choose to
provide that information to us during your visit so that we can
contact you about an issue you have raised or help you with a
problem.
Information Collected and Stored Automatically
The U.S. Senate collects
aggregate data about visits to Senate web sites, such as statistics
that show which parts of each web site were visited the most. The
following information is also collected when you visit any U.S.
Senate web site: the domain from which you access the Senate web
site, the date and time of your visit, the pages you visit, and the
address of the web site, if any, that provided the link from which
you reached the Senate site. This information is gathered only for
the purpose of enabling us to improve the online service we provide
to visitors to Senate web sites.
No individual identifying or personal information (such as your
name) is automatically gathered when you visit any Senate web site.
our web site does not use 'cookies' or other means to track your
visit to our site in any way. To learn more about the Senate's
Internet security and privacy policy online, please go to this
address: http://www.senate.gov/security.html.
If You Send Us Personal Information
Our web site is set up
not to collect any personal information about you when you visit the
site unless you choose to provide that information to us. Our web
site has an online web form that you can use to contact us by
sending us an electronic mail message expressing your views or
concerns. To send us e-mail, the online web form asks you for your
name, address, e-mail address, and, if you wish, your home or work
telephone numbers. We use this information provided by you to
contact you about the matter you expressed your views about. This
information will be available to members of our staff so they can
help us in responding to your message or request.
Our office tabulates
comments received through our web site concerning legislation and
government policy issues so that we will be fully informed about the
views of constituents. From time to time, we come across a comment
made by a constituent, or a situation described by a constituent, in
an e-mail message (as well as postal mail, phone calls, and faxes)
that we feel makes a point of such general interest that we would
like to refer to it in a speech, or include it in the Congressional
Record, or makes other use of it, either in connection with debate
in the Senate or by sharing it with the relevant government agency.
Our staff makes every effort in such cases to contact the author
first. If you intend your message to be confidential, and would
prefer that it not be used in such a way, please feel free to advise
us of your preference in the message, so we can be sure to respect
your wishes and see that your views are held entirely within our
office.
Links to Other Sites
Our web
site has links to other useful sites on the Internet. If you follow
any link that takes you to a location that does not include
'senate.gov' in the address, you will have left the Senate web
server and you will need to refer to that site's own privacy policy.
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