Privacy Policy

     Protecting the personal privacy of individuals who use the Internet is a priority of Senator Rockefeller's. His basic Internet privacy policy is simple: Senator Rockefeller's web site collects no personal information about you when you visit unless you choose to provide information in order for him to contact you about an issue you have raised or help you with a problem.

     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. This web site does not use 'cookies' or other means to track your visit to my site in any way. To learn more about the Senate's Internet security and privacy policy online, click here.

     This web site is set up not to collect any personal information about you unless you choose to provide that information. This web site allows visitors to e-mail Senator Rockefeller through your browser's e-mail capabilities. Senator Rockefeller uses the information you provide in e-mails to contact you about the matter you expressed your views about and to provide any casework assistance regarding problems you may be having with a government agency. This information will be available to members of Senator Rockefeller's staff so they can assist in responding to your message or request.

     If you are requesting help with a casework matter, it also may be necessary for this office to share the information you provide with the government agency from which you are requesting assistance in order to respond. Other than when needed to perform constituent casework at your request, or in the course of an authorized law enforcement investigation or emergency posing imminent risk to public safety, this office will share no personal information communicated through this web site with any outside organization or individual.

     This office sometimes tabulates comments received through e-mail concerning legislation and government policy issues so that Senator Rockefeller will be fully informed about the views of constituents.

     This web site has links to other useful sites on the Internet, including sites of other government agencies and sites relating to West Virginia. 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.

     If you have any questions or concerns about this policy, or any other issues involving the Internet, Senator Rockefeller wants to hear about them. Please contact him by e-mail, phone or mail.