Thank
you for visiting my web site. Protecting the personal privacy
of individuals who use the Internet is a priority of mine, and
I appreciate the opportunity to describe to you the policies
I have put in place to safeguard the privacy of individuals who
visit my web site. If you have questions or concerns about my
Internet privacy policy, or any other issues involving the Internet,
I want to hear about them and hope you will contact me, by electronic
mail, telephone, or mail, to let me know your opinions.
My
basic Internet privacy policy is simple: my web site collects no
personal information about you when you visit the site unless you
choose to provide that information to me during your visit so that
I can contact you about an issue you have raised or help you with
a problem. Let me describe more specifically the type of information
that may be gathered when you visit my web site and how that information
is handled.
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. My 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, please
go to this address: http://www.senate.gov/security.html.
If
You Send Us Personal Information
My
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. My web site has an online web form that you
can use to contact me by sending me an electronic mail message
expressing your views or concerns or asking for assistance with
a particular problem involving a federal agency. To send me email,
the online web form asks you for your name, address, email address,
and, if you wish, your home or work telephone numbers. I use
this information provided by you to contact you about the matter
you expressed your views about and to provide any casework assistance
I can regarding problems you may be experiencing in dealing with
a government agency. This information will be available to members
of my staff so they can help me in responding to your message
or request.
If
you are requesting help with a casework matter, it also may be
necessary for my office to share the information you provide
with the government agency from which you are requesting assistance,
in order to respond to your request. Other than when needed to
perform constituent casework at your request, or in the course
of an authorized law enforcement investigation or emergency posing
an imminent risk to public safety, my office will share no personal
information communicated through my web site with any outside
organization or individual.
My
office tabulates comments received through my web site concerning
legislation and government policy issues so that I will be fully
informed about the views of constituents. From time to time,
I 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 I feel makes a point
of such general interest that I would like to refer to it in
a speech, or include it in the Congressional Record, or make
some other use of it, either in connection with debate in the
Senate or by sharing it with the relevant government agency.
My 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 me of your preference in the message, so I can be sure
to respect your wishes and see that your views are held entirely
within my office.
Links
to Other Sites
My
web site has links to other useful sites on the Internet, including
sites of other government agencies and sites relating to New
Hampshire. 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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