My Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

Thank you for visiting my web site. Protecting the personal privacy of individuals who use the Internet is my priority. I appreciate the opportunity to advise you of 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, please contact me by electronic mail, telephone, or mail.

As a member of the Senate Task Force on Privacy, my basic Internet privacy policy is simple: This web site collects no personal information about you when you visit the site unless you choose to provide that information during your visit so that I 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 that is provided 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, please go to this address: http://www.senate.gov/security.html.

If You Send Us Personal Information

My web site does not collect any personal information about you when you visit the site unless you choose to provide that information. My web site has an online web form that you can use to contact me by sending an electronic mail message expressing your views or concerns. The online web form asks you for your name, address, and e-mail address. This information will be used to contact you about the matters before the U.S. Congress. This information will be available to members of my staff so they can help me in responding to your message or request.

My office compiles comments received through our web site concerning legislation and government policy issues so that I will be fully informed about the views of constituents. From time to time, my staff may 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 may make 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 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 we 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. 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.