Representative Markey respects your privacy. When you visit this site no personally-identifiable information is collected or stored from you by Rep. Markey's congressional office. For instance, if you visit this site to read or download information, such as press releases, we do not collect and store any information from you.
If you correspond with this congressional office through email, we will obtain your email address as well as any other personal information that you may willingly provide. Rep. Markey does not share or disclose personal information about individuals to any entity outside of the Congressional office with one exception. For the purposes of facilitating resolution of constituent casework or responding to requests for information, personal information may be forwarded to other governmental agencies to serve your needs.
When you visit this website, however, the House of Representatives does obtain and collect information about your visit. The House of Representatives collects certain information such as:
The IP address, domain, or cookie of each visitor.
The date and time a visitor accesses the site as well as a visitor's relative activity level on the site.
The Internet address of the web site from which a visitor linked directly to our site.
This information is used by the House of Representatives for Site Management purposes. This government computer system uses software programs to create use statistics. These statistics are used for such purposes as assessing the number of visitors to the different sections of our site, what information is of most and least interest, determining technical design specifications, and identifying system performance or problem areas.
EXTERNAL LINKS
Please Note: Rep. Markey's Website features several external links to other websites, news stories and reports. When you click on these links you will be leaving the U.S. House of Representatives/Rep. Markey's Website. Neither the U.S. House of Representatives nor the Office of Rep. Markey are responsible for the content of any external link you may chose to click on.
CONSTITUENT MAIL ALERT
Because of the discovery of toxic ricin powder in a mail room in the Dirksen Senate Office Building, the Capitol Police have placed additional inspections on all incoming mail, resulting in a delay of several days. This includes all overnight and priority mail. In addition, the Capitol Police are requiring that all mail sent to the Washington, D.C. office of Members of the House must be opened prior to delivery to my office. In order to avoid delays and ensure confidentiality, please write to me at 5 High Street, #101, Medford, MA 02155 or contact me by phone at 202-225-2836, by fax at 202-226-0092 or email me.
