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Privacy Policy

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 any questions or concerns about my Internet privacy policy, or any other issues involving the Internet, I want to hear about the and hope you will contact me, by e-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. House of Representatives collects aggregate data about visits to the U.S. House of Representatives 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. House of Representatives web site:  the domain from which you access the U.S. House web site, the date and time of your visit, the pages you visit, and the address of the website, if any, that provided the link from which you reached the U.S. House site.  This information is gathered only for the purpose of enabling us to improve the online service we provide to visitors to the U.S. House web sites.

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.  If you choose to send me an electronic message expressing your views or concerns or asking for assistance with a particular problem involving a federal agency, I ask that you provide you name, address, e-mail 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.  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 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 Congress 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 your 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 website has links to other useful sites on the Internet, including sites of other government agencies and sites relating to Hawaii.  If you follow any link that takes you to a location that does not include "house.gov" in the address, you will have left the U.S. House web server and you will need to refer to that site's own privacy policy.

 

 
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