Privacy and Accessibility Policy
Privacy
If you visit our site to read or download information, such as press releases, we collect and store only the following information:
- The name of the domain from which you access the Internet (for example, aol.com, if you are connecting from an America Online account).
- The date and time you access our site.
- The Internet address of the web site from which you linked directly to our site or the Internet address of the computer used to link to our site.
This information is used for site management purposes. This computer system uses software programs to create summary statistics using this information. 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.
NOTICE: We will not obtain personally-identifying information about you when you visit our site, unless you choose to provide such information.
If you send an E-mail message or complete a web form which contains personal information, we collect and store the following information:
- Any personally-identifying information which you choose to provide. For example your mailing address, in an electronic mail message or web form requesting information or commenting on current legislative issues. Information collected in this manner is used solely for information and, in some cases, to respond to you.
Security
NOTICE: For site security purposes this Government computer system employs software programs to monitor network traffic. Anyone using this system consents to the monitoring of their use by system or security personnel.
- Unauthorized use, tampering with or modification of this system -- or its supporting hardware or software -- may violate federal or other statutes and may subject the violator to criminal and civil penalties. In the event of unauthorized intrusion, all relevant information regarding possible violation of law may be provided to law enforcement officials.
Accessibility
If you are having a problem accessing this Web site please let us know and we will work to ensure accessibility. If you have any difficulty viewing any page with adaptive technology, please contact us so that we can improve this website. Please be as specific as possible in your description of the problem(s) encountered as well as the location on the web site.
In order to maximize accessibility, this site has been designed in conformance with:
- Technical Standards for Web-based Intranet and Internet Information and Applications (36 C.F.R. § 1194.22) as promulgated by the Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board, pursuant to section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (29 U.S.C. § 794d).
- Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0, as promulgated by the World Wide Web Consortium, conformance level Triple-A (excluding checkpoints 3.3, 3.4, 9.4, 9.5, 10.2, 10.4, 11.1, 11.3, 13.7, 14.1, and 14.2)
- XHTML 1.0 standard, as promulgated by the Word Wide Web Consortium
- PICS standard, as promulgated by the Word Wide Web Consortium and implemented by SafeSurf and the Internet Content Rating Association.
- Dublin Core meta standard (version 1.1, revised), as promulgated by the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
- GILS meta data standard, promugalted pursuant to § 2(3511) of the Paperwork Reducation Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. § 3511) — WAGILS and RIGILS implementations.
- AGLS meta data standard, as promulgated by the National Archives of Australia
- VW96 meta data standard, as promulgated by Vancouver Webpages (Canada)
- Robot meta-tag standard, as developed by the Spidering BOF Group at the 1996 Distributed Indexing/Searching Workshop of the World Wide Web Consortium
