Thank you for visiting the Wisconsin 7th Congressional District web site. Protecting the personal privacy of individuals who use the Internet is one of my top priorities, and I appreciate the opportunity to describe to you the policies I have put in place to safeguard the privacy of individuals who visit this web site.

This web site collects no personal information about you when you visit the site unless you choose to provide that information to my office during your visit so that I can contact you about an issue you have raised or respond to your request or inquiry.  Let me describe more specifically the type of information that may be gathered when you visit this 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 House 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 web site: the domain from which you access the House 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 House site. This information is gathered only for the purpose of enabling Members of the House to improve the online service provided to visitors to House web sites.  To view the U.S. House web site privacy policy: http://www.house.gov/house/privacy.shtml

No individual identifying or personal information

No individual identifying or personal information (such as your name) is automatically gathered when you visit any House web site. This web site does not use ‘cookies'.

If You Send Me Personal Information

This web site is set up not to collect any personal information about you when you visit unless you choose to provide that information to me.

This web site has an online web form that you can use to contact me by sending an electronic message expressing your views or concerns. This online web form asks you for your name, address, and e-mail address. This information provided by you is used to contact you about the matter on which you expressed your views and will be available to members of my staff so they can help me in responding to your message or request.  If your concern or request for information involves a federal, state, or local government program or jurisdiction matter, we may forward your concern or request to the appropriate government agency for further information in order to adequately address your specific concern or request.  If we have any incorrect information about you, such as a wrong address or misspelled name, please contact   my office and we will correct our error.

My office tabulates comments received through this 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, include it in the Congressional Record, or make some other use of it, either in connection with debate in the House or by sharing it with the relevant government agency.  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 view are held entirely within my office.

Additionally, this web site contains other forms, that can be submitted either electronically, by fax, or through the U.S. mail, for your convenience in sending a request for a service provided by me; i.e. casework, U.S. flag, commemorative, military academies application, and congressional tour requests.  Information you complete on these forms will be used by a member of my staff in executing that request and in contacting you about 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 the web site with any outside organization or individual.

Unauthorized Attempts to Upload Information

Unauthorized attempts to upload information or change information on this web site are strictly prohibited and may be punishable under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 and the National Information Infrastructure Protection Act.

Links to Other Sites

This web site has links to other useful sites on the Internet, including sites of other government agencies and sites relating to Wisconsin's 7th District. 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 House web server and you will need to refer to that site's own privacy policy.

P3P Compliance

My web site is compliant with the Platform for Privacy Preference Project (P3P) specification. If you are using a web browser or other privacy software that is able to read P3P policies, the site's privacy practices have already been sent to you automatically. For more information on P3P, please visit the P3P official web site.