Protecting the personal privacy of individuals who use the Internet is a priority. If you have questions or concerns about my Internet privacy policy, or any other issues involving the Internet, I want to hear about them and hope you will contact me by electronic mail, telephone or U.S. Mail.

My Web site collects no personal information about you unless you choose to provide that information.

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 improving the on-line service we provide to visitors to all Senate Web sites.

No individual identifying or personal information (such as your name) is automatically gathered when you visit any Senate Web site. My 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 on-line, please go to this address: http://www.senate.gov/security.html

If You Send My Office Personal Information
My Web site has an on-line Web form that you can use to contact me by sending me an electronic mail message expressing your views or concerns or asking for assistance with a particular problem involving a federal agency. To send me e-mail, the on-line Web form asks you for your name, address, phone number, and e-mail address. I use this information provided by you to contact you about the matter you expressed your views about and to provide any casework assistance I can regarding problems you may be experiencing in dealing with a government agency. 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.

If you are concerned about the security of transmitting information to my office over the Internet, please contact my office through the U.S. Mail at 290 Russell Senate Building, Washington, D.C., 20510.

Links to Other Sites
My Web site has links to other useful sites on the Internet, including sites of other government agencies and sites relating to South Carolina. 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.