PRIVACY
POLICY PRIVACY
POLICY These World Wide Web pages are provided as a public service by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration / National Severe Storms Laboratory. Unless otherwise noted on photographs, information presented on these pages is considered public information and may be distributed or copied.
Your rights under the Privacy Act: Information concerning the Privacy Act can be found on the following Web site: http://www.cftc.gov/foia/foiprivacyact.htm
We do not collect personal information about you when you visit our site unless you choose to provide that information to us. Submitting voluntary information constitutes your consent to use the information for the stated purpose.
Cookies: The National Severe Storms Laboratoey does not use "persistent cookies" or any other persistant tracking methods to collect personally identifiable information about visitors to its Web sites. Some individual pages may use session cookies to save information about your previous usage of those pages. This information is saved only in the browser session in which it was created. We will not share this information with any others.
For site security purposes and for the protection of users of our Web site, this government computer system has safeguards in place to monitor network traffic in order to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change information, or otherwise cause harm to information and systems.
Some of our Web pages contain links to Web sites outside NSSL, including those of other federal agencies, state and local governments, and private organizations. Please be aware that when you follow a link to another site, you are then subject to the privacy policies of the new site.
...when you read or download information from this Web site
We collect and store the following information: the date and time, the originating IP address, the type of browser and operating system used (if provided by the browser), the URL of the referring page (if provided by the browser), the object requested, and the completion status of the request.
We use the information we collect to measure the number of visitors to the different areas of our site, and to help us make our site more useful to visitors. This includes analyzing these logs to determine the traffic through our servers, the number of pages served, and the level of demand for pages and topics of interest. The logs may be preserved indefinitely and used at any time and in any way necessary to prevent security breaches and to insure the integrity of the data on our servers.
...when you submit an online form
Some of our pages provide forms allowing visitors to submit search engine queries, questionnaires, feedback, or other information. Some of these forms may request personally-identifying information (e.g., name, address, e-mail address) for specific purposes, such as when you are requesting a personal response, registering for a conference, or subscribing to a mailing list. When you provide this information you do so voluntarily.
We may store non-personally-identifying information we collect indefinitely to help us better understand and meet the needs of our visitors. We may share non-personally-identifying information with others, including the the public, in aggregated form, in partial or edited form, or verbatim.
We will not share any personally-identifying information you give us with any other government agency, private organization, or the public, except with your consent or as required by law.
...when you send us E-mail
By sending us an electronic mail message, you may be sending us personally-identifying information such as your name and E-mail address. We retain this information to respond to your request. We also archive E-mail messages to help us evaluate and improve the usefulness of our site. We do not share any personally-identifying information you give us with others.
If you have any questions or comments about the information presented here, please contact us on line at http://www.nssl.noaa.gov/contact.shtml or telephone NSSL at (405) 360-3620.
National Severe Storms Laboratory
1313 Halley Circle
Norman, OK 73069
8/4/2004