For site security purposes
and to ensure that this service remains available to all users, GSA webservers
employ industry-standard methods to monitor network traffic to identify
unauthorized attempts to upload or change information, or otherwise cause
damage. Unauthorized attempts to upload information or change information on
GSA servers are strictly prohibited and may be punishable by law, including the
Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 and the National Information
Infrastructure Protection Act. In the specific context of this security
monitoring, there is no expectation of privacy. However, only in the case of
actual law enforcement investigations, will we attempt to identify individual
users or their usage habits.
To increase our visitor's
comfort level when ordering publications on-line with a credit card, we are now
using a web site authentication system, VeriSign. VeriSign validates that you
are really doing business with us (not an impostor) and that the information
that you are sending can not be intercepted or decrypted by anyone other than
us. Want to check it out? Click on the VeriSign icon in the bottom right corner
on the on-line shop page.
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