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October 31, 2000
This web site is part of a Federal computer system used
to accomplish Federal functions. The Department of Energy
monitors this web site for security purposes to ensure
it remains available to all users and to protect
information in the system. By accessing this web site,
you are expressly consenting to these monitoring
activities.
Unauthorized attempts to defeat or circumvent security features,
to use the system for other than intended purposes, to
deny service to authorized users, to access, obtain, alter,
damage, or destroy information, or otherwise to interfere
with the system or its operation are prohibited. Evidence of such
acts may be disclosed to law enforcement authorities
and result in criminal prosecution under the Computer
Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 (Pub. L. 99-474) and
the National Information Infrastructure Protection
Act of 1996 (Pub. L. 104-294), (18 U.S.C. 1030),
or other applicable criminal laws.
We collect no personal information about you when
you visit a DOE Web site,
unless otherwise stated and unless you choose to
provide this information to us. However, we collect
and store certain information automatically. What
we collect and store automatically is:
- the Internet Protocol (IP) address of the
domain from which you access the
Internet (i.e. 123.456.789.012) whether
yours individually or provided as a
proxy by your Internet Service Provider
(ISP),
- the date and time you accessed our site,
- the pages you peruse (recorded by the text
and graphics files that compose that
page),
- and the Internet address of the Web Site
from which you linked directly to our
site.
We use the summary statistics to help us make our
site more useful to visitors, such as assessing what
information is of most and least interest to visitors,
and for other purposes such as determining the site's
technical design specifications and identifying system
performance or problem areas.
This information is NOT shared with anyone beyond
the support staff to this home page except when required
by Law Enforcement investigation, and is used only
as a source of anonymous statistical information.
You may choose to provide us with personal
information, as in an e-mail message containing your
comments or questions. We use this information to
improve our service to you or to respond to your
request. There are times when your message is forwarded,
as e-mail, to other Department of Energy employees
who may be better able to help you. Except for authorized
law enforcement investigations, we do not share our
e-mail with any other outside organizations.
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