We are committed to the privacy of our visitors. We collect no personal
information about you when you visit our Web site unless you choose to provide
that information to us.
Here is how we handle information about your visit to our Web site.
Information Collected and Stored Automatically: If you do nothing during your
visit but browse through the Web site, read pages or download information, we
will gather and store certain information about your visit automatically. This
information does not identify you personally. We automatically collect and
store information like the following concerning your visit.
We use this information to help us make our site more useful to visitors—to
learn about the number of visitors to our site and the types of technology our
visitors use.
Information Protection
For site security purposes and to ensure that this service remains available to
all users, this computer system employs software programs to monitor
network traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change
information, or otherwise cause damage. If such monitoring reveals evidence of
possible abuse or criminal activity, such evidence may be provided to
appropriate law enforcement officials. Unauthorized attempts to upload or
change information on this server are strictly prohibited and may be punishable
under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 and the National Information
Infrastructure Protection Act or other law.
Information That You Voluntarily Provide
We do not collect personally-identifiable information unless you choose to
provide it to us. If you provide us with personally identifiable information,
for example by sending an e-mail or by filling out a form and submitting it
through our Web site, we use that information only to respond to your message
and to help us provide you with the information and services that you request.
Submitting voluntary information constitutes your consent to the use of the
information for the stated purpose. When a user clicks a "submit" button on any
of the Web forms found on our site they are indicating voluntary consent to use
of the information they submit for the stated purpose. We do not collect or use
information for commercial marketing.
Links to Other Sites
This site may have links to other Web sites. Once you go to another site, you
are subject to the privacy policy of the new site. It is always a good idea to
read the Privacy Policy of any Web site that you visit.
Cookies
"Cookies" are small bits of text that are either used for the duration of a
session ("session cookies"), or saved on a user's hard drive in order to
identify that user, or information about that user, the next time the user logs
on to a Web site ("persistent cookies"). One or more of our component sites may
use session cookies to provide streamlined navigation. These session cookies
are deleted from the component's server after your session ends and information
from them is not collected or saved.
Interaction with Children
This Web site may offer educational content to children under 13. No personally
identifiable information is collected from them unless voluntarily submitted as
a request for information or services. The information collected is used to
respond to user inquiries or to provide services requested by our users.
Policy Changes
We may, from time to time, update our privacy policy to add new policies,
delete old information and change language to better reflect the privacy
commitments of this site. The latest version can always be located
here. We encourage you to check the privacy policy on occassion to
become familiar with any updates to the policy.
Your Rights Under the Privacy Act
More information about the Privacy Act can be found at the following off-site
link. http://www.cftc.gov/foia/foiprivacyact.htm