Privacy and Security Notice
About Privacy and Security
- This World Wide Web (WWW) site is provided as a public service by the
Environmental Protection Agency and by Environment
Canada.
- Information presented on this WWW site is considered public information
and may be distributed or copied. The U.S. Government retains a
nonexclusive, royalty-free license to publish or reproduce these documents,
or allow others to do so, for U.S. Government purposes. These documents may
be freely distributed and used for non-commercial, scientific and
educational purposes. Commercial use of the documents available from this
server may be protected under the U.S. and Foreign Copyright Laws.
Individual documents on this server may have different copyright conditions,
and that will be noted in those documents.
- When you come to this web site to browse, you do so anonymously. EPA does
not collect identifying information about you. We collect only summary
information about the numbers of
individuals who visit our web site and what those individuals look at. This
government computer system uses industry-standard software to create summary
statistics, which are used for such things as assessing what information is
of most and least interest, determining technical design specifications, and
identifying system performance or problem areas.
- Where identifying information is asked of you (to respond to an
information request, etc.) that information is used only for responding to
your comment or question and is not made available for other purposes. See
our comments notice of use.
- For site security purposes and to ensure that this service remains
available to all users, this government computer system employs
industry-standard methods to monitor network traffic to identify
unauthorized attempts to upload or change information, or otherwise cause
damage.
- No other attempts are made to identify individual users or their usage
habits. Raw data logs are used for no other purposes and are scheduled for
regular destruction in accordance with National Archives and Records
Administration guidelines.
- Unauthorized attempts to upload information or change information on this
service are strictly prohibited and may be punishable under the Computer
Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986.
- If you have any questions or comments about the information presented
here, please forward them to us through the address on our Comments
Page.
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