For site management, usage information
is collected for statistical purposes.
The State Department website uses software
programs to create summary statistics
for such purposes as assessing what information
is of most and least interest or identifying
system performance or problem areas. The
following is the type of information collected
about your visit to the web site: the
name of the Internet domain from which
you access State Department websites and
the date and time that you access the
site. If you choose to provide us with
personal information in an email message,
we use it only to respond to your email.
For site security purposes and to ensure
that this service remains available to
all users, the State Department uses software
programs 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 this
service are strictly prohibited and subject
to prosecution under the Computer Fraud
and Abuse Act of 1986 and Title 18 U.S.C.
Sec.1001 and 1030. Information also may
be used for authorized law enforcement
investigations.
Except for the above purposes, no other
attempts are made to identify individual
users or their usage habits.
The State Department provides
external links solely for our readers'
information and convenience. When readers
select a link to an external website,
they are leaving the state.gov site and
are subject to the privacy and security
policies of the owners/sponsors of the
external website. The State Department:
