Thank you for visiting our web site and reviewing our privacy policy. Our privacy policy is clear: We will not collect any 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, do searches, read pages, or download information, we will automatically gather and store certain information about your visit. This information does not identify you personally. No information about users/visitors will be sold, shared, or utilized in any commercial way. We automatically collect and store only the following information about your visit:

• The Internet domain (for example, “company.com” if you use a private Internet access account, or “yourschool.edu” if you connect from a university’s domain) and IP address (an IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer whenever you are surfing the Web) from which you access our web site;
• the type of browser and operating system used to access our site;
• the date and time you access our site;
• the searches you make;
• the pages you visit; and
• if you linked to this site from another web site, the address of that web site.

We use this information to help us make our site more useful to visitors — to learn about the number of visitors to our site, what part of the site they are interested in, how long they use the site, and the types of technology our visitors use. WE DO NOT TRACK OR RECORD INFORMATION ABOUT THE IDENTITY OF INDIVIDUALS AND THEIR VISITS.

Sometimes we write a small file on the user’s computer called a “session cookie.” Session cookies automatically expire when users leave a Web site; session cookies retain information only during the session or for the purpose of completing a particular online transaction, without any capacity to track users over time and across different web sites. Other than a session cookie, and the six items described above, we do not obtain any information from the user or the user’s computer. We do not use “persistent cookies”.

If You Send Us Personal Information
If send us e-mail, or send a message via our “Feedback or publications order form, your identity and the contents of your message are covered by the Privacy Act. Be assured that:

• The information will not be shared with anyone not associated with the website.
• Your e-mail address will not be provided to any third party or used for any electronic mailing lists without your express permission.
• We do not create individual profiles with the e-mail information you provide or to give it to any other organizations.
• The e-mail material, including your e-mail address and/or name will in no way be correlated or linked to the material that is automatically collected as described above.

The use we will make of your information is to:

• Consider your suggestions.
• Possibly respond directly to you for clarification.
• Process your request for materials if you make one.
• Try and answer your questions if you ask them.

Links to Other Sites
Our web site has links to many other sites. Once you link to another site, you are subject to the privacy policy of the new site. This includes the sites that you may link to through our search engine.

For children:
Hello! Thank you for visiting our website. We hope you have done so with the help of a parent or teacher because that is one of the best ways to explore the Internet and make sure that the sites you visit are educational and fun. We do not collect any information about you but we do collect some information from your computer. When you visit our web pages, to read or to take information for your computer, this is what we want to know from your computer:

• How did you find us? It may have been through your school or something like America Online (AOL).
• When did you visit our website? Our computer calendar and clock will tell us the day and time of your visit.
• Which of our pages did you visit and which did you like the most?
• If you came to us from a web page at a different website, which one was it?

We are very interested in what you have to say. If you write to us, we use your e-mail address from your message to respond to you. It is up to you whether you tell us who you are and where you live but make sure it is okay with a parent or guardian first — and any other time you provide information on line. If you are not sure it is okay with them, you can always come back and visit the site again later, when you have their permission. While we cannot respond to your message without your e-mail address, you can still write to us and visit the rest of this website without providing any information about yourself.

Computers and the Police! Don’t forget we promise not to tell anyone anything that you or your computer tell us. The only time we cannot keep this promise is if someone breaks the law and tries to mess up our web pages. Then, the police will need information from us to capture the person who is doing this.

Remember! Although, we do not keep information on you, some computers might. They have to tell you first if they are going to keep information about you and they should tell you why and for how long they keep the information. Make sure your parents know about these computers before you give any information about yourself!

My thanks to SAMHSA for placing the text of this notice in the public domain.