Privacy and Security Notice
USDA Privacy Policy
- This World Wide Web (WWW) site is provided as a public service by
the USDA Forest Service.
- Information presented on this WWW site is considered public information
and may be distributed or copied. Use of appropriate byline/photo/image credit
is requested.
- For site management, information is collected for statistical purposes.
This government computer system uses software programs to create summary statistics,
which are used for such purposes as assessing what information is of most and
least interest, determining technical design specifications, and identifying
system performance or problem areas. Raw data logs are used for no other purposes
and are scheduled for regular destruction in accordance with National Archives
and Records Administration General
Records Schedule 20. No Privacy Act information, such as name and address,
is collected or used for this analysis.
- For site security purposes and to ensure that this service remains available
to all users, this government computer system employs 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 may be punishable under
the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 and the National Information Infrastructure
Protection Act. 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.
- If you are commenting on a national forest management issue through this
WWW site, your comments and personally identifying information may be made public
pursuant to established regulation; for example,
36 CFR 215.6
. Similarly, if you are commenting about other regulatory, legal, or administrative
processes, your comments and personally identifying information may be made
public
( 7 CFR Subpart B, Sec. 1.27 )
.
- If you have any questions or comments about the information presented here,
please forward them to us:
USDA Forest Service
FOIA/PA Office
Phone: 703-605-4913
Modified:
March 19, 2001