Privacy and Security Notice

Privacy & Security

How we handle the information we gather when you visit our website:

Thank you for visiting www.gsa.gov/cmls . Unless you choose to provide additional information to us by setting up an account and ordering a publication, we will collect no personal information about you other than the information (below), which is automatically collected and stored when you visit our site

Information automatically collected and stored:

We collect only the following information about you:

the name of the domain from which you access the Internet (i.e., erols.com if you are connecting from an Erols account, or Harvard.edu if you are connecting from Harvard University's domain); the date and time of your visit; the pages you visit on gsa.gov; and the Internet address of the website you came from if it linked you directly to gsa.gov.

If your browser accepts cookies, we may use a session cookie to decide if you are a repeat or a new visitor. We also use session cookies so we can learn how many different visitors come to www.gsa.gov. We use this information for statistical purposes and to help us make our site more useful to you. When we look at this data, it is always presented in an aggregate form. We do not track or look at an individual's use of our site. For more information on cookies, and how they are used on www.gsa.gov, please refer to our Cookies Page.

If you establish an account or send us personal information:

When you send us personal information (e.g., by setting up an account or by requesting to receive a publication, or by an email message containing a question or comment), we use this information to respond to your request. We may forward your e-mail to the government employee or government contractor who can best answer your question. GSA or government contractors acting on our behalf may contact you via e-mail or phone to provide shipment status of orders, update your account or resolve issues.

From time to time, we use or release to GSA contractors our customer account information (i.e., names, postal addresses, email and telephone information) to provide periodic updates on new offerings, upcoming events, to conduct surveys on the quality of services provided by GSA, or for new, unanticipated uses not previously disclosed. This information is also subject to Freedom of Information Act requests.

If you do not want us to use or share your account information for other than the purpose it was provided, please let us know through your privacy preferences on the account registration page.

We want to make it clear that we will not obtain personally identifying information about you when you visit our site, unless you choose to provide that information to us. We do release personally identifying information for authorized law enforcement investigations, or as otherwise required by law, or as allowed by your opt-in preference.

Security:

For site security purposes and to ensure that this service remains available to all users, GSA webservers use industry-standard methods 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 GSA servers are strictly prohibited and may be punishable by law, including the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 and the National Information Infrastructure Protection Act.

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If you have any questions about these policies, please contact GSA at npc@gsa.gov.