Privacy Statement

This Web site is funded through a grant from the National Institute of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice. Neither the U.S. Department of Justice nor any of its components operate, control, are responsible for, or necessarily endorse, this Web site (including, without limitation, its content, technical infrastructure, and policies, and any services or tools provided).

The National Law Enforcement and Corrections Technology Center (NLECTC) provides the information on this Web site as a service to law enforcement, corrections, and forensic science practitioners. Reference herein to any specific commercial products, processes, or services by trade name, trademark, manufacturer, or otherwise does not necessarily constitute or imply its endorsement, recommendation, or favoring by the United States Government.

The information and statements contained on this Web site shall not be used for the purposes of advertising, nor to imply the endorsement or recommendation of the United States Government.

Information Collected and Stored Automatically

If you visit our site to read or download information, we collect and store the following information about your visit. This information does not identify you personally.

• The Internet domain (for example, "xcompany.com" if you use a private Internet access account or "yourschool.edu" if you connect from a university’s domain);
• Your 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 pages you visit; and
• If you linked to our Web 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, and the types of technology our visitors use. We do not track or record information about individuals and their visits.

Personal Information

You do not have to provide any personal information to visit this Web site. If you choose to provide us with personal information, such as by sending an e-mail or by filling out a form and submitting it through out Web site, we will use that information solely to respond to your message or to fulfill the stated purpose of the communication. Information collected in this manner will not be sold or made available to outside parties.

Cookies

"Cookies" are small bits of text that are either used for the duration of a session ("session cookies") or saved on a user’s hard drive in order to identify that user, or information about that user, the next time the user logs on the a Web site ("persistent cookies"). This Web site does not use persistent cookies or any other persistent tracking technology.

Links to Other Sites

Our Web site contains links to various other federal agencies and private organizations. Once you link to another site, you are then subject to the privacy policies of the new site.