PRIVACY STATEMENT
For Kids:
Please don't send us e-mail, Especially if you are under 13. Instead, have an
adult send the message. Have your parents, teachers and school librarian contact
us if you need further assistance.
For Adults and children over 13:
We are committed to maintaining a web site that protects the individual’s
right to privacy. We do not require personal information from our visitors,
nor do we collect any personally identifying information (name, email address,
Social Security number, or other unique identifier) unless you knowingly provide
it. Likewise, we do not give, sell, or transfer any personal information to
a third party except as might be required by law .
Data Collection for Statistics
To aid in web site management, certain information is collected for statistical
purposes. The Service uses specialized software to create summary statistics,
which are used for such purposes as assessing what information is of most and
least interest to our customers, determining technical design specifications,
and identifying system performance or problem areas.
We collect only the following information about your visit:
The name of the domain from which you access the Internet (for example, "princeton.edu" if you are connecting from Princeton University’s domain, or "aol.com" if you are connecting from an America Online account); The web site from which you linked directly to our web site, if you have used another web site to reach our site; The operating system and web browser you use to view pages; The date and time you access our web site.
We use the information we collect to measure the number of visitors to the different sections of our web site, allowing us to make our web site more useful and accessible to visitors. We do not store any personal identifiers.
Information Collected from E-mails and Forms
You may decide to send us personally identifying information through e-mail
messages or through on-line forms. Electronic communication allows us to collect
information that will improve our web site for you, and we encourage it. We
use personally-identifying information from consumers in various ways to further
our customer's protection and to provide better service. This may be to correct
broken links that you have identified or provide additional information that
you have requested.
Security Checks
For web site security purposes and to ensure that this service remains available
to all users, we employ software programs to monitor network traffic, identify
unauthorized attempts to upload or change information, or otherwise cause damage.
Unauthorized attempts to upload or change information on this web site are strictly
prohibited and may be punishable under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986
and the National Information Infrastructure Protection Act.
STANDARD DISCLAIMER
We will link to external sites that help us perform our mission.
Links to external servers do not imply any official endorsement of the opinions
or ideas expressed therein, or guarantee the
validity of the information provided. Links to commercial sites are in no way
an endorsement of any vendor's products or services. Links will be provided
to external servers that are managed in a professional manner (i.e., it is fully
operational, is available most of the time, does not serve inaccurate information
or obscene graphics, etc.). This server will not link to external servers if
such a link would appear to provide an official endorsement of fundraising efforts
or lobbying for a political agenda.
COPYRIGHT STATEMENT
1. You are welcome to make a link to any of the Web pages the Service has
published on the Internet. There is no need to request permission.
2. Not all the information on our site is in the public domain. Some images/graphics
are licensed for use under the copyright law
We will identify material we use from sources outside the Service, and request
others
do the same when using information published by the Service. Credit can be provided
by including on the page (or via a link to a credits page) a citation such as: