There are four main sections of our privacy policy: Information Collected and Stored Automatically; Information Collected from e-mails; Security, Intrusion, and Detection Issues; and Links to Other Sites.

Information Collected and Stored Automatically

While you browse through our web site, read pages, or download information, we gather and store certain information about your visit automatically. This information does not identify you personally. We only automatically collect and store the following information about visits made to our web site:

1. The IP address (an IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer whenever you are surfing the Web) from which our web site is accessed;



2. The type of browser and operating system used to access our site;



3. The date and time our site is accessed;



4. The pages visited; and



5. If the America's Career InfoNet web site is visited from another web site, the address of that web site.

Use of Cookies

Certain CareerOneStop, America's Career InfoNet, and America's Service Locator Web pages use temporary 'cookies,' which are small amounts of information stored by your Web browser software on your workstation. In all cases, this information is temporary in nature (called 'session cookies') and is deleted as soon as you close your Web browser. None of the information collected is personally identifiable. The use of temporary cookies is solely for the purpose of allowing you to interact with our Web sites in an effective manner, for example, by storing your occupation or location selections so you don't need to enter them repeatedly as you move among the sites or between tools.

Information Collected from e-mails

All e-mail information provided to America's Career InfoNet (as a part of a mailing list or as feedback to the Service Center) is only used for the provided purpose. We do not share our e-mail with any other organizations, unless we are required to as part of a law enforcement investigation.

Security, Intrusion, and Detection Issues

For site security purposes and to ensure that this service remains available to all users, this government computer system employs software programs that monitor network traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change information, or otherwise cause damage.

Except for authorized law enforcement investigations, no other attempts are made to identify individual users or their usage habits. 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.

Links to Other Sites

Our web site has links to other federal agencies and private organizations. When you link to another site, you are no longer on our site and are subject to the privacy policy of the new site.

Disclaimer

This Web site was created to support public access to career and occupational information. The information was created and is maintained by other public and private organizations and is the responsibility of these organizations. The accuracy of the information for individual occupations is subject to error because of the many factors that affect the economy over time. While occupational projections and related job outlook information can provide valuable inputs to the career decision-making process, they should not be the sole basis of a career choice.

Further, the inclusion of links to particular items or sites is not intended to reflect their importance, nor is it intended to endorse any views expressed or products or services offered by the author of the reference or the organization operating the server on which the reference is maintained.