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Privacy Act Notice
For site management, information is collected for statistical purposes. The Department of State Web Site uses software programs to create summary statistics for such purposes as assessing what information is of most and least interest or identifying system performance or problem areas. The following is the type of information collected about your visit to the web site: the name of the Internet domain from which you access State Department web sites (for example, "aol.com" if you are connecting from America Online) and the date and time you access our site. If you choose to provide us with personal information in an email message, we use it only to respond to your email.
For site security purposes and to ensure that this service remains available to all users, the State Department uses 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. 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.
Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
Unauthorized attempts to upload information and/or change information on these web sites are strictly prohibited and are subject to prosecution under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 and Title 18 U.S.C. Sec.1001 and 1030.
For More Information
Public Communication Division
PA/PL, Room 2206
U.S. Department of State
Washington, D.C. 20520
202-647-6575
Visit: http://contact-us.state.gov
Disclaimers
The information content and design/organization of the website launched on January 20, 2001 at http://www.state.gov (the "current" site) are maintained by the Office of Electronic Information (PA/EI) of the Bureau of Public Affairs. The Department of State website as it existed until January 19, 2001, at http://www.state.gov (the "archive" site) is no longer updated, but remains available for archive and research purposes. Please direct technical questions about http://www.state.gov to our contact us page.
Some bureaus/offices maintain servers separately from the site maintained by PA/EI. However, PA/EI coordinates release of information on those servers to ensure that it is linked appropriately with the site at http://www.state.gov. When available, the contacts for technical support are listed below. For sites not listed, please visit our contact us page; your message will be forwarded to the appropriate office or bureau.
Links to External Websites
Links to websites outside the U.S. Federal Government or the use of trade, firm, or corporation names within the State Department websites are for the convenience of the user. Such use does not constitute an official endorsement or approval by the U.S. State Department of any private sector website, product, or service.
Disclaimer of Liability
Every effort is made to provide accurate and complete information. However, with the thousands of documents available, often uploaded within short deadlines, we cannot guarantee that there will be no errors. With respect to documents and information on the current and archive State Department websites, neither the U.S. Government, the U.S. Department of State, the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC--host for electronic research collections), Digex (web host), ClearBlue Technologies (formerly Applied Theory, an independent software development contractor), nor their employees and contractors make any warranty, expressed or implied, including the warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose with respect to documents available from State Department websites. Additionally, the U.S. Government, U.S. State Department, Digex, ClearBlue Technologies, and UIC assume no legal liability for the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any information, product, or process disclosed herein and do not represent that use of such information, product, or process would not infringe on privately owned rights.
Please read the State Department's guidelines pursuant to the Data Quality Information Act before submitting inquiries under this Act.
If you would like verification or a hard copy of information released on State Department websites or if you have any questions or comments about the information presented here, please contact the public information staff in the Bureau of Public Affairs.
Public Communication Division
PA/PL, Room 2206
U.S. Department of State
Washington, DC 20520
202-647-6575
Also see http://contact-us.state.gov/
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