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The Director
of Central Intelligence heads the US Intelligence Community (as
well as the Central Intelligence Agency), which consists of 14 individual
intelligence agencies and offices. For the purpose of the notices
which follow, this website is referred to as the Intelligence Community
Website or simply the IC Website. These notices do not apply to
any other website.
Privacy
Notice
Cookies
Security Notice
Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
General Disclaimer
Disclaimer of Endorsement
Disclaimer of Liability
Links to this Site or Its Contents
Links to Other Sites
Copyright and Trademark Notice
Use of the Central Intelligence Agency Seal
Site Management
Privacy Notice
The Director of Central Intelligence is committed to protecting
your privacy and will collect no personal information about you
unless you choose to provide that information.
If you
simply browse this website:
When you visit the IC Website to browse information it contains, you
do so anonymously unless you choose to provide information about
yourself. If you do nothing but browse the website—reading
pages, viewing photographs, or downloading information, for example—we
will gather and store certain information about your visit automatically.
This information does not identify you personally.
This gathering
and storing of information is separate from the activity described
as monitoring in our Security Notice.
Information
gathered automatically is used for only two purposes: site management
and, in the case of suspected unauthorized activity, for law enforcement
activities and possible criminal prosecution (see
Security Notice).
The IC Website
server automatically logs visitor information from which summary
statistics are created. We use the summary statistics to help
make the site more useful to visitors, such as assessing what
information is of most and least interest to visitors, and for
other purposes such as determining the site's technical design
specifications and identifying system performance or problem areas.
The following
are representative of the types of information automatically collected
and stored about your visit:
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the Internet
domain and Internet Protocol (IP) address from which you access
this website;
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the type
of Internet browser and the operating system of the computer
you use to access this site;
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the date
and time you visit this site;
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the pages
you visit on this site;
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if you
linked to this website from another website, the address of
that website;
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and, if
you linked to our website from a search website, the address
of that website and the search term you used.
Privacy
Act Statement:
Authorities:
50 U.S.C. 403-1; 50 U.S.C. 403-3(d); 50 U.S.C. 403a-g.
Routine
Uses: Information collected via the IC website may
be provided to law enforcement agencies as described in our
Security notice.
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Cookies
The IC Website does NOT use "cookies" to gather and store
information about your visits to this site.
Cookies are
essentially tokens of information, such as preferences and passwords,
that some Web servers collect from you when you access them. That
data is stored on your hard drive—not on the website's server.
Whenever you visit a "cookie" site, the server looks for its cookie
on your hard drive and, if found, then reads the information it
stored there.
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Security Notice
This system and related software and equipment are intended solely
for the communication, transmission, processing, and storage of
U.S. Government information. For site security purposes and to ensure
that this website remains available to all users, the Director of
Central Intelligence monitors network traffic to identify unauthorized
attempts to upload or change information or to otherwise cause damage
to the site. Anyone using this website expressly consents to
such monitoring.
Unauthorized
attempts to modify any information stored on this system, to defeat
or circumvent security features, or to utilize this system for other
than its intended purposes are prohibited and may result in criminal
prosecution.
If monitoring
reveals evidence of possible criminal activity, such evidence may
be provided to law enforcement personnel.
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Computer Fraud
and Abuse Act
Unauthorized attempts to upload information and/or change information
on the IC website is strictly prohibited and is subject to prosecution
under Title 18 U.S.C., Sections1001 and 1030. (see Security
Notice)
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General Disclaimer
Information presented on this website is considered public information
and may be distributed or copied freely unless identified as being
subject to copyright, trademark, or other protection. In return,
we request only that the Director of Central Intelligence or individual
agency or office, as appropriate, be cited as the source of any
information, photos, and images copied from this site and that any
photo credits or bylines be similarly credited to the photographer
or author.
We strongly
recommend that Intelligence Community data be acquired directly
from this website and not through other sources that may change
the information in some way or exclude material crucial to the understanding
of that information. An actual example of the latter is a commercial
website that copied the
CIA World Factbook to its website, but excluded 17 pages of
Notes and Definitions that provide a framework for understanding
the content of the Factbook. While the Intelligence Community makes
every effort to provide accurate and complete information, some
information may change between site updates. Substantive changes
may be noted when content is next updated.
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Disclaimer of
Endorsement
The documents posted on this website may contain hypertext links
or pointers to information created and maintained by other public
and private organizations. These links and pointers are provided
for visitors' convenience. Neither the U.S. Government nor the Director
of Central Intelligence controls or guarantees the accuracy, relevance,
timeliness, or completeness of any linked information. Further,
the inclusion of links or pointers to websites other than those
of Intelligence Community members is not intended to assign importance
to those sites and the information contained therein, nor is it
intended to endorse, recommend, or favor any views expressed, or
commercial products or services offered on these outside sites,
or the organizations sponsoring the sites, by trade name, trademark,
manufacture, or otherwise.
Reference in
this website to any specific commercial products, processes, or
services, or the use of any trade, firm or corporation name is for
the information and convenience of the site's visitor's, and does
not constitute endorsement, recommendation, or favoring by the U.S.
Government or the Director of Central Intelligence.
The views and
opinions of authors expressed herein do not necessarily state or
reflect those of the U.S. Government or the Director of Central
Intelligence, and shall not be used for advertising or product endorsement
purposes.
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Disclaimer of
Liability
Every effort is made to provide accurate and complete information.
However, with the many documents available, often uploaded within
short deadlines, we cannot guarantee that there will be no errors.
The Director of Central Intelligence makes no claims, promises or
guarantees about the accuracy, completeness, or adequacy of the
contents of this website and expressly disclaims liability for errors
and omissions in the contents of this website.
With respect
to the content of the IC Website, neither the United States Government,
nor the Director of Central Intelligence, nor their employees and
contractors make any warranty, expressed or implied or statutory,
including but not limited to the warranties of noninfringement of
third party rights, title, and the warranties of merchantability
and fitness for a particular purpose with respect to content available
from the IC Website or other Internet resources linked from it. Additionally,
neither the U.S. Government nor the Director of Central Intelligence
assumes any legal liability for the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness
of any information, product, or process disclosed herein nor freedom
from computer virus, and do not represent that use of such information,
product, or process would not infringe on privately owned rights.
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Links to this
Web Site or Its Contents
You may freely link to the IC Website or any of its content. We
ask only that you identify that the link is to an Intelligence Community
Internet resource.
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Links to Other
Sites
Our website has links to other United States Government agency websites,
including those of the Intelligence Community agencies and offices.
In a few cases, we may link to private organizations. Once you leave
the IC website, you are subject to the disclaimers and security
and privacy policies of the new site.
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Copyright and
Trademark Notice
Unless a copyright or trademark is indicated, information on the
IC Website is in the public domain and may be reproduced, published
or otherwise used without further permission, provided such use
is not reasonably calculated to convey the impression that such
use is approved, endorsed, or authorized by the Director of Central
Intelligence or IC member agencies and offices. We request only
that the Intelligence Community or specific intelligence agencies
or offices, if identified, be cited as the source of the information
and that any photo credits or bylines be similarly credited to the
photographer or author, the Director of Central Intelligence, or
a member intelligence agency or office, as appropriate.
If a copyright
or trademark is indicated on a photo, graphic, or any other material,
permission to copy these materials must be obtained from the original
source.
This copyright
and trademark notice does not pertain to information at websites
other than the IC Website.
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Use of the Central
Intelligence Agency Seal
The seal of the Central Intelligence Agency is included in this
website. Federal law (50 USC 403m) prohibits use of the words ''Central
Intelligence Agency,'' the initials ''CIA,'' the seal of the Central
Intelligence Agency, or any colorable imitation of such words, initials,
or seal in connection with any merchandise, impersonation, solicitation,
or commercial activity in a manner reasonably calculated to convey
the impression that such use is approved, endorsed, or authorized
by the Central Intelligence Agency.
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Site Management
The Director of Central Intelligence Office of Public Affairs manages
the IC Website.
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