Privacy Statement

Information Privacy Statement

We respect your privacy. To ensure that every effort is taken to respect that privacy, we would like to tell you what information is collected and how it is managed.

When you visit the Telecommunications site:
If you visit our Web site to read or download information, we do not collect information about you personally. In particular, we do not use "cookies" to collect information. Our server does, however, automatically collect certain technical information about your Internet connection when you visit our Web site. None of this information permits identification of personal information for any individual. We use this information to monitor the popularity of the various features of the site for general reporting and management functions. This information can also be used to evaluate the accessibility of our Web site.

We do use server logs to collect information concerning your Internet connection and general information about your visit to our Web site. We use log analysis tools to create summary statistics, which are used to determine technical design specifications and identify system performance or problem areas. If you would like to know more about the information that we collect, please visit Server Log Information.

To help us ensure that this site is working and maintained properly, we do monitor certain telecommunications and automated information systems and also collect some information for analysis and statistical purposes. Sometimes this means we acquire, record and analyze portions of the data that is entered into, stored on, and/or transmitted through this site by you. This information is only released — when legally required — to help law enforcement investigations, legal proceedings or internal investigations of TAMU rule and regulation violations. These groups would use the information to track the electronic interactions back to the source computer(s) or account(s).

When you send us email with a question or comment:
Personal information that you provide in an email or submitted comment will be used only to respond to the purpose of your request and to analyze possible trends. We may, however, redirect your email to another person or department if they are in a better position to answer your question. The information will not be shared with anyone outside TAMU unless we are compelled by law to do so.

Cookies

A cookie file contains unique information that a Web site can use to track such things as passwords, pages you have visited, the date you last looked at a specific page, and to identify your session at a particular Web site.

Server Log Information

The following information is collected from server logs for analysis:

• User/client hostname - The hostname (or IP address if DNS is disabled) of the user/client requesting access
• HTTP header, "user agent" - The user-agent information includes the type of browser, its version, and the operating system it is running on
• HTTP header, "referrer" - The referrer specifies the page from which the client accessed the current page
• System date - The date and time of the user/client request
• Full request - The exact request the user/client made
• Status - The status code the server returned to the user/client
• Content length - The content length, in bytes, of the document sent to the user/client
• Method - The request method used
• Universal Resource Identifier (URI) - The location of a resource on the server
• Query string of the URI - Anything after the question mark in a URI
• Protocol - The transport protocol and version used