Thank you for visiting
my web site. Protecting the personal privacy of individuals who
use the Internet is a priority of mine, and I appreciate the opportunity
to describe to you the policies I have put in place to safeguard
the privacy of individuals who visit my Web site. If you have questions
or concerns about my Internet privacy policy, or any other issues
involving the Internet, I want to hear about them and hope you will
contact me, by electronic mail, telephone, or mail, to let me know
your opinions.
My basic Internet privacy policy is simple: my web site collects
no personal information about you when you visit the site unless
you choose to provide that information to me during your visit so
that I can contact you about an issue you have raised or help you
with a problem. Let me describe more specifically the type of information
that may be gathered when you visit my web site and how that information
is handled.
The U.S. Senate collects aggregate data about visits to Senate
web sites, such as statistics that show which parts of each web
site were visited the most. The following information is also
collected when you visit any U.S. Senate web site: the domain
from which you access the Senate web site, the date and time of
your visit, the pages you visit, and the address of the web site,
if any, that provided the link from which you reached the Senate
site. This information is gathered only for the purpose of enabling
us to improve the online service we provide to visitors to Senate
web sites.
No individual identifying or personal information (such as your
name) is automatically gathered when you visit any Senate web
site. My web site does not use 'cookies' or other means to track
your visit to my site in any way. To learn more about the Senate's
Internet security and privacy policy online, please go to this
address: http://www.senate.gov/security.html.
My web site is set up not to collect any personal information
about you when you visit the site unless you choose to provide
that information to us. My web site has an online web form that
you can use to contact me by sending me an electronic mail message
expressing your views or concerns or asking for assistance with
a particular problem involving a federal agency. To send me e-mail,
the online web form asks you for your name, address, e-mail address,
and, if you wish, your home or work telephone numbers. I use this
information provided by you to contact you about the matter you
expressed your views about and to provide any casework assistance
I can regarding problems you may be experiencing in dealing with
a government agency. This information will be available to members
of my staff so they can help me in responding to your message
or request. If we have any incorrect information about you, such
as a wrong address or misspelled name, please contact my office
to correct the error.
If you are requesting help with a casework matter, it also may
be necessary for my office to share the information you provide
with the government agency from which you are requesting assistance,
in order to respond to your request. Other than when needed to
perform constituent casework at your request, or in the course
of an authorized law enforcement investigation or emergency posing
an imminent risk to public safety, my office will share no personal
information communicated through my web site with any outside
organization or individual.
My office tabulates comments received through my web site concerning
legislation and government policy issues so that I will be fully
informed about the views of constituents. From time to time, I
come across a comment made by a constituent, or a situation described
by a constituent, in an e-mail message (as well as postal mail,
phone calls, and faxes) that I feel makes a point of such general
interest that I would like to refer to it in a speech, or include
it in the Congressional Record, or make some other use of it,
either in connection with debate in the Senate or by sharing it
with the relevant government agency. My staff makes every effort
in such cases to contact the author first. If you intend your
message to be confidential, and would prefer that it not be used
in such a way, please feel free to advise me of your preference
in the message, so I can be sure to respect your wishes and see
that your views are held entirely within my office.
My web site has links to other useful sites on the Internet, including
sites of other government agencies and sites relating to Massachusetts.
If you follow any link that takes you to a location that does
not include 'senate.gov' in the address, you will have left the
Senate web server and you will need to refer to that site's own
privacy policy.
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