| SECURITY
NOTICE This web site is
part of a Federal computer system used to accomplish Federal functions. The Department of
Energy monitors this web site for security purposes to ensure it remains available to all
users and to protect information in the system. By accessing this web site, you are
expressly consenting to these monitoring activities.
Unauthorized attempts to defeat or
circumvent security features, to use the system for other than intended purposes, to deny
service to authorized users, to access, obtain, alter, damage, or destroy information, or
otherwise to interfere with the system or its operation are prohibited. Evidence of such
acts may be disclosed to law enforcement authorities and result in criminal prosecution
under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 (Pub. L. 99-474) and the National
Information Infrastructure Protection Act of 1996 (Pub. L. 104-294), (18 U.S.C. 1030), or
other applicable criminal laws.
GENERAL DISCLAIMER
This system is made available by an agency of the United
States Government. Neither the United States Government nor any agency thereof, nor any of
their employees, makes any warranty, express or implied, or assumes any legal liability or
responsibility for the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any information,
apparatus, product or process disclosed, or represents that its use would not infringe
privately owned rights. Reference herein to any specific commercial product, process, or
service by trade name, trademark, manufacturer, or otherwise, does not necessarily
constitute or imply its endorsement, recommendation, or favoring by the United States
Government or any agency thereof. The views and opinions of originators expressed herein
do not necessarily state or reflect those of the United States Government or any agency
thereof.
PRIVACY POLICY
We collect no personal information about you when you visit
oro.doe.gov unless you choose to provide this information to us. However, we collect and
store certain information automatically. What we collect and store automatically is: the
Internet Protocol (IP) address of the domain from which you access the Internet (i.e.
123.456.789.012) whether yours individually or provided as a proxy by your Internet
Service Provider (ISP) the date and time you access our site the pages you peruse
(recorded by the text and graphics files that compose that page) and, the Internet address
of the Website from which you linked directly to our site. We use this information to
count the number and types of visitors who use our site, how our pages and links are used
and, ultimately, to help us make our site more useful to you. This information is NOT
shared with anyone beyond the support staff to this home page, except when required by Law
Enforcement investigation, and is used only as a source of anonymous statistical
information.
Some applications available on this site require a username
and password login that is separate from the network login.
In those cases, login information may be collected for your application login
session only. That information is not written to a
file and disappears after your logout.
INTERNAL
USE ONLY
The information contained here is exclusively
for the internal use of authorized employees of the Department of Energy (DOE) Oak Ridge
Operations, or by other persons authorized by DOE's Oak Ridge Operations Office. The
Operations Office therefore retains the right to monitor the content of all messages and
to access any computer files without prior knowledge or consent of user, sender, or
addressee.
COMMENTS SENT BY E-MAIL
You may choose to provide us with personal information, as
in an e-mail message containing your comments or questions. We use this information to
improve our service to you or to respond to your request. There are times when your
message is forwarded, as e-mail, to other Department of Energy employees who may be better
able to help you. Except for authorized law enforcement investigations, we do not share
our e-mail with any other outside organizations. |
