CWDDC Disclaimer & Privacy Statement
The following statements and disclaimers apply to the Chronic Wasting Disease Data Clearinghouse (CWDDC) Web pages managed by the National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII) unless otherwise noted. The CWDDC is password-protected and not available to the general public.
Privacy || Non-CWDDC Sites || Non-Endorsement
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The NBII Web site which referred you to this document conforms to the general policy on privacy as outlined below.
The CWDDC collects and stores Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) information that your Web browser sends when a user performs certain site functions, including:
The logs are periodically summarized and analyzed in order to study site usage over time and to perform other studies to help us improve the site's organization, performance, and usefulness.
When you send us personal identifying information via e-mail (that is, in a message containing a question or comment, or by filling out a form that e-mails us this information), we use it to respond to your requests. We may forward your e-mail to other Government employees, partner agencies, or contract personnel who are better able to answer your questions. We do not retain or distribute lists of e-mail addresses to any parties outside of the NBII except as necessary to conduct official U.S. Government business. In no event do we distribute lists of e-mail addresses to non-Government entities.
On-Line Comments and Feedback
Any feedback and comments provided will be reviewed, evaluated, and considered for purposes of improving and modifying the CWDDC production version to improve its functionality and usability for users.
We want to make it clear that we will not obtain personal identifying information about you when you visit our Web site, unless you choose to provide such information to us. Except in the course of officially authorized law enforcement investigations, or in the event of a suspected attempt to deliberately circumvent our system's security with the intent to gain unauthorized access or to do physical damage (for example, an attack by hackers), we do not attempt to identify individual users or share any information we receive with any parties outside of the NBII. In the latter case, collected information associated with a suspected intruder might be shared with an incident response service.
Cookies - Some applications may save a "cookie" on your browser to provide a temporary history of actions taken. We do not retain any record of "cookies" beyond what is necessary for running the application.
CWDDC activity logs - Monthly extracts of the log files are archived and stored off-line at our discretion for an indefinite period of time. Some statistical summaries derived from these data may be retained online or off-line at our discretion for an indefinite period of time.
E-mail - Information collected via e-mail will be retained at our discretion in a directly readable form for as long as necessary to complete our response. The e-mail may be retained in an archival form as required by Federal laws and regulations governing the retention of historical records of government agencies. For more information, please refer to the National Archives and Records Administration's Records Management Program.
The CWDDC site contains numerous links to data and information on the Web. Links and pointers to non-CWDDC sites are provided for information only and do not constitute endorsement, express or implied, by the NBII, its partner agencies, or the U.S. Government, of the referenced organizations, their suitability, content, products, or services, whether they are governmental, educational, or commercial.
Hypertext links and other references to non-CWDDC products and services are provided for information only and do not constitute endorsement or warranty, express or implied, by the NBII, its partner agencies, or the U.S. Government, as to their suitability, content, usefulness, functioning, completeness, or accuracy.
We make every effort to provide and maintain accurate, complete, usable, and timely information on our Web pages. However, some CWDDC data and information accessed through these pages may, of necessity, be preliminary in nature and presented prior to final review. Additionally, some data may be entered solely for the purpose of testing system functionality, representing “unverified” data. These data and information are provided with the understanding that they are not guaranteed to be correct or complete. Users are cautioned to consider carefully the provisional nature of these data and information before using them for decisions that concern personal or public safety or the conduct of business that involves substantial monetary or operational consequences. Conclusions drawn from or actions undertaken on the basis of such data and information are the sole responsibility of the user.
NBII-authored or produced data and information are in the public domain. While the content of many NBII Web pages is in the public domain, some NBII pages contain material that is copyrighted by others and used by the NBII with permission. You may need to obtain permission from the copyright owner for other uses. Furthermore, some non-NBII data, products, and information linked, or referred to, from this site may be protected under U.S. and foreign copyright laws. You may need to obtain permission from the copyright owner to acquire, use, reproduce, or distribute these materials. It is the sole responsibility of you, the user of this site, to carefully examine the content of the NBII and all linked pages for copyright restrictions and to secure all necessary permissions.
Neither the U.S. Government nor any agency thereof, nor any of their employees, contractors, subcontractors, make any warranty, express or implied, nor assume any legal liability or responsibility for the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any information, apparatus, product, or process disclosed, nor represent that its use would not infringe on privately owned rights.
If you have any questions about this "NBII Privacy Policy and Disclaimers," please contact:
NBII National Program Manager
U.S. Geological Survey
12201 Sunrise Valley Dr., MS 302
Reston, VA 20192
Telephone: (703) 648-NBII (6244)
Fax: (703) 648-4224
E-mail: nbii@nbii.gov