Disclaimers and Important Notices About This Website

Disclaimer of Liability
This is a United States Government web site produced and maintained by the Western Great Basin Coordination Center (WGBCC). This is not a real-time website. Information presented on this web site is public domain and may be distributed or copied freely. Use of appropriate byline, photo or image credits is requested. While the WGBCC makes every effort to ensure the accuracy and completeness of information found on this web site, neither the United States Government nor any of its employees, including members of the WGBCC, makes any warranty, expressed or implied, or assumes any legal liability for the accuracy, reliability or completeness of the information, apparatus, product or process disclosed, or represents that its use would not infringe on privately owned rights.

Disclaimer for External Links
The appearance of external hyperlinks is provided with the intent of meeting the mission of the WGBCC. It does not constitute an endorsement by the United States Government nor any of its employees, including the WGBCC, of the linked web sites or of the information, products or services contained therein. Unless otherwise specified, neither the United States Government nor any of its employees, including members of the WGBCC, exercise any editorial control over the information that may be found on these external sites. Please let the WGBCC know of any external links you believe are inappropriate or about specific additional items you believe should be included on this web site.

Disclaimer of Non-endorsement
Reference herein to any specific commercial products, processes or services by trade name, trademark, manufacturer or otherwise does not necessarily constitute or imply its endorsement, recommendation or favoring by the United States Government or its employees, including members of the WGBCC. Views and opinions of authors expressed herein do not necessarily state or reflect those of the United States Government, and shall not be used for advertising or product endorsement purposes.

Security Notice
For site security purposes and to ensure that this service remains available to all users, this government computer system employs software programs to monitor network traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change information or otherwise cause damage. Unauthorized attempts to upload information or change information on this web site are strictly prohibited and may be punishable under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 and the National Information Infrastructure Protection Act.

Except for authorized law enforcement investigations, no other attempts will be made to identify individual users or their usage habits. Raw data logs are used for no other purposes and are scheduled for regular destruction in accordance with National Archives and Records Administration General Schedule 20.

Privacy Statement

Information presented on this website is considered public information and may be distributed or copied unless otherwise indicated. Use of appropriate byline/photo/image credit is requested.

For site management, information is collected for statistical purposes. This government computer system uses software programs to create summary statistics, which are used for such purposes as assessing what information is of most and least interest, determining technical design specifications, and identifying system performance or problem areas.

For site security purposes and to ensure that this service remains available to all users, this government computer system employs software programs to monitor network traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change information, or otherwise cause damage. Unauthorized attempts to upload information or change information on this service are strictly prohibited and may be punishable under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1987 and the National Information Infrastructure Protection Act.

Except for authorized law enforcement investigations, no other attempts are made to identify individual users or their usage habits. Raw data logs are used for no other purposes than those stated in this notice.

If you have any questions or comments about the information presented here, please forward them to us using the Comment Form.

To protect your privacy, this site does not use persistent "cookies." 

Example of Information Collected from this web site for Statistical Purposes

Below is an example of the information collected based on a standard request for a World Wide Web document.

xxx.yyy.com - - [ 28/Jan/1997: 00:00:01 -0500] "GET /news/nr012797.html HTTP/1.0" 200 16704 Mozilla 3.0/www.altavista.digital.com

xxx.yyy.com (or 123.123.23.12) -- this is the host name (or IP address) associated with the requester (you as the visitor). In this case, (.com) the requester is coming from a commercial address. Depending on the requester's method of network connection, the host name (or IP address) may or may not identify a specific computer. Connections via many Internet Service Providers assign different IP addresses for each session, so the host name identifies only the ISP. The host name (or IP address) will identify a specific computer if that computer has a fixed IP address.

[ 28/Jan/1997: 00:00:01 -0500] -- this is the date and time of the request

"GET /news/nr012797.html HTTP/1.0" -- this is the location of the requested file on the web server 200 -- this is the status code - 200 is OK - the request was filled

16704 -- this is the size of the requested file in bytes

Mozilla 3.0 -- this identifies the type of browser software used to access the page, which indicates what design parameters to use in constructing the pages

www.altavista.digital.com - this indicates the last site the person visited, which indicates how people find our site

Requests for other types of documents use similar information. No personally-identifying information is collected.