Privacy Statement

This website is funded through a grant from the National Institute of Justice (NIJ), Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). Neither DOJ nor any of its components operate, control, are responsible for or necessarily endorse this website (including, without limitation, its content, technical infrastructure and policies, and any services or tools provided).

The National Law Enforcement and Corrections Technology Center (NLECTC) System provides the information on this website as a service to law enforcement, corrections and forensic science practitioners. 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 U.S. government.

The information and statements contained on this website shall not be used for the purposes of advertising, nor to imply the endorsement or recommendation of the U.S. government.

Information Collected and Stored Automatically

If you visit our site to read or download information, we collect and store the following information about your visit. This information does not identify you personally.

• The Internet domain (for example, "xcompany.com" if you use a private Internet access account or "yourschool.edu" if you connect from a university’s domain).
• Your IP address (an IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer whenever you are surfing the Web) from which you access our website.
• The type of browser and operating system used to access our site.
• The date and time you access our site.
• The pages you visit.
• If you linked to our website from another website, the address of that website.

We use this information to help us make our site more useful to visitors, to learn about the number of visitors to our site, and the types of technology our visitors use. We do not track or record information about individuals and their visits.

Personal Information

You do not have to provide any personal information to visit this website. If you choose to provide us with personal information, such as by sending an e-mail or by filling out a form and submitting it through out website, we will use that information solely to respond to your message or to fulfill the stated purpose of the communication. Information collected in this manner will not be sold or made available to outside parties.

Cookies

"Cookies" are small bits of text that are either used for the duration of a session ("session cookies") or saved on a user's hard drive in order to identify that user, or information about that user, the next time the user accesses a website ("persistent cookies"). JUSTNET or its component sites may use session cookies to provide streamlined navigation throughout their sites and for statistical analysis. These session cookies are not collected or saved by JUSTNET. You can set up your Web browser to inform you when cookies are set or to prevent cookies from being set. You can still use our website if you do not accept the cookies, but you may be unable to use certain cookie-dependent features.

Links to Other Sites

Our website contains links to various other federal agencies and private organizations. Once you link to another site, you are then subject to the privacy policies of the new site.