PRIVACY POLICY

Thank you for visiting the National Weather Service web site, a service of the U.S. Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). This policy establishes how we will handle information we learn about you from your visit to our web site. Please be assured that the privacy of our visitors is of utmost importance to us.

...to read or download information: For each http request received, we collect and store only the following information: the date and time, the originating IP address, the object requested, and the completion status of the request.

We use this information that we collect to measure the number of visitors to the different sections of our site, and to help us make our site more useful to visitors. This includes analyzing these logs periodically to determine the traffic through the servers, the number of pages served, and the level of demand for pages of interest during a month. The logs may be preserved indefinitely and used at any time and in any way necessary to prevent security breaches and to insure the integrity of the data on our servers. We do not seek or collect any other data related to the specific users of our servers.

...to send us an E-mail: By sending us an electronic mail message you may be sending us personally identifying information (e.g., name, address, E-mail address). In these cases, we may store the personally identifying information of the requester in order to respond to the request or to otherwise resolve the subject matter of your E-mail.

...to register: Some of our sites ask visitors who request specific information to fill out a registration form. Other information which may be collected at these sites through questionnaires, feedback forms, or other means, enable us to determine a visitor's interests, with the goal of providing better service to our customers. We are in the process of ensuring that where specific information is requested from a visitor to a specific web site, that web site will disclose how the information will be handled.

The Department of Commerce, NOAA, National Weather Service web site contains links to various other federal agencies and private organizations. Once you link to another site, please be aware that you are then subject to the policies of the new site.

We want to be very clear: regardless of the information being transmitted to the National Weather Service, we will protect all such information consistent with applicable law including, but not limited to, the Privacy Act of 1974 and the Freedom of Information Act. It is also the policy of the Department to follow the Principles for Providing and Using Personal Information ("Privacy Principles"), published by the Information Infrastructure Task Force on June 6, 1995.

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