Viewer Privacy and Security Notice

1. This World Wide Web (WWW) site is provided as a public service by the Rhode Island Emergency Management Agency.

2. Information presented on this WWW site is considered public information and may be distributed or copied. Use of appropriate byline/photo/image credits is requested.

3. 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.

4. 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 and to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change information, or otherwise cause damage.

5.In order to differentiate between first time and returning users, and to accurately monitor website hits vs. re-loads, a "Cookie" is sent to your computer. Although this "Cookie" will not gather any personal information from your computer, if you do not wish to receive it then please use the "Disable Cookie" feature included in all current web browsers.

6. 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 and are scheduled for regular destruction in accordance with National Archives and Records Administration General Schedule 20.

7. 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 1986 and the National Information Infrastructure Protection Act.

8. This is how we will handle information we learn about you from your visit to our website. The information we receive depends upon what you do when visiting our site.

9. Our system uses software programs to create summary statistics, which are used for web site planning and maintenance, determining technical design specifications, and analyzing system performance.

10. For security purposes, and to ensure that this service remains available to all users, our computer system employs software programs to monitor network traffic, and to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change information, to cause damage, or to deny service to authorized users.

If you visit our site to read or download information, such as consumer brochures or press releases:

• We collect and store only the following information about you: the name of the domain from which you access the Internet (for example, aol.com, if you are connecting from an America Online account, or psu.edu if you are connecting from Pennsylvania State University's domain); the date and time you access our site; and the Internet address of the website from which you linked directly to our site.  

  We use the information 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.

If you identify yourself by sending an E-mail:

• You also may decide to send us personally-identifying information, for example, in an electronic mail message containing a complaint or compliment. We use personally-identifying information from viewers in various ways to further the usefulness and accuracy of the information contained on our Web site or to add new sections and services. Visit Feedback to learn what can happen to the information you provide us when you send us e-mail.

  We want to be very clear: We will not obtain personally-identifying information about you when you visit our site, unless you choose to provide such information to us.