General Information

This Web site is provided as a public service by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, DAIDS Regulatory Support Center (DAIDS RSC). The DAIDS RSC does not disclose, give, sell, or transfer any personal information about visitors to http://RSC.tech-res.com unless required to do so by law. Information presented on this Web site is considered public information and may be distributed or copied with some exceptions. For more information on image and text reuse, contact the RSCSafetyOffice@tech-res.com.

Site Management

DAIDS RSC automatically collects a limited amount of information about the use of its Web site, primarily for statistical purposes (that is, to measure the numbers of visitors to various sections of the site). This information may also be helpful when considering changes to the web site to make the site more useful to visitors. Except where it may be required for authorized law enforcement investigations, no other attempts will be made to identify individual users or their usage habits.

Information Collected and Stored Automatically

The following information about users of the DAIDS RSC Web site is collected and stored automatically:

• The Internet domain from which a user has accessed the Internet. For example, if a user connects to the Internet through America Online, the domain is aol.com.
• The Internet protocol (IP) address of the computer that was used to access the Internet. An IP address is a number that is assigned to a user's computer when he/she logs onto the Internet. When a Web page is requested, the user's IP address is included in the message, and the recipient of the request can respond to it by sending another message using that IP address
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• The name and version of the user's computer operating system and Internet browser. For example, Windows 2000 (operating system) and Internet Explorer 6.0 or Netscape Navigator 7.1 (Internet browsers).
• If a user comes to RSC.tech-res-intl.com from another Web site, the Internet address of the "referring" Web site.
• The date, time, and duration of the user's visit to RSC.tech-res-intl.com, and the pages visited.

Cookies

When a user visits a Web site, the Web site's server generates a piece of information known as a "cookie" and places it on the user's computer. Some cookies remain on a user's computer after the user has ended his/her Web site visit. These types of cookies are called "persistent" cookies. They collect personal information about a user and allow the user's computer to be recognized in the future. Nonpersistent cookies, or "session cookies," are erased by a user's computer after a period of inactivity or when the user closes his/her Internet browser. Session cookies do not collect any personal information about a user. They serve technical purposes, such as allowing seamless navigation through a Web site. Session cookies are stored in memory and are only available during an active browser session.

Federal government Web sites are generally prohibited from using persistent cookies. The only exception to this policy is in the case of customer satisfaction surveys conducted to improve Web site quality.

E-mail Messages Sent to the DAIDS RSC Web Site

When inquiries are sent to the DAIDS RSC Web site and DAIDS RSC Staff Contacts by e-mail, the question(s) and the e-mail address of the sender are stored electronically to allow time for a response to be researched, written, and sent.


Links to Other Web Sites from the DAIDS RSC Web Site

The DAIDS RSC Web site has links to many other Web sites. DAIDS RSC cannot guarantee the privacy or security of information users provide to linked, external Web sites.