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Texas A&M University (TAMU) respects your privacy.
The University Risk & Compliance website
does not collect personal information about visitors. In particular, we do not
use "cookies" to collect information.
Personal information that you provide via e-mail or through other online means will be
used only for purposes necessary to serve your needs, such as responding to an
inquiry or other request for information. This may involve redirecting your
inquiry or comment to another person or department better suited to meeting your
needs.
We do, however, use server logs to collect
information concerning your Internet connection and general information about
your visit to our Web site. This information may be used to analyze trends; to
create summary statistics for the purpose of determining technical design
specifications; and to identify system performance or problem
areas.
This means we sometimes acquire, record and analyze portions of the
data that is entered into, stored on, and/or transmitted through this site by
you. This information is only released -- when legally required -- to help law
enforcement investigations, legal proceedings or internal investigations of TAMU
rule and regulation violations. These groups would use the information to track
the electronic interactions back to the source computer(s) or account(s).
If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your use of this Web site, please contact the Webmaster.
Cookies: A cookie file contains unique information that a Web site can use to track such things as passwords, pages you have visited, the date you last looked at a specific page, and to identify your session at a particular Web site.
Server Log Information: The following information is collected from server logs for analysis:
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User/client hostname - The hostname (or IP address if DNS is disabled) of
the user/client requesting access.
- HTTP header, "user agent" - The user-agent
information includes the type of browser, its version, and the operating system
it is running on.
- HTTP header, "referrer" - The referrer specifies the page
from which the client accessed the current page.
- System date - The date and time of the user/client request.
- Full request - The exact request the user/client made.
- Status - The status code the server returned to the user/client.
- Content length - The content length, in bytes, of the document
sent to the user/client.
- Method - The request method used
Universal Resource Identifier (URI) - The location of a resource on the server.
- Query string of the URI - Anything after the question mark in a URI.
- Protocol - The transport protocol and version used.