Privacy and Security

On the Fossil Energy Web Site

Privacy Policy

We collect no personal information about you when you visit www.fossil.energy.gov unless you choose to provide this information to us. However, we collect and store certain information automatically. We collect and store automatically:

• the Internet Protocol (IP) address of the domain from which you access the Internet (i.e. 123.456.789.012) whether yours individually or provided as a proxy by your Internet Service Provider (ISP)

• the date and time you accessed our site

• the pages you peruse (recorded by the text and graphics files that compose that page)

• and, the Internet address of the Website from which you linked directly to our site.

We use this information to count the number and types of visitors who use our site, how our pages and links are used and, ultimately, to help us make our site more useful to you.

This information is NOT shared with anyone beyond the support staff to this home page, except when required by law enforcement investigation, and is used only as a source of anonymous statistical information.

Security Notice

This web site is part of a Federal computer system used to accomplish Federal functions. The Department of Energy monitors this web site for security purposes to ensure it remains available to all users and to protect information in the system. By accessing this web site, you are expressly consenting to these monitoring activities.

Unauthorized attempts to defeat or circumvent security features, to use the system for other than intended purposes, to deny service to authorized users, to access, obtain, alter, damage, or destroy information, or otherwise to interfere with the system or its operation is prohibited. Evidence of such acts may be disclosed to law enforcement authorities and result in criminal prosecution under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 and the National Information Infrastructure Protection Act of 1996, codified at section 1030 of Title 18 of the United States Code, or other applicable criminal laws.