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Privacy policy

Thank you for visiting this Legacy Management, Department of Energy website. We are committed to respecting your right to privacy and will protect it when you visit our website.

This privacy policy explains our online information practices only, including how we collect and use your information. It covers information collected on this website only. It does not apply to other sites you reach through our site. We encourage you to read the privacy policies of those other sites to learn how they collect and use information about you.

Information stored and collected automatically

This website is hosted and administrated by Legacy Management (hereinafter to be referred to as “LM”) of the Department of Energy. LM collects limited information about visits to the site. This information is used to measure the number of visitors to the various sections of our website and identify performance or problem areas. Authorized individuals may also use this information to help us develop the site, analyze patterns of usage, and to make the site more useful. We do not share or sell visitor data for the purposes of advertising, marketing, or any other commercial purpose. This information is not used for associating search terms or patterns of site navigation with individual users. The information that is automatically collected and stored concerning your visit includes:

The name of the domain from which you access the Internet
The date and time of your visit
The pages you visit on the site
Your internet protocol (IP) address
The address of the website you came from if it linked you directly to the site
Search terms that you enter into the site search tool
Learn more about how Google Analytics safeguards data.

Cookies

When you visit a website, its server may generate a piece of text known as a cookie to place on your device. The cookie, which is unique to your browser, allows the server to remember specific information about your visit while you’re connected.

There are two types of cookies — single session (temporary) and multi-session (persistent). Single session cookies last only as long as your Web browser is open. Once you close your browser, the session cookie disappears. Persistent cookies are stored on your device for longer periods. Both types of cookies create an identifier that is unique to your device. The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Memorandum M-10-22, Guidance for Online Use of Web Measurement and Customization Technologies allows federal agencies to use both session and persistent cookies to improve the delivery of services.

Session cookies

We may use session cookies for technical purposes, such as to allow better navigation through our site. These session cookies are set by LM or a contractor acting on LM’s behalf and lets the server hosting the site know that you are continuing a visit to our site. Our use of session cookies qualifies as “Usage Tier 1—Single Session,” as defined in the OMB M-10-22 guidance.

Persistent cookies

We use persistent cookies to understand the differences between new and returning visitors to the site. Persistent cookies remain on your device between visits to our site until they expire or are removed by the user. As discussed below under “Google Analytics,” our use of persistent cookies qualifies as “Usage Tier 2—Multi-session without personally identifiable information,” as defined in the OMB M-10-22 guidance. The policy states, “This tier encompasses any use of multi-session Web measurement and customization technologies when no [personally identifiable information] is collected.” We do not use persistent cookies to collect personally identifiable information.

If you do not want to accept cookies, you can edit your browser’s options to stop accepting persistent cookies or to prompt you before accepting a cookie from the websites you visit. For more information, see the Web Measurement and Customization Opt-Out instructions.

Google Analytics

This site participates in the U.S. Digital Analytics Program, which uses a unified Google Analytics account for federal agencies. This program helps agencies understand how people find, access, and use government services online.

The Digital Analytics Program is a hosted shared service provided by the GSA’s Office of Products and Platforms, and the protocol and information collected are the same for all websites participating in the program. As a participant in the program, this website’s traffic data is automatically reported to GSA.

Google Analytics is a third-party web measurement and customization technology as defined in OMB M-10-22. Here is how it works: Google Analytics sets one or more cookies on your computer so that it can recognize your computer if you visit the site in the future. These cookies do not collect personally identifiable information. This is considered a Tier 2 usage, as defined in the OMB guidance.

Google Analytics does not collect personally identifiable information through its cookies. The program does not track individuals and anonymizes the IP addresses of visitors. Common Questions about DAP (FAQ) provides more information about how Google Analytics handles IP addresses. According to GSA’s Common Questions About DAP, “none of the federal government data tracked as part of the Data Analytics Program will be shared with or available to Google’s corporate advertising partners.”

A limited number of authorized individuals will have user accounts that will allow them to log in to the Google Analytics dashboard and view or run reports regarding visits to the site and the other web metrics available from the DAP. You can view web metrics at https://analytics.usa.gov/.

Visitors who choose to disable this web measurement tool will still have full access to the site. While the details vary from browser to browser, most modern browsers can be set up to accept, reject, or request user intervention when a site asks to set a cookie.

Information you share with us

Users of this website may send the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) feedback or report an issue by sending an email to the website administrators via the contact page. If you choose to send us your personally identifiable information, we will only use that information to respond to your message. We only share the information you give us with another government agency if your question relates to that agency, or as otherwise required by law. The site never collects information or creates individual profiles for the purposes of advertising, marketing, or any other commercial purpose. We do not create or store lists of email addresses or other information to deliver email alerts, newsletters, or otherwise send marketing messages or contact individuals. When you contact us, any personally identifiable information you provide is voluntary. Please do not include sensitive personally identifiable information or other sensitive information in the content of your email.

Children and Privacy

We do not have information geared specifically for children on our website. The Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act governs information gathered online from or about children under the age of 13. This site is not intended to solicit or collection information of any kind from children under age 13. If you believe that we have received information from a child under age 13, please contact us.

Questions about Privacy

If you have questions about this privacy policy, please contact our Privacy Officer at PrivacyGovernance@lm.doe.gov.

Reuse and copyright

Most material on our site is free of copyright and may be copied and distributed without permission. Works produced by federal government employees in the course of their employment are generally not protected by copyright and are in the public domain in this site - a link back to reference is much appreciated.

For more information on copyright of Esri products, as used in this website, please see Esri’s copyright policies here: Esri Copyright and Proprietary Rights Acknowledgement | Esri Legal

Security

For site security purposes and to ensure that this service remains available to all users, LM web servers use industry-standard methods to monitor network traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change information, or otherwise cause damage. Unauthorized attempts to upload information or change information on LM servers are strictly prohibited and may be punishable by law, including the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 and the National Information Infrastructure Protection Act.