Welcome to the
SSTAR Web site. Your privacy is very important to us. The following
policy applies only to the use of the SSTAR Web site.
A Privacy Partnership. Your privacy with respect to the use of
this Web site results from a partnership between the SSTAR and you, the
user. At this Web site, we attempt to protect your privacy to the
maximum extent possible. However, because some of the information that
we receive through this Web site is subject to the
Public Records Law, Massachusetts General Laws Chapter 66, Section 10,
we cannot ensure absolute privacy. Information that you provide to us
through this site may be available to members of the public under that
law. This policy informs you of the information that we collect from you
at this site, what we do with it, to whom it may be disseminated, and
how you can access it. Based on this information, you can make an
informed choice about your use of this site. You can maximize the
benefits of your privacy partnership with SSTAR by making informed
choices about whether to share personally identifiable information with
us through this site.
Personally Identifiable Information. We use the term "personally
identifiable information" to mean any information that could reasonably
be used to identify you, including your name, address, e-mail address,
Social Security number, birth date, bank account information, credit
card information, or any combination that could be used to identify you.
Information Voluntarily Provided by You. This site collects
voluntary information from you through the e-mails that you send through
this site, and in certain cases via the on-line submission forms
available. E-mails sent by you to this site and information submitted
via on-line submission forms will contain personally identifiable
information.
Information Automatically Collected and Stored by this Site. This
site does not collect "cookies", but does collect
and store indefinitely your
Internet Protocol ("IP") address, which does not identify you as an
individual, as well as information about the date and time of your
visit, whether a file you have requested exists, and how many "bytes" of
information were transmitted to you over the Web from this site. We use
your IP address to assess the frequency of visits to this site and the
popularity of its various pages and functions. We will not attempt to
match any personally identifiable information that you provide to us
with your IP address, unless there are reasonable grounds to believe
that doing so would provide information that is relevant and material to
a criminal investigation.
Dissemination of Your Personally Identifiable Information. We do
not sell any personally identifiable information collected through this
Web site. However, once you voluntarily submit personally identifiable
information to us through an e-mail or via an on-line submission form,
its dissemination is governed by the
Public Records Law, the Massachusetts General Laws Chapter 66A (Fair
Information Practices Act), Executive Order 412, and other
applicable laws and regulations. For this reason, part or all of the
information you send us may be provided to a member of the public in
response to a public records request.
With respect to employees of SSTAR, the information that you voluntarily
submit will be disclosed only to those employees or officials with a
"need to know" for purposes of fulfilling their job responsibilities.
They will only use the information to answer your questions, respond to
any requests for information assistance, and fulfill SSTAR's legal
obligations.
Your Access and Opportunity to Correct.
The Public Records Law and the
Fair Information Practices Act provide you certain rights to get
information about you that is in our records. To learn more about the
circumstances under which you can get and correct this information,
please click on the above references to these laws.
Security. Because this site does not encrypt incoming e-mail or
the information gathered via on-line submission forms, you should not
send information that you consider highly sensitive through this Web
site. We use standard security measures to ensure that your personally
identifiable information is not lost, misused, altered, or
unintentionally destroyed. We also use software programs to monitor
network traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change
information, or otherwise cause damage. Except for authorized law
enforcement investigations, no attempts are made to identify individual
users or their usage habits.
Policy changes. We will make every effort to post changes to this
policy at least 30 days before they take effect. Any information we
collect under the current privacy policy will remain subject to the
terms of this policy. After any changes take effect, all new information
we collect, if any, will be subject to the new policy.
Contact Information. For questions about your privacy while using
this Web site, please contact
Webmaster of the SSTAR's Web Team.
Definitions:
Cookies are files that a Web site can place
on your computer. A cookie file contains unique information that a Web
site can use to track such things as your password, lists of Web pages
you have visited, and the date when you last looked at a specific Web
page, or to identify your session at a particular Web site. A cookie
file allows the Web site to recognize you as you click through pages on
the site and when you later revisit the site. A Web site can use cookies
to "remember" your preferences, and to record your browsing behavior on
the Web. Although you can prevent Web sites from placing cookies on your
computer by using your browser's preference menu, disabling cookies may
affect your ability to view or interact with some Web sites.
An
"Internet Protocol Address" or "IP Address" is a series of
numbers that identifies each computer and machine connected to the
Internet. An IP address enables a server on a computer network to send
you the file that you have requested on the Internet. The IP address
disclosed to us may identify the computer from which you are accessing
the Internet, or a server owned by your Internet Service Provider.
Because it is machine-specific, rather than person-specific, an IP
address is not, in and of itself, personally identifiable information.
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