TransLink® Policy Statement

This is a web site of the TransLink Research Center of the Texas Transportation Institute. It is designed for Microsoft® Internet Explorer v. 4 and higher, for Netscape Navigator® v. 4 and higher, and for Netscape® Communicator v. 4 and higher. With other browsers or with earlier versions of the previously named browsers, you may have unpredictable results. We test primarily on an Intel® architecture with a Microsoft® Windows platform.

The TransLink® Research Center maintains this site as a public service. The following is the privacy policy for all pages that start from and include the home page. We are a public, not-for-profit organization associated with the Texas A&M University System and are an agency of the State of Texas.

When you browse the site, you do so anonymously. Personal information, such as e-mail address, is not collected. We might need to obtain information about the kind of computer, the operating system, and kind of browser you're using. This information comes from your browser and helps us in our efforts to build a web site that accomodates the diversity of computing resources that people use. No such information is kept when using the CD-ROM version.

If you browse the site, we log the Internet (IP) address of your computer or of the Web servers through which you travel. This helps us to know what parts of the site are most popular. By statistically analyzing this data, it helps us to make a better and more useful site for everyone. We don't associate anything personally identifiable about you to an IP address on the server unless such information must be made available in compliance with law enforcement investigations or other legal proceedings.

As online web page functionality changes, we might use cookies to store information. A cookie is text that a web server sends to your browser. When using a Web page, information is stored into this text, and this might include such data as a list of pages visited, date of last visit, or identification of your session at the site. It does not take data from your hard drive, does not contain viruses, and does not record your e-mail address. We might use cookies to provide features such as a page personalized for your use.

The specific information collected is summarized below:

Client hostname
This is the hostname or IP of the client.
HTTP header, "user-agent"
User-agent information, including type of browser, version of browser, and operating system
HTTP header, "referrer"
The referrer specifies the page from which the client accessed the current page.
System date
Date and time of the client's request
Full request
This is the full request that the client sent.
Status
These are status codes that are returned to the client.
Content length
Content length is the number of bytes sent to a client.
Method
Clients can request information or file by various methods, such as POST.
URI
The Universal Resource Identifier is the location of a resource on a server.
Query string of URI
A query string follows a question mark after the URI.
Protocol
This is the transport protocol used, such as TCP.
File
This means the names of files that a client downloads or attempts to upload.
Authenticated username
If some web pages require user authentication, then we record the user name during authentication.

As a convenience, the following describes how to set your browser to allow or not allow cookies. Follow the steps that are appropriate to your browser:

Netscape 3:

  1. Select Options from the browser menu.
  2. In Options, choose Network Preferences
  3. In Network Preferences, select the Protocols tab
  4. In Protocols, choose your preference to accept or decline cookies

Netscape 4:

  1. Select Edit from the browser menu
  2. Select Preferences from the choices in Edit
  3. Select Advanced from the Preferences menu
  4. Choose your preference for cookies

Microsoft Internet Explorer 3:

  1. Select the View option in the browser menu
  2. Select Options from the View menu
  3. Select the Advanced menu option
  4. Choose your preference for cookies

Microsoft Internet Explorer 4:

  1. Select the View option from the browser menu
  2. Select Options from the View menu
  3. Select the Advanced menu from Options
  4. Scroll down to find the Cookies section
  5. Choose your preference for cookies

When you send us e-mail, or if you fill out a form, we only use any personally-identifiable information to respond to your request. The information may go into analysis trends as well. Optionally, we'll redirect your message to another person or government agency who can respond to you better.

Unauthorized attempts to upload or download information that might cause damage, change information, or result in the loss of services are strictly prohibited and may be punishable under the Texas Penal Code Chapters 33 (Computer Crimes) or 33A (Telecommunications Crimes.) For site security, we employ software programs that monitor network traffic and use of servers. Raw data logs are not used for any other purpose than to assist authorized law enforcement investigations and legal proceedings.


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06/28/2000