Privacy & Security Statement
Texas Center for the Advancement of Literacy and Learning, housed in the College of Education and Human Resource Development, Texas A&M University respects your privacy. The content that is published on or collected via our Web site is public information as described in the Public Information Act.
Disclaimer
This Privacy and Security Statement applies to the TCALL website - www-tcall.tamu.edu. Our Web site
contains links to various external web sites. We attempt
to ensure the accuracy and usefulness of our own web site, but we make no claims
about the accuracy of materials and web sites other than our own.
TCALL is not responsible for the privacy and security practices or the content of external websites linked to from the TCALL website.
The following discloses the information gathering and dissemination practices for the Texas Center for Adult Literacy and Learning Web site:
Cookies
The Center's main Webpage does
not collect personal information about visitors. In particular, we
do not use "cookies" to collect information.
E-mail
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
better suited to meeting your needs.
Server Logs
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).
Subscription toTexas Adult and Family Literacy Quarterly The subscription form for Texas Adult and Family Literacy Quarterly at Texas Center for the Advancement of Literacy & Learning collects information for subscription purposes only. This information is not shared with other agencies and is used only for publication mailing purposes.
Alternative Format of Portions of the Website
Copies of portions of our
Web site are available in alternative format upon request. We at the
Texas Center for the Advancement of Literacy and Learning are committed
to making our Web presence as accessible as possible to everyone. Please
contact our Webmaster if
you experience difficulty with any portion of our Web site.
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.
Contact the Center:
Texas Center for the Advancement of Literacy & Learning
Texas A&M University
4477 TAMU
College Station, Texas 77843-4477
Telephone: 979-845-6615
Fax: 979-845-0952
Literacy Hotline: 800-441-READ (7323)
E-mail: tcall@tamu.edu
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 -
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
Texas A&M University Privacy and Security Statement
