Privacy 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. 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