Privacy
Policy
Our
Commitment
We respect
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 personal information. It does not apply to third-party
websites that you are able to reach from this website, nor does it cover
practices of other areas within the Transportation Safety Solutions. We
encourage you to read those privacy policies to learn how they collect and use
your information.
What We
Automatically Collect Online
We collect
information about your visit that does not identify you personally. We can tell
the computer, browser, and web service you are using. We also know the date,
time, and pages you visit. Collecting this information helps us design the site
to suit your needs. In the event of a known security or virus threat, we may
collect information on the web content you view.
Other
Information We May Collect
When you
visit our website, we may request and collect the following categories of
personal information from you:
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Contact information
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IP Address
Why We
Collect Information
Our
principal purpose for collecting personal information online is to provide you
with what you need and want, address security and virus concerns, and to ease
the use of our website.
We will
only use your information for the purposes you intended, to address security or
virus threats, or for the purposes required under the law. See “Choices on How
We Use the Information You Provide” to learn more.
We collect
information to:
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Respond to your complaints
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Reply
to your “feedback comments”
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Manage
your access to restricted areas of the website
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Fulfill requests for reports and other similar information
Sharing
Your Information
We may
share personally identifiable information you provide to us online with
representatives within the Transportation Safety Solutions
Website Administrators and related entities,
other federal government agencies, or other named representatives as needed to
speed your request or transaction. In a wide effort to combat security and virus
threats, we may share some information we collect automatically, such as IP
address, with other ISP.
Also, the
law may require us to share collected information with authorized law
enforcement, homeland security, and national security activities.
Choices on
How We Use the Information You Provide
Throughout
our website, we will let you know whether the information we ask you to provide
is voluntary or required. By providing personally identifiable information, you
grant us consent to use this information, but only for the primary reason you
are giving it. We will ask you to grant us consent before using your voluntarily
provided information for any secondary purposes, other than those required under
the law.
Information Practices for Children
We do not
intentionally collect information from children under the age of 13. If in the
future we choose to collect personal information from children, we will comply
with the
Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA).
Cookies or
Other Tracking Devices
A “cookie”
is a small text file stored on your computer that makes it easy for you to move
around a website without continually re-entering your name, password,
preferences, for example.
We only
use “session” cookies on our website. This means we store the cookie on your
computer only during your visit to our website. After you turn off your computer
or stop using the Internet, the cookie disappears with your personal
information.
Securing
Your Information
Properly
securing the information we collect online is a primary commitment. To help us
do this, we take the following steps to:
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Employ
internal access controls to ensure the only people who see your information
are those with a need to do so to perform their official duties
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Train
relevant personnel on our privacy and security measures to know requirements
for compliance
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Secure
the areas where we hold hard copies of information we collect online
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Perform regular backups of the information we collect online to insure
against loss
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Use
technical controls to secure the information we collect online including but
not limited to:
