Privacy Statement

Information Collected and Stored Automatically:
If you do nothing during your visit but browse through the website, read pages, or download information, we will gather and store certain information about your visit automatically. This information does not identify you personally. We automatically collect and store only the following information about your visit:

• The Internet domain (for example, "xcompany.com" if you use a private Internet access account, or "yourschool.edu" if you connect from a university's domain) and IP address (an IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer whenever you are surfing the Web) from which you access our website;
• The type of browser and operating system used to access our site;
• The date and time you access our site;
• The pages you visit; and
• If you linked to the Kansas Forest Service website from another website, the address of that website.

We use this information to help us make our site more useful to visitors - to learn about the number of visitors to our site and the types of technology our visitors are using. We do not track or record information about individuals and their visits.

Our server does try to place a "cookie" on your machine. If you allow it to do so, the cookie is used to collect the data above. It provides the computer used to visit the Kansas Forest Service site an unique session ID. This is useful to differentiate between multiple visitors using the same IP number from an internet service provider. This allows us to get a better indication of the number of unique visitors than relying on only the IP address.

If You Send Us Personal Information:
If you choose to provide us with personal information, as in an e-mail or by filling out a form with your personal information and submitting it to us through our website, we use that information to respond to your message and to help us locate for you the information you have requested. We treat e-mails the same way that we regard letters sent to the Kansas Forest Service. We are required to maintain many documents for historical purposes, but we do not collect personal information for any purpose other than to respond to you. We only share the information you give us with another government agency if your inquiry relates to that agency, or as otherwise required by law. Moreover, we do not create individual profiles with the information you provide or to give it to any private organizations. We do not collect information for commercial marketing. For your convenience, if you have ordered conservation tree and shrub seedlings, we do send you order forms the next two seasons after your last order.

We use credit card information, which you provide when making purchases from this agency, to provide you with the goods and services you order. Such information is not shared with any third party. All credit card information sent to this site is SSL encrypted, protecting against disclosure to third parties. Secure Sockets Layer (SSL V3.0) protocol, a security protocol that provides communications privacy over the Internet. The protocol allows client/server applications to communicate in a way that is designed to prevent eavesdropping, tampering, or message forgery.

Links to Other Sites:
Our website has links to other state and federal agencies and private organizations. Once you access another site through a link that we provide you are subject to the privacy policy of the new site.

Website Security:
Information presented on the Kansas Forest Service website is considered public information and may be distributed or copied. Use of appropriate byline/photo/image credits is requested.

For site security purposes and to ensure that this service remains available to all users, this government computer system employs software programs to monitor network traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change information, or otherwise cause damage.  Unauthorized attempts to upload information or change information on this service are strictly prohibited and may be punishable under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 and the National Information Infrastructure Protection Act.

Except for authorized law enforcement investigations, no other attempts are made to identify individual users or their usage habits.
 

Comments Or Questions:
If you have any comments or questions about the information presented here please forward them to the webmaster.