We will collect no personal information about you when you visit our website unless you choose to provide that information to us.

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 type of browser and operating system used to access our site;
• The date and time you access our site;
• The pages you visit;
• If you linked to this website from another website, the address of that other website.

If You Send Us Personal Information

If you choose to provide us with personal information by sending an e-mail to us, or by filling out a form with your personal information and submitting it through our website, we use that information to respond to your message and to help us get the information you have requested. We do not collect personal information for any other purposes. Moreover, we do not create individual profiles with the information you provide or give this information to any private organizations. Nor do we collect information for commercial marketing.

We would share your e-mail with another federal government agency only if your inquiry related to that agency or if we were required to do so by law. In addition, we would release documents, including e-mails, if required to do so by a congressional or judicial subpoena.

We do not store any personal data about you besides your e-mail address. We only use your e-mail address to send you the newsletters to which you have subscribed, your e-mail address is protected with us and it will never be used for any other purposes.

Newsletters

Some ThomSon House websites feature email newsletters that users can subscribe to. No personal data is stored on those subscribers. Users may unsubscribe at any time and no further data on the user is retained.

Information Collected for Tracking and Customization (Cookies)

A cookie is a small file that a website transfers to your computer to allow it to remember specific information about your session while you are connected. Your computer will only share the information in the cookie with the website that provided it, and no other website can request it. There are two types of cookies, session and persistent. Session cookies last only as long as your web browser is open. Once you close your browser, the cookie disappears. Persistent cookies store information on your computer for longer periods of time.

ThomSon House websites may use session cookies for technical purposes such as to enable better navigation through the site, or to allow you to customize your preferences for interacting with the site. A few ThomSon House websites may also make use of persistent cookies to remember you between visits so, for example, you can save your customized preference settings for future visits. Each ThomSon House site using persistent cookies identifies itself as doing so.

Disclaimer

We may link to external sites that help us perform our mission or illustrate news reports. Links to external servers do not imply any official ThomSon House endorsement of the opinions or ideas expressed therein, nor do such links guarantee the validity of the information provided. Links to commercial sites are in no way an endorsement of any vendor’s products or services. Links will be provided to external servers that are managed in a professional manner (i.e., it is fully operational, is available most of the time, does not serve inaccurate information or obscene graphics, etc.). This server will not link to external servers if such a link would appear to provide an official endorsement of fundraising efforts or lobbying for a political agenda.

Rules for Posting Comments

All comments will be reviewed before posting. ThomSon House will make every effort to review and post comments within 48 hours, usually less. ThomSon House encourages thoughtful discussion, and will not censor comments based on ideology or political points of view. ThomSon House will not edit comments – we will either post them or not.

Digital Millennium Copyright Act Notice

The ThomSon House respects the intellectual property of others, and we ask users of the ThomSon House site to do the same. In accordance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and other applicable law, ThomSon House has adopted a policy that provides for the termination in appropriate circumstances of account holders who infringe the rights of copyright holders. If you believe that your work has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, please provide ThomSon House Copyright Agent the following information:

• A physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed;
• Identification of the copyright work claimed to have been infringed, or, if multiple copyrighted works on ThomSon House site are covered by a single notification, a representative list of such works at the site;
• Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity that is to be removed or access to which is to be disabled, and information reasonably sufficient to permit ThomSon House to locate the material.

ThomSon House Copyright Agent for notice of claims of copyright infringement on or regarding ThomSon House site can be reached by sending an email to [email protected].