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Thank you for visiting the Office Of The Inspector General Website and reviewing our Privacy Policy. Our Privacy Policy for visits to www.oig.virginia.gov is clear:

We collect no information about you, other than information automatically collected and stored (see below), when you visit our web site unless you choose to provide that information to us.

Information Collected and Stored Automatically

When you browse through any web site, certain personal information about you can be collected. We automatically collect and temporarily store the following information about your visit:

• The Internet domain
• 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 our website from another website, the address of that website.

We use this information for statistical purposes and to help us make our site more useful to visitors. Unless it is specifically stated otherwise, no additional information will be collected about you.

Personally Provided Information:

You do not have to give us personal information to visit our web sites.

If you choose to provide us with additional information about yourself through an e-mail message, form, survey, etc., we will only maintain the information as long as needed to respond to your question or to fulfill the stated purpose of the communication.

The Office Of The Inspector General does not disclose, give, sell or transfer any personal information about our visitors, unless required for law enforcement or statute.

Intrusion Detection:

This site is maintained by the Department Of Information Technology. For site security purposes and to ensure that this service remains available to all users, we employ software programs to monitor traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change information, or otherwise cause damage. In the event of authorized law enforcement investigations, and pursuant to any required legal process, information from these sources may be used to help identify an individual.

Cookies:

A "cookie" is a small file that a Web site transfers to your computer's hard disk allowing our server to "remember" specific information about your session while you are connected.

The Office Of The Inspector General web site does not make use of cookies, or permit other parties to use our server to host their cookies in order to collect information from our visitors. The Office Of The Inspector General site does not use or allow the use of any other systems (invisible graphics for example) to allow other parties to monitor and track visitors to the web site.

Links to Outside Sites:

All links to sites outside the Office Of The Inspector General web site will open in a new Browser window. The Office Of The Inspector General provides links to many web sites that are not controlled, maintained, or regulated by the Office Of The Inspector General or any organization affiliated with the Commonwealth of Virginia, and as such the Office Of The Inspector General is not responsible for the content of those web sites. Use of information obtained from those Web sites is voluntary, and reliance on that information should only be undertaken after an independent review of its accuracy. Reference at those Web sites to any specific commercial product, process, or service by trade name, trademark, or otherwise does not constitute or imply endorsement, recommendation, or favoring by the Office Of The Inspector General or any other State Government Agency. We try and screen all sites we include on our web site, but we cannot control the content they possess, thus any inappropriate information or links they have on their site, should be reported to the Office Of The Inspector General and can be E-mailed to our Webmaster.