Privacy Statement for the IFN Website

The Intercollegiate Faculty of Nutrition at Texas A&M University respects your privacy. We do not collect personal information about visitors. In particular, we do not use "cookies"* to collect personal information.

Personal information that you provide via either e-mail or this site's information request form 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 or department better suited to meeting your needs.

State law requires that users of this site be informed that the site collects the following information about users:

We do not sell our records or lists. 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 Texas A&M rule and regulation violations. These groups would use the information to track the electronic interactions back to the source computer(s) or account(s).

*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 on which it is running.
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

If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your use of this Web site, please contact: Dr. Chris Bailey:c-bailey@tamu.edu.