Privacy Statement
The Texas A&M University Department of Economics maintains this web site
(erl.tamu.edu).
The following applies to all pages maintained on this site but not to all
links from this site:
Cookies:
Occasionally, this site makes use of cookies to collect information. A
cookie is a file that contains unique information a web site can use to
track things such as session states, pages visited and/or the date the user
last looked at a specific page. The cookies only contain information that
the user willingly provides. Rest assured that a cookie will never
contain private information such as credit card #'s, passwords, etc., and
will only be used to identify users for security reasons.
E-Mail:
Electronic Mail sent when clicking on an e-mail link or submitting
information via forms that contains personal or identifiable information
will only be used to process that submission. In the event another agency or
person is better suited to respond, your e-mail will be forwarded so that
they may better serve you.
Site Management Functions:
Information collected for analysis and statistical purposes. This
information is not reported or used in any manner that would reveal
personally identifiable information, and will not be released to outside
parties, unless legally required to do so in connection with law enforcement
investigations or other legal proceedings.
Server Log Analysis:
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, create summary statistics for the purpose of
determining technical design specifications, and/or to identify system
performance or problem areas.
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 it is running on
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
Protocol - The transport protocol and version used
If you have any questions about this privacy statement, or the practices of
this web site, you can contact us at
erl@econmail.tamu.edu