Site Policies

Thank you for visiting our Web site and for your interest in our Web policies and disclaimers. On this page, you may find our policies and disclaimers on the following topics:

• Alternative Formats and Accessibility
• Privacy Policy
• Cookies
• E-mail
• IP Addresses
• Linking to Sites Other Than Our Own
• Security
• Web Site Statistics

You may also wish to explore our Compact with Texans, which gives more information about our goals and services.

TSLAC Web Policies and Disclaimers

The content that is published on or collected via our Web sites is public information as described in the Public Information Act. The following discloses the information gathering and dissemination practices for Texas State Library and Archives Commission Web sites:

Alternative Formats and Accessibility

We at the Texas State Library are committed to making our Web presence as accessible as possible to everyone. Please contact our Webmaster if you experience difficulty with any portion of this Web site.
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Privacy Policy

We do not collect personal information on our users in the logs we keep to compile our Web site statistics. See the Web Site Statistics section on this page for more information about the information we do collect.

Electronic mail questions or comments or web forms sent to the Texas State Library containing personally identifiable information will only use the personally identifiable information to respond to your request. We may redirect your message to another government agency or person in order to better answer your question. See the e-mail section on this page for more information.
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Cookies

A "cookie" in Internet terminology is a small text file that is placed on your hard drive via your web browser so the file can later be read by that browser. We use cookies to store data during your use of our site in order to return the appropriate search results to you in case multiple users are using the site at the same time. We also use cookies in order to assist us in measuring usage of our site. See the Web site statistics section on this page for more information.
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E-mail

In keeping with the provisions of Government Code §441, we consider e-mail messages to be official state records. E-mail messages are managed in accordance with the agency’s authorized records retention schedule and e-mail messages residing on agency computers will be made available to the public upon request under the Public Information Act unless the record fits an exception to disclosure described in Government Code §§552.101 through 552.132.
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IP Addresses

We use visitors' IP addresses to help diagnose problems with our Web server and to administer our Web site.
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Linking to Sites Other Than Our Own

Our Web site contains links to Web sites other than our own. Even though we attempt to ensure the accuracy and usefulness of our own Web site, we make no claims about the accuracy of materials and Web sites other than our own.

External links to other sites are intended to be informational and do not have the endorsement of the Texas State Library and Archives Commission. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of other such Web sites.
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Security

This site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. Unauthorized use of this Web site is an offense under the Texas Penal Code.

You may contact our Webmaster if you have questions about our Web security measures.
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Web Site Statistics

We use server log analysis tools to create monthly summary statistics of our Web site's usage. These statistics are used to reflect usage summaries such as: general access (number of hits received), resources accessed (our most and least popular pages), visitors and demographics (IP addresses and domains), activity statistics (most/least active days), technical statistics (client errors), referrers and keywords (search engines and sites that point to our site), and browsers and platforms.

The following information is collected for this 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 it's running on.
• 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.

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