Privacy Policy

About Us

This is a privacy policy for Broadcasting Board of Governors. Our homepage on the Web is located at http://www.voanews.com. The full text of our privacy policy is available on the web at http://www.voanews.com/english/disclaim.cfm. This policy does not tell users where they can go to exercise their opt-in or opt-out options.

We invite you to contact us if you have questions about this policy. You may contact us by mail at the following address:

Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG)
330 Independence Avenue SW


Washington, DC 20237 
USA

You may contact us by e-mail at publicaffairs@ibb.gov.

Dispute Resolution and Privacy Seals

We have no privacy seals or other assurance mechanisms.

Additional Information

This policy is valid for 1 day from the time that it is loaded by a client.

Data Collection

P3P policies declare the data they collect in groups (also referred to as "statements"). This policy contains 1 data group.


Group "Access log information"

We collect the following information:

This data will be used for the following purposes:

This data will be used by ourselves and our agents.

The data in this group has been marked as non-identifiable. This means that there is no reasonable way for the site to identify the individual person this data was collected from.

The following explanation is provided for why this data is collected:

Our Web server collects access logs containing this information.

Cookies

Cookies are a technology which can be used to provide you with tailored information from a Web site. A cookie is an element of data that a Web site can send to your browser, which may then store it on your system. You can set your browser to notify you when you receive a cookie, giving you the chance to decide whether to accept it.

We do not make use of HTTP cookies.


Compact Policy Summary

P3P compact policies are a form of a P3P policy which summarizes what the policy says about cookies. Since this policy does not mention any use of cookies, there is no compact policy form of this policy.

A policy mentions use of cookies if the data element "HTTP Cookies" is in any group in the policy. This data element is found under "Dynamic data".


Policy Evaluation

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 will evaluate this policy's compact policy whenever it is used with a cookie. The actions IE will take depend on what privacy level the user has selected in their browser (Low, Medium, Medium High, or High; the default is Medium. In addition, IE will examine whether the cookie's policy is considered satisfactory or unsatisfactory, whether the cookie is a session cookie or a persistent cookie, and whether the cookie is used in a first-party or third-party context. This section will attempt to evaluate this policy's compact policy against Microsoft's stated behavior for IE6.

Note: this evaluation is currently experimental and should not be considered a substitute for testing with a real Web browser.

Satisfactory policy: this compact policy is considered satisfactory according to the rules defined by Internet Explorer 6. IE6 will accept cookies accompanied by this policy under the High, Medium High, Medium, Low, and Accept All Cookies settings.