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.
We have no privacy seals or other assurance mechanisms.
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P3P policies declare the data they collect in groups (also referred to as "statements"). This policy contains 1 data group.
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.
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We do not make use of HTTP cookies.
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".
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.