Thank you for visiting the Air Resources Laboratory web site, a service of the NOAA Air Resources Laboratory. This policy establishes how we will handle information we learn about you from your visit to our web site. Please be assured that the privacy of our visitors is of utmost importance to us. As appopriate, field offices of the Air Resources Laboratory and organizations within NOAA and the Department of Commerce also provide information on privacy policies when visiting their respective web sites.

If you visit an Air Resources Laboratory site...

...to read or download information: For each http request received, we collect and store only certain information for site management.

We use this information to measure the number of visitors to our site, and to help us make our site more useful to visitors. This includes analyzing these logs periodically to determine the traffic through the servers, the number of pages served, and the level of demand for pages of interest during a month. The logs may be preserved indefinitely and used at any time and in any way necessary to prevent security breaches and to insure the integrity of the data on our servers. We do not seek or collect any other data related to the specific users of our servers.

...to send us an E-mail: By sending us an electronic mail message, you may be sending us personally identifying information (e.g., name, address, E-mail address). In these cases, we may store the personally identifying information of the requester in order to respond to the request or to otherwise resolve the subject matter of your E-mail.

...to register or fill out a request form Some of our sites ask visitors who request specific information (e.g., HYSPLIT code, request for information, etc.) to fill out a registration form. Other information which may be collected at these sites through questionnaires, feedback forms, or other means, enable us to determine a visitor's interests, with the goal of providing better service to our customers. We are in the process of ensuring that where specific information is requested from a visitor to a specific web site, that web site will disclose how the information will be handled.

The Air Resources Laboratory web site contains links to various other federal agencies and private organizations. Once you link to another site, please be aware that your are then subject to the policies of the new site.