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Privacy Statement Information
Employee Services at Texas A&M University (TAMU) respects your privacy.
To ensure that every effort is taken to respect that privacy, we would like to tell you what
information is collected and how it is managed. The Employee Services Privacy Statement
will coincide with that of the
Privacy Policy of Texas A&M University.
State law requires that you be informed of the following,
you are entitled to:
- request to be informed about the information about yourself
collected by use of these forms (with a few exceptions as provided
by law);
- receive and review that information; and
- have the information corrected at no charge to you.
Our Web site uses Adobe Acrobat PDF forms to collect information
about you for services that we offer.
When you send us email with a question or
comment:
Personal information that you provide in an email
or submitted comment will be used only to respond to your request.
We may, however, redirect your email to another person or
department if they are in a better position to answer your
question. The information will not be shared with anyone outside
TAMU unless we are compelled by law to do so.
If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the
practices of this site, or your use of this Web site, please contact
Pamela Praesel via email
(ppraesel@tamu.edu) or through the U.S. Postal Service at:
Pamela Praesel
Employee Services Department
1255 TAMU
College Station, TX 77843-1255
When you visit the Employee Services Department Web site:
If you visit our Web site to read or download information, we do not collect information about you personally.
In particular, we do not use "
cookies" to collect
information.
Employee Services does, however, automatically collect certain technical information about your
Internet connection when you visit our Web site. None of this information permits identification
of personal information for any individual. We use this information to monitor the popularity of
the various features of the site for general reporting and management functions. This information
can also be used to evaluate the accessibility of our Web site.
We do use server logs to collect information concerning your Internet connection and general
information about your visit to our Web site. We use log analysis tools to create summary statistics,
which are used to determine technical design specifications, analyze possible trends, and identify system
performance or problem areas. If you would like to know more about the information that we collect,
please visit Server Log Information.
To help us ensure that this site is working and maintained properly, we do monitor certain telecommunications
and automated information systems and also collect some information for analysis and statistical purposes.
Sometimes this means we acquire, record and analyze portions of the data that is entered into,
stored on, and/or transmitted through this site by you. This information is released only when
required to help law enforcement investigations, legal proceedings or internal investigations of
TAMU rule and regulation violations. The information may be used to track the electronic interactions
back to the source computer(s) or account(s).
COOKIES: A cookie file contains unique information that a Web site can use to
track such things as passwords, pages you have visited, the date you last looked at a
specific page, and to identify your session at a particular Web site.
SERVER LOG INFORMATION: The following information is collected from server logs
for 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 is 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
