Privacy Policy

Texas A&M Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Web Privacy Policy

Texas A&M Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering follows the State of Texas Institution of Higher Education Web Site Link and Privacy Policy.

The following is the privacy policy for this site:

1. We do not use cookies to collect information. (Note: A cookie file contains unique information a web site can use to track such things as passwords, lists of pages you've visited, and the date when you last looked at a specific page or to identify your session at a particular web site.)

2. If you send us an electronic mail message with a question or comment that contains personally identifying information, or fill out a form that e-mails us this information, we will use the personally-identifiable information only to respond to your request and analyze trends. We may redirect your message to another government agency or person who is in a better position to answer your question.

3. For site management functions, information is collected and may be used for analysis and statistical purposes. We may use this information to create summary statistics, which are used for purposes such as assessing what information is of most interest, determining technical design specifications, and identifying system performance or problem areas.

We also may use this information for site security purposes and to ensure that this service remains available to all users by detecting unauthorized attempts to upload or change information, or otherwise cause damage. Unauthorized attempts to upload information or change information on this service are strictly prohibited and may be punishable under the Texas Penal Code Chapters 33 (Computer Crimes) or 33A (Telecommunications Crimes).

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, "referer" - The referer 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.