Privacy Policy The current version of this privacy policy was finalized May 10, 2007.

NCSU Fisheries and Wildlife Sciences Department is committed to protecting your personal information and collects data solely for the purposes of conducting research related to the tracking of Canada Geese.

The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for this website: Goose Spotting [http://www.canadagoose.ncsu.edu/]

Personally Identifiable Information
 The Fisheries and Wildlife Sciences Department survey contains forms for collecting and storing personally-identifying information (PII) about you (e.g. name and address) when you visit our site. Entering this information is completely optional. If a participant in the survey chooses to fill in this information, it is our policy to never sell or distribute PII or use it for any purposes other than demographics.

IP Addresses
 We collect and store along with each survey entry your IP address. We use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server, and to administer the Web site.

Email Addresses
 Email addresses are optionally requested in the survey form and are stored along with survey information. They will not be sold or distributed to other parties nor will they be used for unsolicited mass-mail advertising.

Links to Other Sites
 This site contains links to other sites. The Privacy Place is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such web sites.

Surveys
 The information collected via our surveys is considered private information and is used solely for purposes of research and education. Specifically, our online surveys ask visitors for information about their demographics, comments, and of course information about the canada goose sighting which they are reporting. This information is collected, stored and used solely for the purpose of research and education.

Information collected in the surveys will be used to form papers written in peer-reviewed journals.

Cookies
 No cookies are stored on a survey particpants page as a result of accessing our survey.

Browser Information
 Only standard log information is recorded to our server.

Web Site Traffic
 Web site traffic is logged, for statistical purposes, only in standard log format.

A typical log entry looks like this:

74.6.19.215 - - [24/Jul/2007:10:00:20 -0400] "GET /Workshops/spring2005/spr05_eisenhauer.pdf HTTP/1.0" 404 329 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Yahoo! Slurp; http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/ysearch/slurp)"

We honor valid law enforcement warrants or subpoenas for logs.

Suspicious Activity
 Logs of suspicious activity and access information may be kept indefinitely for site security purposes. Evidence of attacks or other malicious activity may be shared with law enforcement agencies as necessary to apprehend and prosecute individuals who abuse our resources.

Contacting the Web Site
If you have any questions about this privacy policy, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this web site, please contact:

Liz Rutledge
merutled@ncsu.edu

Address: Fisheries and Wildlife Sciences
110 Brooks Avenue
Raliegh, NC
27607
Phone: (919) 513-7559

Policy Revision History
This is the first version of the privacy policy and was created on May 10th, 2008.