Web Policy
Disclaimer 
The Office of the Governor of Virginia makes every effort to ensure that the
information presented on this site is accurate, reliable and timely. However,
we do not make any claim that such is 100 percent true 100 percent of the time
and therefore we cannot be held liable for the ultimate accuracy, reliability
or timeliness of the content found on this site.
Similarly, this site may reference specific commercial products, processes,
or services by trade name, trademark, or manufacturer, but this does not constitute
or imply any endorsement, recommendation, or favoring by the the Governor's
Office or the Commonwealth of Virginia.
The Healthy Virginians Web site has links to other Web sites. These include
links to Web sites operated by other government agencies, nonprofit organizations,
and private businesses. When you link to another site, you are no longer on
our site and so this Policy will not apply. When you link to another Web site,
you are subject to the privacy policy of that new site. Similarly, any references
on these Web sites to specific commercial products, processes, or services
does not constitute or imply endorsement, recommendation, or favoring by the
Governor's Office.
Linking Policy
This Web site contains links to external Web sites and pages containing information
created and maintained by public and private organizations other than the
Governor's Office, which alone determines which external Web sites are linked
to. These links are offered to be helpful to our site visitors, but just because
we link to another Web site does not mean we explicitly or implicitly endorse,
recommend or especially favor these entities.
Links to external Web sites and pages may be removed or replaced at the sole
discretion of the Governor's Office at any time without notice.
If a link on the Healthy Virginians site is not working, please contact
our webmaster.
See also this Policy's Disclaimer section above
regarding off-site links.
Plug-ins
The Healthy Virginians site may provide content in several formats that
require plug-ins, or separate browser components, to properly view. All required
plug-ins (except the non-trial version of WinZip) are free to use.
The plug-ins used are:
Privacy
Your personal privacy is important to us, and our privacy policy is clear: We
do not collect any personal information when you visit our Web site unless
you choose to provide that information to us.
During your visit to this site, we do gather and store certain information
about your visit automatically. This information does not identify you personally
and is limited to:
- The IP address (a number automatically assigned to your computer in order
to browse the Web) and Internet domain (for example, "company.com" if
you connect from work, "school.edu" if you connect from school)
of your computer;
- The type of browser and operating system used to access our Web site;
- The date and time you access our Web site;
- The pages you visit; and
- If you linked to this Web site from another Web site, the address of that
Web site.
This information is used to track site usage and user technology; this information
in turn helps us to make our site more useful to visitors.
Use and Collection of Personal Information
Other than the information listed above, personal information is only collected
if you send an e-mail to staff in the Governor Kaine administration, or fill
out a form with your personal information and submit it through our Web site.
These communications are automatically logged for tracking purposes, and will
be used to follow-up on your comments, questions, or requests.
We do not collect personal information for any other purposes. The information
that you provide is not given to any private organizations or private persons.
Neither the Office of the Governor nor any member of the Governor Kaine
administration collects or uses information for commercial marketing.
Cookies
"Cookies" are small files either stored on a server or sent back
to a visiting computer. In certain applications user information is stored
as "cookies", which are then sent back to and stored on the user's
computer.
Some sections of this Web site may use cookies to customize the
information presented to you.
See also this Policy's Privacy section regarding
information gathered by this site and the use of that information.
Copyright
The copyright to the Healthy Virginians Web site is owned by the
Commonwealth of Virginia. Permission is granted to every person visiting this
site to make fair use of its contents. All site pages are marked
with the notice “Copyright Commonwealth of Virginia,
.” If you are in doubt about whether your use constitutes fair
use, please send a request for explicit permission
to copy the contents to our webmaster.
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