Privacy Statement, TOS
The Texas A&M University Department of Economics maintains this web site (econweb.tamu.edu). The following applies to all pages maintained on this site but not to all links from this site:
Occasionally, this site makes use of cookies to collect information. A cookie is a file that contains unique information a web site can use to track things such as session states, pages visited and/or the date the user last looked at a specific page. The cookies we use only contain information that the user willingly provides. Rest assured that a cookie we make use of will never contain private information such as SSNs,Credit Card #s, Passwords, etc., and will only be used to identify users for security reasons.
Electronic Mail sent when clicking on an e-mail link or submitting information via forms that contains personal or identifiable information will only be used to process that submission. In the event another agency or person is better suited to respond, your e-mail will be forwarded so that they may better serve you. We will never disclose personally identifiable information to a 3rd party unless required to do so by law.
Information collected for analysis and statistical purposes, such as aggregated visitor statistics (via Google Analytics). This information is not reported or used in any manner that would reveal personally identifiable information, and will not be released to outside parties, unless legally required to do so in connection with law enforcement investigations or other legal proceedings. This information is collected so that we may better serve you and tailor to general user needs and requirements.
The Department of Economics will make every available effort to keep the resources located herein available 24 hours, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. However, we cannot guarentee 100% uptime/availability due to circumstances beyond our control. Please remember that the use of resources located at econweb.tamu.edu is a privilege and not a right.
To collect information concerning your Internet Connection and general information about your visit to our Web Site, this information may be used to analyze trends, create summary statistics for the purpose of determining technical design specifications, and/or to identify system performance or problem areas.
User/client hostname -
The hostname (or IP address if DNS is disabled) of the client/user 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
System date -
The date and time of the client/user request
Full request -
The exact request the client/user made
Status -
The status code the server returned to the client/user
Content length -
The content length, in bytes, of the document sent to the clint/user
Method -
The request method used
Universal Resource Identifier (URI) -
The location of a resource on the web server
Protocol -
The transport protocol and version used to access the resource
Finally, we recommend that you use a standards compliant browser (with JavaScript Enabled) to access this site.
The following browsers are known to work with this site:
Mozilla's Firefox 1.0+ (Recommended), Microsoft's Internet Explorer 6.0+, Opera Software's Opera, Apple's Safari, Google's Chrome
Contacting the Web Site:
If you have any questions about this privacy statement, TOS or the practices of this web site, you can contact us at webmaster@econmail.tamu.edu
