alabama.gov site may use cookies to carry user information from one page to another. An example is a search criterion. This information is not stored on our server but on your workstation. We do not track this information on our server. The cookies we use are set to expire at the end of your browser session, with the exception of the cookies used for the weather feature on alabama.gov's front page. This means that when you close your browser they are deleted. The cookies used for the weather feature are deleted when you clear your cache.

Our server does track statistical information (through the use of server logs) to help agencies hosted on this server analyze the use of their site. This is how we will handle information we learn about you from your visit to our website.

We collect and store only the following information about your visit:

• the name of the domain from which you access the Internet;
• the date and time you access our site;
• and the Internet address of the website from which you linked directly to our site.

We use the information we collect to measure the number of visitors to the different sections of our site, and to help us make our site more useful to visitors.

We want to be very clear: We will not obtain personally identifying information about you when you visit our site, unless you choose to provide such information to us, such as an email address. We use your email address to respond appropriately. This may be to respond to you, to address issues you identify, to further improve our web site, or to forward email to another agency for appropriate action.

Please refer to individual Alabama State Agency Web Sites for their Privacy Policies, which may differ from the one displayed here.