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Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary (OCNMS) operates this World Wide Web site as a public service through the National Ocean Services (NOS). Both the OCNMS and the NOS are administered by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the U.S. Department of Commerce.
Information presented on these pages is considered public information and may be distributed or copied. Use of appropriate photo and image credits is requested.
NOS collects statistics on usage trends, locations of entry, and any failed functions of the site. These aggregate statistical summaries are posted on the web site for use by National Ocean Service personnel, and are available to the public.
Electronic mail sent to addresses listed on this Web site is treated no differently than any other electronic mail. All electronic mail transactions are handled by electronic mail servers, and do not pass through this Web site, nor are they monitored or recorded in any way.
This Web site does not use persistent tracking technologies.
For site security purposes and to ensure that this service remains available to all users, this government computer system employs hardware and software to monitor network traffic and to identify unauthorized attempts to add or alter information, or otherwise cause damage or interfere with information delivery. Except for authorized law enforcement investigations, no attempt is made to identify individual users or their usage habits. Raw data logs may be stored indefinitely for use in statistical analysis or to protect the security and integrity of the computer system.
Unauthorized attempts to add information or alter information on this service are strictly prohibited and may be punishable under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 and the National Information Infrastructure Protection Act.
Please note that other National Ocean Service Web sites may have different information collection practices. If interested, please consult their site-specific privacy statements for details on such policies.
If you have nay questions or comments about the information presented here, please forward them to nosweb@noaa.gov
Examples of information collected by this Web site
Web servers keep a record of their activity in a log file. Every time a visiting computer requests a file from the Web server, a log entry is recorded. A typical log file entry for the National Ocean Service Web site looks like this:
10/04/00 13:19:18 OK somemachine.somenetwork.com Mozilla/4.75( Macintosh; U; PPC) http://othermachine.othernetwork.come/neatsites.html "www.ocnms.nos.noaa.gov" : welcome.html 15208
What this entry means:
10/04/00 13:19:18-- Date and time of the request (24-hour clock).
OK 200 -- Status code of the request. "OK" and a status code of "200" are equivalent; they mean the requested file was successfully found and delivered to the requesting (visitor's) computer.
somemachine.somenetwork.com -- Internet address (or IP address, in the form of 123.123.123.123) of the requesting computer. Depending on how the requesting computer is connected to the Internet, this may not identify a specific computer.
Mozilla/ 4.75 (Macintosh; U; PPC) -- Type of browser used by the requesting computer.
http://othermachine.othernetwork.com/neatsite.html -- The Internet address if the last site visited by the requesting computer, useful in discovering how visitors found this Web site.
"www.ocnms.nos.noaa.gov" -- The Internet address of this Web site. As several Web sites are served on a single computer, the Web server uses this information to determine which Web site should handle the request.
;welcome.html -- The name of the file requested by the visiting computer.
15208 -- Size of the requested file, in bytes.
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