Notices

Privacy Act Notice
For site management, information is collected for statistical purposes. The Department of State uses software programs to create summary statistics for such purposes as assessing what information is of most and least interest or identifying system performance or problem areas. The following is the type of information that may be collected about your visit to the web site: the name of the Internet domain from which you access the web site (for example, "aol.com" if you are connecting from America Online) and the date and time you access the site. If you choose to provide us with personal information in an email message, we use it only to respond to your email.

For site security purposes and to ensure that this service remains available to all users, the State Department uses software programs to monitor network traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change information or otherwise cause damage. Unauthorized attempts to upload information or change information on this service are strictly prohibited and may be punishable under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986. Information also may be used for authorized law enforcement investigations. Except for the above purposes, no other attempts are made to identify individual users or their usage habits.

Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
Unauthorized attempts to upload information and/or change information on this web site are strictly prohibited and are subject to prosecution under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 and Title 18 U.S.C. Sec.1001 and 1030.

Disclaimer of Liability
Every effort is made to provide accurate and complete information. However, we cannot guarantee that there will be no errors. Neither the U.S. Government, the U.S. Department of State, the Digex (web host), or ClearBlue Technologies and Grafik Marketing Communications (independent software development contractors), nor their employees and contractors make any warranty, expressed or implied, including the warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose with respect to documents available from State Department web sites. Additionally, the U.S. Government, U.S. State Department, Digex, ClearBlue Technologies, and Grafik Marketing Communications assume no legal liability for the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any information, product, or process disclosed herein and do not represent that use of such information, product, or process would not infringe on privately owned rights.

If you would like verification or a hard copy of information released on the Council web site or if you have any questions or comments about the information presented here, please contact:

The Office of the Senior Coordinator for International Women's Issues
U.S. Department of State
Washington, D.C.  20520
Phone: 202-312-9664
Fax: 202-312-9663