General Considerations
The Office of Inspector General of the Election Assistance Commission (EAC OIG) products and materials may not be used to state or imply the endorsement by EAC OIG or by any EAC OIG employee of a commercial product, service or activity, or used in any other manner that might be misleading.
However, EAC OIG should be acknowledged as the source of its information and material. Accordingly, we request that EAC OIG be cited as the source of information or material used and that any photo credits or bylines be similarly credited to the photographer or author or EAC OIG, as appropriate.
You may link freely to the EAC OIG Web site or any of its content. We request that you identify that such link is to an EAC OIG Internet resource.
Site Disclaimer
EAC OIG maintains this Web site to enhance public access to the EAC OIG's information.
For documents and software available from this server, EAC OIG does not warrant or assume any legal liability or responsibility for the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any information, apparatus, product, or process disclosed.
The documents on this Web site may contain hypertext pointers to information created and maintained by other public and private organizations. Please be aware that we do not control or guarantee the accuracy, relevance, timeliness, or completeness of this outside information. Further, the inclusion of pointers to particular items in hypertext is not intended to reflect their importance, nor is it intended to endorse any views expressed or products or services offered by the author of the reference or the organization operating the server on which the reference is maintained.
Any translation of these documents into languages other than English is intended solely as a convenience to the non-English-reading public. We have attempted to provide an accurate translation of the text, but the official text is the English text and any differences in the translation are not binding and have no legal effect. References identifying the original document in English are available in most non-English documents.
Privacy
The Office of Inspector General of the Election Assistance Commission (EAC OIG) is strongly committed to maintaining the privacy of your personal information and the security of our computer systems. With respect to the collection, use and disclosure of personal information, EAC OIG makes every effort to ensure compliance with applicable federal law, including, but not limited to The Freedom of Information Act.
As a general rule, EAC OIG does not collect personally-identifiable information about you when you are reviewing our website.
For site management purposes, we reserve the right to collect statistical information.
If you submit to EAC OIG a complaint or email that contains personal information:
Any information you provide to EAC OIG (for example in an e-mail or using the hotline complaint form on our website), including personally-identifiable information (for example, your name or mailing address), will be used to respond to your inquiry or to provide you with a service associated with the request. We may forward the information you provide to other Government employees or agencies who are better able to respond to you. Should you wish to file a request under FOIA, instructions are provided at: https://www.foia.gov/. Our Web site has many links to other sites. When you link to any of these external sites, you are no longer on our site and are subject to the privacy policy of the new site.
Security
For security purposes and to ensure that this service remains available to all users, our Web site may employ software programs to monitor network traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change information, to cause harm, or otherwise cause damage. Unauthorized attempts to upload information or change information on this service are strictly prohibited. Unauthorized use, tampering with or modification of this system—including supporting hardware or software—may subject the violator to criminal or civil penalties. In the event of unauthorized intrusion, all relevant information regarding possible violation of law may be provided to law enforcement officials.
Cookie Use Notice
A cookie is a small piece of text placed on a client computer by a Web site server when the client first visits the site. This text is subsequently used by the server to personalize the client browsing experience, track client page clicks for statistical purposes, etc. In technical terms, a cookie allows the stateless HTTP protocol to maintain client state.
There are two types of cookies – a “session” cookie that is stored in your computer’s primary memory and deleted when you close your browser, and a “persistent” cookie that is stored on your hard drive and is available to the server even after you close and reopen your browser.
The EAC OIG Web site uses only session cookies. However, we use an external service to track site usage statistics and the external service provider places a persistent cookie on your hard drive. No cookies used by EAC OIG ever store any information that may be used to identify you personally.