Legal Notices and Disclaimer

Security Notice

Unauthorized attempts to defeat or circumvent security features, to use the system for other than intended purposes, to deny service to authorized users, to access, obtain, alter, damage, or destroy information, or otherwise to interfere with the system or its operation is prohibited. Evidence of such acts may be disclosed to law enforcement authorities and result in criminal prosecution under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 and the National Information Infrastructure Protection Act of 1996 (Pub. L. 104-294), (18 U.S.C. 1030), or other applicable criminal laws.

Disclaimer of Liability

Documents available from the web server were prepared as an account of work sponsored by an agency of the U.S. Government. Neither the U.S. Government nor any agency thereof, or any of their employees, makes any warranty, express or implied, or assumes any legal liability or responsibility for the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any information, apparatus, product, or process disclosed, or represents that its use would not infringe privately owned rights. Further, Open Source Software Solutions Inc. is not responsible for the contents of any off-site pages referenced.

Disclaimer of Endorsement

Reference to any specific commercial product, process, or service by trade name, trademark, manufacturer, or otherwise does not necessarily constitute or imply its endorsement, recommendation, or favoring by the U.S. Government or any agency thereof. The views and opinions of document authors do not necessarily state or reflect those of the U.S. Government or any agency thereof.

Copyright Status

Documents provided from the web server were sponsored by a contractor of the U.S. Government. Accordingly, the U.S. Government retains a nonexclusive, royalty-free license to publish or reproduce these documents, or to allow others to do so, for U.S. Government purposes. These documents may be freely distributed and used for non-commercial, scientific and educational purposes.

Privacy Notice

We collect no personal information about you without your knowledge when you visit this site, although you may choose to provide such information for activities such as forums or a wiki. However, we do collect and store certain information automatically as part of our webserver's logfiles:

  • The Internet Protocol (IP) address of the domain from which you access the Internet, whether yours individually or provided as a proxy by your Internet Service Provider (ISP)
  • The date and time you accessed this site
  • The pages you visited (recorded by the text and graphics files that compose that page)
  • The Internet address of the web site from which you linked directly to our site.

We use this information to help us make our site more useful to visitors, such as assessing the most frequently accessed content and determining technical design specifications and identifying system performance or problems. This information is NOT shared with anyone beyond the website's support staff, unless required by law enforcement investigation, and is only used for the collection of anonymous statistics.