1. The Office of Force Transformation (OFT) web site is provided as a public service by the Office of the Secretary of Defense.

2. Information presented on the Office of Force Transformation (OFT) web site is considered public information and may be distributed or copied unless otherwise specified. Use of appropriate byline/photo/image credits is requested.

3. For site management, information is collected for statistical purposes. This government computer system uses software programs to create summary statistics, which are used for such purposes as assessing what information is of most and least interest, determining technical design specifications, and identifying system performance or problem areas.

4. For site security purposes and to ensure that this service remains available to all users, this government computer system employs software programs to monitor network traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change information, or otherwise cause damage.

5. Except for authorized law enforcement investigations, no other attempts are made to identify individual users or their usage habits. Raw data logs are used for no other purposes and are scheduled for regular destruction in accordance with National Archives and Records Administration guidelines.

6. 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 and the National Information Infrastructure Protection Act.

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Information Collected

Below is an example of the information collected from weblogs on a standard http request for a web page:

xxx.yyy.zzz.aaa - - [23/Mar/2003:10:28:52 -0500] "GET /privacy_security.cfm HTTP/1.0" 200 13837 "http://www.defenselink.mil" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0; T312461)"

xxx.yyy.zzz.aaa -- this is the IP address (or host) associated with the requester (you as the visitor). Depending on the requestor's method of network connection, the host name (or IP address) may or may not identify a specific computer. Connections via many Internet Service Providers assign different IP addresses for each session, so the host name identifies only the ISP. The host name (or IP address) will identify a specific computer if that computer has a fixed IP address.

[23/Mar/2003:10:28:52 -0500] -- this is the date and time of the request

"GET /privacy_security.cfm HTTP/1.0" -- this is the location of the requested file

200 -- this is the status code - 200 is OK - the request was filled

13837 -- this is the size of the requested file in bytes

"http://www.defenselink.mil" -- this indicates the last site the person visited, which indicates how people find this site

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0; T312461) -- this identifies the type of browser software/operating system used to access the page, which indicates what design parameters to use in constructing the pages

For the purposes of the Large Document Transfer (LDT) system, the Library subscriptions and the OFT Forum, a person's name and/or e-mail address are necessary for functionality. This information is used soley for the intent of the system and is not distributed in any way to third parties.

No other user-identifying information is collected.

Disclaimer for External Links

The appearance of external hyperlinks does not constitute endorsement by the United States Department of Defense of the linked web sites, or the information, products or services contained therein. For other than authorized activities such as military exchanges and Morale, Welfare and Recreation (MWR) sites, the United States Department of Defense does not exercise any editorial control over the information you may find at these locations.

All links are provided consistent with the mission of the Office of Force Transformation.

Please let us know about existing external links which you believe are inappropriate and about specific additional external links which you believe ought to be included.