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Thank you for visiting Roberts Tower Company and reviewing our policy notices. We have
integrated these statements into a single posting for ease of use. The
following links will help you navigate to a specific section:
Privacy Policy
This notice provides Roberts Tower Company's policy regarding the nature, purpose, use
and sharing of any information collected via this Web site. The
information you provide on a Roberts Tower Company Web site will be used only for its
intended purpose. We will protect your information consistent with the
principles of the Privacy Act, the e-Government act of 2002, the Federal
Records Act, and as applicable, the Freedom of Information Act.
Submitting information is strictly voluntary. By doing so, you are
giving Roberts Tower Company your permission to use the information for the intended
purpose. If you do not want to give Roberts Tower Company permission to use your
information, simply do not provide it. However, not providing certain
information may result in Roberts Tower Company's inability to provide you with the
information or services you desire.
There are several types of information we collect. These include:
- Automatically Collected Information
- Information Collected for Tracking and
Customization (Cookies)
- Personal Information
- Information from Children
Roberts Tower Company never collects information for commercial marketing. We will
only share your information with another government agency if it relates
to that agency, or as otherwise required by law. Roberts Tower Company never creates
individual profiles or gives your information to any private
organization.
Automatically Collected Information
We collect and temporarily store certain technical information about
your visit for use in site management and security purposes. This
information includes:
- The Internet domain from which you access our Web site (for
example, "xcompany.com" if you use a private Internet access
account, or "yourschool.edu" if you connect from an educational
domain);
- The IP address (a unique number for each computer connected to
the Internet) from which you access our Web site;
- The type of browser (e.g., Netscape, Internet Explorer) used to
access our site;
- The operating system (Windows, Unix) used to access our site;
- The date and time you access our site;
- The URLs of the pages you visit;
- Your username, if it was used to log in to the Web site; and
- If you visited this Roberts Tower Company Web site from another Web site, the URL
of the forwarding site.
This information is only used to help us make our site more useful
for you. With this data we learn about the number of visitors to our
site and the types of technology our visitors use.
Except for authorized law enforcement investigations, no attempts are
made to identify individual users or their usage habits. Raw data logs
are retained temporarily as required for security and site management
purposes only.
Information Collected for Tracking and Customization (Cookies)
A cookie is a small file that a Web site transfers to your computer
to allow it to remember specific information about your session while
you are connected. Your computer will only share the information in the
cookie with the Web site that provided it, and no other Web site can
request it. There are two types of cookies, session and persistent.
Session cookies last only as long as your Web browser is open. Once you
close your browser, the cookie disappears. Persistent cookies store
information on your computer for longer periods of time.
Roberts Tower Company Web sites may use session cookies for technical purposes such as
to enable better navigation through the site, or to allow you to
customize your preferences for interacting with the site. A few Roberts Tower Company Web
sites may also make use of persistent cookies to remember you between
visits so, for example, you can save your customized preference settings
for future visits. Each Roberts Tower Company site using persistent cookies identifies
itself as doing so.
At no time is your private information, whether stored in persistent
cookies or elsewhere, shared with third parties who have no right to
that information. If you do not wish to have session or persistent
cookies stored on your machine, you can turn them off in your browser.
However, this may affect the functioning of some Roberts Tower Company Web sites.
Personal Information
If you choose to provide us with personal information, through such
methods as completing a form or sending us an email, we will use that
information to respond to your message and to help us get you the
information or services you have requested.
Remember that email isn't necessarily secure. You should never send
sensitive or personal information like your Social Security number in an
email. Use postal mail or secure Web sites instead.
Some of our Web sites ask visitors who request specific information
to fill out a registration form. For example, vendors looking for
marketing opportunities by visiting our Roberts Tower Company Acquisition Internet
Service site may be asked to register to obtain email notices of
business opportunities. Other information collected at Web sites through
questionnaires, feedback forms, or other means, enables us to determine
visitors' interests, with the goal of providing better service to our
customers.
Interaction with Children
The
Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) governs information
gathering online from or about children under the age of 13. Verifiable
consent from a child's parent or guardian is required before collecting,
using, or disclosing personal information from a child under the age of
13.
We collect no information about you or your child, other than that
detailed in the previous section, when you visit our web site unless you
choose to provide information to us. When a Roberts Tower Company Web site needs to
collect information about a child under 13 years old, COPPA required
information and instructions will be provided by the specific Web page
that collects information about the child. The Web page will specify
exactly what the information will be used for, who will see it, and how
long it will be kept.
There are several exceptions that permit collection of a child's
email address without receiving parental consent in advance:
- To provide the parents with notice and to seek consent for
communications with the child. Note: this may require collection of
the parent's email address as well.
- To respond to a one time request from a child.
- To respond more than once to a child's request; i.e.,
subscription to a newsletter. However, parental consent is required
prior to the second communication.
- To protect the safety of a child who is participating on the
site; i.e., in a chat room.
- To protect the site or to respond to law enforcement; i.e., in
the case of a Web site compromise.
Personal information about children under 13 years of age may be
needed to respond to his/her communication to us, such as to receive a
poster or to acquire information for a school project. Personal
information about your child will be destroyed immediately upon
completion of its intended purpose. On rare occasions, it may be
determined that a communication from a child under 13 years old should
be maintained for historical purposes. Should such an occasion occur,
Roberts Tower Company will obtain the necessary consent from the child's parent.
Finally, we provide many on-line tools and services in support of
Roberts Tower Company's mission. A child under 13 years old may inadvertently provide
personal information to one of these services. If this should happen,
the information about the child will be deleted immediately upon
discovery.
Web Site Security Notice
For site security purposes and to ensure that this Web service
remains available to all users, this Government computer system employs
software programs that monitor network traffic to identify unauthorized
attempts to upload or change information,. Anyone using this system
expressly consents to such monitoring and is advised that if such
monitoring reveals evidence of possible abuse or criminal activity, such
evidence may be provided to appropriate law enforcement officials.
Unauthorized attempts to upload or change information on Roberts Tower Company servers
are strictly prohibited and may be punishable by law, including under
the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 and the National Information
Infrastructure Protection Act of 1996.
Accessibility Statement
We continually strive to ensure the pages on this Web site are
accessible to individuals with disabilities in accordance with
Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act. If you have any difficulty
viewing any page with adaptive technology, please contact the webmaster
for this site, or the
Center Section 508 Coordinator.
Documents on Roberts Tower Company Web sites are presented in many formats. These
formats are generally accessible to users using screen reading software.
Some files on this Web site may be posted as Adobe Acrobat Portable
Document Format (PDF) files. Adobe provides their
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