NASA/KSC Science Home Page Privacy Policy

NASA / Kennedy Space Center is committed to maintaining your confidence and trust. This policy establishes how we will use the information we gather about you during your visit to our website. The privacy of our customers is of utmost importance to NASA.

It is the policy of this web site that personal information (such as your name, postal and e-mail addresses, telephone number etc) is private and confidential. We will never require you to provide personal information on this web site. However, if you choose to provide it to us, such as in an E-mail message, the information will be kept in a secure location accessible only by designated staff, and will be used only for the purposes for which you provided the information.

If you also indicate on our site that you would like to receive information from NASA, such as Shuttle Status reports, KSC Press Releases, or other publications, your E-mail address will be added to the appropriate KSC mailing list. We will not ask for or associate your name, phone number or any other personal information with your E-mail address. If at any time you change your mind and would like to add or remove your name from one of our mailing lists, you can send E-mail to domo@news.ksc.nasa.gov with the words UNSUBSCRIBE list-name in the body of the message.

Personal information will not be released to third parties except to further the purpose for which you provide the information, such as forwarding your request to an appropriate party for action, or if release is required by law or is pertinent to judicial or governmental investigations or proceedings. There are no other circumstances under which we will provide or sell personal information to third parties.

Our computer systems do not track, collect or distribute personal information about visitors. We do record network addresses (ie: IP numbers), but not e-mail addresses. For example, we can tell which company, school or country our visitors come from but not their name, addresses or other information that would allow us to identify individuals. This information is used only for internal purposes by our technical support staff or for computer security purposes.

In addition, we track information about the visits to our web sites and compile statistics that show the daily number of visitors, daily requests received for particular files and what countries those requests come from. These aggregated statistics are used internally to better provide services to the public and are also be provided to others. However, the statistics contain no personal information and cannot be used to gather such information.

Information from this web server resides on a computer system operated and funded by a U.S. Government agency. The use of this computer system may be monitored for computer security purposes. Any unauthorized access to this system is prohibited and is subject to criminal and civil penalties under Federal Laws including but no limited to Public Laws 83-703 and 99-474.