Privacy Policy

This page outlines SIGAR’s Privacy Policy in regards to the website. For general information on SIGAR’s Privacy Act Policy and making Privacy Act requests, refer to SIGAR’s Privacy Act Policy.

The SIGAR web site is a service of SIGAR. Information presented on the SIGAR web site is considered public information and may be distributed or copied. Use of appropriate byline/photo/image credits is requested.

For site management, information in the form of server log files 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.

No information is stored about individual users or their usage habits in "cookie" format.

Except for authorized law enforcement investigations, no other attempts are made to identify individual users or their usage habits.

For 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 to otherwise cause damage, including attempts to deny service to authorized users.

Attempts to upload or change information on this service without authorization or to download and copy with the intent to defraud are strictly prohibited and may be punishable under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 and the National Information Infrastructure Protection Act.