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--The Internet Protocol (IP) address for the domain from which you access the Internet (e.g., 123.456.789.012255.255.255.0) whether the domain is yours individually or is provided as a proxy by your Internet Service Provider (ISP)
--The date and time you access our site
--The pages you access (recorded by the text and graphics files that compose that page)
--And, the Internet address of the Web site from which you linked directly to our site.
--The type of brower and operating system used to access our site.
Similar information may be gathered for anonymous ftp, remote account login, or other comparable types of connections.
We use the summary statistics to help us make our site more useful to visitors, such as assessing what information is of most and least interest to visitors, and for other purposes such as determining the site's technical design specifications and identifying system performance or problem areas.
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Email Information Service
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