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Disclaimer 
The Secretary of Education Office makes every effort to ensure that the information presented on this site is accurate, reliable and timely. However, we do not make any claim that such is 100 percent true 100 percent of the time and therefore we cannot be held liable for the ultimate accuracy, reliability or timeliness of the content found on this site.
Similarly, this site may reference specific commercial products, processes, or services by trade name, trademark, or manufacturer, but this does not constitute or imply any endorsement, recommendation, or favoring by our office or the Commonwealth of Virginia.
The Secretary of Education Web site has links to other Web sites. These include links to Web sites operated by other government agencies, nonprofit organizations, and private businesses. When you link to another site, you are no longer on our site and so this Policy will not apply. When you link to another Web site, you are subject to the privacy policy of that new site. Similarly, any references on these Web sites to specific commercial products, processes, or services does not constitute or imply endorsement, recommendation, or favoring by the Education Office.
Linking Policy
This Web site contains links to external Web sites and pages containing information created and maintained by public and private organizations other than the Secretary of Education Office, which alone determines which external Web sites are linked to. These links are offered to be helpful to our site visitors, but just because we link to another Web site does not mean we explicitly or implicitly endorse, recommend or especially favor these entities.
Links to external Web sites and pages may be removed or replaced at the sole discretion of the our office at any time without notice.
If a link on the Secretary of Education site is not working, please contact our webmaster.
See also this Policy's Disclaimer section above regarding off-site links.
Plug-ins
The Secretary of Education site may provide content in several formats that require plug-ins, or separate browser components, to properly view. All required plug-ins (except the non-trial version of WinZip) are free to use.
The plug-ins used are:
- Adobe Portable Document Format files (.pdf) - Adobe Acrobat Reader
- Microsoft Word documents (.doc) - Word Viewer
- Microsoft Excel spreadsheets (.xls) - Excel Viewer
- Microsoft PowerPoint presentations (.ppt) - PowerPoint Viewer
- WinZip files (.zip) - WinZip
Privacy
Your personal privacy is important to us, and our privacy policy is clear: We do not collect any personal information when you visit Secretary of Education Web site unless you choose to provide that information to us.
During your visit to this site, we do gather and store certain information about your visit automatically. This information does not identify you personally and is limited to:
- The IP address (a number automatically assigned to your computer in order to browse the Web) and Internet domain (for example, "company.com" if you connect from work, "school.edu" if you connect from school) of your computer;
- The type of browser and operating system used to access our Web site;
- The date and time you access our Web site;
- The pages you visit; and
- If you linked to this Web site from another Web site, the address of that Web site.
This information is used to track site usage and user technology; this information in turn helps us to make our site more useful to visitors.
Use and Collection of Personal Information
Other than the information listed above, personal information is only collected if you send an e-mail to staff in the office, or fill out a form with your personal information and submit it through our Web site. These communications are automatically logged for tracking purposes, and will be used to follow-up on your comments, questions, or requests.
We do not collect personal information for any other purposes. The information that you provide is not given to any private organizations or private persons, nor do we collect or use information for commercial marketing.
Cookies
"Cookies" are small files either stored on a server or sent back to a visiting computer. In certain applications user information is stored as "cookies", which are then sent back to and stored on the user's computer.
Some sections of this Web site may use cookies to customize the information presented to you.
See also this Policy's Privacy section regarding information gathered by this site and the use of that information.
Copyright
The copyright to the Secretary of Education Web site is owned by the Commonwealth of Virginia. Permission is granted to every person visiting this site to make fair use of its contents. All site pages are marked with the notice “Copyright Commonwealth of Virginia, .” If you are in doubt about whether your use constitutes fair use, please send a request for explicit permission to copy the contents to our webmaster.
Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)
Complete information on our FOIA policies can be found on a separate page.