The Iowa Department of Transportation recognizes the importance of protecting the privacy of information collected on our Web site.

You do not have to provide personal information to visit our Web site or download information. However, when you do visit our site, we may collect the following information in order to measure the number of visitors to the different sections of our site, and to help us make our site more useful to visitors:

• the name of the domain from which you access the Internet (i.e., aol.com, if you are using an America Online account);
  
• the date and time you access our site; and
  
• the pages that you visit while on our site.

We will only collect personal information from you that is necessary to provide the information or services that you may request when visiting our Web site. For example, if you are requesting a product or service that we offer, or want a reply to your question or comment, then we will ask for your e-mail address, or your name and mailing address so that we may respond appropriately.

We will not share any personally-identifiable information we receive on our Web site with persons outside our department. No marketing databases will be created nor will any commercial use be made of any data we may collect.

Access to personally-identifiable information in public records at state and local levels of government in Iowa is controlled primarily by Chapter 22 of the Code of Iowa, the law on Examination of Public Records (Open Records).

Various commercial Web sites may be links from our site. These private sector sites are not subject to Chapter 22 of the Code of Iowa or to the Iowa Fair Information Practices Act. Visitors to those sites may wish to check the privacy statements of the sites, and be cautious about providing personally-identifiable information.