Welcome to the Massachusetts Organization of State Engineers and Scientists (MOSES) Web site. The following policy applies only to the use of the MOSES Web site. As you navigate our site, you may see links that (when clicked) will take you to External Web sites operated by state agencies, organizations, or companies. We recommend that you read the privacy policies for each Web site that you visit, and any external site that you visit through a link appearing at this site.

Personalization and what we collect
We may collect the URL you came from, IP address, domain types (e.g. .com or .org, etc.), your browser type, the country, state and telephone area code where your server is located, the pages of our site that were viewed during a visit.

If you require access to a restricted portion of the site, we may also collect your name (which need not be your legal name), password, and e-mail address. In combination, your chosen name and password, linked with your email, will constitute personally identifiable information.

How Information is Used
We do not sell or rent your personal information to others. We use information we collect only for the purposes of allowing access to certain site pages, sending information via email, enhancing the operation of our site, for statistical purposes and to administer our systems

Information Automatically Collected and Stored by this Site
This Web site does not use permanent “cookies” (files that a Web site can place on your computer). However, the site uses temporary “session cookies” to allow visitors to use certain site pages. “Session cookies” do not allow us to personally identify a visitor. These cookies are stored only in memory and are deleted when the user’s browser is shut down.

Security
Because messages or suggestions sent to this site are not encrypted, you should not send messages containing information that you consider highly sensitive to this Web site. We use standard security measures to ensure that information provided by you, including your personally identifiable information, is not lost, misused, altered, or unintentionally destroyed.

Policy changes
We will post substantive changes to this policy before they take effect. Any information we collect under the current privacy policy will remain subject to the terms of this policy. After any changes take effect, all new information we collect, if any, will be subject to the new policy.

Disclaimer:

The Massachusetts Organization of State Engineers and Scientists (MOSES) maintains this web site to provide you with information, and for education and communication. You may download material displayed on this site provided you also retain all copyright and other proprietary notices contained on the materials. You may not, however, distribute, modify, transmit, reuse, repost, or use the contents of this site for public or commercial purposes, including the text, images, audio, and video without the permission of the Massachusetts Organization of State Engineers and Scientists. MOSES has not necessarily viewed or reviewed any of the links, internet sites, web pages or special documents, etc. referenced herein. MOSES is not responsible for and makes no representations regarding any of the links, internet sites, web pages or special documents, etc, referenced herein or the accuracy of any of the content thereof.