This policy applies only to the Massachusetts Office for Victim Assistance Web site, and not to any sites which may be linked to this site. Your privacy is important to us. It is the goal of MOVA to protect your privacy to the extent possible under the law. For that reason, we have limited the ways in which users can send us information via the Web site. The Massachusetts Office for Victim Assistance is a public agency subject to the Public Records Law, M.G.L. c. 66, § 10. Information in the possession of Massachusetts Office for Victim Assistance is potentially a public record, and, depending on the circumstances, part or all of an e-mail message sent to our office may be subject to disclosure under the Public Records Law. To protect your privacy, we do not allow Web site users to contact us by E-mail via this site. This web site does not use permanent or temporary cookies. We do not collect or sell user names, addresses or other personal identifying information for commercial purposes or for any other reason. When you visit this Web site, we do not store anonymous information about your visit. Information that your computer automatically supplies to every Web site you visit includes your computer's Internet Protocol (IP) address, the name of the domain from which you gain access to the Internet (aol.com, for example, if you are using an AOL account, or mit.edu if you are using a Massachusetts Institute of Technology account), the Web site from which you gained access to our Web site, and the browsing software that you are using (Microsoft's Internet Explorer or Netscape's Navigator, for example). We do not store or use this information in any way. © 2001 Commonwealth of Massachusetts