PRIVACY AND SECURITY NOTICE

• This is an official U.S. Navy web site about the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS). It is provided as a public service by NCIS. The purpose is to provide information and news about NCIS to the general public.
• Information presented on this site is considered public information and may be distributed or copied. Use of appropriate byline/photo/image credits is requested.
• For site management, information is collected for statistical purposes. This government computer system uses software programs to create summary statistics, which are used for such purposes as assessing what information is of most and least interest, determining technical design specifications, and identifying system performance or problem areas.
• For site security purposes and to ensure that this service remains available to all users, this government computer system employs software programs to monitor network traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change information, or otherwise cause damage.
• Except for authorized law enforcement investigations, no other attempts are made to identify individual users or their usage habits. Raw data logs are used for no other purpose and are scheduled for regular destruction in accordance with National Archives and Records Administration guidelines. All data collection activities are in strict accordance with DoD Directive 5240.1 (reference (p)).
• Unauthorized attempts to upload information or change information on this service are strictly prohibited and may be punishable under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1987 and the National Information Infrastructure Protection Act.
• If you have any questions about the information presented here, please forward them to the NCIS web content manager: Contentmgr@ncis.navy.mil
• Privacy Advisory- We will not obtain personally identifying information about you when you visit our site unless you choose to provide such information to us. If you choose to send email to the site web content manager or public affairs officer, any contact information you provide will be solely used to respond to your request and not stored.