Terms and Conditions of Use

PLEASE READ THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF USE CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THIS SITE.

We reserve the right, at our discretion, to change, modify, add, or remove portions of these terms and conditions of use at any time. Please check these terms and conditions periodically for changes.

Conditions of Use

Notice to Users: This is a Federal computer system and is the property of the United States Government. It is for authorized use only. Users (authorized or unauthorized) have no explicit or implicit expectation of privacy.

Any or all uses of this system and all files on this system may be intercepted, monitored, recorded, copied, audited, inspected, and disclosed to authorized site, Department of Energy, and law enforcement personnel, as well as authorized officials of other agencies, both domestic and foreign. By using this system, the user consents to such interception, monitoring, recording, copying, auditing, inspection, and disclosure at the discretion of authorized site or Department of Energy personnel.

Unauthorized or improper use of this system may result in administrative disciplinary action and civil and criminal penalties. By continuing to use this system you indicate your awareness of and consent to these terms and conditions of use. LOG OFF IMMEDIATELY if you do not agree to the conditions stated in this warning.

Copyright Notice

For Scientific and Technical Information Only
© Copyright 2011 Los Alamos National Security, LLC All rights reserved

For All Information
Unless otherwise indicated, this information has been authored by an employee or employees of the Los Alamos National Security, LLC (LANS), operator of the Los Alamos National Laboratory under Contract No. DE-AC52-06NA25396 with the U.S. Department of Energy. The U.S. Government has rights to use, reproduce, and distribute this information. The public may copy and use this information without charge, provided that this Notice and any statement of authorship are reproduced on all copies. Neither the Government nor LANS makes any warranty, express or implied, or assumes any liability or responsibility for the use of this information.

Policy and Disclaimer

Policy Statement: The Los Alamos National Laboratory strongly supports academic freedom and a researcher's right to publish; therefore, the Laboratory as an institution does not endorse the viewpoint of a publication or guarantee its technical correctness.

Disclaimer of Liability: With respect to documents available from this server, neither the United States Government nor the Los Alamos National Security, LLC., nor any of their employees, makes any warranty, express or implied, including the warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose, or assumes any legal liability or responsibility for the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any information, apparatus, product, or process disclosed, or represents that its use would not infringe privately owned rights.

Disclaimer of Endorsement: Reference herein to any specific commercial products, process, or service by trade name, trademark, manufacturer, or otherwise, does not necessarily constitute or imply its endorsement, recommendation, or favoring by the United States Government or the Los Alamos National Security, LLC. The views and opinions of authors expressed herein do not necessarily state or reflect those of the United States Government or the Los Alamos National Security, LLC., and shall not be used for advertising or product endorsement purposes.

Privacy Notice

Visitors to LANL Web sites have no explicit or implicit expectation of privacy. The Laboratory uses software programs to monitor network traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change information or otherwise cause damage. Any or all visits to LANL Web sites are subject to the Conditions of Use.

We collect no personal information about you when you visit a LANL Web site, except where otherwise stated, unless you choose to provide this information to us. However, we collect and store certain information automatically:

• the Internet Protocol (IP) address and the name of the host from which you access the Internet (i.e. 123.456.789.012), whether yours individually or provided as a proxy by your Internet Service Provider (ISP),
• the browser type and version you are using to access the site,
• the operating system and version you are running on your machine,
• the date and time you access our site,
• the pages you peruse (recorded by the text and graphics files that compose that page),
• and, the Internet address of the Web site from which you linked directly to our site.

We use the summary statistics to help us make our site more useful to visitors (such as assessing what information is of most and least interest to visitors) and for other purposes such as determining the site's technical design specifications and identifying system performance or problem areas.

This information is NOT shared with anyone beyond the support staff for LANL Web sites, except as required for site security purposes, to ensure that LANL Web sites remain available to all users, and when required by law enforcement investigation. We use the information only as a source of anonymous statistical information, and no other attempts are made to identify individual users or their usage habits.

Use of the LANL Name and Logo

No person or organization may use the Los Alamos National Laboratory name in conjunction with advertising or to list LANL as a user of any product or service or as the source of research information on which a commercial program or publication is based. However, approval may be granted for institutional or goodwill advertising clearly regarded as being in the best interests of the Laboratory.

Links to and from LANL Web Site

Links to LANL Web Sites from Third Party and Commercial Sites
Los Alamos National Laboratory encourages and permits links to content on LANL Web sites. However, LANL is an organization committed to the highest scientific ethics and standards. Therefore, the linking should not (a) suggest that LANL promotes or endorses any third party's causes, ideas, Web sites, products or services, or (b) use LANL content for inappropriate commercial purposes.

Links to Third Party and Commercial Sites from LANL Web
Since Los Alamos National Laboratory policy prohibits the use of information technology resources for commercial purposes, Web pages must avoid linking to commercial sites that advertise and/or sell products or services. Such links may be construed by visitors to LANL's Web site as endorsement of those products or services. Specific exceptions may be allowed if the commercial links support the Laboratory's missions and/or provide an essential service to the Laboratory community. In some case, development software license agreements require the licensee to provide hyper-linked attribution.

CIO Policy IA-P-C90201