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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.

Accessibility/Section 508

The U.S. Department of Energy is committed to making its electronic and information technologies accessible to individuals with disabilities in accordance with Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act (29 U.S.C. 794d), as amended in 1998. Send feedback or concerns related to the accessibility of this website to DOE Section 508 Coordinator mailbox.

For more information about Section 508, please visit the DOE Section 508 website.

Last Updated: 10/01/2013

Rules of Behavior

FIMS RULES OF BEHAVIOR

Access to FIMS is granted to you based on certain expectations. These are:

1) Information obtained from FIMS is to be used for official DOE business purposes only.

2) Any information obtained from FIMS, whether in the form of printed reports or electronic files, is to be protected by you against any purposeful or incidental distribution to anyone not authorized access to such data.

3) In the event that you no longer require access to FIMS, or you leave the employment of DOE or its' authorized contactor organizations, you will notify the FIMS Field Office System Administrator to terminate the userid.

4) In regards to your Password for FIMS, you agree to follow the following guidelines when changing your Password:

Password contains between 8 and 20 non-blank characters.
Password contains at least one number.
Password must contain a nonnumeric in the first and last position.
Password must have a special character in one of the first 7 positions.
Password does not contain the userid.
Password does not include the user's own or, to the best of his/her knowledge, close friends or relatives names, employee serial number, Social Security number, birth date, phone number, or any information about him/her that the user believes could be readily learned or guessed.
Password does not, to the best of the user's knowledge, include common words that would be in an English dictionary, or from another language with which the user has familiarity.
Password does not, to the best of the user's knowledge, employ commonly used proper names, including the name of any fictional character or place.
Password does not contain any simple pattern of letter or numbers, such as "qwertyxx" or "xyz123xx."
Password employed by the user on his/her unclassified systems is different than the Passwords employed on his/her classified systems.

5) Additionally, you agree to protect your Password in the following manner:

Individuals must not share Passwords except in emergency circumstances or when there is an overriding operational necessity.
Individuals must not leave clear-text Passwords in a location accessible to others or secured in a location whose protection is less than that required for protecting the information that can be accessed using the Password.
Individuals must not enable applications to retain Passwords for subsequent reuse.
Password must be changed:

at least every 60 days
immediately after sharing
as soon as possible, but within 1 business day after a Password has been compromised, or after one suspects that a Password has been compromised
on direction from management

Privacy

SECURITY NOTICE

This web site is part of a Federal computer system used to accomplish Federal functions. The Department of Energy uses software programs to monitor this web site for security purposes to ensure it remains available to all users and to protect information in the system. By accessing this web site, you are expressly consenting to these monitoring activities.

Unauthorized attempts to defeat or circumvent security features, to use the system for other than intended purposes, to deny service to authorized users, to access, obtain, alter, damage, or destroy information, or otherwise to interfere with the system or its operations is prohibited. Evidence of such acts may be disclosed to law enforcement authorities and result in criminal prosecution under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 and the National Information Infrastructure Protection Act of 1996, codified at section 1030 of Title 18 of the United States Code, or other applicable criminal laws.

GENERAL DISCLAIMER

This system is made available by an agency of the United States Government. Neither the United States Government nor any agency thereof, nor any of their employees, makes any warranty, express or implied, 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. Reference herein to any specific commercial product, 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 any agency thereof. The views and opinions of originators expressed herein do not necessarily state or reflect those of the United States Government or any agency thereof.

PRIVACY NOTICE

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

the Internet Protocol (IP) address of the domain form 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 data 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 Website 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 performance or problem areas.

This information is NOT shared with anyone beyond the support staff to this home page, except when required by Law Enforcement investigation, and is used only as a source of anonymous statistical information.

YOUR RIGHTS UNDER THE PRIVACY ACT AND OTHER PRIVACY LAWS

Additional information regarding your rights is available via the FOIA/Privacy Act Reference Materials posted by the Federal Consumer Information Center at www.Firstgov.gov.

COMMENTS SENT BY E-MAIL

You may choose to provide us with personal information, as in an e-mail message containing your comments or questions. We use this information to improve our service to you or to respond to your request. There are times when your message is forwarded, as e-mail, to other Department of Energy employees who may be better able to help you. Except for authorized law enforcement investigations, we do not share our e-mail with any other outside organizations.

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