Thank you for visiting the Competency Model Clearinghouse Center of the CareerOneStop Web site. Our privacy policy is straightforward. We will collect no personal information about you when you visit our Web site. We do not use "cookies." (A "cookie" is a file placed on your hard drive by a Web site, usually without your knowledge.) However, we automatically collect and store information on user activity when visiting this Web site.

While you browse our Web site, read pages, or download information, we gather and store certain information about your visit. This information does not identify you personally. We automatically collect and store the following information about visits made to our Web site:

• The IP address (an IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer whenever you are surfing the Web) from which our Web site is accessed;
• The type of browser and operating system used to access our site;
• The date and time our site is accessed;
• The pages visited; and
• If the Competency Model Clearinghouse Web site is visited from another Web site, the address of that Web site.

We aggregate this information and use it to help us make our site more useful to visitors -- to learn about the number of visitors to our site, to determine those portions of our site which are of greatest interest to our users, and to learn about the types of technology our visitors use.

We monitor network traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change information or to otherwise cause damage to the site. Anyone using this Web site expressly consents to such monitoring.

Models or ladders/lattices that you create will not be shared with the public or other users.