IA DNR: Site Policy

General information is collected automatically when you view this Web Site and download information in the following forms: Internet Protocol addresses assigned by your Internet Service Provider, type of browser and operating system you used, the date and time you accessed our site, pages and documents requested and the amount of time spent viewing Iowa Department of Natural Resources online content. This information is collected for the sole purpose of giving us information that will help us improve future visits.
Personal information is received when you voluntarily share this information via our online forms, sending messages, subscribing to e-newsletters or contacting us using email. This information will not be disclosed to third parties or other government agencies, unless required by state or federal law. Iowa's public records law requires that all information received in connection with state business be made available to anyone upon request, unless the information is subject to a specific statutory exemption.

This policy may be amended from time to time. If you have any questions regarding this privacy policy, please feel free to contact us at either webmaster@dnr.iowa.gov or (515)242-6526.

Accessibility Policy
Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act is a civil rights law that provides individuals with disabilities protection from discrimination in relation to their disabilities. The Americans with Disabilities Act has included more businesses and agencies that must comply with the non-discrimination and accessibility provisions of the law.Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act states that "no qualified individual with a disability in the United States shall be excluded from, denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under" any program or activity that either receives Federal financial assistance or is conducted by any Executive agency.

Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act has established requirements for electronic and information technology developed, maintained, procured or used by the Federal government. Federal electronic and information technology must be accessible to people with disabilities, including employees and members of the public.

The Iowa Department of Natural Resource's Web Site has been designed and maintained in compliance with Section 508 Compliance and is constantly undergoing progressive measures to assure complete compliance. This site was coded to comply with both he American's With Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Priority 1 Level Checkpoints of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0.

Should you at anytime have any difficulties accessing information on this site, please email us at webmaster@dnr.iowa.gov.

Linking Policy
The Iowa Department of Natural Resources may provide links to exterior web sites. These sites are not under our control and the Iowa DNR is not responsible for the information or links you my find there. We provide these links for your convenience and to help supply additional information. The presence of these links is not intended to imply endorsement of that site.

We welcome direct links from your web site and ask you to please link directly to http://www.iowadnr.gov as our pages are consistently evolving. We ask you to refrain from framing content from the pages within our site.

Disclaimer and CopyrightUse of Our Material
Any person is hereby authorized to view, copy, print, and distribute documents on this site without condition. We ask you to extend the courtesy of crediting the material to the Iowa Department of Natural Resources. Any distributed copy of a web document, or portion thereof, is a reproduction and any changes made to any Iowa Department of Natural Resources material will invalidate the document.

State of Iowa Phishing Statement
Phishing is a form of online identity theft that tries to steal personal identity data and financial account credentials. Scam artists "phish" for victims by sending out email messages pretending to be from banks, stores or government agencies. These emails lead individuals to counterfeit websites designed to trick them into divulging sensitive data. Phishing attempts ask individuals for information such as: bank account numbers; credit card information; passwords and PINs; social security numbers; dates of birth; and other personal information.

The State of Iowa never requests personal information, like credit card numbers, social security numbers or passwords, via email. Anyone who receives an e-mail message that appears to be from the State of Iowa and asks for confidential or sensitive information should consider it to be fraudulent and should not follow the instructions in the e-mail.

If you receive an unsolicited e-mail that appears to come from the State of Iowa that asks for personal information, please notify the State of Iowa's Information Security Office (ciso@iowa.gov or 515-281-4820) immediately.

You may also file formal a complaint concerning fraudulent e-mail with the Internet Fraud Complaint Center (IFCC) at www.ic3.gov. The IFCC is a partnership between the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the National White Collar Crime Center.