INTERNET PRIVACY POLICY
Thank you for visiting the Florida Inspectors General web site. Your privacy is very important to us. Simply stated, our policy is to collect no personal information about you when you visit our web site unless you affirmatively choose to make such information available to us. When you visit our web site, our web server automatically recognizes only the Internet domain and IP address from which you accessed our web site. This information does not result in the identification of your personal e-mail address or other personal information.

In addition, we gather information regarding the volume and timing of access to our web site by collecting information on the date, time and web site pages accessed by visitors to the web site. We do this so that we can improve the content of our web site, and this information is not shared with other organizations. Again, only aggregate information is collected, and individual visitors' personal information is not identified.

If you choose to share personal information with us - sending us a message or filling out an electronic form with personal information - we will use the information only for the purposes you authorized. Some of the information may be saved for a designated period of time to comply with Florida's archiving policies, but we will not disclose the information to third parties or other government agencies, unless required to do so by state or federal law. And if we are required to disclose information about you by law, we will make every effort to notify you of the disclosure in advance.

If you have other questions about our privacy policies, or have ideas about improving our policies, please feel free to e-mail us or you can reach us by telephone at (850) 410-5831. Under Florida law, e-mail addresses are public records. If you do not want your e-mail address released in response to a public-records request, do not send electronic mail to this entity. Instead, contact this office by phone or in writing.

DISCLAIMER
The Chief Inspector General has a broad range of responsibilities outlined in sections 14.32 and 20.055, Florida Statutes (F.S.). These responsibilities include carrying out activities designed to deter, detect, prevent, and eradicate fraud, waste, abuse, mismanagement, and misconduct in government. Initiating, supervising, and coordinating investigations; coordinating complaint handling activities with agencies; coordinating activities of Florida’s Whistle-blower’s Act and maintaining Florida’s Whistle-blower’s Hotline.

Content provided by the Florida Inspectors General presented herein is for informational purposes only. We have not screened each individual or organization that appears on this site or that is electronically linked to this site. The appearance of or the linking to an individual or organization on this site is not intended as or in any manner serves as an endorsement of that individual or organization or any products or services offered by any individual or organization or identified on the individual’s or organization’s site. The Florida Inspectors General disclaim any and all warranties with regard to the website and website information, including without limitation:

1. any implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, infringement, or title;
2. any warranty of quality, functionality, operability, use, or performance of the website or website information;
3. any warranty of the accuracy, completeness, or validity of data or information communicated through the website or included in the website information;
4. any warranty of the continuous availability of the website or website information, or that the website or website information will be uninterrupted or error-free;
5. any warranty that the website information or other files or data available for access or downloading will be free of infection, viruses, or other code manifesting harmful, contaminating, or destructive properties; or
6. any warranties arising from course of dealing, trade usage, trade practice, or otherwise.

In addition, the Florida Inspectors General do not represent or warrant that any defects in the website or errors in the website information will be corrected. In addition, the Florida Inspectors General do not warrant either expressly or by implication any individual, organization, product, or service appearing on this site or that is electronically linked to this site. The Florida Inspectors General strongly urge all users of this site to conduct their own investigation of any individual, organization, product, or service appearing on this site or that is electronically linked to this site. Various clipart and image collections appearing on this site are used under license by the Florida Inspectors General or its web managers for this site. These images are for viewing purposes only. Any reproduction may be prohibited under federal/state copyright, Trademark, or trade secret laws.