Marianas Information Technology Services (M.I.T.S.) is committed to protecting individual privacy and securing the personal information made available to us when you visit mitspacific.com or visit Marianas Information Technology Services (M.I.T.S.) pages hosted by other sites (such as our official profiles on social networking sites). This Privacy Policy describes what information is made available to Marianas Information Technology Services (M.I.T.S.) and how that information is used and retained, and provides information on:

  • Information we receive (when you provide it, visit mitspacific.com, receive email updates, or interact with official Marianas Information Technology Services (M.I.T.S.) presences on third-party sites)
  • How this information is used
  • Sharing of this information
  • Data retention
  • Third-party tools and sites
  • Children and privacy
  • Security

If you have questions about this policy or suggestions for its improvement, please let us know at mitspacific.com/contact/ or by emailing us at [email protected].

INFORMATION RECEIVED AND RETAINED BY MARIANAS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SERVICES (M.I.T.S.) ONLINE PLATFORMS

INFORMATION YOU GIVE US

You do not have to provide Marianas Information Technology Services (M.I.T.S.) with any personal information or create a user account to access information on mitspacific.com. However, for some services, we may need some personal information from you such as your name, address, telephone number, email address, and other contact or identifying information about yourself or others that you choose to provide or authorize us to collect, including resume information. For example:

  • The “Contact” form asks for basic contact information so we can respond to your request;
  • When we ask users to share their story or how a policy decision will impact them, we generally ask for their name, zip code, and email address;
  • We may ask for personal information from people applying to, registering for, or participating in an Marianas Information Technology Services (M.I.T.S.) event or competition.
  • We will ask for personal information of people applying to jobs in the Biden-Harris administration through mitspacific.com.

VISITS TO MITSPACIFIC.COM

When you visit mitspacific.com, the following basic information is automatically received and stored by the web servers hosting mitspacific.com:

  • The originating Internet Protocol (IP) address;
  • The internet domain name;
  • Information about your computer or mobile set-up (e.g., type and version of web browser, operating system, screen resolution, and connection speed);
  • The pages on mitspacific.com that you visit;
  • The internet address, or URL, of the website that connected you to our site, if you accessed mitspacific.com via a link on another page (i.e., “referral traffic”); and
  • The amount of data transmitted from mitspacific.com to your computer.

Marianas Information Technology Services (M.I.T.S.) also uses web measurement and customization technologies (such as “cookies”). You can choose not to accept cookies from any website, including mitspacific.com, by changing your browser settings. 

EMAIL SUBSCRIPTIONS

In order to manage Marianas Information Technology Services (M.I.T.S.) email subscription lists, we retain the names and email addresses of our email subscribers, as well as other information they may have shared with us (e.g., addresses and phone numbers), logs of emails we send, and automatically generated email data used to improve our email communications. This automatically generated email data (generated through simple tools such as “pixel tags” and link redirects) includes:

  • The recipient’s email client;
  • Whether the email was opened;
  • If a link in the message was clicked;
  • Whether an email was delivered;
  • If the email was forwarded; and
  • If the email was printed.

If, at any time, you wish to stop receiving our messages, simply click on the “Unsubscribe” link at the bottom of each email message.

THIRD-PARTY WEBSITES

Marianas Information Technology Services (M.I.T.S.) maintains official pages or accounts on third-party websites in order to better engage with the public (a current list is here). Your activity on those sites is governed by the third-party website’s security and privacy policies. Users of third-party sites often share information with the general public, user community, and/or the third-party operating the site. Consequently, you should review the privacy policies of third-party sites before using them and ensure that you understand how your information may be shared and used. You should also adjust privacy settings on your account on any third-party site to match your preferences.

For aggregate statistical analysis and to improve the quality of our services, we may integrate web measurement tools with our social media pages. These tools enable basic analysis of social media traffic (such as the number of people visiting a certain page) and do not collect personally identifiable information.

HOW INFORMATION IS USED

If you choose to provide us with information, we may use that information to contact you, respond to your message, or provide you the information or services you requested. In order to serve you better, we may analyze multiple sources of data you have provided (for example, to look up whether you previously contacted Marianas Information Technology Services (M.I.T.S.) about the same topic so that we do not send you a duplicative response). We may also use messages or comments collected through mitspacific.com or official social media pages for our own purposes, such as to inform policy decisions or in public advocacy.

We may use data you provide and automatically generated data for statistical analysis to assess, for example, what information is of interest to users, technical design specifications, and system performance. This allows us to make general improvements to our site as well as to offer tailored content to email subscribers (e.g., a follow-up message to subscribers interested in a specific topic based on information they have provided or automatically generated data). We may also use your information in order to detect, prevent, and respond to security issues and other harmful or unlawful activities on the Site. For resume information submitted, your information may be used for employment consideration.

SHARING OF THIS INFORMATION

Information you choose to share with Marianas Information Technology Services (M.I.T.S.) (directly and via third party sites) may be treated as public information. We may, for example, publish compilations of messages or comments collected through mitspacific.com or official social media pages and provide them to national leaders, members of the press, or other individuals outside of the Federal Government. However, we exercise discretion to limit such disclosures to protect your privacy (for example, we generally do not publish last names of commenters).

Marianas Information Technology Services (M.I.T.S.) uses a third-party analytics provider (currently Google Analytics) to analyze data from cookies. The third-party analytics provider does not receive personally identifiable information through these cookies. We have also limited the provider’s ability to see your full IP address (a process known as “IP masking”). Please review Google Analytics’ privacy policy for additional information.

Within The Office of the Governor, we restrict access to personally identifiable information to employees, contractors, and vendors subject to non-disclosure requirements who require access to this information in order to perform their official duties and exercise controls to limit what data they can view based on the specific needs of their position.

In some cases, we may share information you have provided or automatically generated information with other government agencies in response to lawful law enforcement requests or to protect mitspacific.com from security threats. Additionally, if you seek assistance on a matter within the jurisdiction of a federal agency, we may share your information with that agency for the limited purpose of addressing your request for assistance.

We do not use or share your information for commercial purposes and, except as described above, we do not exchange or otherwise disclose this information.

DATA RETENTION

Under the Presidential Records Act (PRA), we are generally required to retain information until the end of the current Administration, at which time it will be transferred to the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). NARA may eventually release this material to the public but will withhold any information that would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy if released. Access to this information may be requested under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) five years after the end of the current Administration.

NARA or Marianas Information Technology Services (M.I.T.S.) may choose to dispose of information lacking in historical value through procedures under the PRA. 

THIRD-PARTY TOOLS AND SITES

  • PayPal
  • MailChimp

LINKS TO EXTERNAL SITES

Marianas Information Technology Services (M.I.T.S.) and other Marianas Information Technology Services (M.I.T.S.) platforms and pages may link to websites created and maintained by other public and/or private organizations and individuals. When you follow a link to an external site, you are leaving mitspacific.com and are subject to the external site’s privacy and security policies. We do not control or guarantee the accuracy, relevance, timeliness, or completeness of information contained on an external site. We also do not endorse the site’s sponsor, any views they express, or any products or services they offer.

MARIANAS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SERVICES (M.I.T.S.) PAGES ON THIRD-PARTY WEBSITES

Your activity on third-party website sites is governed by the third-party website’s security and privacy policies. 

MARIANAS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SERVICES (M.I.T.S.) CONTENT EMBEDDED IN THIRD-PARTY SITES

In some instances, a third-party website may feature embedded Marianas Information Technology Services (M.I.T.S.) content served by mitspacific.com. The embedded mitspacific.com content automatically generates Marianas Information Technology Services (M.I.T.S.) server logs (see Visits to mitspacific.com) and may set an Marianas Information Technology Services (M.I.T.S.) cookie.

CHILDREN AND PRIVACY ON MITSPACIFIC.COM

We believe in the importance of protecting the privacy of children online. The Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) governs information gathered online from or about children under the age of 13. Verifiable consent from a child’s parent or guardian is required before collecting, using, or disclosing personal information from a child under age 13. Our site is not intended to solicit information of any kind from children under age 13. If you believe that we have received information from or about children under age 13, please contact us.

SECURITY

We take reasonable precautions to protect our site and information automatically collected by mitspacific.com or voluntarily submitted to mitspacific.com or an official Marianas Information Technology Services (M.I.T.S.) page on a third-party site. For example, we restrict access to personally identifiable information to employees, contractors, and vendors subject to non-disclosure requirements who require access to this information in order to perform their official duties and exercise controls to limit what data they can view based on the specific needs of their position. Access to official Marianas Information Technology Services (M.I.T.S.) accounts on third-party sites is limited to the individuals who administer those accounts, and all official Marianas Information Technology Services (M.I.T.S.) accounts are clearly labeled.

We also utilize commonly used practices and technical controls to protect the information in our possession or control, along with mitspacific.com itself. These practices and controls include but are not limited to: encrypting the transfer of personal information over the internet via Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), using high-strength firewalls and intrusion detection systems (IDS) to safeguard personal information, and maintaining strict technical controls and procedures to ensure the integrity of all data on mitspacific.com.

We periodically review our processes and systems to verify compliance with industry best practices and to ensure the highest level of security for our website.

UPDATES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

We will revise or update this policy from time to time. If we make significant changes to how we handle personal information, we will post changes to the policy on our site and change the date at the bottom. We will provide additional notice in advance (e.g., a disclaimer on our website or an email to subscribers) if material changes are being made. These changes are effective immediately, after they are posted on this page.

Updated: September 6, 2024

CONTACT US

If you have any questions or suggestions about our Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to contact us at [email protected] or visit our website at mitspacific.com/contact/