Privacy Statement

The Department of Human Services has created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to protecting your privacy. The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for the Oklahoma Marriage Initiative site. There are times when we may ask you or you may choose to provide information about you. Information collected may include, your name, representing organization, physical address, e-mail address, phone number and/or fax number.

The site will collect and log your IP address and your browser type in order to best determine how to facilitate services online. Information is gathered using one or a number of the following, registration, passwords, forms, surveys, etc.

Cookie technology is used when you visit our site to help us track various activity on the site including which pages you visit, how many times you visit, how long you spend visiting, and how to recognize you as a 'user' so as to best enhance your experience with us. Cookies cannot obtain personally identifiable information such as your e-mail address, or any other information stored on your hard drive. Cookies are pieces of data normally stored by your browser, and you can quite easily prevent cookie data from being sent by adjusting your browser settings.

• Providing products or services you have requested;
• Improving our services;
• Developing and/or having you informed of additional products or services we think will be of interest to you; or
• Answering questions you may have.

Any information gathered is to the best of our knowledge collected lawfully and fairly through our website, all information is assumed accurate and up to date and only information which is adequate and not excessive to our purpose for collection is obtained.

Anonymous Browsing

You can visit the Oklahoma Marriage Initiative on the Web without offering any information about yourself. In those cases, our web servers collect the name of the domain you used to access the Internet (such as "aol.com").

Information protection and security

When you submit your information to the Oklahoma Marriage Initiative, we do our utmost to ensure that information is protected against loss, misuse, alteration, destruction or unauthorized access.