Privacy Statement

Thank you for visiting the official website of the Office of the Inspector General.

When you visit our website, please note that like all other web servers, our web server automatically creates log files for each visitor.  These logs allow us to make our site more useful to our visitors.  The logs do not record a visitor's name, address, phone number, or any other personally-identifying information.  The logs contain some or all of the following information:

• Your internet domain and the IP address of the computer you are using to access our website.

• The type of browser and operating systems used to access our website.

• The date and time of your visit to our website, and the pages you visit.

• Any errors encountered.

We use the above information to create summary statistics which allows us to determine the number of visitors to the different sections of our website, identify information of interest to readers, determine technical design specifications, and monitor system performance, in order to help us make our website more useful to visitors.

If you wish to send us an e-mail and choose to provide us with personal information, we will use that information to respond to your message.  Remember that e-mail is not necessarily secure against interception.  If your communication is of a sensitive nature, you may prefer to use the phone or mail instead.

Please be advised that if you link to a site outside of the Office of the Inspector General, you are subject to the policies of that site.

If you have any questions regarding our privacy statement, please do not hesitate to contact our Webmaster at Webmaster@metro-oig.net.