document: title: please read the security and privacy notice
text: 1\. Air Force Link is provided as a public service by the Office of the Secretary of Air Force (Public Affairs) and the Defense Technical Information Center.

2\. Information presented on Air Force Link is considered public information and may be distributed or copied. Use of appropriate byline/photo/image credits is requested.

3\. Air Force Link uses persistent cookies for registered users (persistent tokens that pass information back and forth from the client machine to the server). These cookies are used to access your personal preferences and maintain the special links that you have selected.  Information collected is safeguarded in files which are password protected and to which access is physically restricted.You can choose not to accept cookies and still use the portal. You will be required to login each time that you want to view your personal page.

4\. For site management, information is collected for analytical and statistical purposes. This government computer system uses software programs to create summary statistics, which are used for such purposes as assessing what information is of most and least interest, determining technical design specifications, and identifying system performance or problem areas.

5\. For site security purposes and to ensure that this service remains available to all users, this government computer system employs software programs to monitor network traffic, to identify unauthorized attempts, to upload or change information, or otherwise cause damage.

6.  Raw data logs will only be used to identify individual users and their usage habits for authorized law enforcement investigations or national security purposes.  These logs are used for no other purposes and are scheduled for regular destruction in accordance with National Archives and Records Administration General Schedule 20.

7\. Unauthorized attempts to deny service, upload information, change information, or to attempt to access a non-public site from this service are strictly prohibited and may be punishable under Title 18 of the U.S. Code to include the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 and the National Information Infrastructure Protection Act.

8\. If you have any questions or comments about the information presented here, please forward them to us using the Air Force Link Comment Form.

The Presence of Commercial/External Links 

The appearance of  hyperlinks does not constitute endorsement by the United States Air Force, the Defense Technical Information Center, or the Department of Defense of this Web site, or the information, products or services contained therein. For other than authorized activities such as military exchanges and Morale, Welfare and Recreation (MWR) sites, the United States Air Force does not exercise any editorial control over the information you may find at these locations.  Such links are provide consistent with the stated purpose of the Web site.

Other Web Policies

Interested in knowing the Web policies of the Air Force and the Department of Defense?  You can read the policies here.

Please let us know about existing external links which you believe are inappropriate and about specific additional external links which you believe ought to be included.