Visitors Policy
User information will be kept confidential and used only for appropriate reporting purposes.

1. This World Wide Web (WWW) site is provided as a public service by the University of Kentucky (UK) and the Southern Region Equine Extension Specialists located at the 13 Southern Region Land Grant Universities and the Cooperative Extension Service .

2. Information presented on this WWW site is considered public information and may be distributed or copied. UK and the Southern Region Equine Specialists retain a nonexclusive, royalty-free license to publish or reproduce these documents, or allow others to do so, for University purposes. These documents may be freely distributed and used for non-commercial, scientific and educational purposes. Commercial use of the documents available from this server may be protected under the U.S. and Foreign Copyright Laws. Individual documents on this server may have different copyright conditions, that will be noted in those documents.

3. When visitors come to this Web site to browse, they do so anonymously. Horsequest.info does not collect identifying information about them. It collects only summary information (see below) about the numbers of individuals who visit our Web site and at what those individuals look. This computer system uses industry-standard software to create summary statistics, which are used for such things as assessing what information is of most and least interest, determining technical design specifications, and identifying system performance or problem areas.

4. Where identifying information is asked of visitors (to respond to an information request, etc.) that information is used only for responding to their comments or questions and is not made available for other purposes. It is not required for submission of comments or that they provide any personally identifying information, such as their name or e-mail address. However, that information would be necessary for us to send them a response to their comments or questions.

5. We collect personally identifiable information (name and e-mail address) only if specifically and knowingly provided by the visitors. Personally identifying information which visitors provide will only be used in connection with responding to their comment or inquiry. Information is collected for statistical purposes. The purpose of this use is to measure customer interest in various areas of the site. This information is not expressed in any form which would reveal personally identifying information. No personal information collected is sold or otherwise transferred to a third party.

6. For site security purposes and to ensure that this service remains available to all users, this computer system employs industry-standard methods to monitor network traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change information, or otherwise cause damage.

7. Unauthorized attempts to upload information or change information on this service are strictly prohibited and may be punishable under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986.