MARIS Website Privacy Statement

This policy establishes how MARIS will use information we gather about you from your visit to our website. The privacy of our visitors is of utmost importance to MARIS.

If you visit the MARIS web site...

1. To read or download information:
   We may collect and store information for statistical purposes. For example, we may count the number of visitors to the different sections of our site to help us make them more useful to visitors. Similar information is gathered for anonymous ftp, or for other comparable types of connections.
2. To send us an E-mail:
   By sending us an electronic mail message, you may be sending us personal information (e.g., name, address, E-mail address), as in an official data request. We may store the name and address of the requester in order to respond to the request or to otherwise resolve the subject matter of your E-mail.

We want to be very clear: regardless of the information being transmitted to MARIS, we will protect all such information consistent with applicable law.

MARIS Website Disclaimer Statement

MARIS may provide links to web pages that are not part of the MARIS web family, or maris.mississippi.edu or gis.mississippi.edu domains. These sites are managed by organizations, companies, or individuals not under MARIS control, and MARIS is not responsible for the information or links you may find there. MARIS provides these links merely as a convenience and the presence of these links is not a MARIS endorsement of the site.

Release of spatial data by MARIS is governed by the following legal policy

The information contained on this website and data distributed by the Board of Trustees / Institutions of Higher Learning's MARIS Technical Center (IHL/MTC) is derived from a variety of public and private sector sources considered to be dependable, but the accuracy, completeness, and currency thereof are not guaranteed. The IHL/MTC makes no warranties, expressed or implied as to the accuracy, completeness, currency, reliability, or suitability for any particular purpose of information or data contained in or generated from the state geographic database. Additionally, the State of Mississippi, the Board of Trustees for IHL or any employee thereof assume no liability associated with the use of these data, and assume no responsibility to maintain them in any manner or form.