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Welcome to the MyNebraska portal (the "Portal"). By using the Portal, you agree to follow and be bound by the following terms and conditions concerning your use of the Portal. We may revise the Legal Notice and Terms of Use Policy at any time without notice.

Areas of the Portal may have different terms of use posted. If there is a conflict between the Legal Notice and Terms of Use Policy, and the Terms of Use posted for the specific area of the Portal, the Latter shall have precedence with respect to your use of that area of the Portal.


1. Information Collected
MyNebraska and the State of Nebraska collects the following information about visitors to its Web Portals:

  • The domain name, but not the e-mail address
  • The e-mail addresses of those who communicate with us via e-mail
  • Aggregate information about which pages users visit
  • Information volunteered by the user, such as survey information

It is our intent to inform you before we collect personal information from you on the Internet.

If you choose to give us personal information via the Internet that we or our business partners may need, it is our intent to inform you on how we will use such information. - For example, we can use such personal information for communication or for subscription purposes.

The information collected is not limited to text characters and may include audio, video, and graphic formats you send us. The information will be retained in accordance with Nebraska Records Management Act, Statue 84-1220.

The information we collect is used to improve the content of our Web services and help us to understand how people are using our services. MyNebraska analyzes our Web Portal logs to continually improve the value of the materials available on our Portal. Our Web Portal logs are not personally identifiable, and we make no attempt to link them with the individuals that browse MyNebraska's Web Portal.

We do not sell, rent or share any customer information.


2. Public Disclosure and Personally Identifiable Information
Please note that some information collected at this Portal is considered public information and may be subject to inspection and copying by members of the public, Nebraska Statue 84-712 states:

Except as otherwise expressly provided by statute, all citizens of this state, and all other persons interested in the examination of the public records, as defined in section 84-712.01, are hereby fully empowered and authorized to examine the same, and to make memoranda and abstracts therefrom, all free of charge, during the hours the respective offices may be kept open for the ordinary transaction of business.

The following Nebraska Statues may exempt or prohibit disclosure of specific information, or provide additional conditions of use to statue 84-712. [23-1517.01; 23-1517.02; 84-712.05; 84-1205.03; 84-1205.06; 84-1211]

If personally identifiable information is requested on the Web Portal, or volunteered by the user, state law and the federal Privacy Act of 1974 may protect it. However, this information is public record once you provide it, and may be subject to public inspection and copying if not protected by federal or state law. If you access a state agency's Portal through MyNebraska's Web Portal, that sponsoring agency, not the State of Nebraska, Information Management Services or MyNebraska, determines the exact nature of personally identifiable information collected from you online, according to the sponsoring agency's statutory authority.

In the event of a conflict between this Privacy Policy and the Public Records Act, the Public Records Act provision will control.


3. Security
We intend to protect the quality and integrity of your personally identifiable information. The department of Information Management Services (IMS), as developer and manager of MyNebraska, has taken several steps to safeguard the integrity of its telecommunications and computing infrastructure, including but not limited to authentication, monitoring, auditing, and encryption. Security measures have been integrated into the design. The entire IMS operating environment is strongly committed to Risk Management and ensuring the integrity of personal information.

This information should not be construed in any way providing business, legal, or advice, or warranting as fail proof, the security of information provided via MyNebraska Web Portals.


4. Cookies
There are various technologies, including one called "cookies", which can be used to provide you with tailored information from a Web Portal. To find out more about Cookies, please see our Cookies: What they are and How they work page, If you would like further information on how to control cookies, please see Working with Cookies.


5. Cookies: What they are and How they work
Web Portals use cookies to simulate a continuous connection to that Portal. This makes it more convenient for users by allowing them to visit pages within a Portal without having to reintroduce themselves with each mouse click. Contrary to popular fears and misconceptions, cookies were not created to spy on or otherwise invade the privacy of Internet users. Cookies contain only information that users volunteer, and they do not have the capability of infiltrating a user's hard drive and sneaking away with personal information. The simple function of a cookie is that of helping the user navigate a Web Portal with as little obstruction as possible.

Cookies are small data structures used by a Web Portal (server) to deliver data to a web client (user). Cookies request that the client store the information, and in certain circumstances, return the information to the Web Portal. Web Portals can thus "remember" information about users to facilitate their preferences for a particular Portal and allow the use of user passwords. The Web Portal may deliver one or more cookies to the client. The client stores cookie data in one or more flat files on its local hard drive.

Cookies allow Web Portals to maintain user information across HTTP connections. The current HTTP protocol is "stateless," meaning that the server does not store any information about a particular HTTP transaction. Each connection is "fresh" and has no knowledge of any other HTTP transaction. "State" information is information about a communication between a user and a server, similar in many ways to frequent flyer profiles or option settings in a desktop software. For example, a preference for aisle or window seats in cookie-like information that a frequent-flyer program might store about its customers. In some cases it is useful to maintain state information about the user across HTTP transactions.

A cookie file is NOT a secret way for a web server to find out everything about you and what you have on your hard drive. The ONLY way that any private information could be in your cookie file would be if you personally gave that information to a web server in the first place and it decided to put that information into your cookie file for some reason. Also, each cookie is marked with information about what web server it's for; there is absolutely no way for a web server to get access to any private information about you or your system through cookies. Also, there is no possible way that a virus could be spread through the use of cookies.

If you want to know when a server is trying to send a cookie to you so you can choose whether or not to accept it, see our section on Working with Cookies.

As you browse the web, any cookies which servers might send to your browser are stored in your computer's memory. (Netscape and Internet Explorer are two of the most popular browsers.) When you exit your browser, any cookies that haven't expired are written to a cookie file so they can be reloaded next time you access that particular web Portal. On a Mac this file is named "MagicCookie", on Unix it's "cookies", and on Windows it's "cookies.txt". You can look at this file with any text editor to see exactly what cookies are stored there, or delete the file to get rid of all the cookies. This is harmless and shouldn't cause any problems.


6. Working with Cookies
If you want to control which cookies you accept:
You can order your browser to accept all cookies or alert you every time a cookie is offered. Then you can decide whether to accept one or not.

If you're using Internet Explorer 5.0:
1. Choose Tools, then
2. Internet Options,
3. Click the Security tab,
4. Click Internet, then Custom Level,
5. Scroll down to Cookies and choose one of the two options.

If you're using Internet Explorer 4.0:
1. Choose Views, then
2. Internet Options,
3. Click the Advanced tab,
4. Scroll down to the yellow exclamation icon (!) under Security
5. And choose one of the three (3) options

To regulate your use of cookies.

If you're using Netscape Communicator 4.0
1. From the Edit menu, select Preferences,
2. Click Advanced,
3. Click to select the box labeled Accept All Cookies,
4. Click OK. How to see the Cookies You've accepted:

If you are using Internet Explorer 5.0: On your Task Bar, Click
1. Tools, then
2. Internet Options,
3. Under the tab General (the default tab) click,
4. Settings, then
5. View Files.

If you are using Internet Explorer 5.0: On your Task Bar, Click
1. View, then
2. Internet Options,
3. Under the tab General (the default tab) click,
4. Settings, then
5. View Files.


7. Notice to Parents
Parents or MyNebraskas: we want to help you guard your children's privacy. We encourage you to talk to your children about safe and responsible use of their Personal Information while using the Internet. Users are cautioned that the collection of personal information requested or volunteered by children online, or by e-mail will be treated the same as information given by an adult, and may be subject to public disclosure.