The University of Tennessee Municipal Technical Advisory Service (MTAS) has created this privacy statement to demonstrate the agency's commitment to privacy of personal information consistent with its duties and responsibilities as an agency of the state of Tennessee. The purpose of this statement is to inform you about the use of information gathered when you visit this website.

MTAS administers the website www.mtas.tennessee.edu. In order to improve the usefulness of our website for our customers, MTAS automatically collect sand maintains statistical information that concerns network traffic flow and volume.

MTAS collects and stores the public information collected by Google Analytics, such as:

• The internet domain (example: gmail.com) of your ISP and/or your computer
• IP Address from the computer used to access our site
• Type of browser and computer operating system used to access the site
• Date and time you access the site
• Page(s) visited
• The address from which you linked to our site

This information does not identify you personally.

How voluntarily provided information is used

If you voluntarily submit information to MTAS, i.e. you complete a form requesting information or send us an email, the information submitted will be used for governmental purposes only. Such governmental purposes could include, but not be limited to:

Helping MTAS staff respond to your request for information; and/or

Investigating a problem you brought to MTAS staff’s attention.

Please be aware that the information submitted is subject to the disclosure pursuant to the requirements of the Tennessee Public Records Act.

External links

Some of the linked sites are not under the control of MTAS. Therefore, MTAS makes no representation concerning their content and is not responsible for their content. The fact that MTAS links to a site is not an endorsement, or an indication of affiliation with the site's owners or publishers. There are risks in using any information, software, services, or products found on the Internet. MTAS cautions you to make sure that you completely understand these risks before retrieving, using, or relying upon any information found on the Internet.

Intellectual property

The content of mtas.tennessee.edu web pages is copyrighted and may contain some third party graphics/images that are used with the copyright holder's consent. If you wish to use any of this content, you must obtain permission from the copyright holder before reproducing or otherwise using those graphics/images.

MTAS reserves the right to amend this policy at any time without notice.