Thank you for visiting Representative Garnet Coleman’s web site. Protecting the personal privacy of individuals who use the Internet is a priority for the Representative, and we appreciate the opportunity to describe to you the policies in place to safeguard the privacy of individuals who visit this site. If you have questions or concerns about this Internet privacy policy, or any other issues involving the Internet, Representative Coleman wants to hear about them and hopes you will contact him, by using the contact form, telephone, or mail. The basic Internet privacy policy is simple: this web site collects no personal information about you when you visit the site unless you choose to provide that information during your visit so that the Representative can contact you about an issue you have raised or help you with a problem. Below you will find more detail about the type of information that may be gathered when you visit this web site and how that information is handled.
Information Collected and Stored Automatically
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If You Send Representative Coleman Personal Information
My web site is set up not to collect your personal information (such as your name) about you when you visit the site unless you choose to provide that information to us. My web site has an online web form that you can use to contact me by sending me an electronic mail message expressing your views or concerns or asking for assistance with a particular problem involving a state agency. To send me an e-mail, the online web form asks you for your name, address, e-mail address, and, a contact telephone number to better assist you. I use this information provided by you to contact you about the matter you expressed your views about and to provide any casework assistance I can regarding problems you may be experiencing in dealing with a government agency. This information will be available to members of my staff so they can help me in responding to your message or request.
If you are requesting help with a casework matter, it also may be necessary for my office to share the information you provide in order to respond to your request. My office will not share nonpublic information submitted to this office with persons outside the House of Representatives, other than to address constituent casework at your request, or in connection with a legal proceeding or potential investigation, or if the communications are potentially unlawful, or pose a risk to health or safety.
From time to time, the Representative may come across a comment made by a constituent, or a situation described by a constituent, in an e-mail message (as well as postal mail, phone calls, and faxes) that he feels makes a point of such general interest that he would like to refer to it in a speech, or include it in the House Daily Journal Record, or make some other public use of it, either in connection with debate in the House or by sharing it with the relevant government agency. Our staff makes every effort in such cases to contact the author first. If you intend your message to be confidential and would prefer that it not be used in such a way, please feel free to advise us of your preference in the message.
Site Security
For site security purposes and to ensure that this service remains available to all users, this web hosting computer system employs software programs to monitor network traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change information, or otherwise cause damage. Anyone using this system expressly consents to such monitoring. Any abuse or unauthorized use of this system could be subject to penalties.
Links to Other Sites
This web site has links to other useful sites on the Internet, including sites of other government agencies and sites relating to Texas. If you follow any link that takes you to a location that does not include ‘texas.gov’ in the address, you will have left the Texas government’s web server and you will need to refer to that site’s own privacy policy.