Legal Notices (Legal, Privacy, and Security)

1. Amtrak's Office of the Inspector General web site is provided as a service by the National Passenger Railroad Corporation - Amtrak.

2. Information presented on Amtrak's Office of the Inspector General website is considered public information and may be distributed or copied. Use of appropriate byline/photo/image credits is requested.

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4. No information is stored about individual users or their usage habits in "cookie" format.

5. Except for authorized law enforcement investigations, no other attempts are made to identify individual users or their usage habits.

6. For security purposes, and to ensure that this service remains available to all users, this site uses software programs to monitor network traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change information or to otherwise cause damage, including attempts to deny service to authorized users.

7. Attempts to upload or change information on this service without authorization or to download and copy with the intent to defraud are strictly prohibited and may be punishable under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 and the National Information Infrastructure Protection Act and/or other state and federal laws.

8.  As a law enforcement body, we may reference general fact or data regarding possible criminal activity.  Please do not draw any inferences or innuendos from such data.

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Amtrak - Office of Inspector General
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Washington, DC 20002


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