About the LFD Web Site

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Copyright Notice

The content on this Web site is copyrighted. Unless stated otherwise the copyright belongs to the Laboratory for Fluorescence Dynamics, its members, or the Regents of the University of California. Logos are copyrighted by their respective companies or organizations.

If you believe any of the material on this Web site violates your copyrights, please contact the LFD director or send an email to webmaster@lfd.uci.edu.

Accessibility Notice

The LFD is committed to make this Web site accessible to everyone by meeting the Section 508 Guidelines and conforming to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 (Level A) recommended by W3C's Web Accessibility Initiative.

However, videos, animations and audios on this Web site do not contain captions and have not been transcribed, as required for Section 508 compliance.

Some files are available in Portable Document Format (PDF) format. Adobe Systems, Inc. provides an online conversion tool for PDF documents and more information regarding the accessibility of PDF files.

If you cannot fully access the information on a particular page, please send an email to webmaster@lfd.uci.edu.

Access Keys

Most web browsers support jumping to specific links by typing access keys defined on the web site.

• In Microsoft Internet Explorer running on Microsoft Windows, press ALT + an access key, then ENTER.
• In Mozilla Firefox 2.0, running on Microsoft Windows or Linux, press ALT + SHIFT + an access key.
• In Opera press SHIFT + ESC, then an access key.
• On Macintosh, press Control + an access key.

All pages on the LFD Web site define the following access keys:

• Access key 1 = Home Page
• Access key 2 = Skip Navigation
• Access key 3 = Site Map
• Access key 4 = Site Search
• Access key 0 = Accessibility, Copyright, and Privacy statements (This page).

Privacy Notice

The LFD is committed to protecting the privacy and accuracy of your personally identifiable information to the extent possible, subject to provisions of state and federal law. Other than as required by laws that guarantee public access to certain types of information, or in response to subpoenas or other legal instruments that authorize disclosure, personally identifiable information is not disclosed without your consent.

Information Collection and Use

Categories of personally identifiable information collected by Web pages managed or maintained by the LFD, may include: your Internet location (Internet domain and IP address), type of browser and operating system used to access our site, date and time our site was visited, pages visited on our site, search terms used on our search engines, along with information you use to fill out forms such as: name, e-mail address, address, birthday, student ID number, social security number, credit card number and ucinetid. This personally identifiable information is used to respond to user inquiries. Article IX, Section 9 of the California Constitution grants authority to the University of California to maintain this information.

In order to keep you informed of such activities as symposia and/or special events, we may use personal information collected from Web pages for the purpose of future communication back to online enrollees. Such email notification will be conducted in conformance with University of California and campus policies implementing anti-spam laws (pdf).

Additionally, the Web server collects, at least temporarily, the following information: Internet Protocol (IP) address of computer being used; Web pages requested; referring Web page; browser used; date and time. This information is collected to monitor your navigation of our Web pages. We may use browser-IP-address information and anonymous-browser history to report information about site accesses and for profiling purposes. This information is generally used to improve Web presentation and utilization. We also may use IP address information for troubleshooting purposes.

These Web pages may use "cookies" in order to deliver Web content specific to individual's Web navigation interests or to keep track of online transactions.

Disclosure of Collected Information

The LFD will not disclose or share, without your consent, personally identifiable information, except for certain explicit circumstances in which disclosure may be required by law. Nor will the LFD distribute or sell your personally identifiable information to third-party organizations.

Updating Personal Information

Questions regarding your options to review, modify or delete previously provided personal information should be directed to webmaster@lfd.uci.edu.

Links to Other Sites

You may encounter links to Web pages of entities not managed or maintained by the LFD. Those Web pages may have privacy policies that differ from this one. You also may encounter links to Web sites of organizations not directly affiliated with the LFD. Please be aware that the LFD is not responsible for the information practices of external organizations. We recommend you review the privacy statements of each Web page that collects personal information.

Site Security

All information entered into online forms, such as name, passwords, postal address, and email address, is transmitted securely from your Web browser to the LFD's secure Web server (https://www.lfd.uci.edu). The LFD's SSL Web Server Certificate, issued by Thawte Consulting cc, offers domain name and identity verification as well as RC4 128 bit encryption.

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Standards

The LFD Web site is developed to adhere to the following standards:

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• Section 508 (validated by Cynthia Says)
• UCI Graphic Identity

Browser Compatibility

This site was tested with latest versions of the following Web browsers:

• Mozilla Firefox 3.5 for Windows, MacOS X, and Ubuntu – no known issues
• Internet Explorer 8 for Windows XP and Vista – can not render application/xhtml+xml, xmlns:mathml, and xmlns:svg
• Opera 10 for Windows, MacOS X, and Ubuntu – some rendering issues; can not render xmlns:mathml
• Safari 4 for MacOS X – some JavaScript issues
• Konqueror for Ubuntu – can not render xmlns:mathml

Some functionality on this web site requires JavaScript to be activated. The Adobe Flash Player v9 browser plug-in is required for the playback of embedded videos and animations.

For optimal viewing experience, the browsers client size should be larger than 790x400 pixels when using normal font sizes.

Email addresses published on this web site are encoded using JavaScript or have the @ character replaced by "at" to obstruct spammers.

Technologies Used

This Web site has been implemented using the following technologies and products:

• IIS Web server
• ISAPI_rewrite and PyISAPIe extensions
• XHTML hypertext markup language
• CSS styling
• RSS content syndication format
• PHP hypertext preprocessor
• Python programming language
• JavaScript scripting language
• MySQL open source database
• FileMaker database
• FX.PHP and fmkr.py libraries
• Flash Player runtime
• JW FLV Media Player
• Google Search
• Google Map

References to this Site

• Current Web Contents
• Google Search links to www.lfd.uci.edu