The Alabama Department of Veterans Affairs (ADVA) prohibits commercial marketing of visitor information and the disclosure of personal information without prior consent of the visitor. Your personally identifying information will not be obtained when you visit our site, except in cases where you have chosen to provide this information (such as an email address). ADVA will only use your information to respond in an appropriate fashion. This may be to respond to you directly or to forward your communication – of which ADVA was the original recipient – to another agency for appropriate action. 

Developed by the State of Alabama, ADVA’s website may use cookies to carry user information from one page to another. An example is a search criterion. This information is not stored – nor tracked – on a server, but on your workstation. The cookies ADVA uses are set to expire at the end of your browsing session. This means they are deleted when you close your browser. 

Our servers track statistical information through the use of server logs and statistical software to help us analyze and monitor the use of our site. 

We collect and store only the following information about your visit: 

• The name of the domain from which you access the Internet 
• The date and time you accessed our site 
• The Internet address of the website from which you linked directly to our site 

The information collected is used to measure the number of visitors to the different areas of ADVA’s website and to assist in making our site more helpful and user friendly.