METAGENOTE is an NIH resource that will encourage users to make data public as soon as possible or as required by the Genomic Data Sharing Policy. The metadata you upload to METAGENOTE will initially stay private while in draft form until you decide to share it with the world. The raw sequence data you upload to METAGENOTE will be transferred to NCBI SRA and made public following their practices. NIH will retain metadata uploaded through the web forms long enough to achieve the specified objective for which they were collected. The data generated from these activities falls under the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) General Records Schedule (GRS) 20-item IC 'Electronic Records,' and will be handled per the requirements of that schedule.
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We use this information to measure the number of visitors to our site and its various sections and to help make our site more useful to visitors. This information cannot be used to identify you as an individual.
METAGENOTE.niaid.nih.gov uses Google Analytics to collect the information in the bulleted list in the Types of Information Collected section above. Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager gather information automatically and continuously. No Personally Identifiable Information (PII) is collected. NIH staff conducts analyses and reports on the aggregated data from Google Analytics and those reports are only available to NIH.gov managers, members of the NIH.gov communications and web teams, and other designated staff who require this information to perform their duties.
Every time you access a page from this web site, we collect certain information from your computer about your visit. This information is used in summary format to identify items such as the date, time, origin and nature of requests, specific pages accessed, and the type of browser and computer operating system being used. Summary reports are only available to selected NIH staff who have a need for the information, in an effort to help us understand overall trends of site users and to implement changes that will make our site more useful to visitors.
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When inquiries are E-mailed to us, we store the question and the E-mail address information so that we can respond electronically. Unless otherwise required by statute, we do not identify publicly who sends questions or comments to our web site. We will not obtain information that will allow us to personally identify you when you visit our site, unless you choose to provide such information to us if desiring to create a new study to enter metadata.
E-mail sent to NIH staff may be seen by a number of people who are responsible for answering questions. If you send us an e-mail, you are advised that e-mail is not necessarily secure against interception.