South Texas Environmental Education and Research


Website information

Accessibility: South Texas Environmental Education and Research (STEER) supports measures to improve web access for persons with disabilities, and its website adheres to standards established by state and federal law.

Contact: Website content is managed by STEER. Direct inquiries to South Texas Environmental Education and Research, Department of Family and Community Medicine, The University of Texas Health Science Center, 7703 Floyd Curl Drive, San Antonio, Texas 78229-3900. Send e-mail to steer@uthscsa.edu. The telephone number is 210-567-7407.

Disclaimer: Links provided from University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio pages to other websites do not constitute or imply an endorsement of those sites, their content, or products and services associated with those sites.

Privacy: STEER's website runs on a server maintained by The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, www.uthscsa.edu. The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio's main institutional web server uses cookies, a method to capture unique information about a user that a website can use to track use of passwords, lists of pages you've visited, and the date when you last looked at a specific page or to identify your session at a particular website. A cookie is often used in commercial sites to identify the items selected for a specific shopping cart application. STEER does not receive cookie information collected by the university.

If you send us an electronic mail message with a question or comment that contains personally identifying information, or fill out a form that e-mails us this information, we will only use the personally-identifiable information to respond to your request and analyze trends. We may redirect your message to another part of our university, another institution, a government agency or a person who is in a better position to answer your question.

For site management functions, information is collected for analysis and statistical purposes. This information is not reported or used in any manner that would reveal personally identifiable information, and will not be released to any outside parties unless legally required to do so in connection with law enforcement investigations or other legal proceedings.

We use log analysis tools to create summary statistics, which are used for purposes such as assessing what information is of most interest, determining technical design specifications, and identifying system performance or problem areas. The following information is collected for this analysis:

  • User Client hostname - The hostname (or IP address if DNS is disabled) of the user/client requesting access.
  • HTTP header, "user-agent" - The user-agent information includes the type of browser, its version, and the operating system it's running on.
  • HTTP header, "referrer" - The referrer specifies the page from which the client accessed the current page.
  • System date - The date and time of the user/client request.
  • Full request - The exact request the user/client made.
  • Status - The status code the server returned to the user/client.
  • Content length - The content length, in bytes, of the document sent to the user/client.
  • Method - The request method used.
  • Universal Resource Identifier (URI) - The location of a resource on the server.
  • Query string of the URI - Anything after the question mark in a URI.
  • Protocol - The transport protocol and version used.

Click here to see yesterday's analysis for www.uthscsa.edu.

Questions about this policy should be sent to the webmaster.

Public information: Much of the information that is collected by state institutions is available to the public, with certain exceptions, under the Texas Public Information Act.

Requests that involve The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio should be directed to:

Jack C. Park
Assistant Vice President
Office of Legal Affairs and Technology Licensing
University of Texas Health Science Center
7703 Floyd Curl Drive
San Antonio, Texas 78229-3900
210-567-2020