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Web/Privacy Policies

Thank you for visiting our Web site and for your interest in our Web policies and disclaimers. On this page, you may link to our policies and disclaimers on the following topics:

Alternative Formats and Accessibility
Cookies
IP Addresses
Security
Web Site Statistics

Other Helpful Links
Contacting the Webmaster | Contacting the Court | Open Records | Public Information Act

Our Web Policies and Disclaimers

As a part of the judicial branch of government, the courts are not subject to the Public Information Act. The content that is published on our website is public information as described in the Public Information Act. Other access to court case records is governed by common law, statutory law, and court rules; and the custodian of those records is generally the clerk of the court. Access to judicial records, which are records other than case records, is governed by Rule 12 of the Rules of Judicial Administration.

The following discloses the information gathering and dissemination practices for the website:

Alternative Formats and Accessibility

Copies of portions of our Web site are available in alternative format upon request.

We at the Texas State Library are committed to making our Web presence as accessible as possible to everyone. Please contact our Webmaster if you experience difficulty with any portion of our Web site.

Cookies

A "cookie" in Internet terminology is a small text file that is placed on your hard drive via your web browser so the file can later be read by that browser.

Cookies are not utilized on this site

We do not collect personal information on our users in the logs we keep to compile our Web site statistics.

IP Addresses

We use visitors' IP addresses to help diagnose problems with our Web server, and to administer our Web site.

Security

This site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. Unauthorized use of this Web site is an offense under the Texas Penal Code.

You may contact our Webmaster if you have questions about our Web security measures.

Web Site Statistics

We use server log analysis tools to create monthly summary statistics of our Web site's usage. These statistics are used to reflect usage summaries such as: general access (number of hits received), resources accessed (our most and least popular pages), visitors and demographics (IP addresses and domains), activity statistics (most/least active days), technical statistics (client errors), referrers and keywords (search engines and sites that point to our site), and browsers and platforms.

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.

Contacting the Webmaster

If you have any questions about our Web policies and disclaimers statement, the practices of our site, or your dealings with our Web site, please contact:

Charles Matz, Webmaster
P.O.Box 820190
Houston, Texas77282-0190

Phone: 281-558-5478

e-mail - webmaster@courtstuff.com

Contacting the Courts

Comments or complaints regarding programs and services of this Website may be addressed to:

Fifth Court of Appeals
George L. Allen, Sr.
Courts Bldg.
600 Commerce Street,
2nd Floor
Dallas, Texas 75202-4658

Lisa Matz, Clerk of the Court
Phone: 214-712-3450
Facsimile: 214-745-1083

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Supreme Court of Texas:
Supreme Court Building
201 West 14th., Rm. 104
Austin, Texas 78701

Mailing Address:
Supreme Court
P.O. Box 12248
Austin, Texas 78711

Clerk of the Court
John T. Adams
Chief Deputy Clerk
Patricia A. Cook
Phone:
(512) 463-1312
Fax:
(512) 463-1365

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