Security from spammers
In
order to protect our systems and yours from spam and viruses, we do not
post our email address for you to contact us. Doing that would allow hackers
and spammers to harvest our email address, thereby compromising our security
and the security of anyone who communicates with us by email.
Rather, we ask you to fill out a form. When you fill out the form, you are telling us in a secure manner how we can contact you. And by typing in the computer-generated alpha-numeric access code known as a CAPTCHA (an acronym for "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart") at the bottom of the form, you are preventing hackers from harvesting the contact information you give us.
CAPTCHAs are little images with codes that a visitor/user types into a box before submitting a form. The form is used in lieu of a posted email address to prevent computer programs, scripts or "bots" from gaining access to the web form. Spammers do this to harvest email addresses for sending spam. The code can be easily read by humans but not by the computer programs used by hackers and spammers because the access code is distorted by lines and background color.