kids privacy

If you’re under 13 and surfing the web, a new law puts you and your parents in charge of what other people know about you.  Some examples include your full name, home address, e-mail address, phone number, age, or gender. Be sure to talk to your parents if you have any questions. 

You do not have to provide your name or address when you visit the healthfinder.gov kids Web site.    

You don’t register or log in to use our site--it’s open to everyone. 

We do have links that take you to other Web sites.

When leaving the healthfinder.gov kids' Web site, please be sure to check the privacy policy of each new site you visit.  If they ask for your name or address, be sure to talk to your parents.  Here are some good links to help you protect yourself:  

• Federal Trade Commission

• Safety Tips on the Internet--Federal Bureau of Investigation 

• Internet Dos and Don'ts--Department of Justice

We do collect and store some information from your computer when you visit our site.

Our computer automatically collects and temporarily stores the following information:

• The domain name you used to access the Internet (for example, did you get on the Internet at school? or through AOL?).

• The date and time of the visit.

• The pages visited.

• The address of the Web site you came from when you came to visit.

We use this information to measure the number of visitors to the different sections of our site and to help us make our site more useful to visitors.  We don’t share this information with anyone unless required to by law.

Hacking

This Web site belongs to the U.S. Government. Trying to “hack” it is against the law.  Our Web logs can be used to track hackers.