Data Protection and Privacy Policy

Data Collected Automatically

Privacy Statement

Thank you for visiting the U.S. Census Bureau's Internet web site and reviewing our privacy policy. The purpose of this policy is to explain how we handle information we collect from you during your visit to our web site.

It is important to keep in mind that we do not collect personally-identifiable information (name, address, e-mail address, social security number, or other unique identifiers) on our web site unless we specifically advise you that we are doing so.

Your rights under the Privacy Act: Information concerning the Privacy Act can be found on the following Web site: http://www.usdoj.gov/04foia/04_7_1.html

When you visit our web site to read pages or download information, we automatically collect and store the following non-identifying information:

• The Internet protocol (IP) address from which you access our web site. An IP address is a unique number that is automatically assigned to the computer you are using whenever you are surfing the web
• The type of browser, such as Netscape or Internet Explorer, and operating system, such as Windows 98 or Linux, used to access our site.
• The date and time our site is accessed, for the purpose of monitoring demand.
• The pages visited, for the purpose of improving the usefulness of our web site by providing helpful links and removing pages that are not read.
• The last site you visited, if that site contained a link to a Census Bureau web page, which indicates how you found this site.

This information does not identify you personally

We maintain the above information in system logs. We use this information to make our site more useful to visitors by learning the number of visitors to our site, the number of pages served, and the level of demand for specific pages. We do not track or record information about identifiable individuals and their visits.