The District of Columbia Pretrial Services Agency is committed to protecting your privacy. When viewing this Web site, please recognize that if you browse or link to an outside Web site, you are subject to the policies of that new Web site.

We do not collect personal information about you unless you choose to provide that information to us. When you view, read, or download content from this Web site, the following representative type of information is automatically collected and stored. This information does not identify you personally. We do not give, share, sell, or transfer any personal information to a third party.

• the Internet domain and Internet Protocol (IP) address from which you access our Web site;

• the type of Internet browser and the operating system of the computer you use to access our site;

• the date and time you visit our site;

• the pages you visit on our site;

• if you linked to our Web site from another Web site, the address of that Web site;

• and, if you linked to our Web site from a search Web site, the address of that Web site and the search term you used.

The collected information is used to improve this government Web site. Reviewing content popularity, system performance, and technical design are examples of how this collected information is utilized by the District of Columbia Pretrial Services Agency.

If You Send Personal Information to D.C. PSA

If you choose to provide us with personal information through methods such as e-mail communication, submitting an interactive online form, or by explicitly communicating to us through our Web site, we will use that information to respond to your message or to fulfill the stated purpose of the communication.

Remember that e-mail communication is not necessarily secure against interception. If your communication is sensitive or includes personal information, you may prefer to send it through the U.S. Postal Service.

On some of our Web pages we may offer interactive forms that let you voluntarily submit personal information (such as your e-mail address, name, or organization). This occurs when you are registering for various conferences, workshops, or training sessions offered by the District of Columbia Pretrial Services Agency, taking student aid counseling quizzes, ordering government publications, or submitting comments to various Web discussion forums. In those cases, all submitted information is used only for the expressed purposes for which it is intended and is not made available to any third party. However, when you submit a comment to a Web discussion forum, if you supply your name, e-mail address, or other personal information, that information is made publicly available, along with your posted comment.

If your inquiry relates to another government agency, we may share the information you provide us with that government agency. In other limited circumstances, such as responses to requests from Congress and private individuals, we may be required by law to disclose information you submit. Before you submit personal information, such as on an online form, you may be given more specific guidance as to how your personal information may be used.

Electronically submitted information is maintained and destroyed according to the principles of the Federal Records Act and the regulations and records schedules of the National Archives and Records Administration, and in some cases may be covered by the Privacy Act and subject to the Freedom of Information Act.