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girlshealth.gov privacy policy 
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If you are under 13 and surfing the web, the law says that you and your parents are in charge of what personal information web sites can know about you. Some examples of personal information are your full name, home address, e-mail address, phone number, age, or gender.
Personal information
You do not have to give girlshealth.gov any personal information.
You do not have to sign-up to use our site — it’s open to everyone.
You can give us personal information if you want to.
The only way we can see your personal information is if you do something — like type your e-mail address in our contact/question form. We don’t collect information without you knowing. For example, some sites use hidden tools to watch what web sites you go to. Then, they use that information to send you spam, or to make ads show up on your computer. We don’t do that.
Here are the places on our web site where you might give us personal information:
- Contact/Question form. If you use our Contact/Question form, you need to give us your e-mail address so we can answer you. You may give us your name, but that is not required. After we answer you, we delete your name and e-mail address because we don’t need them any more.
- Our Speak Up section. In our Speak Up section, you can give your first name and/or the state you live in with your comment, but you don’t have to. We will review your comment to make sure that it doesn’t show any other personal information (like the city you live in, the school you attend, or your phone number) before anyone else can see it.
- Target Heart Rate Calculator. You can enter your name in the Target Heart Rate Calculator on our Getting a Good Workout page. If you do, we don’t save it. It is just used to make the Calculator’s results more personal for you.
- Create a Journal. You might want to put your name on your journal cover using the Create a Journal tool. If you do, we don’t save it. It is just used to make your Journal more personal for you.
- Be Heard! Sounding Board Contest. If you enter our Be Heard! Sounding Board Contest, you will need to give us some personal information. We will ask for your name, grade, year of birth, address, e-mail address, and phone number. We need this to help choose and contact the winners. We also ask your parent/guardian for their name, e-mail address, and phone number. It’s important that your parents know what information you are giving us.
The Sounding Board Contest information is not collected by the web site. Instead, you print the application and mail it back to us when you are finished.
Your application is not saved on girlshealth.gov. We keep it in a different place that no one else can see. After the winners are chosen, we destroy the applications that did not win. Remember, your parent/guardian needs to review your application before you send it to us. And, your parent/guardian can contact us in the future to review any of the information you gave us as part of the Sounding Board. - Web site survey. We have a pop-up survey about girlshealth.gov that you may see. If you choose to take the survey, you are not asked to give any personal information.
- Parents’ newsletter. If you subscribe to the girlshealth.gov parents’ newsletter, your e-mail address and newsletter preferences are collected by KidsHealth.org. They write and e-mail the newsletter. You can read KidsHealth.org’s privacy policy for more details.
Non-personal information
We get some non-personal information from your computer when you visit our site. We do not use this to identify you. Your computer gives this information to every web site you visit.
The information we get is:
- The way you came to our web site (for example, did you get on the Internet at school or through AOL?).
- The date and time you came to the web site
- The pages you read
- The address of the web site that linked you to us
- The way you searched on the web site
We get this information from everyone who visits our site. We add it all up, and use it to find out things like how many people come to girlshealth.gov, and what parts of it are the most popular. This helps us make girlshealth.gov better!
Third parties (other companies or web sites)
Girlshealth.gov does not share any information about you with anyone else. If you sign up for the parents’ newsletter, the information you provide to KidsHealth.org is not shared with us.
Web site links
We link to other web sites that have great health information. When you leave girlshealth.gov, and whenever you are online, be sure to check the privacy policy of each site you visit. If they ask for your name or address, be sure to talk to your parents first. Here are some links to good information to help you protect yourself:
Who is girlshealth.gov?
Girlshealth.gov is owned by the Office on Women’s Health – a part of the United States Department of Health and Human Services. If you or your parents have questions about our privacy policy, there are three ways you can contact us:
- You can write to us at:
Attn.: girlshealth.gov
8270 Willow Oaks Corporate Drive
Suite 300
Fairfax, VA 22031 - You can call us at 1-800-994-9662.
- You can use our comment/question form.
For more information about us, read About This Site.
Be safe!
Be sure to talk to your parents if you have any questions. You can learn lots more in our Safety on the Internet section.
= This article, publication, web site, or organization is from the U.S. government.
Content last updated October 3, 2008
