Privacy & Security
This Web portal contains hypertext links or pointers to information created and maintained by other public and private organizations. These links and pointers are provided for the user's convenience. The U.S. Department of Labor's Office of Disability Employment Policy does not control or guarantee the accuracy, relevance, timeliness or completeness of this outside information. Further, the inclusion of links or pointers to particular items in hypertext is not intended to reflect their importance. Moreover, it is not intended to endorse any views expressed or products or services offered on these outside sites or the organizations sponsoring the sites.
We collect no personal information about you when you visit Disability.gov unless you choose to provide this information to us. However, we collect and store certain information automatically.
What We Collect & Store Automatically
- Name of the domain from which you access the Internet (for example, aol.com, if you use an America Online account);
- Date and time you access our site; and
- Internet address of the Web site from which you linked directly to our site.
We use the information we collect to count the number and type of visitors to the different pages on our site, and to help us make our site more useful to visitors like you.
If You Send Us E-mail
You may choose to provide us with personal information, through an e-mail with a comment or question. We use this information to improve our service to you or to respond to your request. Sometimes we forward your e-mail to other federal agencies that may be better able to help you. Except for authorized law enforcement investigations, we do not share our e-mail with any other outside organizations.
Links to Other Sites
Our Web site has many links to other sites, especially government agencies. When you link to another site, you are no longer on our site and are subject to the privacy policy of the new site.
Security for Disability.gov
For security purposes and to ensure that this service remains available to all users, our Web site monitors network traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change information, or otherwise cause damage. Unauthorized attempts to upload information or change information on this service are strictly prohibited and may be punishable by law.
The Disability.gov is provided as a public service by the U.S. Department of Labor's Office of Disability Employment Policy, who pays for and maintains this site. Information presented on the site is considered public information and may be distributed or copied. If you use language, images or photos from this site, please give us credit.
Purview of Disability.gov's Exit Disclaimer Policy
Throughout Disability.gov there are links to information on other Web sites, including the sites of state and local governments, national advocacy organizations, community-based and other non-profit organizations and federal government grantees. We provide these links solely to offer Disability.gov's visitors access to the most comprehensive information possible on disability-related subjects. Once you leave the Disability.gov Web site, you will be subject to the privacy and/or security policies of the owners/sponsors of those Web sites. Further, Disability.gov does not and cannot:
- Guarantee that external Web sites comply with section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended (29 U.S.C. 794d);
- Guarantee that the owners of other Web sites will protect your privacy. You should read the privacy policies of external sites;
- Control or guarantee the completeness, accuracy or timeliness of information contained on a linked Web site;
- Endorse the organizations that sponsor or host linked Web sites, nor the views they express or the products or services they may offer;
- Authorize the use of copyrighted materials on any linked Web sites. You must request authorization from the sponsor of the linked Web site.
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