Recovery.gov is committed to protecting the privacy and security of visitors to the site. The online privacy policy is outlined below. If you have questions about this policy, please contact.us.
Collection and disclosure of information: Recovery.gov collects personal information -- names, addresses, email addresses, telephone number -- only from those individuals who provide the information when contacting the site through the Feedback form at Contact Us. It is our general policy not to make Personal Information available to anyone other than our employees, staff, and agents.
Information Collected and Stored Automatically: When you browse, read pages, or download information on Recovery.gov, certain technical information about your visit is gathered and stored:
- The Internet domain (for example, "xcompany.com" if you use a private Internet access account, or "yourschool.edu" if you connect from a university's domain) and IP address (an IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer whenever you're surfing the web) from which you access Recovery.gov.
- The type of browser (Firefox, Safari, or Internet Explorer) and operating system (Windows, Mac, Unix) used to access our site.
- The date and time you visit Recovery.gov
- The pages you visit.
- If you linked to the Recovery.gov from another website, the address of that website.
This information is used to help us make the site more useful. We never track or record information about individuals and their visits.
Children's privacy: Recovery.gov complies with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA). COPPA and its accompanying FTC regulation establish United States federal law that protects the privacy of children using the Internet. Recovery.gov does not knowingly contact or collect personal information from children under 13. The site is not intended to solicit information of any kind from children under 13. It is possible that by fraud or deception, Recovery.gov may receive information pertaining to children under 13. If notified of this, as soon as the information is verified, the parents are contacted for consent or the informationis deleted from the servers.
Security: Recovery.gov maintains a variety of physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to protect personal information, for example, commercially reasonable tools and techniques to protect against unauthorized access to the site's systems. Personal Information is restricted to those who need such access in the course of their duties for Recovery.gov.
Linking: Recovery.gov may contain links to websites created and maintained by other public and/or private organizations. Recovery.gov provides these links as a service to our users. When users link to an outside website, they are leaving the Recovery.gov site and are subject to the privacy and security policies of the owners/sponsors of the outside website(s).
Changes to this policy: As practices change, this policy may change as well. Changes to the policy shall not apply retroactively.