FederalTransparency.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.
Information Collected and Stored Automatically
When you browse, read pages, or download information on FederalTransparency.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 FederalTransparency.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 visited FederalTransparency.gov.
- The pages you visit.
- If you linked to the FederalTransparency.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
FederalTransparency.gov complies with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA). COPPA and its accompanying Federal Trade Commission regulation establish United States federal law that protects the privacy of children using the Internet. FederalTransparency.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, FederalTransparency.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 information is deleted from the servers.
Security
FederalTransparency.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 FederalTransparency.gov.
Linking
FederalTransparency.gov may contain links to websites created and maintained by other public and/or private organizations. FederalTransparency.gov provides these links as a service to our users. When users link to an outside website, they are leaving the FederalTransparency.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.
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