U.S. Department of Commerce

Data Protection and Privacy Policy

Information Collected from E-mail and Online Forms

When you send us personally identifiable information, we only use the information we need in order to gather the information you request or to process your response to a survey or census. All information submitted by our website visitors is voluntary. Submitting voluntary information constitutes your consent to the use of the submitted information for the stated purpose.

It is our policy not to send emails to you that contain identifiable information about you, your household, or business. E-mail is not necessarily secure against interception. Whether or not e-mail is encrypted in transmission depends on your software.


Source: U.S. Census Bureau | Privacy Office | Last Revised: September 27, 2012