Privacy Policy
Disclaimer
This is the web site of the Federal Reserve Bank of
St. Louis. The Bank respects your privacy.
Personal Information
You may access and browse our site without disclosing
your personal data. The personal information you choose
to provide us is voluntary. We do not require you to
provide any information about yourself that you do not
wish to share.
You may choose to provide us with personal information
if, for example, you subscribe to our publications or
mail lists, send us questions through e-mail, answer
our user surveys, register for an event or user account,
apply for a job or participate in our online activities.
If you participate in a user survey, your answers and
personal information will only be analyzed in aggregate.
The information will be used to help us tailor our web
site, publications, and services to our users' needs
and to help us understand our audience.
If you provide us with your postal or e-mail address
or telephone number, this information will only be used
for the purpose for which you provided it, such as to:
- Provide you with the publications or information
requested;
- Clarify your order or request;
- Register you for a user account, conference or
other event;
- Respond to you regarding your job application;
- Provide you with related information; or
- Send you a token of appreciation through postal
mail if you participate in selected online activities.
We may also file your comments to improve the site,
or review and discard the information.
When you fill out our online forms, they are returned
to us via electronic mail. Your responses are not encrypted.
We cannot guarantee the security of information sent
via electronic mail.
Cookies
A cookie is a text file that a web site can send to
your browser and which may then be placed on your computer.
We may use cookies on this site in the following ways:
- To collect statistical information about our users
in aggregate. We perform analyses on our web server's
log files to identify, among other things:
- Our site's most popular pages;
- The browsers and operating systems most often
used by our visitors;
- The sites and search engines that have referred
visitors to our site; and
- The domains from which our users visit us.
- This analysis does not involve personally identifiable
information. It is used only for the purpose of helping
us understand and better meet our audience's needs.
2. If you register for a Research user account, a
transient, memory-resident "cookies" will
be invoked when you login to your user account and
will disappear when your browser is closed. You are
not required to register for a user account to use
this site.
- Sometimes a third-party contractor will use cookies
on one of the sites they create and manage for us
-- for example, our Job Opportunities site.You can
set your browser to notify you before you receive
a cookie, giving you the opportunity to decide whether
to accept it or not. You can also set your browser
to not accept cookies at all. If you do so, however,
some areas of some sites (including ours) may not
operate properly.
Information Collected Automatically
We collect statistical information about our users
in aggregate. We perform analyses on our web server's
log files to identify, among other things:
- Our site's most popular pages;
- The browsers and operating systems most often used
by our visitors;
- The sites and search engines that have referred
visitors to our site; and
- The domains from which our users visit us.
This analysis does not involve personally identifiable
information. It is used only for the purpose of helping
us understand and better meet our audience's needs.
Disclosure of Information
Any information collected on this web site, whether
individual or aggregate, is for Federal Reserve use
only. We do not rent, sell or share personal information
about you with other people or nonaffiliated companies
except under any of the following circumstances:
- When we have your permission;
- The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis monitors
this site for unauthorized attempts to upload or change
information, to defeat or circumvent security measures,
or to utilize this site for other than its intended
purposes. By using this site you expressly consent
to such monitoring and you are advised that if such
monitoring reveals possible evidence of criminal activity,
we will provide the evidence of such monitoring to
law enforcement officials;
- We retain the services of outside contractors to
provide services, including mailing list administration
and our Job Opportunities pages. We require that these
contractors keep information obtained through our
web site secure and confidential. We also require
that these contractors use personal information obtained
through our web site only on behalf of the Federal
Reserve.
- We may be required to disclose your personal information
to government officials or otherwise as required by
subpoenas, court orders, legal process or other legal
obligations and to establish or exercise our legal
rights or defend against legal claims. We will share
information in order to investigate, prevent or take
action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud
or as otherwise required by law.
Children
Our site is not directed toward children under 13.
Nonetheless, we are committed to comply with applicable
laws and requirements, such as the Children's Online
Privacy Protection Act. We do not knowingly collect
personal data from children under 13. Minor children
should always obtain parental consent before releasing
personal information to any web site.
Information Security and Quality
We have implemented security measures consistent with
our internal information security practices to help
us keep your information secure. These measures include
technical and procedural steps to protect your data
from misuse, access or disclosure, loss, alteration
or destruction.
If you have voluntarily submitted personal information
to us and wish to review, update, correct or delete
it, please e-mail your request to webmaster@stlouisfed.org.
If you have voluntarily submitted personal information
to us in connection with setting up a Research user
account and wish to review, update, correct or delete
it, please e-mail your request to webmaster@research.stlouisfed.org.
Links
Our site contains links to other web sites. The Federal
Reserve Bank of St. Louis is not responsible for the
privacy practices or the content of such web sites.
Other Considerations
We may from time to time provide a discussion group
or forum. Please remember that information you submit
in connection with such a feature will be publicly viewable
and not confidential. There is a risk in such communication
venues that information will be collected and used by
others.
Policy Changes
We reserve the right to change this policy at any time
without notice. If any change to our policy affects
the way we use your personal information, we will provide
an avenue for you to opt out of such use.
Contact Information
Questions or comments about the Federal Reserve Bank
of St. Louis's privacy policy may be directed to our
web site administrators at webmaster@stlouisfed.org
or webmaster@research.stlouisfed.org,
or by writing to Public Affairs, the Federal Reserve
Bank of St. Louis, 411 Locust Street, St. Louis, MO
63102.
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