FedStats

Privacy Statement

Thank you for visiting FedStats and reviewing our privacy policy. We do not collect personal information about you when you visit our website unless you choose to provide that information to us. We do not give, share, sell, or transfer any personal information to a third party.

Information collected and stored automatically

We analyze user traffic patterns on FedStats from information automatically provided by your browser when you visit our site. This information includes the IP address of your computer or network, the date, time, and page you visited on our site, your browser and operating system, and the referring page (the last webpage you visited before clicking on a link to FedStats).

We use the aggregated information from all of our visitors to measure server performance and improve the content of our site.

We sometimes track the keywords that are entered into our search engine to measure interest in specific topics, but we do not track which terms a particular user enters.

Information provided by you

Information volunteered by you through your filling out of our optional online feedback form is used to help us enhance FedStats and other Federal agency web sites, and may be shared with Federal employees and contractors for that purpose.

We do not use "cookies". (A "cookie" is a file placed on your hard drive by a Web site, usually without your knowledge).

Links to other sites

FedStats uses link and search capabilities to navigate publicly available statistics from more than 100 Federal agencies. The privacy policies and procedures described here do not necessarily apply to those sites. We suggest contacting these sites directly for information on their data collection and distribution policies.

Site security

We monitor network traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change information or to otherwise cause damage to the site. Anyone using this Web site expressly consents to such monitoring.

Document Accessibility Statement

FedStats is committed to making every web page on its World Wide Web server accessible to all possible audiences, including the visually impaired, those with limited mobility, and those who are working with slower computers, browsers and modems.

Many of the documents on the FedStats website are in HTML format. These documents are accessible to persons using screen reading software. We also have documents in Adobe Acrobat PDF (Portable Document Format) files. Currently, many people using screen reading devices cannot read documents in PDF format.

Adobe Systems, Inc., is producing various products designed to make Adobe Acrobat documents accessible to persons using screen reading software. Their Accessibility Web Pages describe their efforts. They also have a free downloadable accessibility plug-in, called Adobe Access, for use with the latest versions of the Adobe Acrobat Reader for Microsoft Windows 3.1, Windows 95, or Windows NT. This plug-in helps to overcome some of the problems of reading PDF documents with screen readers. While these tools are in development, we are committed to providing HTML versions of these PDF files.

FedStats uses link and search capabilities to help you navigate publicly available statistics from over 100 Federal agencies. Our statement on accessibility described here does not necessarily apply to those sites. We suggest contacting these sites directly for their positions on accessibility.