Thank you for visiting the Food Surveys Research Group website and reviewing our privacy statement. Our privacy policy is clear: We will collect no personal information about you when you visit our website.

Here is how we handle information about your visit to our website:

Certain Internet Information is Collected and Stored Automatically

If you do nothing during your visit but browse through the website, read pages, or download information, we will gather and store certain information about your visit automatically. This information does not identify you personally. We automatically collect and store only the following information about your visit:

• 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 are surfing the Web);
  
• The date and time you access our site; and
  
• The pages you visit.
  

If You Send Us Personal Information

If you choose to provide us with personal information -- as in an e-mail to us requesting information or suggestions for our site -- we use that information to respond to your message and to help us get you the information you have requested. We treat emails the same way we treat letters sent to us. We only share the information you give us with another government agency if your inquiry relates to that agency, or as otherwise required by law. Moreover, we do not create individual profiles with the information you provide or to give it to any private organizations. The Food Surveys Research Group does not collect information for commercial marketing.

Links to Other Sites

Our Website has links to other federal agencies. Once you link to another site, you are subject to the privacy policy of the new site.

Website Security

Information presented on our website is considered public information and may be distributed or copied. Use of appropriate byline/photo/image credits is requested.

• For site security purposes and to ensure that this service remains available to all users, this government computer system employs software programs to monitor network traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change information, or otherwise cause damage.
• Except for authorized law enforcement investigations, no other attempts are made to identify individual users or their usage habits. Raw data logs are used for no other purposes and are scheduled for regular destruction in accordance with National Archives and Records Administration General Schedule 20.
• Unauthorized attempts to upload information or change information on this service are strictly prohibited and may be punishable under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 and the National Information Infrastructure Protection Act.