students.gov is a U.S. government web portal that provides a gateway for students to government services from across the federal government. students.gov is designed to make interacting with the government easier for students pursuing education beyond high school by bringing the most useful government web resources for students to gether in one place, along with selected non-government web sites.

At students.gov, you can find all sorts of government information and services of interest to you. For example, students can find a college, search for a job or internship, apply for financial aid, explore a variety of academic resources, register for Selective Service, and even book a campsite online!

students.gov is targeted to college-bound students, current college students, their families, and those who work with students.

students.gov is an electronic government project sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education in partnership with many other federal agencies and government portals.

students.gov works closely with FirstGov to provide the best possible federal information service to citizens. FirstGov provides a central access point to all federal web portals and websites -- "Your First Click to the U.S. Government." students.gov and the other interagency web portals provide access to federal information and services tailored to specific citizen interest groups, such as students, seniors, disabled persons, and businesses.

Nothing is more important to us than protecting your privacy. Our policy is simple and straightforward:

1. We collect no personal information about you unless you choose to provide that information to us. We do not use "cookies" or other techniques for collecting personal information about you without your knowledge. We do, however, use temporary cookies for two purposes: (1) to match you as you move from page to page with the set of memory variables created during your user session--this is referred to as "maintaining state" in the "stateless" environment of the web, and (2) to ensure that visitors to students.gov are not artificially inflating the ratings of linked sites they visit.

2. In the normal course of events, we share your information with no outside organizations. We collect no information for commercial marketing purposes.

Our policy discloses the privacy practices for the students.gov website. But our site contains links to other sites. When you leave students.gov, a page will appear saying you are leaving our server. We're making no promises about the privacy practices of other websites. Once you link to another site, you are subject to the privacy and security policies of the new site.

We encourage you to read the privacy policies of any site you link to from ours, especially if you share any personal information. Be informed. You are the person best qualified to protect your own privacy. Here is the full text version of our privacy policy.

We recommend you go to the agency's website and click on their Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) option. As a short cut, the following are FAQ locations for agency sites most involved in delivering student services and information:

• AmeriCorps (Corporation for National Service)
  
• Peace Corps
  
• Selective Service
  
• Federal Student Aid FAQs
  
• U.S. Department of Education
  
• U.S. Department of Education Direct (Student) Loans
  
• U.S. Department of Labor
  
• U.S. Postal Service
  
• U.S. State Department
  
• U.S. Department of the Treasury:
  Internal Revenue Service FAQ on taxes
  
• U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Education Service
  

We want to hear from you! Send us Feedback if you have questions or suggestions to improve students.gov.

If you have a website that serves current or prospective postsecondary students, we would like to invite you to link to students.gov.

If you would like students.gov to link to your site, please complete the information found in the add-a-link form.

Whether you're researching a term paper or just curious, here are some links for those of you who'd like to learn more about using technology to change the way government interacts with citizens.

The General Services Administration (GSA) Office of Electronic Government provides links to electronic government forms.

The U.S. Department of Commerce and the Federal Trade Commission are good places to look for those particularly interested in security and privacy issues.