Privacy
Notice
Thank you for visiting the Administration on Aging Web Site and
reviewing our Privacy Policy. Our Privacy Policy for visits to
http://www.aoa.gov
is clear:
We will collect no personal information about
you when you visit our website unless you choose to provide that
information to us.
Here is how we handle information about your visit to our website:
Information 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) from which you access
our website
- The type of browser and operating system used to access our
site,
- The date and time you access our site,
- The pages you visit, and
- If you linked to our website from another website, the address
of that website.
We use this information to help us make our site more useful
to visitors -- to learn about the number of visitors to our site
and the types of technology our visitors use. We do not track
or record information about individuals and their visits.
Personally Provided Information:
You do not have to give us personal information to visit our
web sites.
If you choose to provide us with additional information about
yourself through an e-mail message, form, survey, etc., we will
only maintain the information as long as needed to respond to
your question or to fulfill the stated purpose of the communication.
Links to Other Sites
Our Website has links to other federal agencies and to private
organizations. Once you link to another site, it is that site's
privacy policy that controls what it collects about you.
Information Collected When You Send Us an E-mail Message
When inquiries are E-mailed to us, we again store the text of
your message and E-mail address information, so that we can answer
the question that was sent in, and send the answer back to the
E-mail address provided. If enough questions or comments come
in that are the same, the question or suggestions may be used
to guide the design of our Web site.
We do not retain the messages with identifiable information or
the e-mail addresses for more than 60 days after responding unless
your communication requires further inquiry. If you send us an
e-mail message in which you ask us to do something that requires
further inquiry on our part, there are a few things you should
know.
The material you submit may be seen by various people in our
agency, who may use it to look into the matter you have inquired
about. If we do retain it, it is protected by the Privacy Act
of 1974, which restricts our use of it, but permits certain disclosures.
Also, e-mail is not necessarily secure against interception.
If your communication is very sensitive, or includes personal
information, you might want to send it by postal mail instead.
Intrusion Detection:
This site is maintained by the U.S. Government. It is protected
by various provisions of Title 18, U.S. Code. Violations of Title
18 are subject to criminal prosecution in federal court.
For site security purposes and to ensure that this service remains
available to all users, we employ software programs to monitor
traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change
information, or otherwise cause damage. In the event of authorized
law enforcement investigations, and pursuant to any required legal
process, information from these sources may be used to help identify
an individual.
Disclosure:
AoA does not disclose, give, sell or transfer any personal information
about our visitors, unless required for law enforcement or statute.
Endorsement Disclaimer - Pop-Up Advertisements
When visiting our Web site, your Web browser may produce pop-up
advertisements. These advertisements were most likely produced
by other Web sites you visited or by third party software installed
on your computer. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
does not endorse or recommend products or services for which you
may view a pop-up advertisement on your computer screen while
visiting our site.
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