OPM Web Privacy Policy
Thank you for visiting the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) web site and
reviewing our privacy policy. Our privacy policy is clear: We will collect no
personal information about you when you visit our web site unless you choose
to provide that information to us.
Here is how we handle information about your visit to our web site:
Information Collected and Stored Automatically
If you do nothing during your visit but browse through the web site, 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, “youragency.gov” if you connect from a
government domain, “yourschool.edu” if you connect from a university's
domain, or “xcompany.com” if you use a private Internet access account)
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 web site;
- 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 web site from another web site, the address of that
web site.
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. We do not enable "cookies." (A "cookie"
is a file placed on your hard drive by a web site that allows it to monitor
your use of the site.)
If You Send Us Personal Information
If you choose to provide us with personal information as in an email to one
of our online email boxes, or by filling out a form with your personal
information and submitting it to us through our web 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
OPM, but we do not collect personal information for any purpose other
than to respond to you. We collect personally identifiable information
(name, email address, Social Security number, or other unique identifier)
only if specifically and knowingly provided by you. 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
give it to any private organizations. We do not collect information for
commercial marketing.
Links to Other Sites
Our web site has links to other federal agencies. We also link to other organizations’
web sites when we have a good business reason to do so. This does not
constitute an endorsement of their policies or products. Once you link
to another site, you are subject to the privacy policy of the new site.
Site Security
We ensure that our web site remains available to all users by using a Government
computer system that employs software programs to monitor network traffic
to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change information, or otherwise
cause damage.
