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Youth
Rights to Privacy
Thank you for visiting the CDC‘s Office of Smoking and Health
(OSH)
Web site and for reviewing our privacy policy for children.
OSH is especially concerned about protecting children's privacy. We
encourage parents and teachers to stay involved and in control of
children's Internet explorations. It is particularly important for parents
to provide guidance to their children relative to providing personal
information on-line. OSH does encourage children to send e-mail messages to
OSH if they have questions about our
Web
site or need assistance with
tobacco and health information. If children request materials and include
their names, e-mail addresses, or home mailing addresses as part of their
message, we are careful to use that information solely to personally
respond to them. Providing that type of information is entirely optional.
We specifically ask children to get their parents' permission before
providing any information
on-line
at our site or any other site. We
hope parents will always be involved in those decisions. Most importantly,
when children do provide information through the OSH Kids Pages Web site,
it is only used to enable us to respond to the writer, and is not used to create
profiles of any type.
Information Automatically Collected and Stored:
When you browse through any Web site, certain personal information
about you can be collected. We automatically collect and temporarily
store the following information about your visit:
- the name of the domain you use to access the Internet (for
example,
aol.com, if you are using an American Online account, or
stanford.edu, if you are connecting from Stanford University's
domain);
- the date and time of your visit;
- the pages you visited; and
- the address of the web site you
visited prior to visiting the CDC site.
We use this information for statistical purposes only, and to help us make
our site more useful to visitors. Unless it is specifically stated
otherwise, no additional information will be collected about you.
Requests for Copies — If You Send Us Personal Information...
You do not have to give us personal information to visit our
Web site. If you choose to provide us with additional information about
yourself through an E-mail message, form, or survey, we will only
maintain the information as long as needed to respond to your question
or to fulfill the stated purpose of the communication. However, some
communications may be maintained, as required by law, for historical
purposes. These communications are protected by the Privacy Act that restricts our use of them while permitting limited disclosures. Now that
you know that any information you send us will be protected, you may
proceed with copy requests.
Disclosure:
OSH does not disclose, give, sell or transfer any personal information
about our visitors, unless required for law enforcement or statute.
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.
Systems of Records:
Information originally collected in traditional paper systems can be
submitted electronically (electronic commerce transactions and
information updates about eligibility benefits). Electronically submitted
information is maintained and destroyed pursuant to the Federal Records
Act, and in some cases may be subject to the Privacy Act. If information
that you submit is to be used in a Privacy Act system of records, there
will be a Privacy Act Notice provided.
Links to Other Sites:
Our Web site has links to many other Web
sites that may be educational.
We even link to private organizations where they have materials that
might be helpful to students. Once you link to another site, you are
subject to the privacy policy of the new site.
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