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Privacy
Thank you for visiting the WHCoA Web Site and reviewing
our Privacy Policy.
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.
For HHS Disclaimer Information please visit:
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