APPS.gov NOW

Website Privacy and Security Policy

Thank you for visiting the General Service Administration (GSA) APPS.gov NOW website and reviewing our privacy policy. Our privacy policy 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:

Internet Security Policy

For site security purposes and to ensure that this service remains available to all users, this government computer system employs software programs to monitor network traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change information, or otherwise cause damage.

Unauthorized attempts to upload information or change information on this service are strictly prohibited and may be punishable under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 and the National Information Infrastructure Protection Act.

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:

  1. The Internet domain (for example, gsa.gov) 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;
  2. The type of browser and operating system used to access our site;
  3. The date and time you access our site;
  4. The pages you visit; and
  5. If you link to the GSA APPS.gov NOW 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. For more on our information collection, go to the GSA’s Privacy Impact Assessment Document.

If You Send Us Personal Information

If you choose to provide us with your personal information (for example, you register on the site to access software or you ask a question using the Help Forum) we will use the information only to fulfill your request.

We do not collect personal information for any other purposes. The information you provide is not given to any private organizations or private persons. The GSA does not collect or use information for commercial marketing.