Privacy Policy

The privacy and security of visitors to FederalReporting.gov is of utmost importance. Outlined below is our online privacy policy. If you have questions about this policy, please let us know.

To ensure we are able to communicate effectively with FederalReporting.gov users, we collect some information directly associated with a specific person during the registration process. We call this "Personal Information," and it includes, by way of illustration, names, addresses, telephone numbers and email addresses. We collect Personal Information from individuals registering to report Recovery Act data on behalf of a Federal Agency or a Recipient. Personal information such as name, telephone number, and email address will be shared with the organization Point of Contact for purposes of validating registration. It is our general policy not to make Personal Information available to anyone other than our employees, staff, and agents.

All reports submitted to FederalReporting.gov, as well as comments associated with reports from Federal Agencies, will be available to the public via Recovery.gov.

When you browse, read pages, or download information on FederalReporting.gov, we automatically gather and store certain technical information about your visit. This information never identifies who you are. The information we collect and store about your visit is listed below:

• 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're surfing the web) from which you access our website
• The type of browser (such as Firefox or Internet Explorer) and operating system (such as Windows, Mac, Unix) used to access our site
• The date and time you access our site
• The pages you visit
• If you linked to the FederalReporting.gov 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.

When you send us personally identifying information (i.e., by sending an electronic mail message containing a question or comment, or by filling out a site-form that emails us this information), we use this information to respond to your requests. We may forward your email to other Federal government employees or their agents who are better able to answer your question. The information you provide is not given to any private organizations or private persons. We do not collect or use information for commercial marketing.

FederalReporting.gov may contain links to websites created and maintained by other public and/or private organizations. Once you link to another site, you are subject to the privacy policy of that site.