Privacy Policy
Thank you for visiting the Citizens' Health Care Working Group web site and for reviewing our Privacy Policy.
This web site is maintained as a public service to engage the American people in the dialogue about health care, and to provide a venue for comments and suggestions from the American people to their citizen representatives on the Working Group.
Information Automatically Collected and Stored
The Citizens' Health Care Working Group will not collect personal information about you when you visit our web site unless you choose to provide that information.
When you browse through any Web site, read pages, or download information, certain information about your visit can be collected. We automatically collect and temporarily store the following information about your visit, but this information does not identify you personally:
- Your Internet domain (for example, aol.com, if you are using an America Online account, or stanford.edu, if you are connecting from Stanford University's domain).
- Your Internet Protocol address
- Your browser type and version
- Your operating system
- The pages visited and the time spent in each, and
- The time and date of the visit.
We use this information for statistics on the traffic to our site, to find out about general user interest in various areas of our site, and to help us make our site more useful to visitors. We track the keywords that are entered into our search engine to measure interest in specific topics, but we do not monitor which terms a particular user enters.
No additional information is collected about your visit, and we do not record information about individual behavior or use of the site.
Personally Provided Information
You do not have to provide personal information to visit our Web site.
If you provide us with additional personal information through an e-mail message, form, survey, etc., we use that information only to respond to your message or to fulfill the stated purpose of the communication. The information provided is handled on a confidential basis.
However, e-mail is not necessarily secure against interception. If your message is sensitive, you may prefer to send it by postal mail instead.
All communications sent to the Working Group by e-mail are archived on a monthly basis, and destroyed on an annual basis.
Disclosure
The Citizens' Health Care Working Group does not disclose, give, sell, or transfer any personal information about our visitors, unless required by law enforcement or statute.
Systems of Records
Electronically submitted information is maintained and destroyed according to the principles of the Federal Records Act and regulations and guidance from the National Archives and Records Administration, 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 Federal agencies and also selected links to other Web resources. This privacy policy does not apply to those sites. Upon entering a new site, you are subject to the privacy policy of that site.
Last revised: September 12, 2005
