CDC Digital Media Channel Privacy Policy Notice

ARCHIVED 2015-04-07, DATE APPROXIMATE · VERSION 20150407_rev01 · COMPARED WITH 20140321_rev01

Full text changes — 20140321_rev01 to 20150407_rev01

COLOUR MARKS THE SEVERITY OF A FLAGGED CLAUSE · + AND − MARK ADDED AND REMOVED

 - Operating System and information about the Web browser (used when accessing the site;
 - the visit date and time;
 - the specific pages visited;
 - if [www.cdc.gov](http://www.cdc.gov/) is designated as a home page; and
 - the amount of data (measured in number of bytes) transmitted from CDC.gov to your computer.
+We use this information in the aggregate to measure the number of visitors to our site and its various sections, to enhance site performance, and to improve the overall customer service experience for our visitors by making it more useful.
+Within the CDC, we restrict access to personally identifiable information to employees, contractors, and vendors subject to non-disclosure requirements who require access to this information in order to perform their official duties and exercise controls to limit what data they can view based on the specific needs of their position. If you choose to share information with us, we may in some cases, share that information or automatically generated information with other government agencies in response to lawful law enforcement requests or to protect CDC.gov from security threats.
+We do not use or share your information for commercial purposes and, except as described above, we do not exchange or otherwise disclose this information.
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 ## Web Measurement and Customization Technologies
 All uses of Web measurement and customization technologies will comply with existing policies with respect to privacy and data safeguarding standards. Information Systems owned and operated by CDC are assessed using Privacy Impact Assessments (PIAs) posted for public view on the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Website (http://www.hhs.gov/pia/). Groups of records that contain information about an individual and are designed to be retrieved by the name or other personal identifier linked to the individual are covered by the Privacy Act of 1974, as amended (5 U.S.C. Section 552a). For these records, CDC Systems of Record Notices are published in the Federal Register and posted on the CDC Web site at: [http://www.cdc.gov/SORNnotice](http://www.cdc.gov/SORNnotice)/.