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Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco Privacy
Policy
This is the web site of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.
The Bank respects your privacy.
The personal information that you choose to provide to us is voluntary.
We do not use cookies, and we do not require you to provide any information
about yourself that you do not wish to share.
You may choose to provide us with personal information if, for example,
you subscribe to our publications, send us questions through e-mail,
answer our user surveys, register for an event, or participate in our
on-line activities.
If you participate in a user survey, your answers
and personal information will only be analyzed in aggregate. The
information will be used to help
us tailor our web site, publications, and services to our users' needs
and to help us understand our audience.
If you provide us with your postal or e-mail address or telephone number,
this information will only be used to
- provide you with the publications or information requested;
- clarify
your order or request;
- provide you with related information; or
- send you a token of appreciation through postal mail if you participate
in selected on-line activities.
When you fill out our on-line forms, they are returned to us via electronic
mail. Your responses are not encrypted. We cannot guarantee the security
of information sent via electronic mail. Minor children should always
obtain parental consent before releasing personal information to any
web site.
In addition to information voluntarily provided by you, we collect
statistical information about our users in aggregate. We perform analyses
on our
web server's log files to identify, among other things
- our site's most popular pages;
- the browsers and operating systems
most often used by our visitors;
- the sites
and search engines that have referred visitors to our site; and
- the domains (for example, America Online) from which our users
visit us.
This analysis does not involve personally identifiable information.
It is used only for the purpose of helping us understand and better meet
our audience's needs.
For a good explanation of how server log statistical
analysis works,
see the example at Social Security Online.
Any information collected
through this web site, whether individual or aggregate, is for Federal
Reserve use only. No information about
visitors
to this web site is released or sold to third parties, except that
in some cases, the information is stored on a third party server
operated by L-Soft, and information provided through the Jobs portion
of this
web site is maintained by Peopleclick. This privacy policy does not
apply
to the portion of this web site that is operated by Peopleclick.
To
change the e-mail address and/or other contact information that you
have provided to the Bank through this web site, you may go to
the applicable
area of the web site and follow the instructions provided (usually
found in the e-notification form). Some areas of the Bank, such
as Community
Development, periodically send inquiries to the individuals on
the applicable mailing lists asking if there are any changes to their
e-mail addresses.
The Bank notifies visitors to this web site of changes to the web
site privacy policy by posting the new privacy policy and its
revised effective
date.
Notice of the Bank's Information Practices with Regard to
Children
The Bank does not request that children submit personal information
online, enable children to make personal information publicly
available through
a chat room, message board, or other means, or passively
track or use any identifying codes linked to children, such as cookies.
The
Bank
requests a screen name and password in connection with the
FedVille portion of
its web site, and accepts only the first word entered in
the
screen name field. The Bank collects the screen name and
password to keep
a record
of the state of the participant's game, so that if the participant
leaves the game, the participant can return to the game and
continue where he
or she last left the game. This information is not disclosed
to third parties. Web site operators are prohibited from
conditioning a child's
participation in an activity on the child's disclosing more
personal information than is reasonably necessary to participate
in such
activity.
Questions or comments about the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco's
privacy policy may be directed to our web
site administrators.
Revised effective August 6, 2004
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