Thank you for visiting our web site. We protect your privacy while you visit us online.

 

Personal Information:

You do not have to provide any personal information to visit this web site. If you provide us information about yourself via e-mail or a web form, your information will be used only for the purposes described at the point of collection, such as to send information or products to you, or to respond to your questions or comments. If you provide contact information, EBS staff or its contractors may contact you to clarify your comment or question, or to learn about your level of customer satisfaction with our services.

 

* We do not sell any personal information to third parties.

* We may transfer personal information to a third party only in the following cases:

 

To a bank or United States Department of the Treasury account, which must receive payment for a transaction that you initiated; To a company that is contracted to assist us with specific services, including electronic commerce or donations, and which agrees not to sell or use personal information for other purposes; To legal authorities if we suspect that you are attempting to change or otherwise damage this web site, or you are using it in violation of Federal or local laws; or To Congress or a court in response to a subpoena.

 

E-mail Information:

Please do not send us sensitive information, such as your credit card or social security numbers, via e-mail. It is possible that during transmission of your e-mail this information may be intercepted by a third party. We cannot guarantee its safety while in transit.

We use return e-mail addresses to answer the e-mail we receive. We would share your e-mail with another federal government agency only if your inquiry related to that agency or if we were required to do so by law.

 

Cookies:

"Cookies" are small bits of text that are either used for the duration of a session ("session cookies"), or saved on a user's hard drive in order to identify that user, or information about that user, the next time the user logs on to a web site ("persistent cookies"). The EBS web site and its component sites do not use persistent cookies. One or more of EBS's component sites may use session cookies to provide streamlined navigation throughout their sites and for statistical analysis. These session cookies are deleted from the component's server soon after your session ends and are not collected or saved. You can set up your Web browser to inform you when cookies are set or to prevent cookies from being set. You can still use our web site if you do not accept the cookies, but you may be unable to use certain cookie-dependent features.