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Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy


Thank you for visiting the FAM IT Portal and reviewing our privacy statement. Our privacy policy is clear: We do not collect any personal identifiable information, (PII), without your explicit consent. Here is how we handle your information when you visit our website: Information Collected and Stored Automatically When you browse through the FAM IT Portal, read pages, or download information, we may gather and store certain information about your visit automatically. We may use technologies to gauge your browsing habits or web surfing history to improve the information presented to you. The information we store does not identify you personally.


We may automatically collect and store only the following information about your visit:



  1. The Internet domain and IP address from which you access our website. For example, if you access our website from school, we see "schoolname.edu" and the school's IP address;

  2. The type of browser and operating system used to access our site;

  3. The date and time you access our site;

  4. The pages you visit; and

  5. If you linked to the USDA website from another website, the address of that website.


We use this information to help us make our site more useful, to learn about the number of visitors to our site, the types of technology our visitors are using to visit our website, and to present relevant information to you based on your website browsing requests. We do not track your web activities beyond your browsing the FAM IT Portal. We do not cross reference your browsing habits with other entities, and we do not sell or give away your information to other entities.