Privacy Policy

Privacy Notice

Thank you for visiting the USAIDDISP website. Your privacy and security are very important to us. Please be aware that USAIDDISP does not collect personal information when you visit our website, unless you choose to provide that information. However, we do collect some technical information about your visit to USAIDDISP.com.

We would like to make you aware of a law that provides to you with certain rights concerning your personal information. This is described in the Privacy Act of 1974 (as amended by 5 U.S.C. 552a) governing Federal Records. This law concerns any information held in a Privacy Act System of Records (SOR) that can be retrieved by a personal identifier such as name, social security number, or other identifying number or symbol. An individual is entitled to access to his or her records and to request correction of these records if applicable. The Privacy Act prohibits disclosure of these records without the written consent of the individual(s) to whom the records pertain unless one of the twelve disclosure exceptions enumerated in the Act applies. The actual Act can be found at this link: http://www.justice.gov/opcl/privstat.htm.

This is how we handle information about your visit to our Web site:

Information Collected and Stored Automatically
When you visit USAIDDISP.com, we may store some or all of the following:

• the IP address from which you accessed our site
• the date and time
• the URL of the website from which you linked to our site
• the name of the file or words you searched for
• the pages you visited on our site
• the items clicked on a page
• the browser and operating system used

We do not collect or track any personal information through these processes. We use this information, in the aggregate, to make our website more useful to visitors – to learn about the number of visitors to our site and the types of technology used, to detect operational problems, and to improve the website’s overall security.

• Information You Provide to U.S. Agency for International Development
• You do not have to provide any personal information to view this website.

You may choose to provide your contact information to USAIDDISP in order to receive information such as our agency newsletter or to participate in an on-line collaboration forum.

USAIDDISP will only use your personal information for the purpose for which it was provided, such as to respond to your message or to provide subscriptions you have chosen. In certain instances, your comment or suggestion may be forwarded to other U.S. government agencies or departments if they are in the best position to respond to your message.

Some of our newsletters are sent using third-party email distribution systems. In these cases, the email privacy policy will be available to you at the time you sign up for the newsletter. A link will be provided at the bottom of each newsletter with instructions on how to unsubscribe.

In certain instances, such as blog comments or discussion groups, the information you provide may be visible to the public. Please do not share any personal information that you do not want made available to the public. USAIDDISP is not responsible for how other participants may use your information.

When you voluntarily submit information, it constitutes your consent to the use of the information for the purpose stated. When you click the “Submit” button on any of the Web forms found on our sites, you are indicating your voluntary consent to the use of the information you submit, for the stated purpose.