Thank you for visiting the White House National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign (Media Campaign) web site and reviewing our privacy policy. In accordance with the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, we do not collect personal data on you, unless you choose to provide that information voluntarily via e-mail or on-line request forms.

Here is how we handle information about your visit to our web site:

If you do nothing during your visit but browse through the web site, read pages, download or print files, or use our search engine, we automatically collect and store only the following information about your visit:

• The Internet domain (for example, "xcompany.com" if you use a private Internet access account, or "yourschool.edu" if you connect from a university's domain) and IP address (an IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer whenever you are surfing the Web) from which you access our web site;
• The type of browser and operating system used to access our site;
• The date and time you access our site;
• The pages you visit; and
• If you linked to the Media Campaign web site from another site, the address of that web site.

This information does not identify you personally. In order to make our site more useful to visitors, we use this information to learn about the number of visitors to our site and the types of technology they use.

If you choose to provide us with personal information, as in an e-mail from the "Contact Media Campaign" section or when filling out an on-line request form, we use that information to respond to your message and to help us get you the information you have requested. We do not create individual profiles with the information you provide. We do not retain your personal information after responding to your request. No information, including your e-mail address, will be sold or distributed to any other organization.

Our Web site has links to other federal and private drug policy sites. Once you link to another site, you are subject to the privacy policy of the new site.

The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) protects the online privacy and personal information of children under 13. In compliance with this act, the Media Campaign does not intentionally collect any personally identifiable information from individuals under 13 years of age.

Cookies are data a Web site can send to your browser and which might be stored on your hard drive. They are used to keep track of passwords, preferences, and various aspects of a user's "session" with a Web site, and can be used to direct advertisements and prepare customized Web pages.

We do not send or make use of cookies on any public pages. On certain password-protected sections of the site, we use session cookies to enable you to log in and perform work in a secure environment. Session cookies are not stored on your hard drive, and they expire when your browser is closed.

The Media Campaign is supporting the development of technologies that will allow you to manage and control the release of your personal information whenever you go on the Internet. The Media Campaign website is compliant with the standards set forth by the World Wide Web Consortium in the May 10, 2000 working draft of the P3P specification (http://www.w3.org/P3P/).