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class="grid-row grid-gap"> <div class="region-content grid-col"> <div data-drupal-messages-fallback class="hidden"></div> <h1 class="margin-0"><span class="treas-page-title">Privacy Policy and Legal Notice</span></h1> <article> <div> <div class="layout layout--onecol"> <div class="layout__region layout__region--content"> <div class="block block-layout-builder block-extra-field-blocknodepagecontent-moderation-control"> <div class="content"> </div> </div> <div class="block block-layout-builder block-extra-field-blocknodepagelinks"> <div class="content"> </div> </div> <div class="block block-layout-builder block-field-blocknodepagebody"> <div class="content"> <div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p> </p><p>Choose from the following:</p><ol style="list-style-type:decimal;" type="1"><li><a href="#pp1" title="Privacy Policy Summary">Privacy Policy Summary</a></li><li><a href="#pp2" title="Email">Email</a></li><li><a href="#pp3" title="Sending Personal Information">Sending Personal Information</a></li><li><a href="#pp4" title="Comments">Comments</a></li><li><a href="#pp5" title="Information Collection">Information Collection</a></li><li><a href="#pp6" title="Cookies">Cookies</a></li><li><a href="#pp7" title="Site Security">Site Security</a></li><li><a href="#pp8" title="Third Party Websites and Applications">Third Party Websites and Applications</a></li><li><a href="#pp9" title="Links to Other Sites">Links to Other Sites</a></li><li><a href="#pp10" title="Disclaimer of Endorsement">Disclaimer of Endorsement</a></li><li><a href="#pp11" title="Copyright">Copyright</a></li><li><a href="#pp12" title="Official Seal, Names, and Symbols">Official Seal, Names, and Symbols</a></li><li><a href="#pp13" title="Terms of Use">Terms of Use</a></li></ol><p> </p><p><strong>1. Privacy Policy Summary</strong></p><p><a href="http://www.usdoj.gov/foia/privstat.htm" title="The Privacy Act of 1974" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Privacy Act of 1974</a> protects your rights to privacy. The Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB) respects your right to privacy and will protect your privacy when you visit our website. We do not collect personal information such as names, addresses, or phone numbers when you visit our site. Any information you explicitly provide us is completely voluntary. We assume that you consent to our use of any such affirmatively provided information for the purpose for which you provide it.</p><p>We will not share information protected by the Privacy Act, without your consent, for any purpose other than the routine uses stated in our <a href="/media/72385/download?inline" data-entity-type="media" data-entity-uuid="80daf879-194e-41f9-afe4-c1585499a42b" data-entity-substitution="media_download_inline" title="sorn.pdf">System of Records Notice (SORN)</a>. You do not have to provide any personal information to visit this website.</p><p>Please be mindful that information presented on this website is considered public and may be distributed, copied, or disclosed in a rulemaking document or on the Internet.</p><p>The sections below describe the types of information we may collect and how we handle that information.</p><p class="text-align-right"><a href="#top" title="Back to Top">Back to Top</a></p><p><strong>2. Email</strong></p><p>When you send us your email address we will not share it with anyone outside of the TTB staff. We will use your email address for the purpose for which it was provided. (see the "Comments" section below regarding previously emailed comments to Notices of Proposed Rulemaking). We suggest that you do not send personal information to us via email.  In addition your email address may be used to request your consent to participate in TTB sponsored surveys.  At that time you will also be given the opportunity to opt out from receiving invitations to participate in future surveys.</p><p class="text-align-right"><a href="#top" title="Back to Top">Back to Top</a></p><p><strong>3. Sending Personal Information</strong></p><p>If you voluntarily choose to send personal information (e.g., Social Security Number, Employer Identification Number, Permit Registry Number, etc.) to us via this website by completing an online form, responding to the Web survey, registering for a seminar, or subscribing to Web updates, we will use that information to fulfill your request.  We do not sell the information collected at this site, or any other information we collect.  You do not have to give us personal information to visit our website.</p><p class="text-align-right"><a href="#top" title="Back to Top">Back to Top</a></p><p><strong>4. Comments</strong></p><p>Comments in response to Notices of Proposed Rulemaking or other documents must be submitted through the <a href="https://www.regulations.gov/" title="Regulations.gov" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Regulations.gov</a> online system or by the method identified in the specific Federal Register notice. Name and address information (including email addresses) in comments submitted in response to rulemaking proposals is maintained with the comment on Regulations.gov.</p><p>As of February 23, 2007, TTB.gov no longer accepts email submissions. Email comments you may have submitted through this website prior to February 23, 2007, will be maintained until further notice for public viewing on the TTB.gov website along with comments submitted by other means.</p><p class="text-align-right"><a href="#top" title="Back to Top">Back to Top</a></p><p><strong>5. Information Collection</strong></p><p>During your visit we collect certain data about your visit that does not identify you personally. We analyze this data to help us design and organize the site according to your needs. With this data, we produce statistical information about the number of visitors to our site and the types of technology our visitors use. We never track or record information about individuals and their visits.</p><p>TTB does not create individual profiles with the information we collect or use that information for commercial marketing. We automatically collect and store only the following information about your visit:</p><ul><li>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 website;</li><li>The type of browser site (e.g., Internet Explorer, Netscape, Firefox) and operating system (e.g., Windows, Unix) used to access our site;</li><li>The date and time you access our site;</li><li>The links you click on specific Web pages; and</li><li>If you linked to TTB.gov from another website, the address of that website.</li></ul><p class="text-align-right"><a href="#top" title="Back to Top">Back to Top</a></p><p><strong>6. Cookies</strong></p><p>“Cookies" are small bits of text that are used either 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 website ("persistent cookies"). TTB.gov does not use persistent cookies.</p><p>Some sections of TTB.gov may use session cookies to provide streamlined navigation throughout the site 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 website if you do not accept the cookies, but you may be unable to use certain cookie-dependent features.</p><p class="text-align-right"><a href="#top" title="Back to Top">Back to Top</a></p><p><strong>7. Site Security</strong></p><p>We monitor visits to our website to identify any attempt to tamper with it. When you submit personal information using our website--for example, if you register for a conference online--we have systems that make sure individuals outside of TTB cannot access your personal information.</p><p>Tampering with TTB's website is against the law. Anyone attempting to tamper with the site may be punished under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 and the National Information Infrastructure Protection Act.</p><p>We would try to identify you personally only when required to do so by a law enforcement investigation. Any information we collect for an investigation is destroyed according to federal records guidelines.</p><p class="text-align-right"><a href="#top" title="Back to Top">Back to Top</a></p><p><strong>8. Third Party Websites and Applications.</strong></p><p>TTB uses third party analytics tools (currently Crazy Egg and Google Analytics) to collect and analyze statistical data. This data helps TTB meet user needs, understand web traffic patterns and identify opportunities to improve the quality of the site. TTB uses anonymous aggregated data for internal purposes and discloses it to TTB employees and contractors who have a “need to know” in the performance of their official duties. </p><p>TTB does not use third-party websites to solicit and collect PII from individuals. Any PII collected by the third-party website will not be transmitted or stored by TTB; no PII will be disclosed, sold or transferred to any other entity outside the TTB, unless required for law enforcement purposes or by statute consistent with the Privacy Act.</p><p><strong>Crazy Egg</strong>: TTB uses Crazy Egg to obtain information on how visitors are interacting with specific pages on TTB.gov websites. This allows TTB to evaluate and, if necessary or beneficial, to modify its websites to improve value and usability. The data Crazy Egg collects includes information about how visitors navigate around a website and the most commonly clicked links on a specific page. Crazy Egg does not collect personally identifiable information (PII). See the<a href="http://www.crazyegg.com/privacy"> Crazy Egg Privacy Policy</a>. </p><p><strong>Google Analytics</strong>: TTB may employ tools provided by Google Analytics to support Display Advertising, including Remarketing, Google Display Network Impression Reporting, data collection via advertising cookies and anonymous identifiers, the DoubleClick Campaign Manager integration and/or Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting. This means that third-party vendors, including Google, may show you public health campaign advertisements created by TTB and its agencies on non-government websites based on your visits to TTB websites. To implement these tools, TTB and third-party vendors, including Google, use first-party cookies and third-party cookies together to inform, optimize, and serve ads based on past visits to TTB websites. These cookies collect information about visits to TTB websites, but do not collect personally identifiable information (PII). See the <a href="https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/">Google Analytics Privacy Policy</a>.</p><p class="text-align-right"><a href="#top" title="Back to Top">Back to Top</a></p><p><strong>9. Links to Other Sites</strong></p><p>Our website has links to other websites, especially to sites of other federal and state agencies. In a few cases we link to private organizations. When you go to another site, you are subject to the privacy and security policies of that site. TTB cannot attest to the accuracy of information provided there. 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