Privacy Policy

Our privacy policy is simple. Unless you choose to provide additional information to us, we will collect no personal information about you other than statistical information that can be used to make the site more effective for all our visitors.

Information We Gather

The information that is automatically collected and stored includes:

• The name of the domain from which you access the Internet, i.e. DHS.gov if you are connecting from a Department of Homeland Security domain or GMU.edu if you are connecting from George Mason University's domain
• The date and time of your visit
• The type and version of your Internet browser
• The operating system of the machine running the Internet browser
• The Internet address of the website you came from if it linked you directly to this site
• The technical status of the request you made, i.e. was it successful or was there an error?

If your browser accepts cookies, we may use a session cookie to learn how many different visitors come to our site. We use this information for statistical purposes and to help us make our site more useful to you.

Information You Send Us

When you send us personal or sensitive information in your entity registration, we use this information in accordance with regulations and statutes. Such information is carefully protected by the agency and not available in or retained by web tracking software. We do not disclose, give, sell, or transfer any personal information about our visitors, unless required for law enforcement or statute. We want to be clear. SAM.gov never releases sensitive information, such as your Taxpayer Identification Number or banking information for electronic funds transfer, to the public in either its public search view or public data file. Sensitive information is only available to authorized U.S. government officials, in accordance with the SAM system of records notice (SORN), System for Award Management (SAM) GSA/GOVT-9 .

Links

The pages on www.sam.gov may include hypertext links or pointers to information created and maintained by other public and private organizations. Once you link to another site, you are subject to the privacy policy of the new site.

Security

For site security purposes and to ensure that this service remains available to all users, our webservers use industry-standard methods to monitor network traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change information, or otherwise cause damage. Unauthorized attempts to upload information or change information on SAM servers are strictly prohibited and may be punishable by law, including the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 and the National Information Infrastructure Protection Act.