CDC Digital Media Channel Privacy Policy Notice

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1	1	## CDC Digital Media Channel Privacy Policy Notice
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	3	Privacy Policy
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3	5	The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is committed to maintaining your privacy and protecting your personal information when you visit CDC websites, use CDC's mobile applications, or receive public health information from CDC. With respect to the collection, use, and disclosure of personally identifiable information (PII), CDC complies with all applicable federal laws.
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5	7	Our privacy policy is clear:
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7	9	- CDC does not collect any personally identifiable information (PII) when you visit any of CDC's digital medial channels unless you choose to provide that information to us.
8	10	- Any PII that you choose to provide is fully protected.
58	60	Also, commonly used practices and technical controls are utilized to protect the information in our possession or control, along with CDC.gov itself. These practices and controls include, but are not limited to: encrypting the transfer of personal information over the internet via secure sockets protocols such as Transport Layer Security (TLS), Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) etc., using high-strength firewalls and intrusion detection systems (IDS) to safeguard personal information, and maintaining strict technical controls and procedures to ensure the integrity of all data on CDC.gov.
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60	62	We periodically review our processes and systems to verify compliance with industry best practices and to ensure the highest level of security for CDC's all digital platforms.
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62	64	[Information you choose to share with the CDC](https://www.cdc.gov/other/information-received.html) (directly and via third party sites) may be treated as public information. We may, for example, publish compilations of messages or comments collected through CDC.gov or official social media pages and provide them to national leaders, members of the press, or other individuals outside of the Federal Government. However, we exercise discretion to limit such disclosures to protect your privacy (for example, we generally do not publish last names of commenters).
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64		The CDC uses a third-party analytics provider (for current provider please see [current third-party tools/pages list](https://wcms-wp.cdc.gov/other/third-party-pages.html) to collect and summarize this information in conjunction with cookies. The third-party analytics provider does not receive personally identifiable information through these cookies and is prohibited from combining, matching, or cross-referencing CDC.gov information with any other information.
	66	The CDC uses a third-party analytics provider (for current provider please see [current third-party tools/pages list](https://www.cdc.gov/other/third-party-pages.html) to collect and summarize this information in conjunction with cookies. The third-party analytics provider does not receive personally identifiable information through these cookies and is prohibited from combining, matching, or cross-referencing CDC.gov information with any other information.
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66	68	Within the CDC, we restrict access to personally identifiable information to only those employees, contractors, and/or vendors who require access to this information in order to perform their official duties and exercise controls to limit what data they can view based on the specific needs of their position. If you choose to share information with us, we may in some cases share that information (or automatically generated information) with other government agencies in response to lawful law enforcement requests or to protect CDC.gov from security threats.
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68	70	We do not use or share your information for commercial purposes and, except as described above, we do not exchange or otherwise disclose this information.
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70	72	We will revise or update this policy from time to time. If we make significant changes to how we handle personal information, we will post changes to the policy on our site and change the date at the bottom. We will provide additional notice in advance (e.g., a disclaimer on our website or an email to subscribers) if material changes are being made.