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What is the HHS Privacy Policy?








  
  
    

  
      



The HHS Web site Privacy Policy Notice is available at: http://www.hhs.gov/Privacy.html. The policy describes the type of information collected as provided by site users and how it is safeguarded. The HHS Privacy Committee of the HHS Data Council is responsible for the policy.

**Learn More:**

OMB M-03–22, Guidance for Implementing the Privacy Provisions of the E–Government Act of 2002 (September 2003)
	OMB Circular A–130 Appendix 1
	Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA)
	OMB M-05-04, Policies for Federal Agency Public Websites (PDF, 48 KB, 5 pages, December 2004)
	E-Government Act of 2002 (Section 207)
	Privacy Act of 1974
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