The FOIA form can be characterized as a record under the Privacy Act. The form contains a short Privacy Act statement right below the send button that provides a notice of secondary use, the authority for collection of information, and a statement that giving the information is voluntary. Inc No FEMA provides a variety of online forms that gather information including names, email addresses, and social security numbers. Some forms provide notice of use a part of a Privacy Act statement. Others give no information regarding the use of information that is collected on the site.
Some forms collect educational and employment information.
Some of FEMA's online forms contain prominent links to explicit Privacy Act statements. Others lack a Privacy Act statement. Cookies were initially found on FEMA's site that were sent back to their own server, remaining until 2010. As of July 17 th , they had been removed. There was no notice that cookies were being used, and no explanation of why they were used or removed from the site.