The White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) created TheAntiDrug.com Web site as part of a national effort to prevent or reduce the use of drugs among young people. We take your privacy very seriously. In compliance with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), and the online privacy guidelines of the White House Office of Management and Budget, we do not sell, share or rent any personally identifying information about you.

I. Information You Submit

The information we receive depends upon what you do when visiting our site. If you choose to submit a comment or question to the “Contact Us” submission page, we will request your e-mail address only if you ask for a response. We will store the address only long enough to respond to your request. Once we have responded, we will purge your e-mail address from our records.

If you choose to submit comments or messages to one of our forum areas, TheAntiDrug.com will adhere to the following guidelines:
In order to submit comments, we require the following information:

     Screen Name (or first name only, NOT your full legal name)
     * If you are an AOL user, please be sure to alter the screen name you submit to us,
      because AOL screen names function as e-mail addresses too.

The following registration information is optional:

     City and/or State of Residence

Please note that none of the information we require through the registration process is personally identifiable information.

II. Information Collected and Stored Automatically

We automatically collect and store the following information about your visit:

• 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 Web site;
• The type of browser and operating system used to access our site;
• The date and time you access our site;
• The pages you visit; and
• If you linked to the TheAntiDrug.com from another Web site, the address of that Web site.

On certain Web pages, we may use a certain type of “cookie” - what is known as a “session” cookie - to help you use our Web site interactively. Cookies are data a Web site can send to your browser. Session cookies (also known as session variables) are kept in your browser’s memory and are purged after your browser session is over. Session cookies are used to keep track of passwords, preferences, orders and various other aspects of a user’s “session” within a Web site. We may use session cookies to improve your interaction with selected pages on the site. We do not use session cookies to track or personally identify users. Further, we do not make use of “persistent cookies” - another type of cookie that, when used, are stored on your hard drive and can be used to track Web users over time and across Web sites.

To protect your privacy, be sure to close your browser completely after you have finished conducting business with a Web site that uses cookies. If you are concerned about the potential use of information gathered from your computer by cookies, you can set your browser to prompt you before it accepts a cookie. Most Internet browsers have settings that let you identify and/or reject cookies. These settings are usually located under “Tools” on your browser toolbar.

III. Links

You should be aware that when you are on TheAntiDrug.com, you could be directed to other sites that are beyond our control, because there are linked to other sites outside of TheAntiDrug.com. These other sites may collect data or solicit personal information. Always be aware of where you end up on the Web.

IV. Security, Intrusion, Detection Language

For site security purposes and to ensure that this service remains available to all users, this government computer system employs software programs 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 this service are strictly prohibited and may be punishable under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 and the National Information Infrastructure Protection Act.

V. Notification of Changes

If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on our Homepage so our users are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.

VI. Contact Information

If you have questions about our Privacy Policy, contact us.

National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign
750 17th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20503 USA