Privacy Policy

General Disclaimer

Thank you for visiting the U.S. Small Business Administration's website and reviewing our Privacy Policy. While visiting |S|B|G|A|,

we will not collect any personal information about you unless you choose to provide that information to us. If you choose to provide this information, it will be used for the express purpose for which it was intended, such as responding to your request for information or joining a web discussion forum. We remind you that if you visit a link outside of |S|B|G|A| you are subject to the privacy policies of that site.

Information Collected and Stored Automatically

|S|B|G|A| automatically collects some technical information from you when you visit the site in order to give you the best possible experience.

|S|B|G|A| uses web measurement technology (Google Analytics) to automatically track how visitors interact with |S|B|G|A| including where they came from, what they did on the site and whether they completed any pre-determined tasks while on the site.

This type of usage is classified by the Management of |S|B|G|A| as Tier 2 usage since it is a multi-session web measurement.

Aggregate data is used to help |S|B|G|A| improve our user interface and diversify our content offerings to meet the needs of our customers, track operational problems, prevent fraud and improve the effectiveness, security and integrity of the site. This information does not identify you personally and data is only retained in accordance with the |S|B|G|A| data retention policy. For each page that you visit, we collect and store only the following technical information:

This information is only used to help us make the site more useful for you. With this data we learn about the number of visitors to our site and the types of technology our visitors use.

We never track or record information about our visitors.

Date and time of access

URL address of the SBGA webpage visited

Internet domain and IP address from which our website was accessed

Type of browser and operating system used to access our site (if provided by the browser)

URL address of the referring page (if provided by the browser)

Completion or success status of the request for a web page or other on-line item

File size of the webpage visited