Grade A+ — Highly protective (score 100/100)
The Department of Homeland Security privacy policy explicitly prohibits the sale of personal information and does not engage in commercial profiling or data sharing with private entities.
Government privacy policy with no commercial data sale or tracking.
We never create individual profiles or give your PII to any private organizations.
The agency does not share your personal information with private companies.
The Department of Homeland Security never collects information for commercial marketing.
The agency does not use your data for advertising or marketing.
Raw data logs are used for no other purposes and are scheduled for regular destruction in accordance with National Archives and Records Administration guidelines.
Data logs are not kept indefinitely and are destroyed according to federal standards.
The Department gathers this information to improve our websites and has chosen to not share the aggregate data with Google.
The agency limits the data shared with Google Analytics to protect user privacy.
Persistent cookies remain on your computer between visits to DHS.gov for six months.
The agency defines a clear expiration period for persistent cookies.
Last reviewed 2026-08-02 under rubric v3.5.