Grade A+ — Highly protective (score 100/100)
This federal-agency privacy notice is highly protective: no PII is collected automatically, analytics are anonymous, COPPA is honored, and users have statutory access and amendment rights under the Privacy Act.
Clean privacy notice. No PII collected without consent. Strong protections throughout.
We collect no personally identifiable information about you when you visit our site unless you choose to provide that information to us.
The agency does not collect personal information from passive visitors — only what you voluntarily submit.
Traffic statistics for EPA's website are only reported to us anonymously and in the aggregate, and no information provided by Google Analytics is traceable to any specific individual.
Google Analytics is used only for anonymous, aggregate traffic measurement, never to identify individuals.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) takes seriously our responsibility for information security and has taken steps to safeguard the integrity of its data and prevent unauthorized access.
EPA makes a clear public commitment to information security and preventing unauthorized access.
allow you to, upon request, access and review your information held in a SOR and request amendment of the information if you disagree with it.
Under the federal Privacy Act you can request to see your records and ask for corrections.
It is EPA policy, in compliance with the requirements of the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), to collect no information online about or from children under the age of 13 except when it is needed to identify a submission or to answer a question.
EPA follows COPPA and does not collect information from children under 13 except when needed for a specific submission.
Except for these authorized law enforcement investigations, no other attempts are made to identify individual users or their usage habits.
EPA only identifies individual users in the context of authorized law-enforcement investigations — never for routine profiling.
the opportunity to consent to, or reject, the collection and/or sharing.
Whenever PII is requested, EPA must give you the chance to opt in or out of the collection and any sharing.
The logs for each day, with no personal information, are maintained in accordance with Records Schedule 095.
Server logs (which contain no PII) are kept according to an official federal records schedule.
Last reviewed 2026-07-28 under rubric v3.5.