FDA Terms Scorecard

Grade A+ — Highly protective (score 100/100)

The FDA website maintains a highly protective privacy policy that explicitly prohibits the sale or transfer of personal information for commercial purposes.

Government agency policy. No data sale, no tracking, no commercial profiling.

Terms at a glance

Sells your data
NO
Forced arbitration
NO
Trains AI on your content
NO
Collects biometric data
NO
Shares data with government
NO
Easy to cancel
NO
Tells you before changes
UNCLEAR
Deletes data on request
NO

What the terms actually say

FDA INFORMATION DISCLOSURE POLICY

FDA will not disclose, give, sell, or transfer any personally identifiable information (PII) about our visitors

The FDA commits to not selling or sharing your personal information for commercial gain.

USE AND SHARING OF COOKIE DATA

We do not use session cookies or persistent cookies to collect PII and we do not share any data collected from cookies.

The FDA does not use cookies for tracking or data sharing purposes.

LINKING TO OR COPYING INFORMATION

Unless otherwise noted, the contents of the FDA website (www.fda.gov) — both text and graphics — are not copyrighted. They are in the public domain and may be republished, reprinted and otherwise used freely

FDA website content is public domain and free to use.

INFORMATION YOU CHOOSE TO PROVIDE

If a child sends us an email inquiry or comment, we will answer it, and then delete the email from our files.

The FDA protects children's privacy by deleting their email inquiries after responding.

Last reviewed 2026-07-25 under rubric v3.5.

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