Grade A+ — Highly protective (score 100/100)
HHS maintains a highly protective privacy policy that explicitly prohibits the sale of personal information and limits data collection to necessary service improvements.
Government privacy policy with no data sale and clear retention practices.
HHS does not disclose, give, sell, or transfer any personally identifiable information (PII) about our visitors unless required for law enforcement or by federal law.
The agency commits to not selling or sharing your personal information for profit or unauthorized purposes.
We retain the information only for as long as necessary to respond to your question or request, in most cases no longer than three months.
The agency has a defined, short-term retention policy for user-submitted data.
Our multi-session cookies expire two years after your last visit to our website. These cookies delete automatically from your computer as soon as they expire.
The agency ensures that tracking cookies are automatically purged from your device.
Law enforcement may use information from these tools to help identify an individual in the event of investigations and as part of any required legal process.
The agency reserves the right to share data with law enforcement if compelled by legal process.
Last reviewed 2026-08-01 under rubric v3.5.