Thank you for visiting our web site. We protect your privacy while you visit us online.
Your online credit card transactions are secure within our ecommerce server solution. We use Secure Socket Layering (SSL), the industry-standard encryption technology (128-bit encryption) that ensures safe Internet transmission of your personal information. Typically, your browser will provide an indication that you are entering a secure area (e.g., an icon on the browser window; a popup message on your monitor or an "https" in the URL indicator on the browser). A credit card purchase on our Web site is as safe as it is by telephone, mail or in person. If you prefer to order by phone, you may purchase all merchandise you see online by calling toll-free 1-800-833-1225.
You do not have to provide any personal information to visit this web site. If you provide us information about yourself via e-mail or a web form, your information will be used only for the purposes described at the point of collection, such as to send information or products to you, to respond to your questions, comments or to maintain your account. If you provide contact information, our staff or its contractors may contact you to clarify your comment or question, or to learn about your level of customer satisfaction with our services. We do not sell any personal information to third parties. We may transfer personal information to a third party only in the following cases:
Please do not send us sensitive information, such as your credit card or social security numbers, via e-mail. It is possible that during transmission of your e-mail this information may be intercepted by a third party. We can not guarantee its safety while in transit.
We use return e-mail addresses to answer the e-mail we receive. We would share your e-mail with another federal government agency only if your inquiry related to that agency or if we were required to do so by law.
If you elect to subscribe to our mailing list in order to receive information regarding the Store and its products, we will only send this information to you using the e-mail address you provided. Your e-mail address will not be shared with others except as stated herein.
"Cookies" are small bits of text that are either used for the duration of a session ("session cookies"), or saved on a user's hard drive in order to identify that user, or information about that user, the next time the user logs on to a web site ("persistent cookies").
If you visit our site to read or download information, we collect and store the following information about your visit:
This information is primarily collected for statistical analysis and technical improvements to the site. The National Archives uses software programs to create summary statistics, which may be used for such purposes as assessing what information is of most and least interest, determining technical design specifications, and identifying system performance or problem areas. In certain circumstances, however, we may take additional steps to identify you based on this information and we may share this information, including your identity, with other government agencies if we are required to do so by law.