Protecting your information

Federal law protects your information, and we have developed policies and statistical safeguards to help us follow the law and further ensure the confidentiality of your information. ¹

1. Federal Law

Title 13 of the U.S. Code protects the confidentiality of all your information. Violating this law is a crime with severe penalties.

2. Privacy Principles

Our Privacy Principles are guidelines that cover all of our activities. These principles encompass both our responsibilities to protect your information and your rights as a respondent. They apply to the information we collect and the statistics we publish.

3. Statistical Safeguards

Statistical methods ensure that the statistics we release do not identify individuals or businesses. These methods include extensive review and analysis of all our data products, as well as disclosure avoidance methodologies such as data suppression and modification.

We recognize the value of your trust, and we believe that when you answer our surveys we must serve as caretakers of your information. If you would like to learn more about how we fulfill this responsibility, just ask.

• Confidentiality: How do we protect your information?
  
  In addition to removing personally identifiable information, such as names, telephone numbers, and addresses, from our data files, we use various approaches to protect your personal information; including computer technologies, statistical methodologies, and security procedures.
  
  Our security measures ensure that only a restricted number of authorized people have access to private information and that access is only granted to conduct our work and for no other purposes.

   

  Violating the confidentiality of a consumer could cause serious penalties to assesed against website operators, so we take these statements seriously.
  
  

  • We promise that every person with access to your information is trained to protect your confidentiality.
  • We promise that we will use every technology, statistical methodology, and physical security procedure at our disposal to protect your information.

Our web site/s do not use "persistent cookies" or other "persistent tracking technology."

Transient Cookies

Transient cookies are used to keep track of user selections so that new requests can be created more efficiently. No personally-identifiable information is permanently retained on either the user's or our computers. These transient cookies go away completely when you exit the browser. When ordering products, transient cookies are enabled to track your order through the process.