Privacy

The Postal Service must ensure that visitors to the USPS.com Web site are aware of, and protected by, the Postal Service privacy policies posted on the USPS.com Web site, as follows:

• The Postal Service has a button on its home page and all major program landing pages (i.e., the home page for each major program) linking to the Postal Service’s terms of use and privacy policy.
• The Postal Service’s terms of use and privacy policy apply to customers and visitors while they are using a Postal Service Web site. The terms of use and privacy policies of third parties, which include merchants, affiliates, and public affiliation networks, apply to customers and visitors while they are using the third-party Web site.
• Third parties, which include merchants, affiliates, public interest organizations, and public affiliation networks, must not place a persistent cookie or other permanent tracking device on a Postal Service Web site.
• Third parties, which include merchants, affiliates, public interest organizations, and public affiliation networks, must not obtain a user’s personal data from any Postal Service Web site.
• Third parties must agree, and must require their subcontractors to agree, not to create or derive any personally identifiable information about any Postal Service visitor while that visitor is on a Postal Service Web site, unless the customer or visitor agrees to provide the information for a specific purpose.