Congresswoman Lois Capps - California's 23rd District


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Privacy Policy

Congresswoman Capps respects your privacy. When you visit this site no personally-identifiable information is collected from you or stored by Representative Capps' congressional office. For instance, if you visit this site to read or download information, such as press releases, we do not collect and store any information from you.

If you correspond with this congressional office through email, we will obtain your email address as well as any other personal information that you may willingly provide. Mrs. Capps does not share or disclose personal information about individuals to any entity outside of the Congressional office with one exception. For the purposes of facilitating resolution of constituent casework or responding to requests for information, personal information may be forwarded to other governmental agencies to serve your needs.

When you visit this website, the House of Representatives also will not obtain personally-identifying information about you. The House of Representatives may, however, collect certain information such as:

The name of the domain from which you access the Internet (for example, aol.com, if you are connecting from an America Online account).
The date and time you access our site.
The Internet address of the web site from which you linked directly to our site or the Internet address of the computer used to link to our site.

This information is used by the House of Representatives for Site Management purposes. This government computer system uses software programs to create summary statistics using this information. These statistics are used for such purposes as assessing the number of visitors to the different sections of our site, what information is of most and least interest, determining technical design specifications, and identifying system performance or problem areas.

Resources for Parents to Protect Their Children's Privacy:

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has established new rules for website operators to make sure that kids' privacy is protected while they're online. These rules are part of the 1998 Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA).

To learn more about resources available to protect children's privacy, visit the FTC's child privacy website or contact them toll-free: (877) 382-4357.


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