The Senate Joint Economic Committee is one of many legislative committees in the United States Senate. What follows is the Committee's online privacy policy, which governs personal information gathered on our Internet site (jec.senate.gov).

The Senate Joint Economic Committee respects your privacy. Personal information is accessible only by staff or volunteers designated to handle online complaints or requests.

We do not use cookies nor do we collect any information from you involuntarily. In a few sections of our site (the feedback, newsletter, and document request forms) we may ask you for your name and e-mail address in order to respond to your inquiry or subscribe you to services. It is completely optional for you to participate.

The Committee will not disclose your personal information without your consent.

The Senate servers collect standard statististical information about the number of visitors to our site, the Web sites our visitors use to locate and link to our site, and the Web domains or IP addresses our visitors are from. This information is used only for the purposes of evaluating and improving our Web site, and will never be used for marketing purposes.

The Committee's web site contains links to other Web sites that are not operated by us. We are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of these Web sites. We make video available through RealNetwork's Media-Player, which operates under its own privacy and security policies.

At any time you may contact the Committee with any privacy questions or concerns that you may have.