Privacy Policy

  • This site does not collect any personally identifiable information (PII) about you during your visit unless you choose to provide it. The site does collect some data about your visit to help us better understand how the public uses the site and how to make it more helpful.
  • Information is used to measure the number of visitors to the various sections of our site and to help us make our site more useful to visitors. Of the information we learn about you from your visit to http://www.nichd.nih.gov/, we store only the following:
    • Domain name from which you access the Internet
    • Date and time you access our site
    • Internet address of the website from which you direct-linked to our site
  • The site does not collect information for commercial marketing or any purpose unrelated to the site mission and goals.
  • When inquiries are emailed to downsyndrome@mail.nih.gov, we store the question and the email address information so that we can respond electronically. Unless otherwise required by statute, we do not identify publicly who sends questions or comments to our website.
  • If you have any questions or comments about the information presented here, please email the Webmaster at nichdwebmaster@mail.nih.gov.