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Delaware Health and Social Services
Privacy Policy

Welcome to the Delaware Health and Social Services (DHSS) Web site. We are committed to maintaining the privacy and security of the personal information of all visitors to this site to the fullest extent permitted by law.

When you visit the DHSS Web site, some basic information may be passively collected (automatically sent to us by your Web browser). This information will be used solely to help us make this site more useful to visitors, and to learn about the number of visitors to our site and the types of technology they use. All of this helps us ensure that this site is as useful as possible. This basic information that may be collected is as follows:

The Internet domain and IP address from which you accessed our site;
The type of browser and operating system used to access our site;
The date and time you accessed our site;
The specific pages you visited; and
If you linked to the DHSS site from another Web site, the address of that Web site.

When you send an e-mail to DHSS or submit information in an online form on the DHSS Web site, you are voluntarily releasing that information to us. Delaware Health and Social Services will not distribute your information to third parties for direct marketing or e-mail marketing purposes.

Different data collected on the DHSS website is retained by the Department for different periods of time. If you have specific questions about data retention, please contact the DHSS Communications Director .

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