Privacy & Security
This website is not designed to capture any personally identifiable information. However, if you contact us, we will retain your name, email and/or postal address, and any other information you provide us with. This information will be retained and used to respond to your inquiry. We may share your information with other government agencies or with other private organizations if we determine it is necessary to fully respond to your inquiry. For example, if you are interested in taking a STOP THE BLEED® bleeding control class, we may share your contact information with an individual or group that can assist you in getting the training. We recommend you NOT include any personal information such as your date of birth or your Social Security number. DoD will never sell your personal information or use it for commercial purposes.
We maintain a variety of physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to protect your personal information. For site security purposes and to ensure that this service remains available to all users, this government computer system employs software programs to monitor network traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change information, or otherwise cause damage.
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The Defense Department does not use the information associated with cookies to track individual user activity on the internet outside DoD websites, nor does it share the data obtained through such technologies, without the user's explicit consent, with other departments or agencies. DoD does not keep a database of information obtained from the use of cookies.
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