Privacy
Thank you for visiting the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act (FFATA) Sub-award Reporting System (FSRS) at www.fsrs.gov.
Our privacy policy is clear: unless you choose to provide additional information to us, we will collect no personal information about you other than statistical information that can be used to make the site more effective for all our visitors.
Information You Provide as a Prime Awardee
All sub-award and executive compensation information you provide in this system will be sent to USAspending.gov for display to the public when you submit the sub-award report. You are responsible for the accuracy of the information you enter and submit.
Information you provide during registration should not be personal in nature. It should be related to your business role as a prime awardee. The registration information, including your business email address and contact information, may also be displayed on USAspending.gov. However, this contact information will primarily be used by Federal agency officials if they need to communicate directly with you regarding data you entered into the system.
Information Provided by Federal Users
Federal user information, including name, telephone number and email address, is used by this system to set up FSRS user accounts for Federal agency officials authorized to manage, administer and/or perform activities within FSRS. Federal user information is not made available to the public.
Information We Gather
The only information that is automatically collected and stored when you visit FSRS.gov is:
- the name of the domain from which you access the Internet (i.e., erols.com if you are connecting from an Erols account, or Harvard.edu if you are connecting from Harvard University's domain);
- the date and time of your visit;
- the pages you visit on www.fsrs.gov; and
- the Internet address of the website you came from if it linked you directly to www.fsrs.gov.
If your browser accepts cookies, we may use a session cookie to learn how many different visitors come to www.fsrs.gov. We use this information for statistical purposes and to help us make our site more useful to you. When we look at this data, it is always presented in an aggregate form. We do not track or look at an individual's use of our site.
Cookies and FSRS.gov
What is a Cookie?
Whenever you visit a website the website sends a small piece of information called a cookie along with the webpage. The main purpose of a cookie is to identify and customize webpages for you.
There are two kinds of cookies. A session cookie is a line of text that is stored temporarily in your computer's random access memory (RAM). A session cookie is never written to a drive, and it is destroyed as soon as you close your browser. A persistent cookie from a website is saved to a file on your hard drive and is called up the next time you visit that website. This lets the website remember what you were interested in the last time you visited.
Use of Cookies on www.fsrs.gov:
The fsrs.gov site creates only a session cookie when you visit and destroys it as soon as you close your browser. There are no persistent cookies created on fsrs.gov. For more information on privacy and security, see GSA's Privacy and Security Policy. If you have any questions about these policies, please contact us.
Information You Send Us
When you provide personal contact information (e.g., as part of FSRS account registration or when contacting the Federal Service Desk to submit a support question), we only use this information to respond to your request. We may forward your information to the government employee who can best answer your questions. We do not disclose, give, sell, or transfer any personal information about our users, unless required for law enforcement or statute.
We want to make it clear that we will not obtain personally identifying information about you when you visit our site, unless you choose to provide that information to us.
Security
For site security purposes and to ensure that this service remains available to all users, our webservers use industry-standard methods to monitor network traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change information, or otherwise cause damage. Unauthorized attempts to upload information or change information on our servers are strictly prohibited and may be punishable by law, including the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 and the National Information Infrastructure Protection Act.
Links to Other Sites
The pages on www.fsrs.gov may include hypertext links or pointers to information created and maintained by other public and private organizations.
GSA provides these links and pointers solely for our visitors' information and convenience. When visitors select a link to an outside website, they are leaving the www.fsrs.gov site and are subject to the privacy and security policies of the owners/sponsors of the outside website.
The inclusion of links and pointers to websites is not intended to assign importance to those sites or to the information contained on those sites. It is also not intended to endorse or recommend any views expressed or products or services offered on these sites.
- GSA does not control or guarantee the accuracy, relevance, timeliness or completeness of information contained on a linked website.
- GSA does not endorse the organizations sponsoring linked websites, and does not endorse the views they express or the products/services they offer.
- GSA cannot authorize the use of copyrighted materials contained in linked websites. Visitors must request such authorization from the sponsor of the linked website.
- GSA is not responsible for transmissions visitors receive from linked websites.
- GSA does not guarantee that outside websites comply with Section 508 (Accessibility Requirements) of the Rehabilitation Act.
- GSA will not link to any website that exhibits hate, bias, or discrimination. Furthermore, GSA reserves the right to deny or remove any link that contains misleading nformation or unsubstantiated claims, or is determined to be in conflict with GSA's mission or policies.
Disclosure
Except for authorized law enforcement investigations, or as otherwise required by law, we do not share any information we receive with anyone else.