Thanks for visiting the website for the US Embassy – San Salvador Consular Section and reviewing our privacy policy. The information you provide to us is only used to fulfill your request for information.

We collect no personal information about you when you visit our site unless you choose to provide this information to us. However, we collect and store certain information automatically.

What We Collect and Store Automatically
Name of the domain from which you access the Internet (for example, aol.com, if you use an America Online account, or princeton.edu if you connect from Princeton University's domain); Date and time you access our site; and Internet address of the Website from which you linked directly to our site. We use the information we collect to count the number and type of visitors to the different pages on our site, and to help us make our site more useful to visitors like you.

If You Send Us E-mail
The personal information we collect is used only for responding to your question and is not used for any other purpose. If you choose to provide us with information about yourself and the visa applicant through this website,  we use that information to respond to your message, and to help get you the information you've requested. We only share the information you give us with another government agency if your question relates to that agency, or as otherwise required by law. This website never collects information or creates individual profiles for commercial marketing.

Site Security

• For site security purposes and to ensure that this service remains available to all users, this government computer system employs commercial software programs to monitor network traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change information, or otherwise cause damage.
• Except for authorized law enforcement investigations, no other attempts are made to identify individual users or their usage habits. Raw data logs are used for no other purposes and are scheduled for regular destruction in accordance with National Archives and Records Administration guidelines.
• Unauthorized attempts to upload information or change information on this service are strictly prohibited and may be punishable under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 and the National Information Infrastructure Protection Act.

Links to Other Sites
Our Website has many links to other federal agencies, embassies, multilateral organizations and private organizations. When you link to another site, you are no longer on our site and are subject to the privacy policy of the new site.

Prohibitions
Our Website will not link to any website that exhibits hate, bias, or discrimination. Furthermore, our website reserves the right to deny or remove any link that contains misleading information or unsubstantiated claims, or is determined to be in conflict with the Embassy mission or policies.

Disclaimer of Endorsement
The information posted on this website includes hypertext links or pointers to information created and maintained by other public and/or private organizations. The Embassy provides these links and pointers solely for our users' information and convenience. When users select a link to an outside website, they are leaving the embassy site and are subject to the privacy and security policies of the owners/sponsors of the outside website.

• The US Embassy – San Salvador does not control or guarantee the accuracy, relevance, timeliness, or completeness of information contained on a linked website.
• The US Embassy – San Salvador does not endorse the organizations sponsoring linked websites and we do not endorse the views they express or the products/services they offer.
• The US Embassy – San Salvador cannot authorize the use of copyrighted materials contained in linked websites. Users must request such authorization from the sponsor of the linked website.
• The US Embassy – San Salvador is not responsible for transmissions users receive from linked websites.

The US Embassy – San Salvador does not guarantee that outside websites comply with Section 508 (accessibility requirements) of the Rehabilitation Act.