PRIVACY ACT STATEMENT
The Department of Justice (Department), the Executive Office for United States Attorneys, and the United States Attorney’s Offices are committed to respecting your privacy and securing the personally identifiable information (PII) made available to us through our public-facing websites, applications, and forms. To protect online privacy, the Department has implemented appropriate Privacy Policies that outline the collection, use and storage of data. This Policy governs all forms of Personal Data collected by the Department and its components, whether electronic, written, or oral. By using this website, you consent to the Department’s data practices. The authority by which information is collected on this website form is 5 U.S.C. 301 and 44 U.S.C. 3101. The Department’s Privacy Policy can be found at: https://www.justice.gov/doj/privacy-policy. Your disclosure of information on this form is voluntary. However, if you do not complete the fields in this form, we will be unable to process your application to participate in our program.
The principal purpose for collecting this information on this website form is to identify, process, track, respond to, and maintain information received by the Department for individuals participating in DOJ programs. In addition to disclosing this information to the appropriate officials and employees within the Department for the purposes of controlling, tracking, responding to, and maintaining the Department’s correspondence, the routine uses which may be made of the information collected on this website form include, but are not limited to: any civil or criminal law enforcement authority or other appropriate agency where a record, either on its face or in conjunction with other information, indicates a violation or potential violation of law; to contractors, grantees, experts, consultants, students, and others performing or working on a contract, service, grant, cooperative agreement, or other assignment for the Federal government, when necessary to accomplish an agency function related to the corresponding system of records; and to such recipients and under such circumstances and procedures as are mandated by federal statute or treaty.
The full list of routine uses for this correspondence can be found in the System of Records Notice titled, JUSTICE/DOJ-003, “Correspondence Management Systems (CMS) for the Department of Justice,” 66 Fed. Reg. 29992 (6-04-2001); 66 Fed. Reg. 34743 (6-29-2001); 67 Fed. Reg. 65598 (10-25-2002); 82 Fed. Reg. 24147 (5-25-2017).