U.S. Embassy In Costa Rica

We are committed to the privacy of our visitors. We collect no personal information about you when you visit our website unless you choose to provide that information to us. Here is how we handle information about your visit: If you do nothing during your visit but browse through the website, read pages or download information, we will gather and store certain information about your visit automatically for use in site management and security purposes. We use Google Analytics measurement software to collect and analyze this information because it helps us to better design our websites to suit your needs. We may also automatically collect information about the web content you view in the event of a known security or virus threat. This information does not identify you personally. We automatically collect and store information such as the following concerning your visit: - The Internet domain (for example, “xcompany.com” if you use a private Internet access account, or “yourschool.edu” if you connect from a university’s domain); - Your IP address (an IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer whenever you are surfing the Web) from which you access our website. - The type of browser and operating system used to access our site; - The date and time you access our site; - The pages you visit; - Your username, if it was used to log in to the website; and - If you linked to our website from another website, the address of that website. We use this information to help us make our site more useful to visitors — to learn about the number of visitors to our site and the types of technology our visitors use.