The blsa.nih.gov website is provided as a public service by the National Institute on Aging (NIA) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). NIA complies with requirements for privacy and security established by NIH, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), and the Department of Health and Human Services.
Collection of private personal information is authorized under 42 U.S.C. 241. The primary use of this information is to review and process data use requests. When you create an account, you may be asked to enter personally identifiable information (PII) such as your name, email, mailing address, or phone number. The Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging platform is used to process requests for the right to use and analyze BLSA data. This information is not used for any other purpose and is not shared outside of NIA. Read more about this process on the How to Apply page.
Automatically Collected Information
We strive to provide the best website experience for you. We do not collect any PII about you during your visit to blsa.nih.gov unless you choose to provide it to us. However, in accordance with the NIA privacy policy, we do collect some data about your visit to blsa.nih.gov to help us improve website design, presentation, and system performance.
NIA follows OMB Memorandum 10-23, Guidance for Agency Use of Third-Party Websites and Applications (PDF, 103K), and the institute assesses the use of third-party websites and applications, like blsa.nih.gov, to ensure these uses protect privacy. To learn more, visit the NIH Privacy Policy.