Last updated November 11, 2026
ClaimMyBonds asks for personal data in one place only, the savings bond help request form, and otherwise receives it only when you write to editorial@claimmybonds.com. Form data is kept for 24 months. Our web host, Cloudflare, also handles technical data such as IP addresses to deliver pages.
ClaimMyBonds is a private, independent publisher about US savings bonds. It is not the government, Treasury, TreasuryDirect or a state.
Claiming from Treasury and from state programs costs nothing, and the forms are free, so our help form is optional. Reading the site needs no account. Everything here belongs to an independent guide to US savings bonds.
Who Handles Your Data
ClaimMyBonds decides how the data described here is used, and every privacy request goes to editorial@claimmybonds.com. That one inbox handles questions, corrections and deletion requests for the help form and for editorial email alike.
ClaimMyBonds is a private company with no link to Treasury, TreasuryDirect or any state, and none of them receives your form.
What the Savings Bond Help Request Form Collects and Why
The help request form asks for 5 things: your situation, the series and approximate issue years if you know them, your state, your contact details and your consent. Only the series field is optional, and within contact details only your name and email address are required.
The table lists each field, why we ask and whether it is required.
| Field | What you enter | Why we ask | Required |
|---|---|---|---|
| Situation | one of 4: my own savings bonds are lost, stolen or destroyed; a relative died and left savings bonds; I found paper savings bonds; a state holds my bonds or wrote to me about them | to know which route and forms apply | yes |
| Series and approximate issue years | e.g. "Series EE, about 1985 to 1990", or "not sure" | to see whether the bonds still earn interest and which rules apply | no |
| State | your US state or the District of Columbia, a US territory, or outside the United States | state unclaimed-property rules differ | yes |
| Contact details | name, email address, phone number (optional), best time to call | to call or email you back | name and email yes |
| Consent | a checkbox: "I agree to be contacted about my request, and I have read the Privacy Notice and the Terms for the Claim Help Service." | to record that you asked us to contact you | yes |
| Recorded automatically | date and time of sending; the version of the consent text | to show when and what you agreed to | (system) |
Fields on the ClaimMyBonds help request form (as of November 11, 2026). Source: the ClaimMyBonds help request form.
The form exists so we can call or email you back about help with the paperwork. Pricing is given on request during that callback, and nothing is paid on the site.
No IP address or browser data is stored with it. You can ask for a callback through the savings bond help request form, or skip it and use the free routes yourself.
What We Never Ask For
The form never asks for your Social Security number, bond serial numbers, scans or photos of bonds, ID documents or payment details. The form never asks for these 6 things, and you should not type them into any field or email.
- Social Security number
- Bond serial numbers
- Scans or photos of bonds
- ID documents (driver's license, passport)
- Bank, card or other payment details
- TreasuryDirect login details or birth certificate numbers
Treasury pays a savings bond only to the registered owner or another person entitled to it (31 CFR 353.39(b), with matching rules 315.39(b) and 360.39(b) for other series). A finder or helper is never paid from your bonds.
Birth certificate numbers unlock nothing: TreasuryDirect states that birth certificates cannot be used to request savings bonds purportedly held by the government. A website that says it can be paid out of your bonds, or that a birth certificate number unlocks bonds, shows a warning sign of savings bond scams and fake finders.
What We Cannot See: Treasury Records and State Bond Lists
ClaimMyBonds has no access to Treasury's savings bond records or to any state's bond list, so it cannot look up bonds in your name.
Under 31 CFR 323.2 (as amended December 5, 2003), Treasury ordinarily discloses savings bond records only to owners, their executors, administrators or other legal representatives, and their survivors, plus certain agencies and courts.
States get less. Under the rule that added 31 CFR 323.11 (89 FR 102735, December 18, 2024), a state receives only names and addresses, after signing an information-sharing agreement with the Bureau of the Fiscal Service, the part of Treasury that keeps these records.
It may use them only to locate owners. It may not release them to the public or a third party without Treasury's advance written approval. No Social Security numbers or serial numbers go to states.
Treasury's own search tool for lost or missing savings bonds, Treasury Hunt, has not been available since September 30, 2025, and no online replacement exists. The routes to find lost or missing savings bonds now run through Treasury and state programs.
Where Your Data Is Stored and Who Processes It
Form submissions are stored in Cloudflare Workers KV, a storage service of Cloudflare, Inc., the company that also hosts this website. Access to the stored requests is limited to ClaimMyBonds.
Cloudflare processes the data on ClaimMyBonds' behalf. It also handles technical data such as IP addresses to deliver pages and keep the site running. That is hosting, not tracking.
Email to editorial@claimmybonds.com is forwarded by Cloudflare Email Routing to the inbox ClaimMyBonds reads, so the provider of that inbox also holds those emails. The 3 Cloudflare services involved are listed below.
- Cloudflare hosting (the website itself)
- Cloudflare Workers KV (help request storage)
- Cloudflare Email Routing (the editorial inbox)
No other company receives the help requests stored in Workers KV.
How Long We Keep Your Data
ClaimMyBonds keeps each help request for 24 months from the day you send it and then deletes it. The same 24-month limit applies to emails sent to the editorial inbox.
You can ask for deletion sooner at any time, as the section on your choices below explains.
Paid help works differently. If you later accept paid help, what is kept for that work is set out in the separate written agreement you accept then, and the terms for the claim help service explain how that agreement starts.
What We Do Not Do With Your Data
ClaimMyBonds runs no analytics, no advertising vendors and no tracking cookies, and it never sells or rents your data. The 5 things this site does not do are listed below.
- No analytics tool, so no visitor statistics
- No ad network or marketing pixel
- No tracking cookies, so no profile of your visits
- No sale, rental or sharing of your data for marketing
- No use of form data to contact you about anything except your request
The savings bond calculator on our value page runs in your browser. The series, face value and issue date you type into it are not sent to us and are not stored.
Your Choices: Access, Correction and Deletion
You can ask ClaimMyBonds to show, correct or delete the data it holds about you, or to stop contacting you, at any time. The 3 steps below cover each of these 4 requests.
- Email editorial@claimmybonds.com from the address you used in the form.
- Say which request you mean: show, correct, delete or stop contact.
- Receive our answer within 30 days.
We act only on a request we can match to the sender, and we never ask for a Social Security number or an ID document to do it.
Contacting ClaimMyBonds About Your Data
Questions about this notice go to editorial@claimmybonds.com, the same inbox listed on the contact page. ClaimMyBonds never emails, texts or calls you claiming to be Treasury. TreasuryDirect says official Treasury communications come from treasurydirect@lists.fiscal.treasury.gov (as of November 11, 2026). To reach the same editorial inbox for anything else, contact ClaimMyBonds directly.
Changes to This Privacy Notice
ClaimMyBonds updates this notice when a form field, a processor or a retention period changes, and the "Last updated" date shows the latest change, now November 11, 2026. A new field is added to this notice before the form asks for it.
Related Pages
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