Privacy Policy
SEIU strongly believes in the importance of your privacy.
This Privacy Policy describes how SEIU treats the personal information we
collect through the Value Care, Value Nurses website (the “Website”) and what we do with that information.
By using or accessing the Website, you are accepting the practices described in
this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Statement applies
only to information collected online through the Website and does not describe
the ways in which we may collect or use information obtained offline or through
any means other than our Website.
How, When, and Why We
Collect Information
- Activity That Doesn’t Require
Registration. You can view
content on the Website without registering or providing any personal
information. When you enter the Website, we collect information such as your
browser and operating system type and IP address to optimize your
experience on the Website and to track aggregate Website usage. In
addition, we use a “session” cookie to identify you while you are on the
Website, if cookies are enabled on your computer. This session cookie terminates once you
finish using the Website and close your browser.
- Mailing list. You may provide us with your email address
if you wish only to join our mailing list.
- Activity Requiring Registration. Certain activities on the Website —
for example, posting comments, participating in an advocacy campaigns or
surveys — require you to register. To become a registered user, we ask you
to provide your name, zip code and email address. If you decide to register, we use a persistent
cookie that stores certain information to make it easier for you to login
when you come back to the Website. However, none of your personal
information is stored in that cookie.
You may also be asked to provide certain additional information to
participate in other activities that we may undertake through the Website. For example, if you sign up to receive
information by mail, we will ask for your street address. You may update or correct your personal
account information and email preferences at any time by visiting your
account profile page.
- Usage Information. We may record
information about your usage of the Website, such as when you use the site,
the areas of the site you click on and/or participate in, the tags you
search for, and whether or not you subscribe to the RSS feed. If you are logged in, we may associate
that information with your account. A persistent cookie may be used to track
this information. We may use pixel
tags and/or trackable links in HTML-based emails sent to our users to
track which emails are opened and/or clicked on by recipients.
- Comments Posted to Site. Any
personal information or content that you voluntarily disclose online
becomes publicly available and can be collected and used by others. Your user
name (not your email address) is displayed to other users when you post comments. When posting comments, you should
exercise caution not to provide any personally identifying information or
other information that you would not want seen by others. Use of the community functions on the Website
is at your own risk.
- Tell A Friend Information. If you
choose to use our invitation service to tell a friend about our site, we
will ask you for information needed to send the invitation, such as your
friend's email address. We will automatically send your friend a single email
inviting him or her to visit the site.
- Polls and Surveys. From time to
time, we may conduct polls and surveys. Information collected
through our polls, surveys, and questionnaires is used in the aggregate,
unless we contact you to request permission to use your individual
responses for a particular purpose.
- We do not knowingly collect
any information from children under the age of 13.
Uses of Personal
Information
- The personal
information that SEIU collects on the Website helps us, our state and
local affiliates and SEIU-related organizations to efficiently and
effectively represent our members, to pursue our advocacy agenda, and to
provide valuable member benefits.
- In
order to advance these goals and activities, we may share the personal
information that we collect about you with our state and local affiliates
and other SEIU-related organizations, as well as third parties that
perform services on our behalf. Additionally,
subject to applicable law, we may share any of the personal information
that we collect about you with certain third parties that share our
interests.
- We
will use your email address to communicate with you about SEIU’s
activities and offerings, unless you opt-out from receiving such
messages. We will also use your email address for administrative
purposes, such as notifying you of major Website changes, sending messages
related to actions you have taken on the site or for customer service
purposes. Although we hope you'll
find these communications informative and useful, if you don't, you can
always unsubscribe by following the simple instructions included in each
email.
- When
you send email or other communications to us, we may retain those communications
in order to process your inquiries, respond to your requests and improve
our services.
- We use
both your personally identifying information and certain non-personally-identifying
information (such as anonymous usage data, IP addresses, browser type,
clickstream data, etc.) to improve the quality of your user experience and
the design of the Website and to create new features, functionality, and
services by storing, tracking, and analyzing user behavior, preferences,
trends, and actions.
Other Disclosures
We
may be required to disclose user information pursuant to lawful requests, such
as subpoenas or court orders, or in compliance with applicable laws. If we receive a subpoena requesting
information about you and if you have provided us with your email address, we
will attempt to notify you of the subpoena at the email address that you have
provided. Additionally, we may share
account or other information when we believe it is necessary to comply with the
law, to protect our interests or property, to prevent fraud or other illegal
activity perpetrated through the Website or using the SEIU name, to prevent
bodily harm, to enforce our User Agreement, or to protect the rights, property
or safety of visitors to our site, our members, the public or SEIU. In the unlikely event that SEIU (or
substantially all of its assets) is merged with another entity, information on
our visitors would be among the transferred assets.
Information Security
and Data Integrity
SEIU takes security measures to protect against unauthorized
access to or unauthorized alteration, disclosure or destruction of data. These
include internal reviews of our data collection, storage and processing
practices and security measures, as well as physical security measures to guard
against unauthorized access to systems where we store personal data.
More Information
Our Website may also permit you to access non-SEIU sites. It
is important to remember that, if you link to a non-SEIU site from our Website,
that party's privacy policy and its user agreement apply to you. We encourage
you to learn about each third party's privacy policy before giving personal
information to them.
SEIU reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy at any
time. We will post any changes to this Privacy Policy on this page, so we
encourage you to check this page regularly.
Your continued use of this Website following any changes to this Privacy
Policy will constitute your acceptance of such changes.
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, the
Website, or your account, please feel free to contact us.
Effective Date: January 10, 2008