Full text of Statement:
Privacy
and Security Statement
Thank
you for visiting the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL or Department)
website and reviewing our privacy and security statement. DOL is
committed to maintaining the privacy of your personal information and
the security of our computer systems. With respect to the collection,
use and disclosure of personally identifiable information (PII), DOL
makes every effort to ensure compliance with applicable federal law,
including, but not limited to, The
Privacy Act of 1974, The
Paperwork Reduction Act,
and The
Freedom of Information Act.
As
a general rule, the Department does not collect personally
identifiable information when you visit our site unless you choose to
provide such information. The information we collect varies based on
what you do when visiting our site.
If
you respond to an online request for personal information
The
information requested by the Department will be used to respond to
your inquiry or to provide you with the service associated with the
request. When this information is requested, a customized "Privacy
Notice" will describe fully the reasons for collecting it and
will provide a description of the Department's intended use of the
information. This Privacy Notice will appear in one of two places. It
will either be on the webpage where the information is collected or
it will be accessible through a link prominently displayed
immediately preceding the information request.
Privacy
Notice:
The
Privacy Act of 1974 requires that when we ask you for information, we
provide the basis of our legal right to ask for the information, why
we are asking you for it, and how it will be used. We must also tell
you what could happen if we do not receive it and whether your
response is voluntary, required to obtain a benefit, or mandatory.
The basis of our legal right to ask for the information is section
104 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), 29 U.S.C.
§ 1024, which imposes certain annual reporting and filing
requirements on pension and welfare benefit plans. All pension and
welfare plans and direct filing entities that are required to submit
an annual return/report under Title I of ERISA (Form 5500 Series)
must file electronically. To do so, filers must register for
electronic credentials through this website. If you do not register,
you will not be able to meet your obligation to file the annual
report.
Generally,
the information you provide for EFAST2 registration will be used to
facilitate your registration, communicate with you about your
credentials, and deliver official correspondence regarding your Form
5500 Series filing. DOL may also use it to inform you about any
changes related to the Form Series filing, general education and
outreach on ERISA, or for other official communications (including
enforcement) regarding ERISA compliance. DOL may also share it with
other federal agencies, if it determines by careful review that the
records or information are both relevant and necessary to any
enforcement, regulatory, investigative or prosecutive responsibility
of the receiving entity, and that the use of such records or
information is for a purpose that is compatible with the purposes for
which the agency collected the records.
We
use contractors to perform various website and database functions.
When we do, we make sure that the agreement language with the
contractor ensures the security, confidentiality and integrity of any
personal information.
We
may disclose to you and others the information you give us if
authorized or required by Federal law, such as the Privacy Act. Also,
if you provide false or fraudulent information, you may be subject to
criminal prosecution. See section 1027, Title 18, U.S. Code (False
statements and concealment of facts in relation to documents required
by ERISA) and section 1001, Title 18, U.S. Code (Fraud and False
Statements-Statements or entries generally). Other penalties may also
apply.
If
you visit our site to read or download information, we collect and
store the following information
The name of the domain from which you access the internet (for example, dol.gov, if you are connecting from the Department of Labor's computer account).
The date and time you access our site.
The internet address of the website from which you directly linked to our site.
Internet Protocol (IP) address.
Type of browser and operating system you use to access our site.
This
information is used by software programs on our website to collect
summary statistics that allow us to assess the number of visitors to
the different sections of our site, identify what information is of
most and least interest, determine technical design specifications,
monitor system performance, and help us make our site more useful to
visitors.
If
you identify yourself by sending an email containing personal
information
You
may send us personally identifiable information in an electronic mail
message – for example you may send us your mailing address when
requesting that information be mailed to you. This information is
used solely for responding to your requests for information or
records. We may forward your e-mail to other government employees at
other Government agencies (e.g., Treasury Department/IRS, Pension
Benefit Guaranty Corporation) who are better able to fulfill your
requests. Should you wish to file a request under the Freedom of
Information Act (FOIA), instructions are provided
at http://www.dol.gov/general/foia.
If
you link to other sites outside DOL
Our
website has many links to other sites. When you link to any of these
sites, you are no longer on our site and are subject to the privacy
policy of the new site.
Social
Media and Third Party Sites
In
addition to the Department's official websites, the Department uses
social media and third party sites to provide DOL content in a
different format that may be useful or interesting to you. When we
use these sites, the information we provide is consistent with the
intended purpose of the DOL website. No PII may be requested from or
collected by DOL on social media sites. The privacy protection
provided on social media and third party sites that are not a part of
DOL websites may not be the same as the privacy protection given by
the DOL and described here.
Cookie
Use Notice
Cookies
are small files that web servers place on a user's hard drive. They
can serve several functions, depending upon how they are designed:
They allow the website to identify you as a previous visitor each time you access a site;
They track what information you view at a site (important to commercial sites trying to determine your buying preferences);
In the more advanced cases they track your movements through many websites but not the whole web;
Businesses use them for customer convenience to allow them to produce a list of items to buy and pay for them all at one time and to garner information about what individuals are buying at their sites;
Advertisers use them to determine the effectiveness of their marketing and offer insights into consumer preferences and tastes by collecting data from many websites; and
They can be used to help a website tailor screens for each customer's preference.
Some
DOL pages have "session cookies," to facilitate use of that
particular page. These disappear when the web user terminates a web
session and closes the browser. DOL also permits the use of
persistent cookies for the collection of web metrics; however, DOL
does not collect any personally identifiable information about
visitors to our webpages. Please see our DOL
Persistent Cookie Notice that
details the types of information collected and how to opt-out by
changing the cookie settings in your browsers.
If
you are concerned about the potential use of the information gathered
from your computer by cookies, you can set your browser to prompt you
before it accepts a cookie. Most internet browsers have settings that
let you identify and/or reject cookies.
For
security purposes and to ensure that this service remains available
to all users, our Web site also employs software programs to monitor
network traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change
information, or otherwise cause damage.
Unauthorized
attempts to upload information or change information on this service
are strictly prohibited and may be punishable under the Computer
Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 and The National Information
Infrastructure Protection Act of 1996.
This
statement is about your privacy when using this website. For
information about the Department’s privacy program and our
Senior Agency Official for Privacy (SAOP), visit our Department
of Labor Privacy Program page.
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File Created | 2024-10-07 |