Privacy Policy and Social Media Guidelines
The Massachusetts Union for Human Service Workers & Educators, SEIU Local 509, strongly believes in the importance of your privacy. This Privacy Policy describes how SEIU Local 509 treats the personal information we collect through the SEIU Local 509 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 will receive emails from us if you provide us your email contactto keep you up to date regarding your membership and the activities of SEIU Local 509.
Activity Requiring Registration. Certain activities on the Website — for example, signing up to be a member, posting comments, participating in an advocacy campaigns or surveys — require you to submit certain personal information. To become a registered user, we ask you to provide your name, address, language preference, and email address. If you decide to register or sign up for membership, we may 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.
Usage Information. We may record information about your usage of the Website, such as when you use the site, the manner in which you arrived to our website, 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, web beacons, 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. 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.
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 Local 509 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. We will not sell or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required to by law.
We will use your email address to communicate with you about SEIU Local 509’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, and to provide updates regarding your membership, if applicable. 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. However, you will still be responsible for complying with any obligations, and enjoy any rights, that members of Local 509 enjoy if you are a member of SEIU Local 509.
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 Local 509 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 Local 509. In the unlikely event that SEIU Locaal 509 (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 Local 509 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.
SOCIAL MEDIA GUIDELINES:
Posted comments and images are the personal opinions of the respective author, and do not necessarily reflect the views of SEIU Local 509 or its members. External links on this site do not constitute an official endorsement of SEIU Local 509.
We encourage members and allies to share thoughts and opinions on this page, with the expectation that dialogue remains respectful and on topic. All comments, links and other messages on the SEIU Local 509 Facebook page will be reviewed and may be deleted if the post contains:
- Hate speech, profanity, obscenity or vulgarity
- Defamation to a person or people
- Name calling and/or personal attacks
- Invasion of personal privacy
- Factually inaccurate statements
- Unauthorized promotional material
- Nudity in posted pictures
- Comments whose main purpose are to sell a product
- Comments that infringe on copyrights
- Spam comments, such as the same comment posted repeatedly to a profile
- Comments from a bot, dummy, or anonymous account
- Other comments deemed inappropriate by page administrators
Repeated violations of this comment policy may cause the author to be blocked from the SEIU Local 509 Facebook page.
Note that any personal information or content you voluntarily disclose online becomes publicly available, and can be collected and used by others. User names are displayed to other users when comments are posted. When posting, please exercise caution and avoid personal details or other information that you would not want seen by others.
We are always glad to receive feedback from the SEIU Local 509 online community. Please contact us at mail@seiu509.org with your questions, comments or concerns.
More Information. Our Website may also permit you to access non-SEIU Local 509 sites. It is important to remember that, if you link to a non-SEIU Local 509 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 Local 509 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.