Thank you for visiting the Department of Labor (DOL) Website and reviewing
our privacy and security statement. DOL is strongly 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 personal
information, 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 of 1995, and the Freedom of Information Act.
As a general rule, the Department of Labor does not collect
personally-identifying information about you when you visit our site, unless
you choose to provide such information to us. The information we receive
depends upon what you do when visiting our site.
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 linked directly to our site.
The above information is used by software programs on our website to create
summary statistics which 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 E-mail containing personal
information:
You also may decide to send us personally-identifying information, for
example your mailing address, in an electronic mail message requesting that
information be mailed to you. Information collected in this manner is used
solely for responding to requests for information or records. We may forward
your E-mail to other Government employees who are better able to respond to
you. Should you wish to file a request under FOIA, instructions are provided
at: http://www.dol.gov/dol/public/foia/main.htm
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.
Cookie Use Notice
On a limited number of its web pages, the U.S. Department of Labor employs "cookies" to provide better service to its customers. The Department does not use cookies to collect any personally identifying information from users or to track user activities beyond our web site. The Department does not maintain copies of cookies on our web site after you leave our web site.
Cookies are small pieces of temporary data that are exchanged between a web site and a user's computer which enable a "session", or "dialog", to be established between the two machines. With the session established, the Department is able to tailor its responses (i.e., identify and provide you with the information you want) and help you traverse our web pages in the most efficient and effective manner possible. The session is often broken when the Department's server does not receive further requests from your computer or you simply exit your browser.
The Department limits its use of cookies to "session cookies". types of cookies that are temporarily stored in your computer's memory. Session cookies are normally deleted from a user's computer when the user logs off the computer or the user exits the browser. As of January, 2001, the Department does not issue "persistent cookies".types of cookies that could be stored permanently on your workstation and reused each time you visit the Department's web site. Before January, 2001, however, the Department had a small number of web sites that automatically created persistent cookies. Those cookies may still be stored on some user's computers and, in some cases, may be updated by the user's browser when revisiting the DOL web site. In the event a cookie is found on your workstation which was issued from a Department of Labor web site, you may remove it without adversely affecting your future visits to our web site.
For security purposes and to ensure that this service remains available to
all users, our website 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.