Privacy Policy

Sheet Metal Workers’ Local Union No. 104 (“Local 104”) has created this Privacy Policy and Terms of Use to explain how you may use the information contained on our websites, which includes, for purposes of the Privacy Policy and Terms of Use, and to explain how we use information that you may provide while visiting our website.

Local 104 is committed to Internet privacy as demonstrated by the policies set forth herein. Please recognize that Local 104 may, in its sole discretion, modify these policies from time to time by updating this posting, so we encourage you to check this page each time you revisit one of our websites. Your continued use of our websites following any changes to this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such changes. The date of the latest revision will be listed below so you will know if the policies have changed since you last accessed our website.

Your use of the Local 104 website indicates your acceptance to be bound by the provisions of the Privacy Policy and Terms of Use in effect as of the date of your use. If you do not accept these terms, do not use our website.

The terms “you” and “User” as used herein refer to all individuals and/or entities accessing this website for any reason.

Website Usage; Information Collection

When you visit the Local 104 website, we automatically obtain information about your usage, including, for example, the name of your Internet service provider, the browser and type of computer that you are using, the website that referred you to us, the pages you view and the date and time of those page views. We do not use this information on any kind of individual basis. We do not collect or store personally identifiable information, such as your name, mailing address, e-mail address or phone number, unless you provide that information.

Collection of Personally Identifiable Information

Local 104 provides opportunities for you to provide your contact information to register for the site or in order to engage in Local 104 activities such as dues payment. Any information we collect, such as your name, mailing address, e-mail address, International Union membership number, type of request you are making and any additional information you provide, is collected and stored by Local 104.

Local 104 makes every effort to ensure the secure collection and transmission of your sensitive information using industry-accepted data collection and encryption methodologies, such as SSL (Secure Sockets Layer).

Cookies

A cookie is a piece of data that is stored on a user’s hard drive that contains information about that user. Local 104 uses cookies to prepopulate data that you have previously supplied on our website so that you do not need to re-enter such information. We do not use cookies to track user activity on an individual basis.

Local 104’s Sharing and Use of Personally Identifiable Information

Local 104 does not share your personal information obtained through Local 104’s website with any other party. Local 104 does not sell your personal information to any third party.

We may use your e-mail address to communicate with you about Local 104 activities and offerings, or for administrative purposes, such as notifying you of major website changes, sending messages related to actions you have taken on the site or for member service purposes, unless you opt out of receiving such messages.

When you send e-mail or other communications to us, we may retain those communications in order to process your inquiries, respond to your requests, or improve our services.

We may 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.

Security

Local 104 has security measures in place to protect against the loss, misuse and alteration of information within our control. These measures 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. We use SSL encryption to protect the transmission of information you submit to us when you use our secure online forms. Please recognize that if you send us an e-mail, the information contained in the email is not secure against interception. So if your communication includes sensitive information, such as your credit card information or Social Security number, and you prefer not to use one of our secure online forms, contact us by mail or by telephone rather than by e-mail.

Corrections/Updating Personal Information

If your personal information changes (such as your ZIP code), or if you wish to have your information removed from our database, contact us and we will endeavor to provide a way to correct, update or remove that personal data provided to us.

Links to Other Websites

Our websites may contain links to other sites. Local 104 is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content on such sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our website and to read the privacy policies of each website that they visit that collects personally identifiable information. This Privacy Policy applies only to information collected through one of Local 104 websites.

Effective Date

This Privacy Policy is made effective as of January 1, 2018.