Privacy Policy (Effective Date: October 21, 2024)

1. Introduction

United Firefighters of Los Angeles City, IAFF Local 112 is committed to protecting individual privacy and securing the personal information made available to us when you visit. This privacy policy describes what information is made available to our company and how that information is used and retained and provides information on:

• Information we receive (when you provide it or use our app)
• How this information is used
• Sharing of this information
• Data retention
• Third-party tools and sites
• Privacy security

2. Information We Collect

• Personal Identification Information: name, email address, phone number, mailing
  address, EID#.
• Non-Personal Information: images (uploaded to a profile Q&A Forums), forms
  responses with all type of attachments, IP addresses.
• Cookies and Tracking Technologies: when you visit United Firefighters of Los
  Angeles City, IAFF Local 112 we may send cookies or other similar tracking
  technologies to your computer or to any other device you use. We use
  cookies and similar tracking technologies to track user’s preferences and
  to know how he uses our services.

A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent by a web server to a web browser and is stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server.

For further information visit allaboutcookies.org

Cookies are used for user identification and proper assignment of historical user data collected during previous visits.

Both temporary cookie files (session cookies) and persistent cookies are used. Users may delete or remove cookies for the browser at any time or block cookies from being installed on
its device. However this may affect the operation of our services or even result in its blocking.

We can use different type of cookie or tracking technologies while you are visiting our website and/or application:

• Strictly necessary cookies: These types of cookies enable you to access and browse
  websites and use their features. Without these cookies, services like billing
  or shopping baskets cannot work properly.

• Performance cookies: these cookies collect information and data about how you use our websites and/or application. The data collected can be used to optimize our
  websites and/or applications. These cookies are used to know where our visitors
  and users are coming from. These cookies do not collect information that identifies you personally.

• Functionality cookies: these cookies allow our website or application to remember your
  choices. They can be used to memorize your localisation, or your preferences such as language settings or font size.

You can set your browser not to accept cookies and the above website and/or application
tells you how to remove cookies from your browser. However some of our websites
and/or applications might not work properly without the use of cookies.

Here are some of the main explanation on how to delete cookies on your browser:
Chrome – https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647
Firefox – https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences
Opera – https://help.opera.com/en/latest/security-and-privacy/
Internet Explorer – https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies
Safari – https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/safari/manage-cookies-and-website-data-sfri11471/mac
Edge – https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10-microsoft-edge-and-privacy

For mobile devices, if you don’t want to receive targeted advertising based on your center of interest coming from a mobile application, please check the parameters of the operating system of your mobile device and follow these instructions:
1) iOS Users: to enable “Limited Ad Tracking” follow the instructions given by Apple.
2) Android Users: to enable the option “deactivate ad personalisation”, follow the instructions given by Google on Google Play.
3) You might want to download the DAA mobile AppChoices application to control behavioral advertising online.

3. How We Use Your Information

Information you choose to share with our company may be treated as public information.

Our company uses a third-party analytics provider (such as Google Analytics) to analyze data from cookies. The third-party analytics provider does not receive personally identifiable
information through these cookies. We have also limited the provider’s ability to see your full IP address.

Within our company we restrict access to personally identifiable information to employees, contractors and vendors subject to non-disclosure requirements who require access to this
information in order to perform their official duties and exercise controls to limit what data they can view based on the specific needs of their position.

4. Data Sharing and Disclosure

Our company takes reasonable precautions to protect our site and information. For example we restrict access to personally identifiable information to employees, contractors and vendors subject to non-disclosure requirements.

Our company also uses commonly used practices and technical controls to protect the information in our possession or control. These practices and controls include, but are not limited to, encrypting the transfer of personal information over the internet, using
firewalls and intrusion detection systems and maintaining strict technical controls and procedures to ensure data integrity.

We periodically review our processes and systems to verify compliance with industry best practices and to ensure the highest level of security for our website.

5. Data Security

We implement a variety of security measures to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction.

6. User Rights

• Right to Access: You have the right to request access to the personal information we hold about you. This includes details on how we collect, use, and share your data.
• Right to Rectification: You can request corrections to your personal information if you believe it is inaccurate or incomplete.
• Right to Erasure: You have the right to request the deletion of your personal information when it is no longer necessary for the purposes for which it was collected or if you withdraw your consent.
• Right to Restrict Processing: You can request that we limit the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances, such as when you contest the accuracy of the data.
• Right to Data Portability: You have the right to receive your personal information in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format, and to transfer that data to another service provider if you wish.
• Right to Object: You can object to the processing of your personal information in certain situations, particularly when we process your data for direct marketing purposes.
• Right to Withdraw Consent: If we process your personal information based on
  your consent, you can withdraw that consent at any time.
• Right to Complain: If you believe your rights have been violated, you have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority.

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at admin@uflac.org. We will respond to your request within the legally required timeframe.

7. Third-Party Links

Our company’s website and/or application might contain links to other websites, our privacy policy applies only to our website so if you click on another website you must read their
privacy policy.

8. Changes to This Privacy Policy

Our company will revise or update this policy from time to time, if we make significant changes to how we handle personal information we will post changes to the policy on our site and change the date at the end.

Updated on: 10/21/2024

9. Contact Information

If you have any questions or concerns about this privacy policy, please contact us at admin@uflac.org.