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Privacy Policy

Thank you for visiting the Public Employment Relations Board’s website and reviewing our Privacy Policy. Please be aware that we also have a Conditions of Use policy, also available on this website. We are committed to promoting and protecting the privacy rights of individuals, as enumerated in Article 1 of the California Constitution, the Information Practices Act of 1977, and other State and federal laws. By visiting this website, you are accepting the policies and practices.

Our policy is to limit the collection and safeguard the privacy of personal information collected or maintained by PERB. PERB’s information-management practices are consistent with the Information Practices Act (Civil Code section 1798 et seq.), the Public Records Act (Government Code section 6250 et seq.), Government Code section 11015.5, and other applicable laws pertaining to information privacy.

We follow these principles in collecting and managing personal information:

We collect personal information on individuals only as allowed by law. We limit the collection of personal information to what is relevant and necessary to accomplish a lawful purpose of PERB. For example, we need to know someone's first name and email address, among other things, to properly maintain and effectively issue our email notifications.

We do not collect home, business, or email addresses, or account information from persons who browse our website. We collect personal information about you only if you provide it to us voluntarily through email, registration forms, or surveys.

Visitors to our website are not required to disclose any personal information. However, to utilize online filing or email notification services, you may need to provide your name, email address, mailing address, telephone number, or other information required for the desired service. We may also receive personal information from third parties, such as an Internet service provider (ISP).

Children are not eligible to use services that require submission of personal information, and we require that minors (under the age of 18) do not submit any personal information to us. This includes submitting personal information to us as part of a user profile or personalization profile and minors are not eligible to subscribe to our email bulletin. We decline to accept such information and will delete any information inadvertently collected from anyone under the age of 18.

We tell people who provide personal information to the Public Employment Relations Board the purpose for which the information is collected. We tell persons who are asked to provide personal information about the general uses that we will make of that information. We do this at the time of collection. With each request for personal information, we provide information on the authority under which the request is made, the principal uses we make of the information, and the possible disclosures we are obligated to make to other government agencies and to the public. Any subsequent use of the information shall be limited to and consistent with the fulfillment of those purposes previously specified.

Our website may use Internet provider (IP) addresses to determine what pages were viewed, how long the pages were viewed, and other statistics. All data we collect is protected against unauthorized access. We may also use the information we collect to occasionally send you PERB announcements that we think you may find valuable. PERB may release personal information in certain narrow circumstances when we believe, in good faith, that such release is reasonably necessary to (i) comply with law, (ii) enforce or apply the terms of any of our user agreements, or (iii) protect the rights, property, or safety of PERB, our patrons, or others.

Our website links to other sites that have no official affiliation with PERB. We make no representations or warranties with regard to any site that links to or from our site. We suggest that you read the Conditions of Use and Privacy Policy of all sites that you visit

We use personal information only for the specified purposes, or purposes consistent with those purposes, unless we get the consent of the subject of the information, or unless required by law or regulation. The Public Records Act exists to ensure that government is open and that the public has a right to have access to appropriate records and information possessed by State government. At the same time, there are exceptions in both State and federal law to the public's right to access public records. These exceptions serve various needs, including maintaining the privacy of individuals. In the event of a conflict between PERB’s Internet Privacy Policy and the Public Records Act, the Information Practices Act, or other law governing the disclosure of records, the applicable law will control.

PERB does not sell, trade, or rent personal information to others.

We use information-security safeguards. We take reasonable precautions to protect the personal information on individuals collected or maintained by the Public Employment Relations Board against loss, unauthorized access, and illegal use or disclosure. Personal information is stored in secure locations. Our staff is trained on procedures for the release of information, and access to personal information is limited to those staff whose work requires it. Confidential information is destroyed according to our records-retention schedule. We conduct periodic audits to ensure that proper information-management policies and procedures are being followed.

We will provide additional explanations of PERB’s Internet Privacy Policy if requested. If you have questions about this policy, you may write or call Attn: Web Master, 1031 18th Street Sacramento, CA 95811-4124 Phone: 916-322- 3198; webmaster@perb.ca.gov.