Department of Labor's 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 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

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.

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.

Security Mandates

In order to comply with Federal and Departmental mandated IT security requirements, ETA/OT has implemented various IT security controls. These changes will not affect the performance and functionality of the system; however, it would require you to take a few simple actions. We appreciate your cooperation in helping us build a more secure system and in meeting Federal IT security mandates.

Password setting changes. Password requirements are a minimum of 8 characters including at least 1 numeric character and 1 special character (e.g. tyu*iop9). This is consistent with the Network standards.
Password expiration. Your password expires after 180 days. Upon expiration, you will be prompted to create a new password.
Password reuse. You will not be able to use the same password again.
Password sharing across accounts. Please do not use the same password to log onto the Network and the application. As a general rule, do not recycle the same password on multiple accounts.
Account lockout. You will be locked out of the application after 3 failed login attempts. You must contact the System Administrator to reset your account and regain access.
Account inactivity. Your account will be disabled after 9 months (270 days) of inactivity. You will need to contact the System Administrator to reestablish your account.
New Account requests. All new application users or users with disabled accounts must fill out an Applications Account Request Form This form is located on the ETA Intranet under ETA Forms Library.