Privacy Policy

The Office of the Election Supervisor of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (“OES”) is committed to protecting your privacy.  This page explains how OES gathers and handles information from visitors to this website and reflects our dedication to securing the information you entrust with us.

Personal Information

The only personal information ibtvote.org collects is what you voluntarily provide through online registration forms or e-mails.  This information may include your name, e-mail address, street address, phone number, membership status and local union affiliation.  The information you provide is used only to communicate with you (if you grant permission to do so) more effectively.  We do not store sensitive personal information.

Other information you submit to OES using online forms is kept confidential, except for material intended for disclosure to members of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (“IBT”)  and / or members of the public in connection with supervising and conducting any stage of the IBT International Union Officer and Delegated Election, such as local union election plans, protests, accreditation petitions, slate declaration forms, reports of election results, and the like.  

The information you provide will not be sold or shared with unaffiliated third parties, such as mass marketers.

Ibtvote.org provides personal information on a secure and confidential basis to third parties that have contracted with the OES to offer services that it cannot offer on its own, such as hosting this website.  These third-party providers are required to protect the privacy of IBT members and site visitors.  They must safeguard your information and can use it only to complete the tasks you’ve authorized.

In accordance with the Children's Online Protection Privacy Act (COPPA), ibtvote.org does not knowingly collect, use or distribute personal information on children to any third party.

Visitor Tracking

Ibtvote.org also collects nonindentifying information to help OES monitor and analyze usage patterns and web traffic, including the name of your Internet service provider, the browser you are using, the web site that referred you, the pages you visited while on the site and the date and time of your visits.  We use this information on an aggregate basis to generate statistics that help us improve the usefulness of the site.

Use of 'Cookies'

Cookies are very small files downloaded to your computer that contain information about the user.  Cookies can be “persistent,” downloading to your hard drive and saved indefinitely, or “session,” downloading to a temporary folder and erased when you close your browser. Ibtvote.org uses only session cookies to help facilitate a few tasks on the site.  The site does not use cookies to track other online activity.  Likewise, ibtvote.org does not partner with or have special relationships with any ad server companies.

Off-site Links

Ibtvote.org may contains links to other sites.  OES is not responsible for the privacy practices or content of other web sites.  Be aware when you leave our site and review privacy statements before divulging your personal information.  This privacy policy applies solely to ibtvote.org.

Policy Changes

Technology is always advancing.  So the IBT reserves the right to change this privacy policy, to change the information we collect from visitors to our webpage, and to change the way in which we use that information.

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