Thank you for visiting North Carolina
Industrial Commission and reviewing our Privacy Statement. The
statement sets forth the information that is collected from you during
your visit as well as the use of that information.
The statement addresses the following:
Information Collected and Stored Automatically
Web Site Security
Public Disclosure
Cookies
Links to Other Sites
Information Collected
and Stored Automatically
When you visit our website to browse, read pages, or
download information, we automatically collect and store only the
following information:
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The Internet domain and IP address from which you
access our site;
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The date and time you access our site;
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The pages you visit; and
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If you linked to this site from another Web site, the
address of that Web site.
NCIC uses this information to help us make our
site more useful to visitors – to learn about the number of visitors to
our site and the types of technology our visitors use.
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Web Site Security
Physical, electronic and procedural safeguards are in
place to prevent unauthorized access or disclosure, to preserve data
integrity, and to ensure the appropriate use of information you provide
when using this site. We use industry-standard encryption technology
when collecting or transferring confidential information. At the same
time, it is possible that a security breach may occur.
For general website security purposes and to ensure
that our site remains available to all users, all State of North
Carolina sites employ software programs to monitor network traffic to
identify both authorized and unauthorized attempts. This monitoring is
related, in part, to attempts to upload or change information or
otherwise cause damage. Use of our site constitutes consent to such
monitoring. Unauthorized attempts to upload information and/or change
information on this website are strictly prohibited and are subject to
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Public
Disclosure
Government records in North Carolina generally are
public in nature. The public policy of the State of North Carolina as
established by the General Assembly is to “provide that, as a general
rule, the public would have liberal access to public records.”
The North Carolina Public Records Law states that
public records “shall mean all documents papers, letters, maps, books,
photographs, films, sound recordings, magnetic or other tapes,
electronic data-processing records, artifacts, or other documentary
material, regardless of physical form or characteristics, made or
received pursuant to law or ordinance in connection with the transaction
of public business by any agency of North Carolina or its
subdivisions.” For information to be confidential, a specific provision
must be made in the law.
If an appropriate request is made to this site for
information that is subject to disclosure by the North Carolina Public
Records Law, the State of North Carolina will be required to disclose
the information requested. Information that may be released includes
your name, e-mail address, telephone number, and physical address.
Note: Any Judicial or Evidentiary
information related to a Worker's Compensation, Torte, or any other
judicial or administrative case handled by the NC Industrial Commission
is exempt from the NC Public Records Law. Information that is subject to
disclosure by the North Carolina Public Records Law is only related to
data that is gathered and stored automatically for security purposes.
Forms, documents or other information stored within the data vault are
NOT subject to disclosure by the North Carolina Public Records Law.
E-mail
If you include personal information in your e-mail,
we may use that information in responding to your request. E-mail is not
necessarily secure or confidential. Send only the information that is
necessary for us to answer your question or process your request. The
e-mail, too, is subject to the North Carolina Public Records Law, unless
it contains information related to a Worker's Compensation, Torte, or
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Cookies
A "persistent" cookie is generally defined as a piece
of data that is stored on the user's hard drive. We do not use
"persistent" cookies on our website or in our web applications.
"Temporary" or "session" cookies are used on all NCIC
website pages. These cookies are stored in memory and are only available
during an active browser session. Session cookies are also used by some
of the applications deployed on our website to temporarily save
information entered by a user as long as the user's browser is open.
These cookies do not collect personal information on users, and they are
erased as soon as you close your web browser. No personally
identifiable information about you is maintained as a result of a
temporary or session cookie.
You can configure your web browser to accept or
decline cookies, or to alert you when cookies are in use. You do not
have to accept cookies from us, but if you choose not to, some of the
functions on our site may not be available to you.
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Links to Other Sites
Our site provides links to other web sites. The
privacy policies described here do NOT necessarily apply to any external
sites. Read the privacy policies of other sites you visit. Be informed.
You are the person best qualified to protect your own privacy.