Home Alabama Living Our Cooperative Info Privacy Statement Tallapoosa River Electric Cooperative is committed to protecting your privacy and developing technology that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience. This Statement of Privacy applies to the Tallapoosa River Electric Cooperative Web site and governs data collection and usage. By using the Tallapoosa River Electric Cooperative website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement. Collection of your Personal Information Tallapoosa River Electric Cooperative collects personally identifiable information, such as your e-mail address, name, home or work address or telephone number. Tallapoosa River Electric Cooperative also collects anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences, interests and favorites. There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by Tallapoosa River Electric Cooperative. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring Web site addresses. This information is used by Tallapoosa River Electric Cooperative for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Tallapoosa River Electric Cooperative Web site. Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through Tallapoosa River Electric Cooperative public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others. Note: Tallapoosa River Electric Cooperative does not read any of your private online communications. Tallapoosa River Electric Cooperative encourages you to review the privacy statements of Web sites you choose to link to from Tallapoosa River Electric Cooperative so that you can understand how those Web sites collect, use and share your information. Tallapoosa River Electric Cooperative is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on Web sites outside of the Tallapoosa River Electric Cooperative and Tallapoosa River Electric Cooperative family of Web sites. Use of your Personal Information Tallapoosa River Electric Cooperative collects and uses your personal information to operate the Tallapoosa River Electric Cooperative Web site and deliver the services you have requested. Tallapoosa River Electric Cooperative also uses your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from Tallapoosa River Electric Cooperative and its affiliates. Tallapoosa River Electric Cooperative may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered. Tallapoosa River Electric Cooperative does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. Tallapoosa River Electric Cooperative may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. In addition, Tallapoosa River Electric Cooperative may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to Tallapoosa River Electric Cooperative, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information. Tallapoosa River Electric Cooperative does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent. Tallapoosa River Electric Cooperative keeps track of the Web sites and pages our customers visit within Tallapoosa River Electric Cooperative, in order to determine what Tallapoosa River Electric Cooperative services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within Tallapoosa River Electric Cooperative to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area. Tallapoosa River Electric Cooperative Web sites will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Tallapoosa River Electric Cooperative or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Tallapoosa River Electric Cooperative; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Tallapoosa River Electric Cooperative, or the public. Use of Cookies The Tallapoosa River Electric Cooperative Web site use “cookies” to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you. One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize Tallapoosa River Electric Cooperative pages, or register with Tallapoosa River Electric Cooperative site or services, a cookie helps Tallapoosa River Electric Cooperative to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same Tallapoosa River Electric Cooperative Web site, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the Tallapoosa River Electric Cooperative features that you customized. You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the Tallapoosa River Electric Cooperative services or Web sites you visit. Security of your Personal Information Tallapoosa River Electric Cooperative secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. Tallapoosa River Electric Cooperative secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other Web sites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol. Changes to this Statement Tallapoosa River Electric Cooperative will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. Tallapoosa River Electric Cooperative encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how Tallapoosa River Electric Cooperative is protecting your information. Contact Information Tallapoosa River Electric Cooperative welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that Tallapoosa River Electric Cooperative has not adhered to this Statement, please contact Tallapoosa River Electric Cooperative at it@granade.co. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem. Contact Us Here! Fields marked with an * are required Name * Email * Message * It is the mission of Tallapoosa River Electric Cooperative to provide reliable, quality electrical service to the membership at the most affordable price. Resources Ag in the Classroom PowerSouth Energy Energy Star U.S. Department of Energy Electrical Safety Foundation Alabama Rural Electric Assoc. 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