Last Updated: August 19, 2019

Website privacy policy

Introduction

Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association, Inc. (“Tri-State” or “We”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting it through our compliance with this Privacy Policy.

This Privacy Policy describes the type of information we collect from you or that you may provide when you visit this website www.tristate.coop or www.tristategt.org (our “Website”) and our practice for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.

This Privacy Policy applies to information we collect on this Website, in email or other electronic messages between you and this Website, and through our mobile application that specifically links to this Privacy Policy (“Our App”).

It does not apply to information collected by us offline or through any other means, including on any other website operated by Tri-State or any third party (including our affiliates and subsidiaries) or any third party (including our affiliates and subsidiaries), including through any  content that may link to or be accessible from or on the Website.

Personal information collection and use

You do not need to provide personal information in order to access public areas of this Website. We do collect non-personal statistical information from users of our Website including usage details, operating system information, browser type, and internet provider address. This data is used to improve and administer the Website and diagnose problems. It is not used to identify you personally and it is not linked to any personal information you may provide.

In order to contact us, subscribe to marketing communications from us, register to attend an event or appointment, or access non-public areas of the Website and Our App, you may be asked to provide personal information including your name, mailing address, email address, and phone number. If, during your visit to our Website or while using Our App, you send an email, message, or post to us, we may forward your message to a business associate or partner for appropriate action, including to our subsidiaries and affiliates and to our and their contractors, service providers, and other third parties we or they use to support our or their business.

To protect your personal information, this Website has security measures in place including firewalls and authenticated access to internal databases where needed.

We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personally identifiable information in ways other than what is disclosed in this Privacy Policy. We may release information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with any court order, law, legal process, to enforce our Website terms of use and other agreements, or protect ours or others’ rights, property, or safety.

Cookies

Cookies are small text files placed on your computer’s hard drive by web page servers. When you visit this Website, our server may create cookies, improving your use of the Website and the display of certain pages. Data on the Website usage we collect using cookies is not tied to your personal information and is used only in aggregate form.

Children

Our Website and Our App are not intended for children under 13 years of age. No one under age 13 may provide any information to or on our Website or through Our App. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you are under 13, do not provide any information on the Website or on or through any of its features on the Website or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, mailing address, email address, and phone number. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 13 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 13, please contact us at Webmaster.

Marketing communications from us

If you have agreed to receive marketing communications from us, we may send you marketing communications by email. When you sign up to receive communications from us, your submitted request provides us express consent to email you. You may opt out at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link in the footer of any marketing communications email you receive from us after you sign up or contacting us at Webmaster.

We use a third-party vendor to help us manage some of our email communications with you. While we do supply these vendors with email addresses of those we wish them to contact, your email address is never used for any purpose other than to communicate with you on our behalf. When you click on a link in an email, you may temporarily be redirected through one of the vendor's servers (although this process will be invisible to you) which will register that you've clicked on that link, and have visited our website. We never share any information, other than your email address, with our third-party email vendors, which may only share this information with its authorized subcontractors.

Links

Our Website and Our App contains links to other websites. We assume no responsibility for your privacy once you have linked to other websites. When you leave our Website for another, you are subject to the privacy policy of the new website.

Terms and Conditions of Use

Please also visit our Terms and Conditions of Use section establishing the use, disclaimers, and limitations of liability governing the use of our Website and Our App.

Consent

By using our Website and Our App, you consent to our Privacy Policy.

Revisions to the Privacy Policy

We will not attempt to inform users or visitors of our Website and Our App when our Privacy Policy changes. It is our policy to post any changes we make to our Privacy Policy on this page. The date of the Privacy Policy was last revised is identified on the top of the page. It is the sole responsibility of users and visitors to check for changes. Any revised Privacy Policy will apply both to information we already have about you at the time of the change, and any personal information created or received after the change takes effect.

Contact information

If you have questions or comments on our Privacy Policy, please contact our Webmaster.