TVAed Privacy Policy

Thank you for visiting this Tennessee Valley Authority Web site and reviewing our privacy policy. The privacy of visitors to our site is important to us. This statement informs you of how we use information that may be collected when you visit TVA on the Web.

We will automatically gather and store certain information about your visit even if you simply browse through the Web site, read pages, or download documents. Our Web server automatically recognizes your browser’s domain name and IP address, but it does not recognize your e-mail address. The information we gather does not identify you personally but allows us to compile statistical data about the pages that our visitors view. That helps us determine the areas of our Web site that interest users and improve the navigation and content of the site.

If you send us electronic mail or subscribe to any of our e-mail alert services, you are providing personal information (your name, address, phone number, or e-mail address, for example). We must record these data so we can direct your communication to the people who will respond to your request (although TVA may not be able to respond to every message it receives).

On this particular Web site, tvaED.com, we do use a persistent cookie that is used to collect information such as the visitor’s type of browser and version, a customized name for the operating system on which the browser is running, the IP address of the visitor’s system, whether or not cookies are enabled in the visitor’s browser, the browser’s language setting, the browser’s platform, the page being visited, the site that referred the visitor to the current page, and the height and width of the display window. A cookie sent to the visitor’s system contains a unique 32-character alphanumeric value that no other visitor will have, allowing a determination of how many time this unique visitor has been to the sites or pages being tracked.

No party can identify any individual via the tracking information collected. However, we may monitor and audit usage of all of our Web sites and may capture and transfer personal information to legal authorities if we suspect that your use of our Web site is in violation of federal or local laws.

The specific, detailed information concerning the TVA ED Web site will be disclosed only to those who identify themselves using a unique ID and password assigned by TVA or its vendor(s). The benchmarking data provided by the vendor(s) includes certain summaries of the collected data in their reports; however, the summaries are given anonymously and do not identify the data as being from tvaED.com. TVA ED may also see anonymous summaries of the benchmarking data from other clients of the vendor(s)

None of the data collected on this Web site will be resold by TVA or its vendor(s).