Peoples Gas ("OUR" OR "WE") is committed
to respecting your privacy. Please read the following policy to understand how your
personal information will be treated. This policy may change from time to time so
please check back periodically. This policy will let you know the following:
What personally identifiable information is collected from me?
On some of the Peoples Gas
Web pages you can make requests and/or receive materials.
The types of personal information collected at these pages include your name,
e-mail address, standard contact information, including addresses and phone
numbers, employer name, meter number, meter readings and banking information
(including account numbers, routing numbers and other account information).
What are cookies and how are they used by Peoples Gas?
Peoples Gas may place Internet cookies on your hard drive. Internet cookies are small
files that may be placed on your hard disk for record-keeping purposes. Cookies
may be used to (a) remind us of who you are in order to deliver you better service;
(b) estimate our audience size by determining repeat usage of the Web Site to help
target advertisements based on user interests and behavior; and (c) measure
certain traffic patterns for use as a research tool to understand how our users'
habits are similar or different from one another. You can set your browser to
notify you when you receive a cookie, giving you the chance to decide whether to
accept it. By not accepting cookies, some Web pages may not display properly or
you may not be permitted to access certain information.
Peoples Gas may also collect IP addresses (the Internet address of a computer) to track
a user's session while the user remains anonymous.
Peoples Gas analyzes this data for
certain trends in statistics, such as which parts of our site users are visiting
and how long they spend there. In general, Peoples Gas
does not link your IP addresses to anything personally identifiable to you.
Peoples Gas will not sell,
rent or lease your personally identifiable information to
others without your consent. However, by accessing this Web Site, you acknowledge
that your information may be shared among our affiliated companies and with our
agents, contractors or business partners. When you submit personal information
to Peoples Gas, you are
agreeing to permit Peoples Gas
to access, store and use the information wherever in the world
Peoples Gas does business.
In particular, Peoples Gas,
its agents, contractors and business partners may use your personal information for
various business purposes, such as statistical analysis, doing market research,
improving services, supporting your customer or other relationship with
Peoples Gas and notifying
you about services and changes that may affect you, among other business purposes,
in an effort to better serve you.
Accordingly, Peoples Gas
may send you direct mailings or contact you by email or telephone about your use of
the Web Site, our various products and services or other products and services we
feel may be of interest to you.
From time to time, Peoples Gas
may conduct research on our users' demographics, interests and behavior based on the
information provided to us during your use of the Peoples Gas Web Site.
This research is compiled and analyzed on an aggregated basis. Aggregated data
does not include personally identifiable information.
Peoples Gas may share this
aggregated data with others.
When you are on a Peoples Gas
Web Site and are asked for personal information, you are sharing that information with
only Peoples Gas and its
affiliates, unless specifically stated otherwise. If you do not want your data to
be shared, you can choose not to allow the transfer by not using that particular
service or purchasing those particular goods.
Please be aware that Peoples Gas
advertisers or third party web sites (including CheckFree) that have links on our
site may collect personally identifiable information about you. The information
practices of those web sites linked to Peoples Gas,
either through advertisements or other hyperlinks, are not covered by this privacy
statement. Peoples Gas
does not assume responsibility for the actions of other parties.
We may share the personal data you provide with other
Peoples Gas agents,
contractors or our business partners for the purposes of performing services
for Peoples Gas.
We also believe it is necessary to share information in order to investigate,
prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations
involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations
of the Terms of Use, or as otherwise required by law or requested by any
government authority. Except as provided above or in the event of a merger,
consolidation, or sale of all or substantially all of our assets, we will
not share any of your information with any third party without your permission.
Gas customers may request to review their billing-related personal information
that Peoples Gas has
collected and correct factual inaccuracies and/or update such billing-related
personal information by contacting info@PeoplesEnergy.com.
Third party Internet sites and services accessible through
Peoples Gas have separate
privacy and data collection practices. Peoples Gas
has no responsibility or liability
for these independent policies or actions of such third parties. Please be
careful and responsible online. If you post personal information online that
is accessible to the public, you may receive unsolicited messages from other
parties in return. While we strive to protect your information,
Peoples Gas cannot ensure
or warrant the security of any information through the transmission process and you
do so at your own risk. Our Web Sites are primarily intended for adults and not
children under 18 years old. Peoples Gas
will not knowingly collect or disclose personal information from minors for any
purposes.
Any dispute over privacy is subject to this privacy policy and our
Terms of Site Use, including limitations on damages and
application of the law of the State of Illinois. If you have any concern about
your privacy in connection with this policy, please send us a thorough description
to contractadmin@integrysgroup.com, and
we will try to resolve it. From time to time we may post a revised privacy policy
on our Web Sites. Please note that the use of information that we gather is subject
to the privacy notice in effect at the time of use. You should check our Web Site
frequently to see recent changes.
