TERMS OF USE AND PRIVACY POLICY

NGCCC Privacy Policy

The Natural Gas Campaign for Consumer Choice (NGCCC) respects your privacy and is committed to keeping confidential any personal information you share with us. Please read this privacy policy statement carefully. It covers the collection, use, disclosure, and protection of information about individuals that is provided through this website. This statement does not apply to those websites or portions of websites that do not display or link to this privacy policy statement or that have their own privacy policy statement.

NGCCC reserves the right to update this statement at any time and in any manner. We will provide notice of any changes by posting the revised policy to the applicable websites. We encourage you to periodically review this policy to be informed of our privacy practices. At any time, the currently-posted statement shall govern.

Why do we require personal information?
We require your information solely for the purpose of verifying that entrants in the My Natural Gas Coach Sweepstakes reside within the Atlanta Gas Light services area, as stipulated in the Sweepstakes Rules (found elsewhere on this web site.) This information enables us to verify your identity and enter you in the Sweepstakes.

What is "personal information"?
For purposes of this statement, "personal information" includes private information collected by us that may be used to uniquely identify an individual. Personal information does not include any public information about an individual that is available through federal, state, or local public records. It also does not include any information that, by itself, does not uniquely identify an individual, such as raw data aggregated across many individuals.

Collecting and Using Information

Unless we say otherwise when collecting such information, we will use any personal information you provide to us only in accordance with the terms of this statement. We will collect, use, and retain your personal information only to the extent reasonably necessary, and for the purposes we describe to you in this statement or elsewhere. Such purposes include in connection with the management of the Sweepstakes and measuring interaction with the www.mynaturalgascoach.com web site.

We may combine information we collect about you from this website with information we obtain about you from other sources, including aggregate data from third parties. For purposes of research and analysis, we may also aggregate personal and other information about you with information about our other customers. You agree to such use and agree that we will retain complete ownership and control over any aggregate data that we compile or acquire.

Further, you also agree that we may use your information to communicate status updates, reminders, confirmations, and other messages to you related to your entry in the Sweepstakes, or use of the features and services on our websites. We may also use your information, where we have obtained your permission to do so, to communicate special offers and promotions from us, our affiliates, and our marketing partners that may interest you.

Sometimes we hire other companies to provide products and services to you on our behalf, such as processing transactions, hosting websites, conducting customer surveys, and providing customer service. We may share some of your personal information with these companies to enable them to perform such work. These companies are prohibited from using your personal information for any other purpose and are required to maintain its confidentiality.

We may also share your personal information with our parent and affiliated companies for their use in compliance with this statement. We may also disclose your personal information to third parties where we have obtained your permission to do so and where we are required or permitted to do so by law. We will not sell your personal information to third parties without your prior permission.

Technical Information and Cookies

As is true of most websites, we gather technical information about your interaction with our website automatically, and store it in our logs. Such information includes Internet Protocol addresses, web browser type, Internet Service Provider, referring or exit pages, operating system, and date and time stamps.

And, as is true of most websites, we use "cookies" - small text files that are stored on your computer that allow our web site to identify your browser, session and your customized preferences from one visit to the next. You may configure your web browser to accept or decline cookies from our website. However, if you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to login to use certain private areas of our website. We also will not be able to customize your experience or deliver certain interactive services and features to you.

By way of example, we may use technical information and cookies

a. to provide you with a more customized experience on our website and provide you greater convenience each time you interact with us,

b. to help us understand which parts of our website are the most popular and how much time our users spend in each,

c. to measure the effectiveness of our customer communications and the searches performed on our website,

d. to administer our website, e. to study traffic patterns and trends on our website, and f. to study aggregate demographic information about our users as a whole.

How can you access the personal information we have collected about you? You may request a copy of the personal information that we currently hold about you by sending a detailed email to privacy@ngccc.com with all specifics necessary for us to consider and respond to your request.

How do we protect the information we have collected about you?

We take a number of technical and procedural precautions to protect your personal information from misuse and unauthorized access or disclosure. For security reasons, only some of our safeguards are described below and only in general terms.

To safeguard your personal information, we

a. monitor user accounts and suspend or delete accounts that have been inactive for excessive time lengths,

b. use Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encryption to collect and transmit personal information you communicate with us electronically,

You can also help us protect your personal information by

a. using only secure web browsers,

b. employing common anti-virus and anti-malware tools on your system to keep it safe,

Disclaimer as to other Websites

This website may contain links to third party websites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such websites and specifically disclaim any such responsibility. You are responsible for knowing when you are leaving our website to visit a third party website, and for reading and understanding the terms of use and privacy policy statements for each such third party website.