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EPRI.com Privacy Statement

The following Privacy Statement (the “Privacy Statement”) describes policies and practices with respect to how EPRI may collect, use and share certain information You may provide or generate in connection with Your use of www.epri.com or any successor site or other site operated by EPRI (collectively, the “EPRI Site”) as well as information we may use to update the information you provide to us. The EPRI Site is owned and operated by the Electric Power Research Institute, Inc., a District of Columbia nonprofit corporation (“EPRI”). The terms “You” and “User” (and applicable variants thereof) as used herein refer to all individuals accessing the EPRI Site for any reason. Please note that with respect to information collected through the EPRI Site each item of applicable information will be subject to that version of the Privacy Statement in effect at the time of collection.

This Privacy Statement is also incorporated into the Terms of Use of the EPRI Site, which can be found at Terms & Conditions. All Users of the EPRI Site agree to follow and be bound by the Terms of Use and this Privacy Statement incorporated therein as a condition of accessing, using or downloading anything from the EPRI Site. If You do not agree with the Terms of Use and this Privacy Statement incorporated therein, do not use the EPRI Site.

The EPRI Site contains hyperlinks to third-party web sites over which EPRI has no control. EPRI is not responsible for the policies, practices or contents of other web sites to which You choose to navigate to from the EPRI Site. You visit such sites at Your own risk and we encourage You to review the terms of use and privacy polices of such web sites.

Collection, Use, Sharing, Control and Disclosure of Information:

“Personally Identifiable Information,” for purposes of this Privacy Statement, refers to any information that identifies or can be used to identify, contact, or locate the individual to whom such information pertains, such as names, physical addresses, electronic addresses, telephone numbers and fax numbers, and, if required for export control purposes, national residence or citizenship; provided, however, that Personally Identifiable Information does not include anonymous information that, by itself, does not permit the identification of individual persons.


Registration Information:

• Collection of Registration Information: In order to use certain portions of the EPRI Site not made available to the general public (the “Password Restricted Site”), You must meet applicable eligibility requirements and will be required to agree to the terms of this Policy as well as register for, receive, and use a Username and Password. To complete the registration process and receive a Username and Password, You are required to provide to EPRI certain Personally Identifiable Information. This Personally Identifiable Information includes Your first and last name, business title, company/organization represented, primary business telephone number, primary business physical address, primary business email address and, if required for export control purposes, national residence or citizenship. You may also elect to volunteer additional Personally Identifiable Information that may be requested (such as a fax number and areas of research interest, for example). The Personally Identifiable Information that You provide in connection with registering for Your Username and Password and any subsequent updating of such information (collectively, Your “Registration Information”) will be collected, stored, and maintained by EPRI and such third party entities that EPRI may utilize for hosting/data storage purposes.
  
  
• Use of Your Registration Information By EPRI: Your Registration Information will be used by EPRI:
  (i) to determine and authenticate the information, pages, products, and software that You may access/download on the EPRI Site;
  (ii) as a means for EPRI to update and reduce errors in various databases;
  (iii) to monitor use of and access to various portions of the EPRI Site to prevent abuses to our systems and access rights to particular content/products made available through the EPRI Site;
  (iv) to provide reliable contact information for EPRI and its affiliates (presently, EPRI Solutions, Inc. and EPRI International, Inc.) and their respective employees, consultants, contractors, and agents to contact and/or provide materials to You regarding any range of matters, including products, services, promotions, customer service/support issues and research efforts.
   
• Sharing of Your Registration Information:

 

• EPRI will not sell, rent, or lease Your Registration Information to third parties.
   
• In connection with soliciting a Username and Password for the EPRI Site, You have agreed to share Your Registration Information as follows:
  • Your Registration Information is made available to EPRI and its affiliates and their respective employees, consultants, contractors, and agents for all of the purposes described in the paragraph labeled “Use of Your Registration Information By EPRI.”
  • Your Registration Information is made available to other persons from Your respective company or organization (including their affiliates).
  • Your Registration Information is made available to persons participating in specific research area/efforts with which You may become affiliated, such as any applicable Manager of EPRI Technology Transfer (“METT”), committee list members of committees with which You may be affiliated, EPRI Advisors and their respective functional equivalents.
  • Your name, employer, and title will be displayed through the EPRI People Finder, regardless of whether you agree to display other Registration Information.
     
• You may also choose to make Your Registration Information (which would not include your country of permanent residence or citizenship, which if collected would only be used for export control purposes) available to all persons with access to the EPRI People Finder
  (i) at the time of registering for Your Username and Password,
  (ii) upon prompting via electronic mail from EPRI, and
  (iii) at any time subsequent thereto by utilizing the tool available at Change My Contact Information.
   
  • The “EPRI People Finder” is a searchable contact database that contains the names and contact information of the respective employees, consultants, contractors and agents of EPRI and its affiliates, of EPRI Member organizations, of industry vendors, and of various other persons.
  • Access to the EPRI People Finder is provided to the respective employees, consultants, contractors, and agents of EPRI and its affiliates and all other persons in possession of a Username and Password for the Password Restricted Site and is made available to the other Users of the EPRI People Finder who are currently the employees, consultants, contractors and agents of EPRI Member organizations, EPRI and certain interested vendors.
  • At a minimum, if you register for an EPRI.com Username and Password, your name, employer, and title will be displayed through the EPRI People Finder, even if the remainder of your Registration Information is not displayed. Further, all of your Registration Information will be available to others within your company (and affiliated companies) while using the EPRI Site as well as to our affiliates.
  • If your employer ceases to be a member of EPRI, EPRI will terminate your access to EPRI.com and will not display your Registration Information in the EPRI People Finder.
    
    
• Control over Your Registration Information:

 
• You may, at any time, review, correct, update, and change Your Registration Information by utilizing the tool available at Change My Contact Information
• You can request to have Your Registration Information removed from the EPRI People Finder and the EPRI.com EPRI Site at any time by utilizing the tool available at [IT needs to provide appropriate hyperlink]. Upon such a request, EPRI will delete Your Registration Information from the EPRI Site, except that EPRI may maintain copies of such information for its business and administrative purposes, which are not accessible on the Internet. Please note, however, that any such deletion will likely result in the revocation of all applicable Usernames and Passwords that are required to access the Password Restricted Site.
   

• If, at the time You provided Personally Identifiable Information to EPRI through the EPRI Site,You were given the opportunity to limit how the applicable Personally Identifiable Information is used to communicate with You by third parties, EPRI will not change Your preference in this regard without Your consent.