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Privacy Notice

Introduction

NIPSCO Generation LLC (referred to as the “Company”, “GenCo”, “we”, “our”, or “us”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting it as described in this Privacy Notice. This Privacy Notice describes our privacy practices, including the types of information we may collect about you when you visit our Website, www.nipscogenco.com (our “Website”), and how we may use, maintain, disclose, and otherwise process such information.

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This Privacy Notice applies to information we collect through our Website.

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However, this Privacy Notice does not apply to:

  • Personal data we collect about you when you are acting in a commercial or employment context with us;

  • Information we collect about you that has been lawfully made available through government records or to the general public through widely distributed media (or by you or another person to whom you disclosed the information) unless you restricted that information to a specific audience; or

  • Information that has been deidentified and cannot reasonably be linked to an identified or identifiable consumer, or a device linked to that consumer.

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Please read this Privacy Notice carefully to understand our privacy practices regarding your Personal Data and how we will treat it. By using the Website, you acknowledge and consent to this Privacy Notice and our practices. This Privacy Notice may change from time to time (see Changes to Our Privacy Notice). Any dispute related to this Privacy Notice will be governed by our Terms of Use.

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Maintaining the confidentiality of your Personal Data is important to us and the Company takes steps to protect it from public disclosure. Note, however, no safeguards can guarantee complete security or privacy of your Personal Data.

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Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It

Throughout this Privacy Notice, the term “Personal Data” means any information that is linked or reasonably linkable to an identified or identifiable consumer. However, Personal Data does not include any de-identified or aggregated information or publicly available information.

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Generally

The GenCo Website is an informational-only website. While we do not collect Personal Data directly from you through the Website, we may collect certain Personal Data automatically through essential cookies and similar technologies as you navigate the Website, as described below.

 

  • Internet or other similar network activity, such as information regarding a visitor’s interaction with our Website, including through the use of essential cookies and local storage technologies (as further described in the Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies section below).

 

Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies

As you navigate through and interact with our Website, we use essential cookies and similar technologies to collect certain information about your interaction with our Website, including:

  • Details of your visits to, and use of, our Website, such as Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, device identifiers browser information, referrer URL, device operating system, date and time of visit, pages viewed, click path, screen resolution, geographic location, and other technical usage data.

 

The technologies we use for this automatic data collection on our Website include:

  • Cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. Our Website may use both session cookies (which expire when you close your browser), persistent cookies (which remain on your device until deleted or expire), and local storage technologies to support the basic functionality of the Website.

    • Wix. Our Website is hosted on the Wix platform, a service provided by Wix.com Ltd. Wix uses essential session cookies to help operate the Website and collect certain information relating to your use of our Website. Our Website also uses Usercentrics for Wix, a consent management tool provided by Usercentrics GmbH, which stores consent preferences via local storage. For more information, please visit the Wix privacy policy at https://wix.com/about/privacy and the Usercentrics privacy policy at https://usercentrics.com/en/wix-privacy-policy/.

 

The cookies used by the Website are essential and necessary for the basic functionality and operation of our Website. You may set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies; however, doing so may affect the functionality of the Website.

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The information we collect automatically helps us to operate and improve our Website and to deliver a better experience by enabling us to: (i) estimate our audience size and usage patterns; (ii) manage user consent preferences; and (iii) recognize you when you return to our Website.

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The Purposes for Which We Use The Personal Data We Collect

We may use Personal Data collected automatically through the Website as permitted by law, including but not limited to, the following purposes:

  • to support, troubleshoot, and secure our Website and internal systems, including preventing or investigating actual or potential fraud, detecting security incidents, and debugging technical issues;

  • to improve our Website, including through analytics;

  • to comply with applicable laws and legal processes, enforce our terms, respond to regulators or law enforcement, or protect the legal rights, safety, operations and property of the Company, its affiliates or others;

  • to pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we or our affiliates may have or sustain;

  • to document and maintain records as permitted by law, such as for regulatory or other record keeping purposes;

  • for any other purpose with your consent or as required by law.

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The Categories of Third Parties With Whom We May Share Personal Data

We may share the Personal Data collected on the Website with the following categories of third parties. When we disclose Personal Data, we strive to enter into a contract that describes the purpose of the disclosure and requires the recipient to keep the information confidential and use it only as permitted.

  • Affiliates, for the purposes described in this Privacy Notice;

  • Service Providers, to enable them to provide us with services such as website hosting, consent management, basic website usage analytics, infrastructure, IT, and similar services;

  • Transactional counterparties, in connection with any actual or potential reorganization, merger, sale, joint venture, assignment, transfer or other disposition of all or any portion of our or a parent company’s business, assets or stock (including in connection with any bankruptcy or similar proceedings);

  • Other third-parties with whom we are legally required to share your Personal Data; and

  • Government authorities, regulators, or law enforcement, to comply with applicable legal obligations or respond to requests.

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To know more about your options with respect to information sharing, please contact us at nipscogenco@nisource.com.

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Accessing and Correcting Your Information with Us

Because we do not collect Personal Data directly from you through the Website, there is generally no personal information for you to access or correct. You may delete cookies stored on your device using your browser settings. If you have questions about the information collected through automatic data collection technologies, please contact us at nipscogenco@nisource.com.

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Children Under the Age of 18

Our Website is not intended for children under 18 years of age. No one under age 18 may provide any information to or on the Website. We do not knowingly collect Personal Data from children under 18.

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Do Not Track Signals

Some web browsers permit you to broadcast a signal to Websites and online services indicating a preference that they “do not track” your online activities. However, there is no accepted standard for how a website or online service should respond to this signal, and at this time, we do not take any action in response to such a signal.

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International Data Transfers

In order to provide our Website to you, Personal Data collected through the Website may be transferred to, stored in, and processed in locations outside of the United States, specifically, in the European Union and Israel. By using our Website, you represent that you have read and understood the foregoing and hereby consent to the storage and processing of Personal Data outside the country where you reside or are located, including in the United States.

 

Changes to Our Privacy Notice 

The Company may modify this Privacy Notice at any time. When we make changes to this Privacy Notice, we will post the updated Privacy Notice for thirty (30) days before it becomes effective.

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