With our home page, we at the Bonneville Power Administration want to make available on the Internet information (data, images and documents) about BPA and its activities. We have tried to select information useful to BPA's employees, customers, constituents and interested persons.

Although we endeavor to maintain the accuracy of this information, the information is dynamic and may change over time. BPA gives no warranty, express or implied, as to the accuracy, reliability or completeness of information, especially if the information is obtained from a computer system not at BPA.

BPA cannot warrant that the information and images on this server are in the public domain and available for use by the public. We will strive to identify any data that is not subject to limited use due to copyright or other reasons.

The information offers some links to other servers. Links to other servers do not imply endorsement of opinions, ideas nor products expressed therein, nor guarantee the validity of the information provided.

Many mapping services or other informational sources are now available on the World Wide Web. Bonneville's use of these outside mapping services provides basic location information or directions and is intended for convenience only. The use of any service or links external to BPA is not an endorsement of that service or organization, expressed or implied. BPA assumes no responsibility for the accuracy of any map from external mapping services or the travel directions these services might provide.

BPA Privacy Policy

Thank you for visiting the Bonneville Power Administration website. The following will explain how we handle any information about individuals that we collect during your visit to our website.

Information Collected and Stored Automatically

When you visit our website to read pages or download information, we automatically collect and store the following information only:

• The name of the domain from which you entered our website (for example, "xcompany.com" if you use a private Internet access account or "your school.edu" if you connect from a university domain)
• IP Address (an IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer whenever you are surfing the web)
• The type of browser and operating system used to access our site
• The date and time you access our site
• The pages you visit
• If you linked to the BPA website from another website, the address of the website
• The BPA Web site uses only temporary session cookies. They provide enhanced navigation through the BPA WEB site only. No data is collected.

We use this information to measure the number of visitors to the different sections of our site, and to help make our site more useful to visitors. We do not track or record information about individuals and their visits. This information is not shared with anyone beyond the support staff to this home page, except when required by Law Enforcement investigation. This information is not sold for commercial marketing purposes.

If You Send Us an E-mail

If you choose to provide us with personal information by sending an e-mail or filling out a web comment form, we may use that information to respond to your message or to help us obtain the information you have requested. In an effort to respond to your request, any information you submit may be viewed by people in other government agencies depending upon the nature of your request.

If You Provide Your Credit Card Number to Sign up for a Conference

A few pages on the BPA Website may request credit card information from the user. In those instances, a secure Website will be used for the transmission of that information. The credit card information will be used to complete a monetary transaction involving fees to attend BPA-sponsored conferences or the cost of BPA goods or services. The information will only be used for that transaction and will not be disseminated to others.

Information Collected for Security Purposes

For site security purposes and to ensure that this service remains available to all users, this government computer system employs industry-standard methods to monitor network traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change information, or otherwise cause damage.

Links To Other Sites

Our website contains links to other federal agencies and private organizations. Once you link to another site, you are subject to the policies of the new site.

Other

Specific proceedings where the public is invited to comment will contain a notice of what the agency intends to do with the data gathered.

Click Here to see examples of the information that BPA collects that allows us to serve our customers of the Pacific Northwest better.

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