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Last updated on October 30, 2024.
At Dominion Energy, we value the trust you place in us when you provide us with your personal information. We take your privacy seriously and are committed to protecting it. This Privacy Notice describes the privacy practices of Dominion Energy, Inc., and its subsidiaries, divisions, and affiliates that link to this Privacy Notice (collectively, "Dominion Energy," "our," "us," or "we"). This Privacy Notice applies only to the websites, mobile applications, services, or other points of collection upon which it is posted or noticed.
Dominion Energy operates in many states. Each state has different laws and regulations governing how we collect, use and share personal information. This Privacy Notice generally describes Dominion Energy's processes related to personal information. It also contains information or links to information specifically required by certain states, which may or may not be applicable to you depending upon your state of residency. Some examples provided below may or may not be applicable in your state.
Dominion Energy collects information to provide better services to our customers, job applicants, and other visitors to or users of our websites and mobile applications. Some of this information identifies, relates to, or is capable of being associated with a particular individual or household ("personal information").
The table below describes the personal information we may collect. Please note that some information is collected incidental and collateral to primary information collection. For example, to verify your identity, we may require a copy of your driver's license which contains personal information that is not used by Dominion Energy, for instance your race or sex.
Categories | Some Categories Include |
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Personal Identifiers | Information that can be used to identify you, such as your name, address, contact information, IP address, username, email address, phone number, or other unique personal identifiers such as cookies and beacons. |
Other Types of Personal Information | Education information, employment information, and certain types of financial or health information. |
Characteristics of Legally Protected Classes | Marital status, veteran or military status, and other demographic information. |
Commercial Information | Records of personal property, products or services purchased or considered, and consuming tendencies such as energy usage information. |
Biometric Information | Biological characteristics used to identify you, such as fingerprints. |
Internet or Other Similar Network Activity | Information regarding your interaction with our websites or mobile applications. |
Geolocation Data | Physical location. For example, to provide information regarding utility outages. |
Sensory Data | Audio information, such as voicemails or calls recorded for quality assurance purposes. |
Professional or Employment-Related Information | Current or past job history. |
Non-Public Education Information | Education records directly related to a student maintained by an educational institution, such as a transcript. |
Inferences Drawn From Other Personal Information | Profile reflecting a person's preferences or tendencies. |
Sensitive Personal Information | Social Security number, driver's license number, state identification card, passport number, account log-in information, racial or ethnic origin, citizenship or immigration status, sex, mental or physical health diagnosis. |
Personal information does not include publicly available information or aggregated or de-identified information.
We obtain the categories of personal information listed above from the following categories of sources:
We may collect, use and/or share the categories of personal information listed above, in accordance with applicable laws, regulations, and this Privacy Notice, for one or more of the following purposes:
Dominion Energy respects the privacy of your information and aims to limit its disclosure; however, Dominion Energy may share personal information in certain circumstances and in accordance with applicable laws and restrictions. We may share your personal information with:
When we share personal information with others, Dominion Energy implements reasonable contractual protections to limit third party use of your personal information. Dominion Energy does not sell consumers' personal information for direct monetary consideration.
Some Dominion Energy websites and mobile applications use cookies, web beacons, and other similar tracking technologies to enable essential features or for data analytics and marketing purposes. For example, we use cookies and other tracking technologies to optimize the functionality of our website, to help us understand how our website is used, and to provide users with interest-based content or advertising based upon their browsing activities.
We also allow some third parties to place cookies on our websites and mobile applications. When you visit our websites or mobile applications, third parties may collect personal information about your online activities over time and across different websites or online services, including cookies and beacons.
You may opt-out of these technologies by modifying your cookie preferences via the pop-up banner presented to you when you first visit our website. If you wish to change your preferences later, you can do so from the “Privacy Preference Center” by clicking the “cookie” shaped icon on our website.
Some Dominion Energy websites have been designed to recognize certain “Global Privacy Control (GPC)” signals sent from your browser (if enabled by you).
Protecting personal information is a top priority for Dominion Energy. We take reasonable and appropriate safeguards to secure and protect the privacy, accuracy, and reliability of your information and to protect it from loss, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration and destruction. However, no information can be guaranteed to be 100 percent secure.
This section of the Privacy Notice provides information about communications from Dominion Energy and certain options you may have. Please note, participation in certain Dominion Energy products or services require we communicate with you in certain ways that cannot be modified based on individual preference (for example, participation in certain outage notification programs requires acceptance in receiving automated phone alerts; participation in e-billing requires a valid email address).
California law provides specific privacy rights to California residents. To review the section of our Privacy Notice for California residents, please visit here: www.dominionenergy.com/california-consumer-notice-of-privacy-rights.
As described in more detail in this section, California residents have the right to opt-out of the sale of their personal information to third parties and certain sharing of their personal information with third parties. Please review the Notice of Right to Opt-Out of Sale or Sharing of Personal Information here: Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Info.
If you are a Nevada resident, you have the right to request that Dominion Energy not sell your personal information. More information can be found here: Nevada Do Not Sell. However, please note that, as stated above, Dominion Energy does not sell personal information for monetary consideration.
Dominion Energy South Carolina residential customers may request a copy of their personal data held by DESC in its “customer information system” and request a correction of any inaccuracies of their information. To submit such request, please complete the following form: South Carolina Request to Know.
This section provides information specific to Virginia Residents.
If you are a Virginia resident, you may request the following:
Decisions made by DEV pursuant to any above request may be appealed to Dominion Energy's Privacy Office by submitting the following form: Virginia Appeal Request.
If your appeal is denied and you are unsatisfied with the outcome, you may contact the Attorney General of Virginia using the following link to submit a complaint: https://www.oag.state.va.us/consumercomplaintform/form/start.
Dominion Energy does not conduct “profiling” as defined by Virginia law.
Dominion Energy does not sell personal data as defined by Virginia law.
As described in this Privacy Notice, Dominion Energy may process certain personal information that is considered “Sensitive Data” as defined by Virginia law. Processing of sensitive data only occurs when you knowingly take affirmative action to provide such information to us for processing.
As described under the “Communications Preferences” section of this Privacy Notice, we may share your personal information with social media sites for the purpose of providing you with customized ads. To opt-out of this sharing, please complete the following form: Virginia Social Media Sharing Opt-Out.
As described under the “Cookies & Online Advertising” section of this Privacy Notice, some of Dominion Energy websites and mobile applications use cookies, web beacons and other similar tracking technologies to enable essential features, or for data analytics and marketing purposes. You may opt-out of these technologies by modifying your cookie preferences in our “Privacy Preference Center” located by clicking the “cookie” shaped icon on our website.
Our websites and mobile applications link to other websites that are not operated or controlled by Dominion Energy. We do not monitor or control, and are therefore not responsible for, the privacy practices or the content of linked external websites. We recommend reviewing the privacy policies for any linked websites you visit.
We may make changes to this Privacy Notice periodically and will provide at the top of this Notice the date it was most recently updated. Using our websites, mobile applications, or services where this Privacy Notice is posted or noticed constitutes your acceptance of our privacy practices.
If you have any questions about this Privacy Notice or wish to contact us concerning personal information you provided to us, you may reach us by email, telephone or US Mail as follows:
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