Cookie Policy

1. Policy Scope

This Cookie Policy explains how the Alabama Power informational website uses limited cookies and similar technical tools. The website presents general information about utility services consulting terminology, alabama power, alabamapower, alabama power outage, alabama power outage map, and alabama power company search-related terms. This website does not provide utility services, account access, outage reporting, billing functions, payments, subscriptions, or customer service operations.

2. Informational Website Status

Alabama Power is a non-commercial informational website for a general United States audience. Cookies and related technical tools on this website are limited to ordinary website operation, functional display, basic preference handling, and limited analytics where applicable. The website does not use cookies for advertising, behavioral profiles, sales activity, account processing, payment handling, utility operations, or subscription systems.

3. What Cookies Are

Cookies are small text files placed through a browser during website access. Similar technical tools include local storage, session storage, and basic server-side records related to website display. These tools support ordinary page loading, security functions, consent records, preference settings, and limited measurement of general website use. Cookie activity on this website remains connected with informational website access only.

4. Strictly Necessary Cookies

Strictly necessary cookies support basic website operation. These cookies relate to page loading, security functions, form display, session continuity, consent banner operation, and technical stability of the website. These cookies do not create advertising profiles and do not relate to payment systems, account portals, outage systems, or utility service tools.

5. Functional Cookies

Functional cookies relate to website settings and display preferences. These cookies store limited information such as cookie banner choices, language display settings where applicable, page layout preferences, and similar website-level options. Functional cookies do not identify utility customers, do not access account records, and do not connect with billing information, outage reports, service requests, or payment activity.

6. Limited Analytics Cookies

Limited analytics cookies, where used, relate to general website measurement. These cookies describe page visits, basic interaction counts, device category, browser type, and general usage patterns in an aggregated or limited format. Analytics activity is not used for targeted advertising, behavioral advertising, cross-context tracking, or user profiling.

7. Cookies Not Used on This Website

This website does not use advertising cookies, targeted advertising cookies, behavioral tracking cookies, sales-related cookies, affiliate tracking cookies, payment cookies, subscription cookies, or utility account cookies. The website does not use cookies to operate an outage map, process outage reports, manage electric service accounts, handle bills, process payments, or create customer service records.

8. Cookie Banner

The website includes a cookie banner where applicable. The banner presents information about cookie categories and records user preferences related to optional cookies. Strictly necessary cookies are connected with website operation. Optional categories, such as functional or limited analytics cookies, are described in a neutral format through the banner or related cookie settings area.

9. Changing Cookie Preferences

Cookie preferences are changeable through the cookie banner or cookie settings area where available. Browser settings also provide controls for deleting cookies, blocking cookies, or limiting storage activity. Changes made through browser settings apply according to the browser’s own controls and device configuration. Some website display functions depend on strictly necessary cookies.

10. Withdrawal of Consent

Consent for optional cookies is withdrawable through the cookie settings area where available. Withdrawal applies to optional cookies connected with functional settings or limited analytics after the preference record is updated. Strictly necessary cookies remain connected with ordinary website operation, security, page display, and consent record management.

11. Global Privacy Control

The website recognizes Global Privacy Control signals where technically detectable and applicable to the website’s limited data practices. A Global Privacy Control signal is treated as a privacy preference signal related to sale, sharing, and targeted advertising restrictions. This website does not sell or share personal information and does not use targeted advertising.

12. Third-Party Advertising Cookies

The website does not use third-party advertising cookies. It does not participate in targeted advertising networks, behavioral advertising systems, retargeting systems, advertising exchanges, or cross-context tracking programs. Cookie activity on this website remains limited to informational website operation, functional use, and limited analytics where applicable.

13. Contact Form and Cookies

The contact form includes fields for Name, E-Mail, Betreff, and Nachricht. Cookies are not used to create accounts, subscriptions, customer profiles, utility service records, payment records, or outage reports from contact form activity. Information submitted through the form is handled under the Privacy Policy. The contact form is intended only for one-time website communication.

14. Data Retention for Cookie Records

Cookie records are retained according to their function. Session cookies expire after a browsing session or according to browser settings. Preference cookies remain for a limited period to remember banner selections. Limited analytics records are retained in a restricted format connected with website measurement and diagnostics. Cookie records are not retained for advertising profiles or utility service records.

15. Policy Updates

This Cookie Policy is part of the Alabama Power informational website materials. Updates are reflected through the Last Updated date listed above. Revisions relate to website structure, cookie categories, consent banner descriptions, privacy preference signals, or technical website operation. The current version appears on this page and describes cookie practices for this informational website.

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