Notice of Accessing, Collecting, Storing, Using, and Disclosing Energy Usage Information
Central Coast Community Energy (3CE), its employees, agents, contractors, and affiliates shall maintain the confidentiality of individual customers’ names, service addresses, billing addresses, telephone numbers, email addresses, account numbers, and electricity consumption, except where reasonably necessary to conduct 3CE’s business or to provide services to customers pursuant to the “Rules Regarding Privacy and Security Protections for Energy Usage Data” issued by the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC).
Examples of reasonably necessary business purposes include but are not limited to when such disclosure is necessary to (a) comply with law, regulation, or court order; (b) enable 3CE to provide service to its customers; (c) collect unpaid bills; (d) obtain and provide credit reporting information; (e) resolve customer disputes or inquiries; (f) communicate about demand response, energy efficiency, energy management, and conservation programs, or (g) in situation of imminent threat to life or property. 3CE shall not, under any circumstance, disclose customer information for third-party telemarketing, e-mail, or direct mail solicitation. Aggregated data that cannot be traced to specific customers may be released at 3CE’s discretion.
Customer data, including individual customer names, addresses, and electric energy usage data, is collected via PG&E’s or SCE’s metering systems. 3CE may share customer data with contractors and vendors for purposes of providing 3CE services and operating programs.
Contractors and vendors are required to agree to only use customer data for program operational purposes and protect it under the same standards as 3CE. 3CE maintains customer-specific energy usage and billing information for only as long as is reasonably necessary, typically not more than five years unless otherwise required by law or regulation.
The effective date of this policy is January 3, 2017. Notice of this policy will be provided annually to customers via an on-bill message, guiding customers to the most updated version on 3CE’s website at 3cenergy.org. Any changes to this policy between notification periods will be communicated through Central Coast Community Energy’s website. Previous versions of this policy can be requested via email through the website or by mailed request to 3CE, Attention: Administrative Analyst, 70 Garden Court, Suite 300, Monterey, CA 93940.
Customers having any questions or concerns regarding the collection, storage, use, or distribution of customer information, or who wish to view, inquire about, or dispute any customer information held by 3CE or limit the collection, use, or disclosure of such information, may contact 3CE’s Call Center: 1-888-909-6227, E-mail: info@3Ce.org, or mail: Central Coast Community Energy 70 Garden Court, Suite 300, Monterey, CA 93940.