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News Releases

  • 8/15/2018
    SCAM ALERT: Kentucky Power imposter robs elderly customer
    Kentucky Power is warning customers to beware of criminals posing as company employees to gain access to homes to rob them.
  • 8/15/2018
    TRAFFIC IMPACT ADVISORY: U.S. 23 closure planned to install new line
    Kentucky Power plans to stop traffic intermediately in both directions along U.S. Route 23 in Greenup County on Sunday. The stoppage will allow crews to install a new power line across the highway as part of a state highway relocation project in the Russell area of U.S. 23 and state Route 750.
  • 8/3/2018
    Craft Academy graduates spend summer as Ky Power interns
    Kentucky Power summer internships give recent high school graduates work experience and allows Kentucky Power to show newcomers what goes into effectively operating an electric utility. For the second year in a row, two recent graduates of Morehead State University's Craft Academy for Excellence in Science and Mathematics joined Kentucky Power as summer interns.
  • 7/22/2018
    Kentucky Power Storm Update -- Sunday, July 22, 2018
    Power has been restored to more than 99 percent of 8,600 customers who lost power when strong thunderstorms rolled through eastern Kentucky on July 20. Service to remaining affected customers should be restored by 8 p.m. Sunday.
  • 7/21/2018
    Kentucky Power Storm Update -- Saturday, July 21, 2018
    About 70 percent of customers who lost power when strong thunderstorms hit eastern Kentucky Friday have had their service restored. About 95 percent should be restored by Saturday night.

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Privacy Policy for Kentucky Power, a unit of American Electric Power (AEP)

Scope

This Privacy Policy applies only to KentuckyPower.com and the Kentucky Power customer mobile app (com.aep.customerapp.kentuckypower). Other AEP websites and apps may be governed by their own privacy policies, appropriate to the uses and needs of each. Throughout the site or app, we may provide links to resources and sites that are not part of KentuckyPower.com or the Kentucky Power customer mobile app. This Privacy Policy does not apply to those resources and sites.

Consent

By using this site or app, you consent to the terms of this Privacy Policy. Whenever you submit information via this site or app, you agree to the collection, use, and disclosure of that information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

Information Collected

  1. Passively collected information

    During your use of this site or app, we may collect anonymous information about your visit here through the use of server logs, cookies, scripts, tracking pixels and other Web traffic tracking systems. This information is aggregated and used to improve user experience through analysis of user activities. This information is never combined with any of the personally identifiable information you may provide in your use of the features of this site or app.

  2. Personally identifiable information

    On certain forms of this site or app, you may be asked to provide information about yourself or your account with us, either to identify yourself to us or to request a service from us. In each case, we will inform you what information is provided at your option and what information is required to complete the transaction or activity you are engaged in. If you are unwilling to provide this required information, you will be unable to complete the requested transaction.

Use and disclosure of information

The information you provide to us will be used to respond to requests you may make for services. Some or all of this information may be added to your permanent account record and may be used for research purposes.

In addition, we may use elements of this information in the following situations:

  1. We may transfer the information to Kentucky Power’s affiliates and subsidiaries, unless such transfer is prohibited by law;
  2. We may transfer the information as part of a merger, consolidation, acquisition, divestiture or other corporate restructuring (including bankruptcy);
  3. We may make the information available to third parties who are providing the product, service or information that you have requested (but not your password);
  4. We may make such information available to third parties who are providing services to Kentucky Power (for example, providing the information to third parties performing computer-related services for Kentucky Power);
  5. We may use the information to communicate with you about products and services that may be of interest to you.
  6. We may disclose the information if we form a good-faith belief that disclosure of such information is necessary to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding any illegal activities or regarding interference with the operation of our site or violation of its terms of use; or
  7. We may disclose the information if we believe that disclosure is required by law or regulation or in response to a subpoena or other order of a court or other governmental agency.

Kentucky Power uses Flurry Analytics Service (provided by Yahoo) in order to improve its mobile apps. Flurry’s privacy policy governs the use of this information.

Also, Kentucky Power reserves the right to share any aggregated information (i.e., non-personally identifiable information) with any third parties for any reason, unless prohibited by law.

We will not sell, rent or otherwise disclose the information we gather about you or your account to any third party, except as outlined in this Privacy Policy.

Security

Kentucky Power takes reasonable steps to protect your personally identifiable information as it is transferred to us, through the use of Web technologies such as the Secure Sockets Layer and others. However, no Internet transmission of information is ever completely secure or error-free. In particular, e-mail sent to or from Kentucky Power may not be secure.

How to Reach Us

If you would like to update your personally identifiable information or if you have questions about this privacy policy, please contact us.

Changes to This Policy

Kentucky Power reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time. If this Privacy Policy changes, the revised policy will be posted to this site. Please review this Privacy Policy before you provide any personally identifiable information through this site. Use of our web site after the posting of a revised privacy policy constitutes your consent to the revised policy.

This policy was last revised on December 13, 2017.

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