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This Privacy Policy covers all web sites under Got SKY Unlimited,
Plumas Sierra Rural Electric Cooperative, and Plumas-Sierra Telecommunications
and applies to all customers of WildBlue's Satellite Speed Internet
service (the "Service"). We encourage you to read the
entire Policy and check this page periodically for any changes
or updates. By using the Service, you expressly consent to the
terms of this Policy, as it may be changed from time to time.
Got SKY is committed to maintaining your privacy and believes
that, as a subscriber to the Service, you are entitled to know
Got SKY's information practices. This includes the limitations
which Got SKY observes in the collection and disclosure of personally
identifiable subscriber information, the type of personally identifiable
information we collect, how we use subscriber information, under
what conditions we may disclose this information, the period during
which we maintain it and the rights of subscribers concerning
this information and its disclosure.
If you have questions or concerns regarding this Policy, you
should contact Got SKY at the contact information near the end
of this Policy.
Information Collection
Got SKY collects information from you at several different points
on the Service. Some of this information is personally identifiable
information, but much of it is not. Personally identifiable information
is information that identifies a particular person. When you establish
an account for the Service we collect information such as your
name, address, telephone number, e-mail address, as well as information
used for billing, and payment (including bank and credit card
information), and other information we may need to establish and
service an account. During the initial provisioning of the Service,
and any subsequent changes or updates to that provisioning, WildBlue
collects technical information about your computer hardware and
software, satellite modem and/or other service-related devices,
and customization settings and preferences.
Got SKY also collects personally identifiable information about
you when you communicate with us for, among other things, support,
maintenance, and billing, send us e-mails, respond to our surveys
or e-mails, engage in chat sessions with us, register for information,
or participate in promotions or contests. In addition, Got SKY
may combine personally identifiable information, which we collect
as part of our regular business records, with personally identifiable
information obtained from third parties for the purpose of creating
an enhanced personal database to use in marketing and other activities
related to the Service and our other services.
Information Use and Disclosure
Got SKY considers the personally identifiable information contained
in our business records to be confidential. Applicable law authorizes
Got SKY to disclose personally identifiable information concerning
any subscriber if the disclosure is:
- necessary to render, or conduct a legitimate business activity
related to, the Service and Service features or other services
provided to the subscriber; or
- required by law or legal process (as described below in this
Policy); or
- limited to the names and addresses of subscribers for "mailing
list" or other purposes (subject to each subscriber's right
to prohibit or limit this disclosure as described below in this
Policy).
In addition, Got SKY may use and disclose personally identifiable
information collected from you your use of the Service as provided
for by applicable law in order to:
- install, configure, operate, provide, support, and maintain
the Service;
- confirm that you are receiving the service requested and are
properly billed for it;
- identify you when changes are made to your Service account;
- make you aware of new products or services that may be of
interest to you;
- understand the use of, and identify improvements to, our Service;
- detect unauthorized reception, use, or abuse of the Service;
- determine whether there are violations of any applicable policies
and terms of Service;
- configure modems and/or other service-related devices; and
- comply with applicable law and take steps to prevent fraud.
Got SKY may also use and disclose personally identifiable information
as provided for by applicable law in order to perform, for example:
- billing and invoicing;
- administration;
- surveys;
- collection of fees and charges;
- marketing;
- service delivery and customization;
- maintenance and operations;
- technical support;
- procurement of services, hardware or software necessary to
the Service or offered through the Service
- hardware and software upgrades; and
- fraud prevention
In connection with the activities listed above, we sometimes
disclose personally identifiable information about you to our
affiliates or to others who work for us. We sometimes also disclose
personally identifiable information about you to our employees
for Got SKY's internal business purposes, as well as to outside
auditors, professional advisors and service providers, potential
business transition partners, and regulators. Typically, we make
these disclosures when the disclosure is necessary to render,
or conduct a legitimate business activity related to the Service
or other services we provide to you. We may be required by law
or legal process to disclose certain personally identifiable information
about you to lawyers and parties in connection with litigation
and to law enforcement personnel. We may also disclose certain
personally identifiable information about you to third parties
such as, for example, charities, marketing organizations, or other
businesses, in connection with disclosures made for "mailing
list" or other purposes as described below in this Policy.
Legal Disclaimer
We make every reasonable effort to protect subscriber privacy
as described in this Policy. Nevertheless, we may be required
by law to disclose personally identifiable information about a
subscriber without his or her consent and without notice in order
to comply with a valid legal process such as a subpoena, court
order, or search warrant. We may also use or disclose personally
identifiable information about you without your consent to protect
our customers, employees, or property, in emergency situations,
to enforce our rights in court or elsewhere, or directly with
you, and for violations of the Service's terms of service and
policies (including our Customer Agreement, Acceptable Use Policy
and Fair Access Policy).
Transmission of Information
WildBlue Communications transmits personally identifiable and
non-personally identifiable information about you over the Service
when you send and receive e-mail, chat, send instant messages,
transfer and share files, make files accessible, visit Web sites,
or otherwise use the Service and its features. Our transmission
of this information is necessary to render the Service.
WildBlue uses third parties to deliver some features and functions
of the Service, including customer and technical support, e-mail,
instant messaging, and web hosting, and those third parties collect
or transmit personally identifiable and non-personally identifiable
information about you. These third parties are not permitted to
use your personally identifiable information except for the purpose
of providing their services. We will not read your outgoing or
incoming e-mail, private chat, or instant messages, but we (or
our third party providers) do store e-mail messages on computer
systems for a period of time. We could be required to disclose
these messages and communications along with other personally
identifiable information about you to comply with law or to protect
our Service as described in the Legal Disclaimer section of this
Policy.
We also monitor the performance of our Service and your Service
connection in order to manage, maintain, and improve the Service
and your connection to it. We (or our third party providers) use
tools to help prevent and block "spam" e-mails, viruses,
spyware, and other harmful or unwanted communications and programs
on the Service. These tools may automatically scan your e-mails,
instant messages, file attachments, and other files and communications
in order to help us protect you and the Service against these
harmful or unwanted communications and programs. These tools do
not collect or disclose personally identifiable information about
you.
Service Providers
We contract with third parties to provide specific services and
features for the Service. For example, our newsgroups are provided
by a third party. When you use these particular services, generally
you provide your name and specific Service-related information
directly to the third party service provider. If you become a
customer of these third parties directly, then you will be subject
to their terms of service and privacy policies. You should carefully
read their terms and policies to understand how they may use personally
identifiable information about you.
Aggregate Information
WildBlue Communications, Got SKY Unlimited or our contractors
may from time to time share aggregate (non-personally identifiable)
information such as the number of Service subscribers who match
certain statistical profiles (for example, the number of subscribers
in various parts of the country) with our advertisers, content
providers, or other third parties with whom we have a relationship.
Except as otherwise specified in this Policy, we will not provide
our advertisers, content providers, or these other third parties
with personally identifiable information about you unless we have
received your consent first. Likewise, Got SKY will not share
personally identifiable information about where you go on the
Service or on the Web unless we have received your consent first.
We also use aggregate information to better understand how the
Service is being used, to improve it, and for network management,
bandwidth usage, maintenance, performance measurement, and security.
Third Party Advertisers
We may use a third-party ad serving company to serve certain advertisements
to you when you visit this Web site. Our third-party ad serving
company may use anonymous information related to your visit to
the Service's Web site to better provide advertisements to you
about goods and services that may be of interest to you. Our third-party
ad serving company does not have access to your name, address,
e-mail address or telephone number unless you or others provide
that information to it directly, or you consent to us providing
that information to it. In the course of serving advertisements
to this Web site, our third-party ad serving company may place
or recognize a unique "cookie" or equivalent technology
through your browser.
Business Transitions
If Got SKY enters into a merger, acquisition, or sale transaction
of all or a portion of its assets, subscribers' personally identifiable
information will, in most instances, be one of the items transferred
as part of the transaction. If, as a result of the business transition
this Policy will be changed, you should refer to the Notification
of Changes to this Policy section. Aggregate information may also
be transferred in connection with a business transition.
Preferences
We store information that you provide to personalize your settings
on the Service so that you don't have to change these settings
each time you use the Service. We do not share your preferences
with third parties except for service providers or other third
parties who may provide certain components of the Service.
Cookies
Cookies are small files stored on a computer's hard drive to simplify
and improve a user's Web experience. A Web site may store information
in a cookie about your computer configuration so that it can more
efficiently provide information to you the next time you visit
the site. Or, your browser program might save a cookie with a
reference key linking to your username and password on a remote
server so that a Web site's server will automatically recognize
you the next time you access the site.
Some of our business relationships are with vendors who may use
cookies (for example, search engines) or in connection with their
own advertisers and other business partners. However, we have
no access to or control over these third party cookies. For more
information about how these vendors and their business partners
use cookies, and how you may be able to "opt-out" of
those cookies, read the privacy policy that applies to each vendor's
Web site. This Policy covers the use of cookies by WildBlue under
the wildblue.net domain; it does not cover the use of cookies
by any other party or Web site unless stated otherwise.
Communications from Got SKY Unlimited
Special Offers and Updates
We send all new subscribers to the Service a welcome e-mail and
sometimes other information. Subscribers who would like to receive
information from us about products, services, and special offers,
promotions, and features may do so.
Service Announcements
We send subscribers Service-related announcements from time to
time. For example, we may send you an e-mail announcement about
a pricing change, a change in operating policies, or new features
of the Service. You may not opt-out of these Service-related communications,
though you can deactivate your Service account if you wish. If
you fail to check your Service account and primary e-mail address
for Service-related announcements, you may miss important information
about the Service, including legal notices, for example.
Customer Service
We communicate with you to provide requested services and support
for questions and issues relating to your Service account. We
will reply to your requests for customer service by e-mail, phone,
discussion forum, or through any other reasonable means.
Links
The Service's Web site contains links to other sites. Some of
these other sites may be co-branded with WildBlue and may look
like Service features, but Got SKY is not responsible for the
privacy practices of these other sites. We encourage you to be
aware when you leave our Web site and to read the privacy policies
of every Web site that collects personally identifiable information
about you, whether the site is co-branded with Got SKY or not.
Security
Got SKY takes the security of our subscribers' personally identifiable
information seriously. We follow industry-standard practices to
take such actions as are necessary to prevent unauthorized access
to personally identifiable information by a person other than
the subscriber or us. However, we cannot guarantee that these
practices will prevent every unauthorized attempt to access, use,
or disclose personally identifiable information.
Correcting and Accessing Information
If your personally identifiable information changes, if you wish
to confirm the accuracy of your personally identifiable information,
or if you no longer want to subscribe to the Service, we provide
a way to correct that information and a way to deactivate a Service
account. You may contact us by telephone at the contact information
listed below to correct information or deactivate your Service
account. In addition, you may examine and copy any personally
identifiable information we collect and maintain relating to you
at your local Got SKY office upon reasonable notice and during
regular business hours. If you wish to inspect those records,
please contact us by telephone at 1-800-221-3474, giving us a
reasonable period of time to locate and, if necessary, prepare
the information for review, and to arrange an appointment during
regular business hours. We will correct our records if you make
a reasonable showing that any of the personally identifiable information
we have collected about you is inaccurate. You will only be permitted
to examine records that contain information about you and no one
else. Got SKY reserves the right to charge you for the cost of
photocopying any documents that you request.
Enforcement
You, as a subscriber to the Service, may enforce the limitations
imposed on Got SKY by applicable federal law with respect to the
collection and disclosure of personally identifiable information
about you. You may do so through a civil action under federal
law, in addition to other rights and remedies that may be available
to you under federal or other applicable laws.
Retention of Information
Got SKY maintains personally identifiable information about you
in our regular business records while you are a subscriber to
the Service. We also maintain this information for a period of
time after you are no longer a subscriber if the information is
necessary for the purposes for which it was collected or to satisfy
legal requirements. These purposes typically include business,
legal, or tax purposes. If there are no pending requests, orders,
or court orders for access to this personally identifiable information
and the information is no longer necessary for the purposes for
which it was collected, we will destroy the information within
a reasonable time period or within a required timeframe established
under applicable law, whichever is shorter.
Notification of Changes to this Policy
If we change this Policy (which we may do at any time), we will
post those changes on the homepage of the Service Web site, or
in other places we deem appropriate, so our subscribers are aware
of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what
circumstances, if any, we disclose it. We will use information
in accordance with the Privacy Policy under which the information
was collected. Your decision to continue receiving the Service
after we make any changes to this Policy shall be deemed to be
your express consent to the changes in the revised Policy.
Contact Information
If you have any questions or suggestions regarding this Policy,
or wish to contact us about your personal information, please
contact us at 1-800-221-3474.
Special Note about Children
The Service is not directed to children under the age of 13, and
Got SKY does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information
from anyone under the age of 18 on the Service. Children should
always get permission from a parent or legal guardian before sending
any information about themselves (such as their names, e-mail
addresses, and telephone numbers) over the Internet, to us or
to anyone.
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