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PSC Privacy Statement
Perry-Spencer Rural Telephone Cooperative, Inc., dba PSC, and Perry-Spencer Communications, Inc., dba PSC, is committed to protecting your privacy and developing/using technology that gives you a powerful and safe online experience. This Statement of Privacy applies to the PSC companies and their website and governs data collection and usage. By using the PSC services, including the website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.
Collection of your Personal Information
PSC and/or the PSC w ebsite collects personally identifiable information you provide directly to us in the course of conducting business. This information can include name, address, e-mail address, telephone number, date of birth, social security number, etc. This personally identifiable information is only used to conduct business with you, provide you with specific services and/or communicate with you. We may also use this information to send you information about new products and services. If you create a personal account with us and provide us with the above information for the purpose of conducting business, you authorize us to store that information.
PSC and/or the PSC website also collects anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences, interests and favorites. Other anonymous infor mation collected would include the number of lines, products/services used on a monthly basis, the minutes of use, etc. This generic information keeps us up to date on how we are doing compared to others in the industry,
There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by PSC and/or the PSC website. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring web site addresses. This information is used by PSC and/or the PSC website for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the PSC website.
Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through the PSC website public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others. Note: PSC and/or its website does not read any of your private online communications. However, PSC and/or its website reserves the right to review materials posted to bulletin board services, chat areas, news groups, forums, communities, personal web pages, calendars, and/or other message or communication facilities designed to enable you to communicate with the public at large or with a group, and to remove any materials in its sole discretion.
The PSC website may contain links to other web sites (linked sites). The PSC Website is providing these links to you only as a convenience, and the linked sites are not under the control of PSC and/or its website. PSC is not responsible for the privacy policy of any linked site, or the absence of such a policy. PSC encourages you to review the privacy statements of linked sites so that you can understand how those linked sites collect, use and share your information. PSC and/or its website is not responsible for the privacy policies or other content on web sites outside of the PSC family of web sites.
Use of your Personal Information
PSC collects and uses your personal information to operate and deliver the services you have requested. PSC also uses your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from PSC and its affiliates. PSC may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.
PSC does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties . PSC may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. In addition, PSC may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to PSC and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.
PSC and/or its website does not use or disclose sensitive personal information without your explicit consent.
PSC’s website keeps track of the web sites and pages our customers visit within PSC’s website, in order to determine what PSC website services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within PSC’s website to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.
If you do not wish to receive information about other products or services available from PSC and/or its website, its affiliates and external business partners, or to receive opinion research surveys, please notify us by e-mail at cpsmith@psci.net, or by writing to us at PSC, 11877East State Road 62, St. Meinrad, IN 47577.
PSC willl disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on PSC and/or its website; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of PSC and/or its website; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of PSC’s website, or the public.
Use of Cookies
The PSC website uses "cookies" to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.
One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize PSC’s website's pages, or register with PSC website or its services, a cookie helps PSC’s website to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same PSC website, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the PSC website features that you customized.
You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the PSC’s website services or web sites you visit.
Security of your Personal Information
PSC and/or its website maintains the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, which is protected by means reasonably designed to prevent unauthorized access, loss, alteration, use or disclosure of such information. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other web sites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol. However, the nature of the Internet is such that information may be transmitted over networks without appropriate security measures and may be accessed, deleted, altered, used or disclosed by unauthorized persons.
Changes to this Statement
PSC will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. PSC website encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how PSC and/or its website is protecting your information.
Contact Information
PSC and/or its website welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that PSC and/or its website has not adhered to this Statement, please contact PSC at cpsmith@psci.net. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.