Rural Cellular Corporation Privacy Policy
Last updated: January 24, 2005
Contents:
| What Information Does RCC Collect? | Security |
| Does RCC Share Personal Information? | Children |
| Access to Your Personal Information | Terms of Use, Notices and Revisions |
| Links to Third Party Websites |
At Rural Cellular Corporation (together with its affiliates and subsidiaries, "RCC"), we recognize that you value your privacy. Therefore, we strive to protect your privacy while you use our website, including all associated web pages maintained by us (collectively, the "Website"), and the functions, facilities and services we offer on our Website. This privacy policy ("Privacy Policy") only covers our use of the information we collect from the Website, and does not cover the use of CPNI, as defined by the FCC (generally, information regarding your wireless telephone usage).
By using our Website, you acknowledge that you have read this Privacy Policy and agree to our use, in accordance with our policy, of the information we obtain from you through our Website. Our Privacy Policy may change from time to time, so please check here often for the latest updates.
What Information Does RCC Collect?
RCC only gathers a limited amount of information from you. In fact, you can access and browse our Website, download files and access most information from our Website without disclosing your personally identifiable information ("Personal Information"). The only Personal Information we collect from you is information that you voluntarily submit to us, such as information that you elect to submit to our Website in order to purchase our products or services online or to participate in any sweepstakes or promotions, your email address and/or wireless phone number if you choose to sign up for email alerts, text messages, MMS alerts or other similar data services, or when you email us, and any other information contained in your email. Some portions of our Website require you to select a user identification ("User ID") and password for access. RCC uses the User ID and password to verify and enable your access to those portions of our Website and to improve the products and services we offer through those portions.
We use Personal Information to provide online services to you and to facilitate your use of our Website, such as fulfilling any orders you place with us (including performing credit checks, if you purchase wireless services from us), enabling you to make online payments, sending confirmations of recent online transactions, billing for services purchased online, responding to your inquiries or communications, or otherwise improving our Website. We may also use Personal Information to notify you of additional products and services we offer, special promotions, or information about us ("RCC Notices"). If you do not wish to receive any RCC Notices, please send an email to us at legal@unicel.com. By voluntarily providing us with your Personal Information, you are consenting to our use of it in accordance with this Privacy Policy. If you provide Personal Information to this Website, you acknowledge and agree that such Personal Information may be transferred from your current location to the offices and servers of RCC and the authorized third parties referred to herein located in the United States.
RCC also collects aggregate usage data, including IP addresses, types of Internet browsers, web pages visited, and types of data or content downloaded (collectively, “Aggregate Data”), from our Website and uses cookies, small text files that our loaded by our server onto your computer, on a limited number of web pages. Cookies and Aggregate Data do not contain any Personal Information, and they are used only to help us improve our Website and the products and services we offer to you.
Does RCC Share Personal Information?
We do not sell your Personal Information to any third parties. We consider your Personal Information to be a vital part of our relationship with you and we treat it with great care and respect. There are, however, certain limited circumstances in which we may share Personal Information with certain third parties, as set forth below:
- Agents: RCC, like many other companies, hires other companies to perform certain functions, for example fulfilling your online orders or providing you with current stock quotes. In addition, we may engage other companies to provide some services through their own servers. Specifically, we contract with other companies to enable you to send wireless text messages, make online payments and buy phones and accessories online. When we employ other companies to perform these services, we require them not to use any Personal Information you provide for any other purpose. Your use of our Website constitutes your consent to our transfer to these companies of any Personal Information which may be necessary to perform those functions.
- Business Transfers: As we develop our business, we might sell or buy businesses or assets. In transactions such as these, Personal Information may be one of the transferred business assets. Moreover, in the event that RCC or any if its affiliates or subsidiaries, or are sold to, acquired by or merged with another company, or becomes insolvent, Personal Information may be one of the transferred assets.
- Protection of Others and Compliance With Law: We may release Personal Information when we believe that such release is appropriate to comply with law, court order or other legal or governmental process; to protect the rights, property or safety of our users or others; or to enforce our Privacy Policy and other agreements. In addition, we may exchange Personal Information with other organizations for fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
Access to Information About You
If you desire to review your own personal information, to correct existing Personal Information, or to remove your Personal Information, please contact us by email at legal@unicel.com. If you request removal of your Personal Information, you acknowledge that residual Personal Information may continue to reside in our records and archives, but we will not use that information for commercial purposes. RCC reserves the right to maintain your Personal Information if we have suspended, limited, or terminated your access to our Website for any reason.
Links to Third Party Websites
You may be able to access third party websites through links available on this Website. You understand and agree that your use of such third party sites will be governed by the privacy policies of those sites and not by this Privacy Policy. RCC shall not be responsible for the actions of the operators of such third party websites.
Security
On our U-Pay Online page, we provide the following security measures:
- Access to the U-Pay web pages requires entry of a valid User ID, as described above.
- The U-Pay web pages can only be accessed by web browsers with 128-bit Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption. Furthermore, your payment sessions within internal bank servers are encrypted for additional security.
- A corporate firewall protects system components that access your Personal Information.
- Personal Information is stored in a secure Oracle database. Sensitive portions of your Personal Information, such as passwords and checking account numbers, are stored in an encrypted format in the database.
RCC takes reasonable steps on the remainder of our Website to protect Personal Information from loss, misuse and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration or destruction. However, no Internet or email transmission is ever fully secure or error free. In particular, email sent to or from this Website may not be secure, and you should therefore take special care in deciding what Personal Information you send to us by email. Please keep this in mind when disclosing any Personal Information to RCC via the Internet.
Children
RCC's Website is not targeted towards children, and we do not knowingly collect information from children under the age of 13. Moreover, you must be 18 or older to purchase our products and services. Nonetheless, it is possible for children under 13 to use our wireless products and services we offer on our Website without our knowledge. In that event, information we collect will appear to have been provided by an adult subscriber, and we will treat that information in accordance with our Privacy Policy. We encourage parents and legal guardians to monitor their children's Internet and wireless telephone usage and to help enforce our Privacy Policy by instructing their children to never provide Personal Information on our Website without their permission.
Terms of Use, Notices, and Revisions
If you choose to visit our Website, your visit and any dispute over privacy is subject to this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use Agreement, and your use of our Website constitutes your agreement and acceptance of this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use Agreement. If you have a concern about privacy at our Website, please send an email with a detailed description of your concern to legal@unicel.com and we will try to resolve it. Our business and Website change constantly, and this Privacy Policy may change also. It is your responsibility to check here periodically for our current Privacy Policy. Our use of Personal Information that we receive and store is subject to the Privacy Policy in effect at the time of our use of such Personal Information. If we decided to change our Privacy Policy, we will post the revised Privacy Policy on this website, and if we decide to collect additional Personal Information from you, we will give you an opportunity to opt out of such practices.
