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Data Stream Broadband Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy And Your Privacy Rights

Effective Date: September 10, 2019

Data Stream Broadband (“DATA STREAM BROADBAND,” “Company,” “us,” “we,” or “our”) values the privacy and security of Subscriber Personal Information. This Privacy Policy” describes the type of Personal Information DATA STREAM BROADBAND collects, how it is used, disclosed, secured and options regarding certain uses of this information. This Privacy Policy applies to visitors and users of DATA STREAM BROADBAND’s website (“Site”) and applicants and current or former Subscribers of our VoIP and IPTV services and Standard and Internet access services (collectively, “Services”) residing in the United States.

Any capitalized terms used herein shall have the same meaning as defined in the DATA STREAM BROADBAND Service Level Agreement (SLA).

By using DATA STREAM BROADBAND’s Site and Services, Subscribers consent to the data practices described in this Privacy Policy regarding the collection, use, disclosure, and disposal of your Personal Information. DATA STREAM BROADBAND’s Site and Services are designed and targeted to United States audiences and are governed by and operated in accordance with the laws of the U.S. If Subscriber is not a U.S. citizen or does not reside in the U.S., Subscriber voluntarily consents to the collection, transfer, use, disclosure and retention of Subscriber Personal Information in the U.S. Subscriber also agrees to waive any claims that may arise under Subscriber’s own national laws.

Your Privacy Rights

Generally, residents are entitled by law to ask DATA STREAM BROADBAND for a notice identifying the categories of Personal Information that DATA STREAM BROADBAND that is shared with our Affiliates and/or other third parties for their marketing purposes the preceding year, and provide contact information for such Affiliates and/or third parties unless DATA STREAM BROADBAND meets certain exceptions in the law. This Privacy Policy and Site meet those exceptions. Additionally, DATA STREAM BROADBAND does not share Subscriber Information to Affiliates or third parties for their own marketing purposes. Therefore, a Subscriber with an established business relationship with DATA STREAM BROADBAND does not need information about DATA STREAM BROADBAND’s opt-out and out-in policies of sharing Subscriber Personal Information with other companies (including our Affiliates) for their marketing purposes. If you have questions regarding our policy, Subscribers residing in must send a written request via email or postal mail following the instructions below. DATA STREAM BROADBAND will not accept requests via the telephone or facsimile or respond to requests that are not labeled or sent properly or do not have complete information.

For all requests, include Subscriber’s full name, street address, city, state and zip code.
In an email request, Subscriber must state “Re: Your Privacy Rights” in the subject line and send Subscriber email to [email protected].
In a postal request, Subscriber must send a letter or postcard to:

Data Stream Broadband Corp
41 W Lee Hwy Ste 59-121
Warrenton, VA 20186
Attention: Your Privacy Rights

I. INFORMATION DATA STREAM BROADBAND COLLECTS

A. Information You Provide

DATA STREAM BROADBAND (which hereinafter includes Operational Service Providers, unless designated otherwise) collects information when you visit the Site, communicate with the Company in any manner, and when you establish an online account, register to use the Services, “LIKE” or use our social networking pages such as Facebook. This includes information you provide such as name, billing and service address, email address, telephone or mobile number, date of birth, gender and payment information and related financial information, including account number, CVV, expiration date, and billing address.

Personal Information also includes customer proprietary network information (“CPNI”) which is collected and used to provide VoIP and IPTV Services to you. CPNI includes any information that relates to the quantity, technical configuration, type, destination, location, and amount of use of our services, such as call detail, logs, and specifics regarding your account. A Subscriber’s name, address and telephone number are not CPNI.

B. Information Automatically Collected

Whenever you visit, interact with, or use DATA STREAM BROADBAND’s Site or Services, DATA STREAM BROADBAND may use a variety of technologies such as cookies, web beacons, pixel tags, log files, local shared objects (such as Flash cookies), HTML5 cookies, or other technologies to automatically or passively collect certain information about your online activity.

DATA STREAM BROADBAND may also collect Non-Personal information on an anonymous basis, which is not unique to a Subscriber and cannot be used individually to identify a specific person, such as zip code, age, gender, preferences, interests, and favorites. However, demographic and other information that is linked to or associated with a Subscriber’s Personal Information or Account is also deemed to be Personal Information.

Information about your computer hardware and software also may be automatically collected by DATA STREAM BROADBAND. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses, browser and search history. This information is used by DATA STREAM BROADBAND for the operation of the Services, to maintain quality of the Services, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the DATA STREAM BROADBAND Site and Services. Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose Personal Information through DATA STREAM BROADBAND’s public message boards or other public areas, this information may be collected and used by others.

IP address and other persistent device identifiers such as cookies, plus the nature of any of user devices or other personal property using the Site and Services, and web-browsing or app usage history are traditionally classified as Non-Personal Information but could be classified as Personal Information when such information is either 1) linked to a specific person, computer or device; 2) is combined with other Personal Information; 3) is required by applicable law to be classified as Personal Information.

Site Visits. DATA STREAM BROADBAND may collect information about your visit to the Site, including the date and time you visit the Site, the areas or pages that you visit, the amount of time you spend viewing or using the Services, other click-stream or site usage data, emails that you open, forward or click-through to the Services, and other sites that you may visit.
Service and Device Information. DATA STREAM BROADBAND may collect information regarding websites visited, application and feature usage, network and device data, router connections, IP addresses or other unique identifier or information from the computer, mobile device, tablet or other device you use to access the Site and Services, including but not limited to your browser type, device type, operating system, software version, phone model, phone operating system, and the domain name from which you accessed the Site and Services.
Use of Third-Party Analytic Technologies. DATA STREAM BROADBAND may use third-party analytics and tracking tools to better understand who is using the Site or Services, how they are using the Site or Services, how to improve the effectiveness of the Site and Services and related content. These tools may use technology such as cookies, web beacons, pixel tags, log files, Flash cookies, HTML5 cookies, or other technologies to automatically collect and store certain information. They may also combine information they collect from your interaction with the Site or Services with information they collect from other sources. DATA STREAM BROADBAND does not have access to, or control over, these third parties’ use of cookies or other tracking technologies.

II. INFORMATION USE

DATA STREAM BROADBAND uses the information it collects to: deliver, maintain, and repair the Site and Services; establish, monitor and maintain account and billing records; measure credit and payment risk; provide account-related services; assist with service-related issues or questions; manage and protect the DATA STREAM BROADBAND Network, Services, Subscribers and other users from fraudulent, abusive, or unlawful uses; improve and personalize our Site and Services, research and develop new products and services; determine your eligibility for new products and services; use in the aggregate for analytical and demographic purposes; deliver first-party marketing offers to you that are among the categories of Service to which you already subscribe and other communications-related services; and for other purposes disclosed at the time of collection.

III. INFORMATION DATA STREAM BROADBAND SHARES WITH OTHERS

DATA STREAM BROADBAND may share your information with the following entities and reasons:

1) Affiliates, agents, Operational Service Providers, providing communications-related and security services for business, operational, promotional and first-party marketing purposes;

2) Law enforcement or government entities in response to subpoenas, court orders, or other regulatory or legal process (including civil and criminal) or as otherwise required by law;

3) In order to investigate, prevent, or take enforcement action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, and situations involving potential threats or harm to any person (including Subscribers), the DATA STREAM BROADBAND Network, Site, or other Company assets, or in cases where we believe our Master Service Agreement has been/is being violated; and

4) In the event of any reorganization, merger, sale, joint venture, assignment, transfer or other disposition of all or part of DATA STREAM BROADBAND’s business, assets or membership.

DATA STREAM BROADBAND does not sell or lease our Subscriber Personal Information to third parties for their advertising and marketing purposes without your consent. We also request that our Operational Service Providers not sell or lease any Subscriber Personal Information for their own marketing or advertising purposes.

IV. YOUR CHOICES

A. Cookies and Ad Choices

Certain parts of DATA STREAM BROADBAND’s Site require cookies. You may adjust your equipment or Internet browser settings to limit certain tracking or to decline cookies, but by doing so, you may not be able to use certain features of the Service or take full advantage of all of our offerings. Please refer to your equipment’s settings or your Internet browser’s “Help” section for more information on how to delete and/or disable your equipment or browser from receiving cookies or controlling your tracking preferences. If you wish to prevent your data from being used by Google Analytics, Google has developed the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on available https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/.

DATA STREAM BROADBAND does not provide third-party “Network Advertising,” which is advertising based on Subscriber’s overall Internet usage across different third-party websites or online services. Multiple third-party websites and online services are involved in this tailored or personalized advertising process, in essence, a “network” of advertising providers.

Because DATA STREAM BROADBAND does not provide network ads, DATA STREAM BROADBAND does not recognize the “Do Not Track” settings on various Internet browsers. DATA STREAM BROADBAND does not engage or allow third parties to track you across the Internet and across time for advertising purposes.

B. Marketing Communications

DATA STREAM BROADBAND provides Subscribers with the opportunity to update their Personal Information or opt-out of the use of Personal Information for purposes not directly related to placement, processing, fulfillment, delivery or troubleshooting DATA STREAM BROADBAND’s Site and Services. DATA STREAM BROADBAND only conducts first-party marketing, which means that we will use your Personal Information to market our own Services. To opt-out of DATA STREAM BROADBAND’s own marketing communications, you may:

Send us an e-mail at [email protected];
Contact us by mail at the address below in the “Contact Us” section, or
Unsubscribe from email or text communications at any time by unsubscribing or following the instructions contained within the email or text messages.

We may use a Subscriber’s CPNI for marketing of DATA STREAM BROADBAND products and Services that a Subscriber has already purchased. We will obtain a Subscriber’s consent to market unrelated products and services.

C. Updating Your Information

If you wish to verify, correct, or update any of your Personal Information, you may visit the “Account Page” on the Site to sign into your account, or otherwise contact DATA STREAM BROADBAND at the address or e-mail in the “Contact Us” section below. If you choose to deactivate your account, DATA STREAM BROADBAND may still retain certain information for analytical purposes, recordkeeping integrity and requirements, as well as to prevent fraud, resolve disputes, enforce our Master Service Agreement or other policies, take actions it deems necessary due to technical and legal requirements, and as dictated by constraints related to the security, integrity and operation of the Site and Services.

V. CHILDREN’S PRIVACY

DATA STREAM BROADBAND does not request, nor do we knowingly collect any Personal Information from, children under the age of thirteen. If DATA STREAM BROADBAND learns that a child under the age of thirteen has provided Personal Information to our Site or Services, it will use reasonable efforts to remove such information from our files.

VI. DATA SECURITY

DATA STREAM BROADBAND has taken certain reasonable physical, administrative, and technical steps to safeguard the information it collects from and about Subscribers and visitors. While DATA STREAM BROADBAND makes every effort to help ensure the integrity and security of the DATA STREAM BROADBAND Network and systems, it cannot guarantee 100% security.

VII. REVISIONS TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

DATA STREAM BROADBAND reserves the right, at our sole discretion, to change, modify, add, remove, or otherwise revise portions of this Privacy Policy at any time. When it does, DATA STREAM BROADBAND will post the change(s) on the Site. Your continued use of the Site following the posting of changes to these terms signals your assent to these changes unless additional notice or advance consent is required by law.

VIII. HOW TO CONTACT US

If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy or the practices described herein, you may contact DATA STREAM BROADBAND at 877.303.8956 or by mail to: