Prentiss Electric Broadband, LLC (“Company” or “Prentiss”) is committed to maintaining the privacy of all Users. In addition to protecting your personal information, as outlined in the Company’s Privacy Policy, we are obligated to provide additional protections to certain information about how you use your telephone and internet services.
CPNI Protections
As a User of our Services, you have the right, and the Company has a duty, under federal law, to protect the confidentiality of certain types of telephone related services, including: (1) information about the quantity, technical configuration, type, destination, location, and amount of your use of your telephone usage, and (2) information contained on your telephone bill concerning the services that you receive. That information, when matched to your name, address, and telephone number is known as “Customer Proprietary Network Information” or CPNI. Examples of CPNI include information typically available from telephone-related details on your monthly bill, technical information, type of service, current telephone charges, long distance and local service billing records, directory assistance charges, call usage data and calling patterns. CPNI does not include your name, address and telephone number, as this is common publicly available information.
Giving Permission
From time to time, the Company would like to use the CPNI information it has access to in order to provide you with information about our communications-related products and services or special promotions. Our use of CPNI may also enhance our ability to offer products and services tailored to your specific needs. Accordingly, we would like your permission so that we may use this CPNI to let you know about communications-related services other than those to which you currently subscribe. When you contact Customer Service we will ask for your permission to access your account and service data in order to serve you.
You do have the right to restrict our use of your CPNI at any time.If you deny or restrict your permission for use of your CPNI, you will suffer no effect, now or in the future, on how we provide Services to which you subscribe.
Customer Authentication
Federal privacy rules require Company to authenticate the identity of its customer prior to disclosing CPNI.Customers contacting Customer Service can discuss their services and billings with a Company representative once that representative has verified the caller’s identity. There are three methods by which we will conduct customer authentication:
- provide your full account number
- provide your full account name
- provide your full service address
Notifications of Certain Account Changes
Company will be notifying Customers of certain account changes. For example, whenever an online account is created or changed, or a password or other form of authentication (such as a “security question and answer”) is created or changed, the Company will notify the account holder by E-mail at the E-mail address on record. Additionally, after an account has been established, when a customer’s address changes or is added to an account, Company will also send a change confirmation notification.
Disclosure of CPNI
The Company may disclose CPNI in the following circumstances:
- When the Customer has provided permission for the use of their CPNI.
- When disclosure is required by law or court order.
- To protect the rights and property of the Company or to protect Customers and other carriers from fraudulent, abusive, or unlawful use of services.
- To provide the Services to the Customer, including Customer reported trouble management.
- To bill the Customer for Services.
Protecting CPNI
The Company uses numerous methods to protect your CPNI. This includes software enhancements used to identify fraud and abuse of the network. Further, all Company employees are trained on how CPNI is to be protected and when it may or may not be disclosed. All marketing campaigns are reviewed by a Company supervisory committee to ensure that all such campaigns comply with applicable CPNI rules.
The Company maintains records of its own and its joint venture partners and/or independent contractors (if applicable) sales and marketing campaigns that utilize Customer CPNI. Included in this, is a description of the specific CPNI that was used in the sales or marketing campaign. We also maintain records of all instances in which CPNI is disclosed to third parties or where third parties were allowed access to Customer CPNI. Maintenance of records is in accordance with our Document Retention Policy.
The Company will not release CPNI during customer-initiated telephone contact without first authenticating the Customer’s identity in the manner set-forth herein. Violation of this CPNI policy by any Company employee will result in disciplinary action as set-forth in the Company Employee Manual.
Breach of CPNI Protections
In the event the Company experiences a privacy breach and CPNI is disclosed to unauthorized persons, Federal rules require the Company to report such breaches to law enforcement. Specifically, the Company will notify law enforcement no later than seven (7) business days after a reasonable determination that such breach has occurred by sending electronic notification through a central reporting facility to the United States Secret Service and the FBI. A link to the reporting facility can be found at: https://www.cpnireporting.gov . The Company cannot inform its Customers of the CPNI breach until at least seven (7) days after notification has been sent to law enforcement, unless the law enforcement agent instructs the carrier to postpone disclosure pending investigation. Additionally, the Company is required to maintain records of any discovered breaches, including the date that the breach was discovered, the date carriers notified law enforcement and copies of the notifications to law enforcement, a detailed description of the CPNI breach, including the circumstances of the breach, and law enforcement’s response (if any) to the reported breach. The Company will retain these records for a period of no less than two (2) years.
Notification of Changes to Our CPNI Policy
Should we modify this CPNI Policy, we will post the changes on the Company website and/or in other places that we deem appropriate, so that you can be aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.
We reserve the right to modify this CPNI Policy at any time. We will notify you of any material changes via written, electronic, or other means permitted by law, including by posting it on our website. If you find the changes unacceptable, you have the right to cancel the Services. If you continue to use the Services after receiving notice of such changes, we will consider that as your acceptance of the changes.
Effective: January 1, 2024