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Privacy Policy

Effective: Dec. 2020

Impact Internet is committed to protecting and securely maintaining our customers’ Personally Identifiable Information (defined below) all while delivering traditional and useful new services during this age of rapid change in technologies and applications. Impact Internet publishes and updates this privacy policy to better inform you of our practices regarding Impact Internet’s collection, use, protection, and disclosure of your Personally Identifiable Information in the course of our providing all our communications and related services (“Services”) to you, including high speed Internet and telephone services.

Under federal law (47 U.S.C. § 551), we tell you when you first become a customer and annually about our privacy policy. We will update this privacy policy as necessary and provide you with access to the most recent version by posting it on our website at www.ImpactInternet.com We encourage you to review our policies (including our acceptable use policy and service agreement) by visiting our website periodically for the latest information and updates. If you continue to use the Services following changes to our policies, whether or not you have reviewed them in full, we will consider that you have acted and consented to the policies and the changes. If you find these policies or any changes unacceptable, you have the right to tell us about them or cancel service. 

You can learn more about your privacy rights by visiting the websites of the Federal Trade Commission at http://www.ftc.gov, and the Federal Communications Commission at http://www.fcc.gov.

Information We Collect

In general, we collect and keep only Personally Identifiable Information that is needed to provide our Services to you or to detect unauthorized reception or use of our Services. We treat Personally Identifiable Information as private, use it only for the Services we offer or provide directly to you, do not sell it to others, work to keep it secure and from being accessed without proper authorization, and destroy it when no longer needed. While we cannot cover here every particular situation where Personally Identifiable Information may be affected, we describe those situations below that we believe are most significant and would be of interest you.

  1. Personally Identifiable Information – As a result of your subscribing to and our offer or provision of Services to you, we obtain certain information that does identify you individually (“Personally Identifiable Information”). We consider our protection and use of the information that does identify you to be as secure as the law allows and a part of the trust you place in us by using our Services. We will only use your Personally Identifiable Information in a manner that is consistent with the terms of this policy.We do not consider information that is aggregated about our subscribers and which does not identify you specifically to be within this definition. This type of aggregate information may include items such as the number of customers who have purchased a premium service, or the number of Internet subscribers accessing a particular Web site on a particular day, and while discussed herein, is not covered by this policy.Specifically, Personally Identifiable Information may include but is not limited to items such as the following: your name, service address, billing address, telephone number(s), social security number, driver’s license number, demographic information, user ID’s, passwords, email addresses, credit history, or other information obtained from third parties, correspondence, repair or service requests, account notes, and related communications records. We may also maintain and protect customer information concerning credit, billing and payments, security deposits, bank accounts and credit cards, purchases of products, services, maintenance and repair, equipment and services you receive from us and other service-related functions. In offering and providing our Services, we may also collect other information that may, in some instances, be considered Personally Identifiable Information, such as: your network equipment, routers, the number and location of computers in your home that are connected to our system, modems, associated electronic addresses, settings and other preferences to aid in billing, maintenance, and customer support. We also sometimes collect Personally Identifiable Information for specific purposes, such as for surveys, promotions, or registering at our Web sites.

    You should know, and we ask you to read the specifics below, that lists of multiple customer names and addresses are permitted to be disclosed (without ever revealing any of your transactions or the extent of your use of our Services) unless you specifically request that we not include you on such lists. As outlined more specifically below, you may elect to not participate in our use of such information.

  2. High Speed Internet Services – Like most Internet service providers, we automatically collect certain general information concerning your use of our high speed Internet service, such as the Internet Protocol (IP) addresses assigned (an identifier assigned to your computer while online), MAC addresses (individual equipment identifiers) of equipment that is used, bandwidth used, system and connection performance, browsers used, dates and times of access, and Internet resource requests, including requests to access web pages, web mail servers, and other servers. Some of this information may identify those subscribers who have downloaded certain materials or accessed certain websites. This type of information is generally retained for about six months. We do not store online messages sent or received unless left by you in your Impact Internet account file. 

Use and Sharing

It is our policy to collect and use only the Personally Identifiable Information needed to provide the Services we offer with the quality you expect and in connection with our regular business activities and operations. It is also our policy to keep your Personally Identifiable Information secure and to retain it only as long as needed for our business purposes or as the law may require. We take reasonable precautions to identify you or your authorized representative when we receive an inquiry on your account as permitted by law. We also take such actions that are necessary to protect Personally Identifiable Information from unauthorized access. These include requiring you to authenticate your identity before releasing information over the phone or by other electronic means.

  1. Use Policy – We consider Personally Identifiable Information confidential, and use it only for the business purpose of providing our Services and for related purposes, for example, such as sales, installation, operations, administration, advertising, marketing, support, network management, advanced services, maintenance, customer care, communications with you, billing and collection, and for accounting and tax purposes. We may also use such information to monitor for, detect and protect against both fraud and unauthorized use of our Services. 
  2. Sharing Policy – Impact Internet sometimes uses affiliates, vendors, business partners and others outside of Impact Internet (“business partners”) who assist us in providing our Services to you. We may, without your prior consent, provide Personally Identifiable Information to business partners for such purposes. We require that our business partners maintain at least the same level of confidentiality that we maintain with respect to your Personally Identifiable Information. In addition, any use of Personally Identifiable Information by an outside party may not exceed that needed to provide its service to us or you. We do not share Personally Identifiable Information with other third parties without your consent except as required by law. If you become a customer of a third party provider of any services using our system (such as Amazon, Yahoo!, or Google), you should review that provider’s privacy policy, as it may differ from ours. 

    As a further measure, if in the future we sell mailing lists, you can affirmatively opt out of our sharing your name and address by writing to the return address on your billing statement or you may contact us online at support@impactinternet.com. Please include your name, address, and account number when contacting us for this purpose. You can also notify us similarly if you prefer not to receive marketing contacts from us. Upon receiving such notice, we (i) will not contact you directly with marketing communications about our Services, and (ii) will not use Personally Identifiable Information obtained from the provision of our Services to contact you with marketing communications about any other Impact Internet products or services. Please note, however, that we may still be required to communicate with you if necessary to render or conduct a legitimate business activity related to the Services we provide you, and to disclose Personally Identifiable Information if required to do so by law.

  3. Credit Verification – We may verify your credit standing with credit reporting agencies, and combine information received from those agencies with the personal information we collect from you. We may also disclose information about you (including your social security number, your account(s) and your payment history) to those credit reporting agencies. 
  4. High Speed Internet Services – We do not read, maintain copies of or disclose the content of your email messages, instant messages, online chats, “voice-over-internet” calls or the content of other online communications that reside on or pass through our service unless required to by law. We may use email to send transactional or relationship messages related to the Services. If you prefer, you may opt-out of other marketing messages we may send by writing to the return address on your billing statement or you may contact us online at support@impactinternet.com. Please include your name, address, and account number when contacting us for this purpose. 
  5. CPNI – We do not release CPNI to unauthorized persons over the phone. Customer Care will not release CPNI over the phone without first authenticating that the person calling is authorized to receive such information. The authentication process will require you to give us a Personal Identification Number (PIN) or password, which is issued to you at the time of service installation or sent to you through the mail. This PIN or password must be made up of random characters or numbers and not contain readily identifiable information. We may provide routine service of your account if we are able to do so without releasing CPNI by using an authentication process, which may include readily identifiable information. 
  6. Special Exceptions – We reserve the right to disclose Personally Identifiable Information if we have a good faith belief that it is necessary to: (1) comply with the law or legal process served on us, including, but not limited to, governmental criminal or administrative subpoenas, court orders, warrants and summonses; (2) protect and defend our rights or property or those of others; (3) respond to fraud, abuse, identity theft, or unauthorized reception of our services; (4) enforce our Website Visitors’ Agreement and Terms of Use, our Acceptable Use Policy or related standards; or (5) act in an emergency to protect your personal safety or that of another; or (6) prevent or assist in preventing child abuse. We may also share or transfer Personally Identifiable Information along with your account records as a part of any sale or transfer of all or a portion of our business operations, merger or combination with another organization. In such a case, you will be notified of any changes in policy. 
  7. Retention Policy – Impact Internet may retain Personally Identifiable Information in its regular business records as long as you are a customer or until no longer needed for business, tax or legal purposes. We will 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. Our security measures for this information are discussed below. 
  8. Cookies – A third party ad server that places ads on our websites or websites visited by you while using our service may use “cookies” to collect anonymous information about your visit to the website and to manage information concerning your preferences. A “cookie” is a computer code added to a file on your computer as a record of its visit. It does not collect or provide your name or any other personal information about you. It can, however, be read by the website that placed it to note information about your visit, such as your type of web browser, operating system and Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, and is used as a convenience to you to recognize you when you log in as a registered user or as a repeat visitor to the website. This improves your on line experience by adjusting to your preferences and tastes by remembering you and any options you select. You can control what cookies are accepted by your computer through the settings on your web browser or by deleting them from your files. Doing so, however, may limit the personalization available to you and your access to sections of our websites. 
  9. Third-Party Cookies and Web Beacons – These forms of computer code are sometimes placed by advertisers or others with connection to a webpage and may be read by the ad’s provider. They may use a form of code called a “web beacon” or “clear GIF.” These are usually contained in a transparent image on a page or in an image on an email message and serve as a way to gather information about your visit, such as your IP Address and information or statistics about your visit. As with cookies, you can use your browser settings to control web beacons. We may share non-personal information obtained from cookies and web beacons with vendors, advertisers and others. 

Law Enforcement and Legal Requests

  1. Information Disclosure – We regularly receive legal requests from governmental entities and law enforcement personnel for customer information and records. We also receive discovery requests in civil litigation. In all such cases, we cooperate by providing such information as the law requires. Federal law generally allows civil parties to obtain information about you only with a court order and advance notice to you. Federal law provides generally that the government must obtain a court order for disclosure of Personally Identifiable Information and can do so only upon a showing of clear and convincing evidence that you are reasonably suspected of engaging in criminal activity, and the information sought would be material to the case. The law also generally affords cable subscribers an opportunity to appear and contest the disclosure of Personally Identifiable Information to a government entity pursuant to a court order. However, under certain specific circumstances, a governmental entity may obtain or issue a warrant, summons, subpoena (criminal or administrative) or other legal process that requires us to disclose communications or records concerning you such as name; address (physical or email); records of Internet session times and durations; or other subscriber number or identity, including any temporarily assigned network address (such as an IP address); and the means and source of payment for services, including any credit card or bank account number. Such a subpoena could also require that we not notify you of the request. In those circumstances, we will not provide you with advance notice. 

    The laws concerning your privacy and government access change from time to time and may affect how we are required to respond. Due to this fact and the volume of requests we receive, we do not assume any duty to notify you of receipt of any legal requests.

  2. Internet Information – Your account records and information concerning your Internet access may be the subject of court orders or subpoenaed by the government or others through the courts. Internet messages and files shared over “peer-to-peer” services often include your IP Address, and you can be identified in this way if we receive a lawful subpoena or court order. As with telephone interception, details concerning your Internet access and the content of certain communications can be obtained by law enforcement through a warrant, summons, court order or sometimes a subpoena or similar authority. In addition, the law permits us to disclose to law enforcement, voluntarily and without prior notice, customer information, including the contents of communications, if we reasonably believe that an emergency involving immediate danger of death or serious physical injury requires such disclosure without delay or if we deem it necessary to prevent or assist in preventing or investigating child abuse.

Security of Your Personally Identifiable Information

We are aware of the publicized instances of customer information security breaches and continue to work on new ways to protect Personally Identifiable Information. At Impact internet we endeavor to ensure the integrity and security of our network and computer systems, we cannot guarantee that our security measures will prevent all instances of possible unauthorized access. It is a federal criminal offense to (1) access our computer systems without authorization, or in excess of authorized access; (2) wrongly take information from our computers; and (3) engage in pretexting practices, which include making false or fraudulent statements or representations to an employee, agent, or customer, in order to gain access to customer accounts or confidential phone records via the Internet, or by other means, without prior authorization from the customer to whom such records belong, or relate to. Consistent with these measures, we strictly prohibit the release of such information to unauthorized persons.

Since we cannot control Web sites or Internet services operated by third parties that you may visit through use of our Services, we recommend that you review the terms of service and privacy policies of those Web sites and services.

Children’s Privacy

The websites provided by Impact Internet are not directed at, or intended for use by, children under the age of 13. Children should always get permission from a parent or guardian before sending personal information over the Internet. If you believe your child may have provided us with personal information, you can contact us at the return address on this notice or found on your monthly bill and we will delete the information. You can find more information about protecting children’s privacy by contacting the FTC or viewing its website at www.ftc.gov. 

Child Pornography

As a provider of an electronic communications service, we are required by law to report any evidence we may become aware of relating to violations of laws concerning child pornography or child abuse.

Customer Access to Information

You may check the accuracy of personal information in your account by contacting a Customer Care representative. We also will make a more complete review of your Personally Identifiable Information available to you within a reasonable time following a request.

Your Enforcement Rights

You can enforce your legal privacy rights concerning our collection, use and sharing of your Personally Identifiable Information. Among your remedies is the right to seek damages and reasonable costs and attorneys’ fees under 47 U.S.C. 551. You have a right under federal law to see Personally Identifiable Information that Impact Internet collects and maintains. If you would like to see your Personally Identifiable Information, please send a written request to the address listed on the cover of this notice or on your regular bill. Alternatively, Impact Internet will be glad to make an appointment for you to come in to our office during regular business hours to review your Personally Identifiable Information. If your review reveals an error in our records, Impact Internet will correct it.

Other Terms and Changes in Policy

Other terms and conditions affect our service offerings, including our Acceptable Use Policy for high speed Internet service, tariffs, and the Terms of Use for our websites. Changes in our service offerings, the law and policy may cause us to make changes to this and other policies from time to time. Any changes will be posted at www.impactinternet.com.