<div class="chunk-title">Sec. 20-85. - Protection of subscriber privacy.</div>
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               (a)
               
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               <span class="ital">Protection of subscriber privacy mandatory.</span> Grantee shall at all times protect the privacy of subscribers, as provided herein
               and in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws.
               
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               (b)
               
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               <span class="ital">Collection of personally identifiable information prohibited.</span> Grantee shall not use or permit the use of the cable system to collect personally
               identifiable information concerning any subscriber without prior written or electronic
               consent of the subscriber concerned, except to obtain information necessary: (1) to
               render a cable service or other service provided by the grantee to the subscriber,
               or (2) to detect unauthorized reception of cable communications. "Personally identifiable
               information" does not include any record of aggregate data which does not identify
               particular persons.
               
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               (c)
               
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               <span class="ital">Disclosure of subscriber information prohibited.</span> Except as provided in this section, the grantee shall not disclose personally identifiable
               information concerning any subscriber without prior written or electronic consent
               of the subscriber concerned and shall take such actions as are necessary to prevent
               unauthorized access to such information by a person other than the subscriber or cable
               operator. The grantee may disclose such information if the disclosure is:
               
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               (1)
               
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               Necessary to render or conduct a legitimate business activity related to a cable service
               or other service provided by the grantee to the subscriber;
               
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               (2)
               
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               Subject to 47 U.S.C. Â§ 551(h), and amendments or successor statutes thereto, made
               pursuant to a court order authorizing such disclosure, if the subscriber is notified
               of such order by the person to whom the order is directed; or
               
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               (3)
               
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               A disclosure of names and addresses of subscribers to any cable service or other services,
               provided such disclosure does not reveal the extent of any viewing or other use by
               the subscriber of a cable service or other service provided by the grantee.
               
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               (d)
               
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               <span class="ital">Personally identifiable information.</span> Grantee shall not predicate regular subscriber service on the subscriber's grant
               or denial of permission to collect, maintain or disclose personally identifiable information.
               A subscriber may at any time revoke any permission previously given by delivering
               to the grantee a written statement of that intent.
               
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               (e)
               
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               <span class="ital">Correction policy.</span> Each subscriber shall be provided access to all personally identifiable information
               regarding such subscriber that grantee collects or maintains or allows to be collected
               or maintained, and such subscriber shall be provided the opportunity to correct any
               error in such information.
               
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               (f)
               
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               <span class="ital">Viewing habits.</span> Any information concerning individual subscriber viewing habits or responses, except
               for information for billing purposes, shall be destroyed within 60 days.
               
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               (g)
               
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               <span class="ital">System performance.</span> This section is not intended to prohibit the use or transmission of signals useful
               only for the control or measurement of system performance.
               
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               (h)
               
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               <span class="ital">Notice of privacy provisions.</span> At the time of entering into an agreement to provide any cable or other service to
               a subscriber grantee shall provide notice in the form of a separate written statement
               to each subscriber which clearly and conspicuously informs the subscriber of:
               
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               (1)
               
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               The privacy rights of the subscriber and the limitations placed upon grantee with
               regard to this chapter hereof and all other applicable federal, state and local subscriber
               privacy provisions;
               
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               (2)
               
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               The nature of personally identifiable information collected or to be collected with
               respect to the subscriber and the nature of the use of such information;
               
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               (3)
               
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               The nature, frequency, and purpose of any disclosure which may be made of such information,
               including an identification of the types of persons to whom the disclosure may be
               made;
               
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               (4)
               
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               The time and place at which the subscriber may have access to such information in
               accordance with this chapter and other applicable federal, state and local law.
               
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               (Ord. No. 1998-05, art. VIII, Â§ 8.5, 2-16-98)
               
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