<div class="chunk-title">Sec. 23-135. - Protection of subscriber privacy.</div>
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               (a)
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               Protection of subscriber privacy mandatory. Grantee shall at all times protect the
               privacy of subscribers, as provided in this article and other applicable federal,
               state, and local laws.
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               (b)
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               Notice of privacy provisions. At the time of entering into an agreement to provide
               any cable service or other service to a subscriber, and at least once a year thereafter,
               grantee shall provide notice in the form of a separate written statement to subscriber
               which clearly and conspicuously informs the subscriber of:
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               (1)
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               The privacy rights of the subscriber;
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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 period during which such information might be maintained by the cable operator;
               and
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               (5)
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               The time and place at which the subscriber may have access to such information in
               accordance with this article and other applicable federal, state, and local law.
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               (c)
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               Collection of personally identifiable information prohibited. Grantee shall not use
               or permit the use of the cable system to collect personally identifiable information
               concerning any subscriber, except as necessary to render a cable service or other
               service provided by the cable operator to the subscriber or to detect unauthorized
               reception of cable communications. Grantee shall not tabulate, nor permit others to
               tabulate, any subscriber use of the cable system which would reveal the opinions or
               commercial product preferences of individual subscribers, whether residential or business,
               or of any occupant or user of the subscriber's premises without written authorization
               from the subscriber for his or her participation in a shop-at-home or similar service.
               When providing such service, the grantee may tabulate only those responses essential
               to the functioning of that shopping or other service, and may not use any such tabulation
               of individual preferences for any other purposes. Tabulations of aggregate opinion
               or preference are permitted, provided the aggregations are sufficiently large to assure
               individual privacy.
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               (d)
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               Disclosure of subscriber information prohibited. Grantee shall not without the specific
               written authorization of the individual subscribers involved, sell or otherwise make
               available to any party any list of the names and addresses of individual subscribers,
               any list which identifies the viewing habits of individual subscribers, or any personal
               data, social security number, income and other data the company may have on file about
               individual subscribers, except as necessary to render or conduct a legitimate business
               activity related to a cable service or other service provided by the cable operator
               to the subscriber; provided, however, that such disclosure shall not reveal directly
               or indirectly the extent of viewing or other use by the subscriber of a cable service
               or other service provided by the cable operator, or the nature of any transaction
               made by the subscriber over the cable system.
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               (e)
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               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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               (f)
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               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 reasonable opportunity to correct
               any error in such information.
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               (g)
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               Any information concerning individual subscriber viewing habits or responses, except
               for information for billing purposes, shall be destroyed within 90 days. Information
               for billing purposes shall be kept for three years and then destroyed unless otherwise
               necessary to be kept for the purpose of which it was collected or required to be kept
               by law.
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               (h)
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               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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               (Ord. of 10-10-05, Â§ 25-155)
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