PRIVACY AND CPNI POLICIES OF READY WIRELESS, LLC, BOOMERANG WIRELESS,
LLC, HH VENTURES, LLC AND R3 WIRELSSS, LLC
(HEREAFTER REFERRED TO AS “READY WIRELESS”)
Ready Wireless is committed to maintaining your privacy. We
believe that you are entitled to know how Ready Wireless will collect, use and
protect the information you give us. These policies describe how we collect and
may disclose personal information, including the following: what personal
information we collect from you, how we use your information, how long we
maintain your information, when and to whom we disclose your information, how
we restrict our use of your information for marketing purposes, and how we
protect your rights concerning your information and its disclosure.
If you have any questions or concerns regarding these
policies, please contact Ready Wireless at 1-800-516-0414.
PART I: OUR PRIVACY
POLICY
SCOPE
This Privacy Policy notifies Ready Wireless subscribers
about the following:
- What
personal information we collect from you.
- What
personal information our vendors collect.
- What
organizations collect the information.
- How
the information is used.
- With
whom the information may be shared.
- How
long information is retained.
- What
choices are available to you regarding how we collect, use, and distribute
the information.
- What
security procedures are in place to protect information under the control
of Ready Wireless.
- How
you can correct any inaccuracies in the information.
TREATMENT OF
INFORMATION
Information Collected When We Provide Your Services
Ready Wireless collects information from you in connection
with your services.
Ready Wireless is authorized to collect the personal
information that we need to provide you services. We are prohibited from collecting your
personal information for any other purpose without your consent. (See the next
section for a list of authorized uses of your personal information.)
When you establish an account for services, we may collect
information such as your name, address, and telephone number, as well as
information used for credit checks, billing, and payment, and other information
we may need to establish and service your account. When you first request your
services, and when you request any changes or updates to your services, Ready
Wireless may collect information about the service options that you have
chosen. Ready Wireless may also collect your personal information when you
communicate with us: for example, if you ask for support or maintenance, have
questions about your bill, send us e-mails, respond to our surveys or e-mails,
engage in chat sessions with us, register for information, or participate in
promotions or contests.
In addition, Ready Wireless may combine your personal
information collected as part of our regular business operations with personal
information obtained from third parties to use in marketing services. (Your
right to limit or restrict us from making certain uses of information about you
is described below in this Privacy Policy.)
How We Use and
Disclose Your Information
Ready Wireless considers the personal information contained
in our business records to be confidential. However, Ready Wireless is
authorized to disclose your personal information for three general purposes:
- We may
be required by law or legal process to disclose information to law
enforcement personnel or to other parties in connection with litigation
(as described below in this Privacy Policy).
- We may
disclose the names and addresses of subscribers for business related
purposes.
- We may
disclose information necessary to provide your services.
For example, Ready Wireless may use your personal
information in order to install, configure, operate, support, and maintain your
services, including but not limited to these purposes:
- provide
your services;
- customize
your services;
- configure
service-related devices;
- account
security;
- bill
for your services;
- to
provide customer service and support;
- manage
the network supporting your services;
- make
you aware of new products or services that may be of interest to you;
- service
improvements;
- detect
use or abuse of your services; and
- compliance with policies or terms of service.
Ready Wireless may use your information for any of the above
purposes, for business activities and needs.
Additionally, Ready Wireless may disclose personal
information in connection with Caller ID, 911/E911, and directory services:
- We may
transmit your name and/or telephone number to be displayed on a Caller ID
device unless you have elected to block such information.
- We may
provide your name, address, and telephone number to public safety
authorities and their vendors for inclusion in E911 databases and records.
- We may
provide subscribers’ names, addresses, and telephone numbers to
unaffiliated directory publishers and directory assistance providers for
their use in creating directories and offering directory assistance
services.
We sometimes disclose your personal information to our
affiliates, to our employees for Ready Wireless internal business purposes, as
well as to outside auditors, professional advisors and service providers,
potential business transition partners, and regulators. Typically, we make
these disclosures only when the disclosure is necessary to provide your
services or other services to you or to conduct a legitimate business activity
related to them.
Information Collected
on Use of Your Services
When you use your services, Ready Wireless may transmit
information about you over our network. We transmit this information in order to provide your services.
We will not listen to your outgoing or incoming calls or to
your voicemail, but we may store information about the date and time of your
calls for billing purposes. We could be required to disclose this information
and messages along with other personal information about you to comply with law
enforcement. We may also monitor and/or record the performance of our Services
in order to manage, maintain, repair, and improve your services. For the purposes of training and/or quality
assurance we may monitor and record your communications with Ready Wireless employees.
Third-Party Service
Providers
We may contract with third parties to provide specific
services and features for your services. If these third parties provide
services to you, they will collect, disclose, and protect your personal
information in accordance with the policies stated herein. If, however, you
become a direct customer of these third parties, then you will be subject to
their terms of service and privacy policies. Ready Wireless recommends that you
carefully read their terms of service and policies to understand how they may
use personal information about you.
Business Transitions
In the event Ready Wireless (or its parent company) enters
into a merger, acquisition, or sale of all or a portion of our assets, we may
transfer information as part of the transaction. If, as a result of the
business transition, the Privacy Policy and the accompanying CPNI Policy are
changed, you can find those changes in the places indicated in the
“Notification of Changes to this Policy” section below.
Software and
Configuration
Ready Wireless may use information that you provide to
assist you with technical support, by collecting and maintaining your
information in support software tools. The information collected in the support software is available only to
authorized personnel for maintaining and supporting the use of your services.
Ready Wireless may also provide customer contact and support pages that you can
use to communicate with Ready Wireless about technical support. Ready Wireless uses
the information provided by you on these pages to support your use of your
services.
Ready Wireless may also provide software directly or though
third parties for your use in connection with your services. These programs may
be subject to their own terms of service and other policies. Ready Wireless recommends
that you carefully read their terms and policies to understand how they may use
your personal information.
In certain cases, Ready Wireless may configure your Service
or Service-related equipment to resolve a technical support issue or otherwise
render or deliver your service. Ready Wireless may perform these configurations
at your request.
Preferences
We may store information that you provide to personalize
your settings so that you do not have to change these settings each time you
use your services. We do not share your
preferences with third parties except for service providers or other third
parties who may provide certain components of your services.
Cookies
Ready Wireless may use cookies to customize its services.
Cookies are small files stored on your computer's hard drive to simplify and
improve your experience. Cookies may be used to remember some of your
personalization preferences and Service plan features, to remember your
username and password (if you choose to store them). This Policy covers the use of cookies by
Ready Wireless on the Ready Wireless website only; it does not cover the use of
cookies by any other party or website unless stated otherwise.
Legal Disclaimer
We make every reasonable effort to protect subscriber
privacy as described in this Privacy Policy. Nevertheless, we may be required
by law to disclose personal information about a subscriber without his or her
consent and without notice in order to comply with a valid legal process such
as a subpoena, court order, or search warrant. We may also use or disclose
personal information about you without your consent to protect our customers,
employees, or property, in emergency situations, to enforce our rights in court
or elsewhere, or directly with you, and for violations of the Service's terms
of service and policies.
COMMUNICATIONS FROM READY
WIRELESS
Special Offers and
Updates
We may send new subscribers a welcome message and sometimes
other information by e-mail or another means such as the
U.S.
mail.
Subscribers who would like to receive information from us about other products,
services, features, special offers, and promotions may do so. See the Do Not
Call and Do Not Mail Lists section of this Policy, as well as the CPNI Policy
which follows, to learn how to opt in or opt out of receiving these types of
promotional communications.
Service Announcements
We send subscribers service-related announcements from time
to time. For example, we may send you an e-mail announcement about a pricing
change, a change in operating policies, or new features of your service. You
may not opt out of these service-related communications.
Customer Service
We communicate with you to provide requested services and
support for questions and issues relating to your account. We will reply to
your requests for customer service by e-mail, phone, discussion forum, or
through any other reasonable means.
Do Not Call and Do
Not Mail Lists
Ready Wireless is permitted to use your contact information
to place or have others place telephone calls or to send printed mail to you
for marketing or promotional purposes. You have the right to ask Ready Wireless
at any time to put your name on our “do not call” and “do not mail” lists so
that you will not receive these calls or mail.
The use of your account information by Ready Wireless for
marketing and promotional activities is subject to your right to limit or
restrict us from making those offers as described below.
LINKS
The Ready Wireless website may contain links to other
websites. Some of these websites may be co-branded with Ready Wireless and may
look like part of the Ready Wireless website, but Ready Wireless is not
responsible for the privacy practices of these other sites. We encourage you to
be aware that the privacy policies described here do not apply when you leave
your service and we recommend that you read the privacy policies of every
website that collects personal information about you, whether the site is co-branded
with Ready Wireless or not.
SECURITY
Ready Wireless takes the security of our subscribers'
personal information seriously. We follow industry-standard practices to
protect your personal information from unauthorized access to it. However, we
cannot guarantee that these practices will prevent every unauthorized attempt
to access, use, or disclose personal information.
CORRECTING AND
ACCESSING INFORMATION
If your personal information changes, you may update our
records by contacting us at 1-800-516-0414.
To ensure that our records are accurate, you may examine and
copy personal information we collect and maintain relating to you upon
reasonable notice during regular business hours. If you wish to inspect those
records, please contact us by telephone at 1-800-516-0414, to arrange an
appointment. We will need a reasonable period of time to locate and, if
necessary, prepare the information for your review. You will only be permitted
to examine records that contain information about you and no one else. Please
note that we may be unable to provide you with records without a subpoena,
court order, or search warrant. Ready
Wireless reserves the right to charge a fee for the production of any documents
that you request.
We will correct our records on a going-forward basis when
the personal information we have collected about you is inaccurate. Please note, it is not possible for us to correct information appearing
in our or our vendors’ directory lists until the next available publication of
those directory lists. Further, we may have no control over information
appearing in the directory lists or directory assistance services of directory
publishers or directory assistance providers not affiliated with Ready Wireless
LLC.
RETENTION OF
INFORMATION
Ready Wireless maintains your personal information in our
regular business records while you are a subscriber of your services. We may
also 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. These purposes typically include
business, legal, or tax purposes. If there are no pending requests, orders, or
court orders for access to this personal information, we may destroy the information
after it is no longer necessary for the purposes for which it was collected.
NOTIFICATION OF
CHANGES TO THIS POLICY
If we change this Privacy Policy or the CPNI Policy below,
we will post those changes on www.readymobile.com/phone_privacy/ or in other
places we deem appropriate and notify customers of policy changes, so that you
can be aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what
circumstances, if any, we disclose it. If you decide to continue receiving your
services after we make any changes to this Privacy Policy or the CPNI Policy,
you shall be deemed to have given express consent to the changes in the revised
policy.
PART II: OUR CUSTOMER
PROPRIETARY NETWORK INFORMATION (CPNI) POLICY
Ready Wireless is committed to maintaining your privacy as
one of our customers. In addition to protecting your personal information, as
described above, we are obliged to give additional protections to certain
information about how you use your services. However, that information can help
us customize and improve services we offer you.
In this section, we first describe what information we
protect and how we protect it. AS WE
EXPLAIN IN THE “APPROVAL” SECTION BELOW, WE WILL ASSUME THAT YOU APPROVE OUR
USE OF THIS INFORMATION, UNLESS YOU CONTACT US TO DENY OR RESTRICT YOUR
APPROVAL.
CPNI PROTECTIONS
We protect personal information related to your services:
(1) information about the quantity, technical configuration, type, destination,
location, and amount of your use of your services, and (2) information
contained on your telephone bill concerning your services you receive. That
information, when matched to your name, address, and telephone number is known
as “Customer Proprietary Network Information,” or “CPNI” for short. 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, usage data and calling patterns.
As a customer of our services, you have the right, and Ready
Wireless has a duty, under federal law, to protect the confidentiality of your
CPNI. Unless we obtain your approval, Ready Wireless may not use this CPNI to
market products and services to you other than for services you currently
purchase.
APPROVAL
In this section, we first describe what information we
protect and how we protect it. AS WE
EXPLAIN IN THE “APPROVAL” SECTION BELOW, WE WILL ASSUME THAT YOU APPROVE OUR
USE OF THIS INFORMATION, UNLESS YOU CONTACT US WITHIN 30 DAYS OF RECEIVING THIS
CPNI POLICY TO DENY OR RESTRICT YOUR APPROVAL.
From time to time we would like to use the CPNI information
we have on file 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. We
would like you approval so that we, our agents and affiliates may use this CPNI
to let you know about communications‐related services other than
those to which you currently subscribe that we believe may be of interest to
you. IF YOU APPROVE, YOU DO NOT HAVE TO
TAKE ANY ACTION. IF YOU DO NOT WANT TO APPROVE OUR USE OF THIS INFORMATION, YOU
MUST NOTIFY US WITHIN 30 DAYS OF RECEIVING THIS CPNI POLICY.
DISCLAIMER
Ready Wireless also offers various other services that are
not related to the services to which you subscribe. Under CPNI rules, some of
those services are considered to be non-communications related products and
services. Occasionally, you may be asked during a telephone call with one of
our representatives for your oral consent to Ready Wireless use of your CPNI
for the purpose of providing you with an offer for non-communications related
products and services. If you provide your oral consent for Ready Wireless to
do so, Ready Wireless may use your CPNI only for the duration of such telephone
call in order to offer you additional services.
If you deny or restrict your approval for us to use your
CPNI, you will suffer no effect, now or in the future, on how we provide any
services to which you subscribe. Any denial or restriction of your approval
remains valid until your services are discontinued or you affirmatively revoke
or limit such approval or denial.
Revised and
Effective: January 1, 2010