Privacy Policy: Website
Blue Ridge Cable Technologies, Inc., d/b/a Blue Ridge Communications (“Blue Ridge,” “We,” “Our”) is the organization that produces brctv.com (“Website”). We are committed to safeguarding your privacy online. This Privacy Policy is applicable to this Website. It does not apply to Blue Ridge’s treatment of information it collects and receives about you through other means, such as in connection with services Blue Ridge provides. Please review Blue Ridge’s Services Privacy Policy.
Information You Voluntarily Provide
You may visit our Website without disclosing any personally identifiable information. To make use of some features on our Website, You may need to register and provide certain information as part of the registration process. The personal information we collect during registration may include, but is not limited to, first and last name, street address, e-mail address, telephone number (e.g., home, work, mobile and/or fax), and birthdate.
Supplying such information is voluntary. If you choose not to supply the information, we may be unable to provide you with the products and services we make available to other visitors to the Website. You will not be able to order selected products or services over the Website unless you provide certain personally identifying information about yourself. When you submit personally identifying information over the Website, Blue Ridge (1) will use the information for the purposes described at the time you submit it and (2) may use the information to contact you to make you aware of other products and services.
Automatically Collected Information
We may use cookies (small amounts of data, which often includes an anonymous unique identifier that is sent to your browser from a Website's computers and stored on your computer's hard drive)and similar automatic tracking technologies to understand Website trends and to improve our content and offerings. Examples of the information we may collect and analyze using this method include: the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet; type and version, operating system, and platform; purchase history, which we may aggregate with similar information from other customers; the full Uniform Resource Locator (URL) clickstream to, on, and from our Website, including date and time; cookie information; to measure and collect session information, including page response times; download errors; length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs); and methods used to browse away from the page.
Further, unless you voluntarily identify yourself, Blue Ridge will not know who you are from cookies alone. The only personal information a cookie can contain is information you supply. When you register on the Website, Blue Ridge may use cookies to deliver a more personalized experience. This includes, but is not limited to, remembering your username and password, as well as certain choices you have made so you do not have to re-enter them.
If you do not want information collected through the use of cookies, there is a simple procedure in most browsers that allows the user to accept or reject cookies. If you set your browser not to accept cookies, you may not be able to take advantage of certain services on our Website.
Information Sharing or Disclosure
Except as described in this policy, Blue Ridge does not share your personally identifiable information without your consent. However, any information gathered or submitted to us may be shared with 1) our third party service providers acting on our behalf, such as when offering, advertising, or marketing our products and services, and 2) on occasion, we may offer a special promotion (such as a sweepstakes or other contests on the Website) or otherwise or in conjunction with a third party service provider, sponsor or promotional partner, and share your information with that sponsor or promotional partner so that it can send you other special promotions it offers, but only if you give us permission to do so. Most of our third party advertising service providers, like Facebook, allow you to opt-out on their websites. Blue Ridge may also share your personally identifiable information with entities affiliated with us through common ownership or control. We do not sell, lease, or share your personally identifiable information with anyone else.
We may share aggregated demographic information with third parties, but this information is not linked to any personal information that can identify you or another individual person. Therefore, no personal information is disclosed in this manner.
Business Transfers
In the future, Blue Ridge Communications may be sold along with its assets, or other transactions may occur in which customer information is one of the business assets transferred. In such a case, the customer information which we have gathered may be one of the business assets we transfer.
Disclosure for Legal Purposes
The law requires that we may be required to share your personally identifiable and non-personally identifiable information pursuant to judicial or governmental subpoenas, warrants or orders. If we are required to do so, we will, of course, obey the law. In addition, notwithstanding any term to the contrary in this Privacy Policy, we reserve the right to use and disclose share your personal and non-personal information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of this Website's General Rules and Definitions, or as otherwise required by law.
Links
Our Website may contain links to other websites operated by unrelated third parties. Please note that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of third party websites. We encourage you to be aware of this when your leave our Website and to read the privacy policies of every website that collects personally identifiable information from you. The Privacy Policy applies only to this Website.
Children’s Privacy
Blue Ridge takes children’s privacy seriously and wants children and parents to understand that our Website is not intended for children under the age of 13. If you are under the age of 13, please do not use this Website. We do not seek to collect personal information about children through our Website.
Contact Us
If you have questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, you can contact us at: Blue Ridge Communications, PO Box 215, 613 Third Street, Palmerton, PA 18071 or csr@brctv.com.
Changes to this Policy
We may change this Policy at our sole discretion. We will post any changes on this page. By continuing to use the Website after we post changes, you accept and agree to this Policy, as modified.
LAST UPDATED AND EFFECTIVE DATE: January 6, 2020.