Privacy Policy

Lincoln Telephone Company respects your privacy. We do not sell, rent, loan, exchange, or otherwise release your personal information, mailing lists, or telephone lists for marketing purposes. We understand your concerns regarding the personal information we collect when you sign up and are committed to maintaining the appropriate degree of privacy and confidentiality as required.

We collect customer Information regarding the normal course of our business activities. This may include your name and address, social security number, credit information, or other information relevant to opening and managing your account. All personal information is treated confidentially with only essential employees, agents, or third-party support having access. Along with employee conduct rules, we maintain safeguards that comply with applicable laws and regulations such as Section 222 of the Communications Act and the FCC Customer Proprietary Network Information (CPNI) to guard your nonpublic personal information.

If you decide to terminate your customer relationship with us, we will continue to adhere to the policies and practices described in this privacy policy. The time frame information is kept is based on typical business, legal or regulatory requirements. If there are no pending requests, orders, or court orders for access to this data, we may destroy the information after it is no longer necessary.

Information we collect for the operation of our data network may be shared with our trusted third-party suppliers as needed to troubleshoot and maintain the proper operation of the network. We will share personal information with companies, organizations, or individuals if we believe disclosure of the information is reasonably necessary to meet any applicable law, regulation, legal process, or enforceable governmental request, to enforce applicable terms of service: including investigation of potential violations, to detect, prevent or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues, and to protect against harm to the rights, property or safety of our data network, our users, or the public as required by law.

We do not monitor or collect information about customer activities on the network to be shared, sold, traded or transferred to any third-party for use in marketing. Please be aware that unrelated outside parties can and do monitor the information you send and receive on the internet. You should be aware any information you send or receive over the internet is not private and is done at your own risk. We suggest you review the privacy policy of each website you visit to ensure your personal privacy with respect to third party offers. We are not responsible or liable for any loss or damages because of their actions: including their monitoring, collecting, maintaining or distributing information they may obtain concerning your use of the internet.

Lincoln Telephone reserves the right to change the terms and conditions of this policy at any time. When changed, we will post them on our website at www.linctel.net.