(A) 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, the grantee shall provide notice, in the form of a separate written statement to each subscriber, which clearly and conspicuously informs the subscriber of:
(1) The nature of personally identifiable information collected or to be collected with respect to the subscriber and the nature of the use of the information;
(2) The nature, frequency, and purpose of any disclosure which may be made of the information, including an identification of the types of persons to whom the disclosure may be made;
(3) The period during which the information might be maintained by the cable operator; and
(4) The times and places at which the subscriber may have access to the information in accordance with this chapter and other applicable federal, state, and local law.
(B) The grantee shall not use 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, without the prior written or electronic consent of the subscriber concerned.
(C) The grantee shall not, without the specific written or electronic consent of the subscribers concerned, sell, disclose, 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 grantee 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, or pursuant to a court order, or if the grantee has provided the subscriber the opportunity to prohibit or limit the disclosure and the disclosure does 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.
(D) The 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.
(E) Each subscriber shall be provided access to all personally identifiable information regarding the subscriber that the grantee collects or maintains. The information shall be made available to the subscriber at reasonable times and at a convenient place designated by the grantee. The subscriber shall be provided the reasonable opportunity to correct any error in the information.
(F) The grantee shall destroy personally identifiable information, if the information is no longer necessary for the purpose for which it was collected and there are no pending requests or orders for access to the information under division (B) above or pursuant to a court order.
(G) This section is not intended to prohibit the use or transmission of signals useful only for the control or measurement of system performance.
(Ord. passed 10-13-1998)