Among others, we may collect information about you in the following ways:

• Information you give us directly, such as when you purchase products or services, fill out a form for any of our Services, send us an e-mail, or respond to a survey
• Automatically from your device, such as when you use an interactive or transactional service, television viewing controls, or use our Services
• From third parties, such as service providers who provide us operational support

Additionally, with respect to our customers in the United States, we collect Customer Proprietary Network Information (CPNI) from you when you use certain telecommunications Services. Please see the section on CPNI below for more information, which includes instructions if you wish to opt-out of our use of your CPNI for marketing.

You may provide information to us directly, including:

• Registration information: When you sign up for our Services, we require you to provide information about yourself and supporting documentation, including all or some of the following: your name, service and billing address, email address, telephone number, Social Security or other government-issued identifiers, driver’s license number, billing and credit records, and bank account and credit card numbers used to pay for our Services.
• Account Information: Information we use to identify you and to maintain your account and the Services, which may include date of birth, government-issued identifiers, next of kin, employment, and credit history
• Payment and Billing Information: Information about your payments to us and the information on your billing statements and receipts.
• Contact Information: Information that we maintain to be able to get in touch with you.
• Social Media Information: When you interact with us on social media, we may collect your username, real name, profile picture, and any information you choose to share with us on the social media platform.
• Photographs: We may collect photos of your property for troubleshooting purposes.
• Communications: We may collect records of calls, emails, and chats with our customer service representatives.

We or partners working on our behalf may collect information automatically from the devices or software you use to access our Services. If you are using our Websites, applications (“apps”), or other digital channels, we may collect some of this information using web “cookies” and similar information-gathering technologies and maintain server logs. The types of information we may collect include:

• Online Analytical Information: We may collect information from your browser and activity on our Websites or apps, including details about your interaction with our Websites, apps, and electronic newsletters.
• Online Advertising Information: We and partners working on our behalf may collect information from your browser and activity on our Websites or apps that we use for advertising our Services to you on third-party websites or apps, including special advertising and other unique identifiers that enable us or our partners to target advertisements to you. Please be aware that our advertising partners may collect information about you when you visit third-party websites or use third-party apps. They may use that information to better target advertisements to you on our behalf.
• Service Usage: We may collect information about your use of our Services. This includes, for example, your video selections when you use our cable television Services, your use of company-provided and third-party set-top boxes, remote controls, electronic program guides, video players, applications, tablets, and other devices and software that are connected to our cable system or other Services. This information includes which channels, programs, and advertisements are viewed and for how long. When you use our digital video recording service, our DVR partner collects information about you, including personal and viewership information, to provide that Service. When you use our internet and telephone services, we may transmit, collect, and store information about you for a period of time related to your use of our Services and features. This information may include your email, instant messaging activity, file transfers and sharing, web browsing, telephone activity including voicemails, use of our voice center, custom settings or preferences, and communications with us for support, or other uses of our Services and features.
• Voice Commands: We may collect information from voice-activated or voice-controlled devices.
• Geolocation: We may collect precise geolocation if you have it enabled on your mobile device when you use our apps. Also, we may collect address-level information, for example, when you use Wi-Fi enabled devices that connect to your router. If you do not want us to collect your device’s location, you can disable location services on your device using the device settings.
• Device and Network Activity Information: We may collect technical information about your use of devices on our network, for example, IP address, Domain Name Server, and statistics about your network activity.
• Video and Audio Recordings: If you use our home security services and activate recording features, we may collect video and audio recordings.

We may collect information about you from third parties, including:

• Information, such as contact information, demographic information, and information about your interests and purchases, that we obtain from other companies to better tailor our programming, marketing, and advertising services to you.

• Information about your billing and credit history from credit reporting agencies.

• Information about your interests, activities, and employment history from social networks and other places where you choose to share information publicly.

• Information about your interaction with advertisements on our Services or ads that we place on third-party websites from online advertising companies.

If you decide to invite others to the Services, we will collect your and the other persons names, email addresses, and/or phone numbers to send an email or text message and follow up with the other person. You agree that you will obtain the other persons consent before giving us their contact information. You also agree that you will not send us the contact information of a minor. We will inform any other person you invite that you gave us their information in the invitation email.

• To provide and manage our Services: We may use information about you to provide the Services you requested, send you bills and invoices, provide technical support, authenticate access to your account, help with upgrades, detect and protect against fraud and the unauthorized use of our Services, provide you with personalized content, process and respond to your inquiries, administer disputes, and enforce our legal rights, including your agreement(s) to receive the Services. Additionally, we may ask you for feedback about our Services’ performance, customer care service, and maintenance and operations. As permitted by applicable law, we may monitor and record our communications with you, including emails, chats, and calls, for training purposes, quality assurance, and to record details about the Services you order from us.
• To enhance our Services:
• We may use audience measurement and other demographic data about you to improve our Services and make programming and advertising more relevant to you. We may also use this information to distribute and deliver relevant programming and advertising to you.
• Viewership information may be used to determine which shows are most popular, how many people watch a program to its conclusion, and whether people are watching commercials. An analysis of this information helps improve our cable television service and other Services and makes programming and advertising more relevant to our subscribers; it also allows us to distribute and deliver relevant programming and advertising to you without disclosing personally identifiable information about you to programmers or advertisers.
• Activity data may be used to help us learn how popular certain programs are and how our customers as a whole generally prefer to view certain kinds of programming using cable television service, including whether they like to watch certain programs live, on-demand, on mobile devices, or online. This may require us to compare or combine activity data on our cable system with online activity data.
• To customize our Services:
• This enables us to personalize your settings on our products and Services so that you don’t have to change these settings each time you use them.
• We may use location data to identify which of our systems provides services to you to provide relevant information related to our Services in your area.
• For marketing and advertising: We may use information about you to deliver our and third parties’ advertisements to you on our properties or on third parties’ websites and apps, measure the effectiveness of our advertising, provide you with content recommendations, and send you promotions and offers. We may also use activity data to determine whether promoting content and services in certain ways helps attract a larger audience and more customers. We may compare or combine information, such as activity data, we receive when you use cable television services to view content or advertising with information about your use of content and advertising that we deliver on other platforms, such as DVR devices, Websites, and apps. We do this to better understand how our customers access and use our products and services in all of the places that we offer them.
• For troubleshooting: We may collect activity data associated with particular devices, such as set-top boxes, portable devices, and other supported devices, so we know where to deliver the Services and how to troubleshoot them.
• To maintain the security of our systems: We may use information about you to protect and secure our Services, assets, network, and business operations and to detect, investigate, and prevent activities that may violate our policies or be fraudulent or illegal. We may use automated processes to scan incoming and outgoing email messages to, for example, identify and filter out likely spam or harmful messages. We do not read or disclose to third parties the content of your email messages or other online communications unless we are compelled by law or legal process to do so.
• For legal compliance: We may use information about you to comply with legal processes, such as warrants, subpoenas, court orders, and lawful regulatory or law enforcement requests, and to comply with applicable legal requirements.

• Affiliates: We may share information with other members of our group of companies.  

• Telephone Services: We will only use, disclose, or permit access to your information as required by law or as approved by you and as necessary to provide communications services or other services necessary to, or used in, the provision of the communications service. We may disclose your personally identifiable information to third parties in connection with features and services such as Caller ID and directory services.  

• Commerce Partners and Other Third Parties: When you elect to participate in a special offer or engage in a transaction presented by us but provided by our Commerce Partners, we may disclose information about you to such Commerce Partners when relevant. We may disclose limited information, including your name, address, and level of service, to other non-affiliated entities for “mailing list” or other purposes that may or may not relate to the Services unless you object to such disclosure in advance. Any disclosure that we make under this exception will not reveal, directly or indirectly, the extent of your viewing or other use of the Services or the nature of any transaction you make over our cable system. 

• Service Providers: We engage vendors to perform specific business functions on our behalf, and they may receive information about you from us or collect it directly. These vendors are obligated by contract to use information that we share only for the purpose of providing these business functions, which include:

• Supporting Service functionality, such as vendors that support customer service and customer relationship management, application development, postal mailings, and communications (email, SMS, fax). 

• Auditing and accounting firms, such as firms that assist us in the creation of our financial records. 

• Professional services consultants, such as firms that perform analytics, assist with improving our business, provide legal services, or supply project-based resources and assistance. 

• Analytics and marketing services, including entities that analyse traffic on our online properties, assist with identifying and communicating with potential customers and support distribution of marketing communications.  

• Security vendors, such as entities that assist with security incident verification and response, service notifications, and fraud prevention. 

• Information technology vendors, such as entities that assist with website design, hosting and maintenance, data and software storage, and network operation. 

• Online Advertising Partners: We partner with companies that assist us in advertising our Services, including partners that use cookies and online tracking technologies to collect information to personalize, retarget, and measure the effectiveness of advertising.  

• Law Enforcement and Governmental Entities: If allowed by and after complying with applicable local laws requirements, we may disclose your information to representatives of a government or to comply with valid legal processes. In these situations, we may be required to disclose information about a customer without the customer's consent and without notice to the customer. In some instances where there are valid legal requests or orders for disclosure of your information, we may notify you of the requests or orders and then it may be up to you to object or take specific action to prevent any disclosures pursuant to those requests or orders. Law enforcement agencies may, with the appropriate legal document/order, and without notice to you, obtain the right to install a device that monitors your internet and email use, including addresses of email sent and received and, in some cases, the content of those communications, and/or your use of our telephone service, including listings of incoming and outgoing calls and in some cases the content of those calls. 

• Sale, Merger or Acquisition: We may change our ownership or corporate organization while providing the Services. We may transfer to another entity or its affiliates or service providers some or all information about you in connection with or during negotiations of any merger, acquisition, sale of assets or any line of business, change in ownership control, or financing transaction. We cannot guarantee that an acquiring party or the merged entity will have the same privacy practices or treat your information as described in this Policy. 

• Child Exploitation and Human Trafficking: We are required by law to report any evidence we may have or become aware of relating to violations of laws concerning child exploitation and/or human trafficking.