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MCI and its affiliates (such as UUNET, SkyTel, TTI and Telecom* USA) respect your privacy
and work hard to safeguard the privacy of your personal data. We realize that the exciting growth of the Internet
and online services raises questions concerning the nature, use and confidentiality of information collected about
consumers. We want you to know that we apply our long-standing commitment to safeguarding privacy to our online
and Internet activities.
MCI participates in the industry-leading BBBOnline Privacy Program. The BBBOnline Privacy Seal
verifies that MCI stands behind its privacy policy. The BBBOnline Privacy Seal is the trust mark of the online
arm of the Council of Better Business Bureaus and is dedicated to promoting trust and confidence on the Internet.
More information about the privacy seal program is available at http://www.bbbonline.org.
Click on the links that follow or scroll down for additional information on these topics:
In addition to this general online privacy policy, you may receive notice of other terms
that apply to particular promotions or services.
Personally Identifiable Information
UUNET does not share, disclose or sell any personally-identifiable information
(such as your name, address, telephone number or e-mail address) collected online on UUNET sites with other
unaffiliated companies or organizations for non-UUNET marketing purposes unless required by law to do so.
In the future, should UUNET decide to share such data with third parties for marketing, it will provide
notification and the opportunity for its users to indicate whether they would prefer that the Company
not provide such information about them to third parties. Because this information is a critical part of our
business, it would be treated like our other assets in the context of a merger, sale or other corporate
reorganization or legal proceeding. UUNET also does not market to, or knowingly collect personal information
from children under the age of 13 on Company sites.
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How We Use Information
UUNET uses the personally identifiable information we collect online principally to provide you
with the service(s) you have ordered and to let you know about other offerings that may be of interest to you.
Postal and e-mail address information, for example, enables communication about services offered and ordered,
as well as the proper provisioning and billing of those services.
Because UUNET makes many special benefits available to you through relationships with other
businesses, UUNET shares personally identifiable online customer information with those businesses so that
you receive the benefits to which you are entitled. We also sometimes use this information to extend
special offers to you jointly with our partners.
Like most large businesses today, UUNET uses vendors to carry out certain functions in
marketing and delivering services to you (such as processing data files and sending you new order fulfillment
information), and so shares online data with those vendors to the extent necessary for them to perform
their work. Of course, such partners and vendors must use that personally identifiable information only for the
purpose(s) for which it was shared and protect it from any further use. UUNET also shares such information with
other industry and credit-related organizations to improve operations and to protect against fraud, security and
credit risks.
We also provide personally-identifiable online information in response to subpoenas and other
legal demands, and where we believe that disclosing this information is necessary to identify, contact or bring
legal action against individuals who may be endangering public safety or interfering with UUNET property or
services, or with our customers' or others' use of them.
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How We Collect Information
UUNET collects information online by asking you for it, for example, when you order a service,
apply for a job, or respond to a survey, sweepstakes or other promotion. A customer's name,
address (postal and e-mail) and telephone number are the most important pieces of information, but we might
request other information, based on, for example, the service(s) being ordered or promoted.
UUNET may also use "cookies" and similar technology to obtain information about your visits to
our sites or your responses to e-mail from us - both individually and in aggregated data that does not identify
you. These reporting tools tell us the parts of our web sites or e-mails in which you showed an interest or took
some action, and help us improve the quality and usefulness of our sites. At UUNET, we primarily use cookies to
determine what services or promotions you are interested in. While cookies help us improve your experience while
visiting our sites and customize our communications to the services you may desire, you have the option to block
them through your Internet browser or other commercially available software. However, doing so may make some of
our sites' features unavailable to you.
Another way we collect information online is through our affinity program partners who may
provide us with information they already obtained from you online. For example when you are on a partner's site
and click on a UUNET banner that takes you to a UUNET site, information that the partner has received from you
already may be passed to UUNET.
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Security
We use encryption, firewalls and other technology and security procedures to help protect the
accuracy and security of your personal information and prevent unauthorized access or improper use. For example,
you will note that while using some features of the UUNET Web sites and online services, you will need to submit
a password or some other type of authenticating information.
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Your Access to Information
You may review or update the available personally identifiable information that we received
from you online by accessing your account online, by contacting Consumer Service through the toll free number
or e-mail address on your invoice, or through the Company contact information below. Please note that in order
to better protect you and safeguard your information, we take steps to verify your identity before granting
access or making corrections to your information.
UUNET may use e-mail addresses you provide us online on UUNET sites to send you e-mail related
to UUNET products and services or if you have affirmatively indicated a desire to receive additional information.
If at any time, you would prefer not to receive further e-mail communications at that e-mail address, please
contact Customer Service through the toll free number or e-mail address on your invoice.
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