This Privacy Policy last updated on: 01/21/2021
Nex-Tech Wireless has created this privacy statement ("Policy") to communicate our privacy practices and policies with our customers. This privacy statement outlines what information we collect, use, disclose, and how we protect such information when you access or use any of our services. Nex-Tech Wireless may revise or update this Policy from time to time, so you should refer back to this page often for the latest information.
What is “Customer Proprietary Network Information” (CPNI)?
Certain information is made available to Nex-Tech Wireless solely by virtue of a customer’s relationship with us. Under U.S. federal law, customers have a right and we have a duty to protect the confidentiality of information that relates to their usage of our services and the type of services they purchase from us. This information is known as Customer Proprietary Network Information, CPNI. Specifically, CPNI is information that relates to the quantity, technical configuration, type, destination, location, and amount of use of the telecommunications services a customer purchases from Nex-Tech Wireless.
Except as permitted by law or with customer approval, Nex-Tech Wireless will only use, disclose, or permit access to the CPNI it receives or obtains by virtue of its provision of telecommunications service in connection with (a) marketing service offerings from within the category of service the customer subscribes, or (b) services necessary to providing telecommunications service, such as, but not limited to, billing, provisioning, and collecting payments.
What is "personally identifiable information” (PII) and how does it relate to me?
Personally identifiable information is information that is directly associated with a specific person such as a subscriber's name, address, telephone number, e-mail address, and location information. Nex-Tech Wireless does not consider “aggregate” information to be personally identifiable information. Aggregate information is data we collect about a group or category of services or customers from which individual customer identities have been removed. For example, we may combine your information with information about how other customers use the same service, with no personally identifiable information included in the resulting data. Aggregate data helps us identify trends and customer desires so that we can consider new services or enhance existing services to better meet customer needs.
When and how is information collected?
We collect personal information in a variety of ways:
Information you give us: We collect information you give us when you purchase or use Nex-Tech Wireless products and services, or request information about our services. For example, you provide us with your billing address and credit information when you purchase service from us. Similarly, you may provide personal information when you submit a job application.
Automatically collected information: We automatically receive certain types of information whenever you interact with us. When your phone is turned on, wireless systems know your network location and your approximate physical location, which is how calls or information are delivered to you.
Information from other sources: We may receive information about you from other sources. For example, we receive credit information from third-party sources before initiating service you have requested. We may add such information or combine it with personal information on your account.
How does Nex-Tech Wireless use personal information?
We collect, maintain, and use customers’ personal information as necessary to provide the most helpful and targeted products and services to meet customers’ needs. We also use personal information for billing purposes, marketing new and existing services, resolving service problems, and enhancing customer relationships. In addition, we use personal information to evaluate employment qualifications and communicate with job applicants.
Will my personal information be disclosed?
Nex-Tech Wireless does NOT sell personal information and we disclose personal information only in the following ways:
With your consent
We may obtain your consent to disclose personal information in a number ways, including in writing; verbally; online by clicking a button; entering information on a wireless device or handset; or at the time of initiation or use of any service when your consent is part of the required terms and conditions to use the service. Other times your consent is implicit. For example, if you purchase a product through our Web site and request that it be shipped to your home, you implicitly consent to our disclosure of your name and address to ship your order and also of your charge card number to the bank to collect payment and complete your order.
Transaction processing
We disclose personal information to third parties as necessary to complete transactions or perform services on our behalf. Nex-Tech Wireless must share some private information with our contractors, consultants, and other parties who require such information to assist us to establish, maintain, and manage our business relationships with customers.
Nex-Tech Wireless may let you take advantage of services and products offered by other companies. In those cases, information about you received by those third parties will be managed by those third parties. For example, if you use your phone and roam on the network of another carrier, your usage information and the numbers you dial will be available to the company providing that service. Also, when you purchase a product from a third party through a Nex-Tech Wireless service, you may provide personal information to that entity and some information may automatically be passed to that entity.
Certain business transfers
Customer personal information may be transferred as part of various business transactions, such as mergers and acquisitions, insolvency, bankruptcy or receivership, in support of the transaction.
Protection of Nex-Tech Wireless and others
We release personal information, other account information, and possibly location information (as discussed below in 5. Location-based Services) when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law (e.g., subpoenas, court orders, E911 information); to enforce or apply our customer agreements; to initiate, render, bill, and collect for services; or to protect Nex-Tech Wireless’s rights or property, or to protect users of those services and other carriers from fraudulent, abusive, or unlawful use of, or subscription to, such services; or if we reasonably believe that an emergency involving immediate danger of death or serious physical harm to any person requires disclosure of communications or justifies disclosure of records to a governmental entity without delay.
Location-based Services
It is important to note, that whenever your mobile device is on, the network knows its general location. If Nex-Tech Wireless provides wireless location-based services that use your wireless network location, customers should be mindful that providing their location is necessary to be able to provide these services, and that it is solely at the customer’s discretion to subscribe to location-based services.
It is important to note, if you let others use location-based services to which they have subscribed as the account holder (or if you let others use your handset if such handset has location tracking capabilities), it is your responsibility to inform that user that his or her location may be tracked.
When you dial 911 for emergency services, we may provide your network location to an emergency medical service provider or emergency dispatch provider, public safety answering point, or other emergency services provider. The law also permits us to disclose the location of a device on our network without a user’s consent to managers or providers of information services solely for the purposes of assisting in the delivery of emergency services in response to an emergency, or to emergency service providers in order to respond to the user’s call for emergency services.
How does Nex-Tech Wireless support the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA)?
Nex-Tech Wireless does not intend for its products or services to collect personal information from children under the age of 13 years. We believe that parents should supervise their children’s on-line activities to ensure that no information is collected from a child under the age of 13 years without parental permission. If a child under the age of 13 years has provided personal information without the consent of a parent or guardian, that parent or guardian should contact us if they wish that information be deleted from our records. Additionally, we understand that wireless devices and services purchased for family use may be used by minors without the knowledge of Nex-Tech Wireless; if that happens, any information collected from the usage will appear to be the personal information of the actual adult customer and will be treated as such by Nex-Tech Wireless.
How secure is my information?
Nex-Tech Wireless maintains a variety of physical, technical, and procedural safeguards to guard your personal information. We have security measures in place to protect against the loss, misuse, and alteration of information under our control.
We limit access to personal information to those employees, contractors, consultants, and other parties who require such information to assist us with establishing, maintaining, and managing our business relationship with our customers. These parties may provide services to us or on our behalf or they may collaborate with Nex-Tech Wireless in providing services to our customers.
What about links to other websites?
Many Nex-Tech Wireless websites, including wireless (WAP) websites, contain links to other websites that are not owned, operated, or otherwise controlled by Nex-Tech Wireless. You should be aware that we have no control over the security of such other sites on the Internet you visit, interact with, or from which you may buy products or services. Nex-Tech Wireless is not responsible for content or privacy policies of other sites. You should keep this in mind when accessing sites through links on Nex-Tech Wireless’s website.
What are value-added services?
Because we appreciate the trust you have placed in us, we continually look for ways to enhance our business relationship. So from time to time, we may let you know about a product or service. We may inform you about products and services by email, short text messages, telemarketing, and direct mail. Using the information you have provided to us, we strive to limit our offers to those we think you would appreciate receiving. We want every contact you have with us to be a positive experience. So if you would prefer not to receive these value-added services, offers and opportunities, just contact us.
Will this privacy policy be updated in the future?
At Nex-Tech Wireless we will constantly strive to improve the services we may offer, and may update this privacy policy from time to time in connection with that effort. You should refer back to this page often for the latest information.
How can I contact Nex-Tech Wireless?
If you have any questions, comments or concerns about Nex-Tech Wireless's Privacy Policy, please contact customercare@ntwls.com.
If you have questions about your account, your service, our products, etc., please contact a Customer Care Representative at 877-621-2600 or by dialing 611 from your Nex-Tech Wireless phone.
Open Internet Disclosure
Nex-Tech Wireless("NTW") is committed to providing all of its customers with the best online experience possible. NTW does not normally monitor the traffic of its customers and does not block end users from accessing lawful websites, subject to reasonable network management, nor do we block applications the compete with our voice or video telephony services, subject to reasonable network management.
Service Description and Performance Characteristics
NTW provides mobile wireless voice and data services to residential and business customers. NTW's include smartphones, feature and premium phones, wireless modems and tablets. These devices can be used for sending high resolution photographs, personal videos, web browsing, accessing e-mail, downloading applications and accessing TV, music and radio applications.
NTW provides the latest wireless technology to its customers. Because of the of all wireless technologies speed and latency can be affected by many external factors such as geographic location, physical terrain, atmospheric conditions and RF performance. Depending on device and technology available upload and download speeds may vary.
Network Management Practices
Like all Internet service providers, NTW needs to manage its network and uses reasonable network management practices consistent with industry standards and the FCC's Open internet rules. This is to ensure the reliability of the network and to minimize network negative performance issues. Congestion can occur on any IP network and when it does, packets can be delayed or dropped, leading to service degradation and delays. Currently NTW does not implement any congestion controls and provides a "best effort" data service offering, but reserves the right to implement a traffic management policy designed to ensure that all users are able to utilize their fair share of the network resources during periods of high demand. These practices are protocol-agnostic to the content itself and to the websites that provide it.
NTW measures network performance utilizing key performance indicators, proprietary test tools, as well as commercially available tools on the Internet. NTW believes this approach provided the best approximation of actual speeds and latency for its service. Customers can also verify speed using a variety of third-party websites, such as www.broadband.gov/qualitytest/about (as of November 20, 2011), to measure the provisional speeds of NTW's broadband service. Such third-party websites are not affiliated with NTW and the company does not make any guarantees as to the accuracy of test results obtained through those third-parties. Actual speeds may vary due to area, coverage and compression.
NTW also monitors network flows based on a 5-tuple entry (source & destination IP address, source & destination port numbers and protocol). This allows NTW to accurately monitor performance on specific generic applications such as HTTP, FTP, SMTP, etc.
Security Measures
NTW offers its wireless broadband customers unrestricted access to all of the lawful content, services, and applications available on the Internet. However, NTW does reserve the right to limit or block network traffic without prior notice to any account which is suspected to be in violation of NTW's Service Agreement through which connected equipment is either intentionally or unintentionally causing malicious or virus-like activity. Additionally NTW may block any data traffic which it determines poses a threat to the security of the network or its customers.
Device Attachment Rules
All phones and devices connecting customers to carrier's network must be provided by NTW. More information about the specific devices approved for use on NTW's network can be found at its retail website or by calling out Customer Service Department.
Personal Data Privacy:
Personal customer data on devices can be protected with various means available in the device. Customer is responsible for securing personal information contained on device. NTW strongly recommends customer wipe all personal data from device before participating in any trade in program, selling device, or allowing to be used by others.
Contact Information
Consumers with questions about NTW's Open Internet practices may contact our Customer Service Department by calling 1-877-621-2600 or *611 from your Nex-Tech Wireless Phone.
Website Privacy Policy
What information do we collect?
We collect information from you when you register on our site, place an order, subscribe to our newsletter, respond to a survey, or fill out a form. We may also record information about your visit including, but not limited to, the time and page you visited, your IP address, and device information.
When filling out a form, ordering, or registering on our site, as appropriate, you may be asked to enter your: name, email address, mailing address, phone number, or credit card information. You may, however, visit our site anonymously.
What do we use your information for?
Any of the information we collect from you may be used in one of the following ways:
- To personalize your experience (your information helps us to better respond to your individual needs)
- To improve our website (we continually strive to improve our website offerings based on the information and feedback we receive from you).
- To improve customer service (your information helps us to more effectively respond to your customer service requests and support needs).
- To process transactions. Your information, whether public or private, will not be sold, exchanged, transferred, or given to any other company for any reason whatsoever, without your consent, other than for the express purpose of delivering the purchased product or service requested.
- To administer a contest, promotion, survey or other site feature.
- To send periodic emails. The email address you provided for placing an order or registering an account will only be used for order processing and account updates.
Note: If at any time you would like to unsubscribe from receiving future emails, we include detailed unsubscribe instructions at the bottom of each email.
How do we protect your information?
We implement a variety of security measures to maintain the safety of your personal information when you place an order or enter, submit, or access your personal information.
We offer the use of a secure server. All information is transmitted via a secure connection and then encrypted into our Payment gateway providers database only to be accessible by those authorized with special access rights to such systems, and are required to keep the information confidential.
Do we use cookies?
Yes. Cookies are small files that a site or its service provider transfers to your computer’s hard drive through your Web browser (if you allow) that enables the sites or service providers systems to recognize your browser and capture and remember certain information.
We use cookies to help us remember and process the items in your shopping cart, understand and save your preferences for future visits, keep track of advertisements and compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interaction so that we can offer better site experiences and tools in the future.
If you prefer, you can choose to have your computer warn you each time a cookie is being sent, or you can choose to turn off all cookies via your browser settings. Like most websites, if you turn your cookies off, some of our services may not function properly. However, you can still place orders over the telephone or by contacting customer service.
Do we disclose any information to outside parties?
We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personally identifiable information. This does not include trusted third parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or servicing you, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential.
Third party services we use to improve the site may also collect information about your or your device. We may also share information about your visit with third parties to help us improve the website. This will never include personally identifiable information.
- Google Analytics
- Privacy Policy
- Opt-Out for this website or install a browser plugin to block analytics tracking on all sites
- Google Analytics provides us detailed information about what users view on our site as well as anonymized demographic information about our users to better understand who is visiting the site (including age, gender, location).
- Type Kit
We may also release your information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others rights, property, or safety. However, non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses.
Third-party links
Occasionally, at our discretion, we may include or offer third-party products or services on our website. These third-party sites have separate and independent privacy policies. We, therefore, have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked sites. Nonetheless, we seek to protect the integrity of our site and welcome any feedback about these sites.
California Online Privacy Protection Act Compliance
Because we value your privacy we have taken the necessary precautions to be in compliance with the California Online Privacy Protection Act. We, therefore, will not distribute your personal information to outside parties without your consent.
As part of the California Online Privacy Protection Act, all users of our site may make any changes to their information at any time by logging into their control panel and going to the 'Edit Profile' page.
Children's Online Privacy Protection Act Compliance
We are in compliance with the requirements of COPPA (Children's Online Privacy Protection Act), we do not collect any information from anyone under 13 years of age. Our website, products, and services are all directed to people who are at least 13 years old or older.
Terms of Use
Please also visit our Terms of Use section establishing the use, disclaimers, and limitations of liability governing the use of our website.
Your Consent
By using our site, you consent to our web site privacy policy.
Changes to our Privacy Policy
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will update the Privacy Policy modification date below.
Contacting Us
If there are any questions regarding this privacy policy you may contact us using the information below.
Email: customercare@ntwls.com
Phone: 1-877-621-2600
This policy was last updated on 9/18/2023.
