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GLANDORF TELEPHONE COMPANY

STATEMENT OF CPNI PROCEDURES

Glandorf Telephone Company, Inc. has created a CPNI Policy Handbook containing the
following procedures that it has adopted to ensure the protection of CPNL The handbook describes our
procedures in greater detail and provides practical guidance on how to protect against unauthorized
disclosure or use of CPNI. The handbook is distributed to our employees during training and serves as an
important reference tool for our employees.

Dutv to Protect CPNI

We as a communications company recognize our duty to protect cr-rstomer CPNI. We may not
disclose CPNI to unauthorized persons, nor may we use CPNI in certain ways without consent from our
customers. Before we can provide customers with tlieir own CPNI, we must authenticate the customer.

We recognizethat there are a few cases in which we can disclose CPNI without first obtaining
customer approval:

1. Administrative use: We may use CPNI to initiate, render, bill and collect for
commun ications services.

2. Protection of carrier and third parties: We may use CPNI to protect the interests of our
company, such as to prevent fraud or illegal use of our systems and network. Employees are notified of
the steps to take, if any, in these softs of situatiotts.

3. As required by law: We may disclose CPNI if we are required to by law, such as through
legal process (subpoenas) or in response to requests by law enforcement. Employees are notified of any
steps they must take in these situations.

Our Own Use of CPNI

We may use CPNI to provide or market services to our existing customers. We understand thal
we are required to obtain customer approval prior to using CPNI in certain ways.

Marketine

We understand that we do not need to obtain customer approval before using CPNI to market
services to our existing customers within the categories of service to which the customer already
subscribes.

We understand that we may not use CPNI to market services that are in a service category to
which the customer does not already subscribe without cttstomer approval.

We understand that we cannot use CPNI to solicit a customer to add a new category of service
without first obtaining the customer's approval.

We also understand that we do not need customer consent before using CPNI to market "adjunct-
to-basic" services such as speed dialing, computer-provided directory assistance, call monitoring, call
tracing, call blocking, call return, repeat dialing, call tracking, call waiting, caller ID, call forwarding, and
certain centrex features.

We understand that we may not use CPNI to identifu or track customers that call competing
service providers.

We regularly review our marketing practices to detemine when and how CPNI is used within the
company, and whether CPNI is being shared with other entities. We also review new marketing or sales
campaigns to ensure compliance with these CPNI policies and with the FCC's CPNI regulations. We do
not share CPNI with any affiliates or other third parlies.

Provision of Services

We understand that we do not need customer approval to use CPNI to provide CPE and call
answering, voice mail or messaging, voice storage and retrieval services, fax store and forward, and
protocol conversion.

Authenticating Customers Before Disclosins CPNI

We understand that we are required to objectively determine that our customers are who they say
they are before disclosing CPNI to them.

Telephone

We understand that when a customer calls, we may not release call detail inJbrmation, or
information relating to the transmission of specific telephone calls until we have obtained the account
password from the caller, or called the customer back at the telephone number of record to ensure that the
customer is who s/he says s/he is. Alternatively, we may offer to send the call detail information to the
address of record or to the customer in person after s/he has produced valid photo identification at our
office.

We understand that we may disclose non-call detail inJbrmqtion over the telephone after
authenticating the customer by calling back the telephone number of record, checking valid photo
identification, or by mailing the information to the account address of record.

In-Person Authentication

We understand that before we can disclose CPNI to customers in person, the customer must
present valid government-issued photo identffication. The name on tlie photo identification must match
the name on the account. If the customer eannot present the required identification, we offer to provide
the requested CPNI by sending it to the account address of record.

Before providing the CPNI to the customer, we make a copy of tlie photo identification. This
copy is then placed in the customer's file, together with a copy of the CPNI provided to the customer.
These records are then kept in the customer file in accordance with our record-keeping policies.
Mail

If the customer requests CPNI through regular mail, or if the customer cannot comply with one of
the authentication methods above, we send the requested information to the customer's address of record
only.

Customer Notification of CPNI Rishts

We provide a CPNI privacy policy to all customers annually, as a bill irrsert in the December bill.
This policy provides notification to each customer of his/her right to restrict use of, disclosure of, and
access to that customer's CPNI. We maintain a list of all customers who receive the privacy policy, the
date on which the policy is sent, and a copy of the policy in our records for two (2) years following the
mailing of the policy. We provide additional copies of the CPNI privacy policy to all customers who
request it and to all new customers upon activation of service.

The policy contains an opt-out customer approval notice. Customers who do not wish to allow us
to use their CPNI to market services outside their existing service categories, or who do not wish to allow
us to share their CPNI with affiliates, have 30 days to contact us to tell us that they do not approve of this
use. If we do not hear back from the customer within 30 days, we understand that we are free to use their
CPNI for these purposes. We understand that customers can change their option at any time by
contacting us, and we noti$z our customers of this right.

We maintain records of tlie customers who received the opt-out approval notice and records of
the customers who contacted us to opt out in accordance with our record-keeping policies.

We understand that we must provide written notice to the FCC within five (5) business days if
our opt-out mechanisms do not work properly to the degree that our customers' inability to opt out is
more than an anomaly.

Trainins And Discipline

We trained all of our employees regarding the company's CPNI policies prior to the effective
date of the most recent CPNI regulations, December 8, 2007. Employees are required to attend an annual
retraining to ensure that they understand tlre company's CPNI policies and any updates to those policies.
New employees who will liave access to CPNI are trained when they join the company, and then attend
the regularly-scheduted retraining sessions. At the conclusion of each training sessiotr, employees are
askedlo sign certificates stating that they understand the company's CPNI policies and that they will
comply with those policies.
When an employee fails to observe Glandorf Telephone Company's CPNI policies, his/her
supervisor will follow the guidelines set fofth in the Company Employee Manual regarding discipline.
Disciplinary records are maintained in the company files irr accordance with our record-keeping policies.
Record-Keeping

We maintain the following records in our files for two (2) years:
a. Records relating to the annual mailing of the customer CPNI privacy policy;
b. Records of customer approval or disapproval of CPNI use, or the limitation or revocation
thereof; and
c. Employee disciplinary records.
We maintain records of discovered CPNI breaches, notifications to law enforcement regarding
breaches, and any responses from law enforcement regardirrg those breaches, in our files for 5- 10 years.

Notification Of Account Changes


We understand that we are required to notify customers when changes have been made to
passwords, customer responses to back-up means of authentication, or addresses of record by mailing a
notification to the account address ofrecord.

We do not reveal the changed account data in the notification.

Unauthorized Disclosure Of CPNI


We understand that we must repoft CPNI breaches to law enforcemeut no later than seven (7)
business days after determining the breach has occured, by sending electronic notification through the
link at http://www.fcc.gov/eb/CPNl/ to the central reporting facility, which will then notify the United
States Secret Service (USSS) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

We understandthatwe maynotnotify customers orthe public of the breach earlierthan seven (7)
days after we have notified law enforcement through the central repofting facility. If we wish to notify
or the public immediately, where we feel that there is "an extraordinarily urgent need to notify"
"u.to*"r,
to avoid "immediate and irreparable harm," we inform law enforcement of our desire to notifu and
comply with law enforcement's directions.

Records relating to suclr notifications are kept in accordance with our record-keeping policies.
These records include: (i) the date we discovered the breach, (ii) the date we notified law enforcement,
(iii) a detailed description of the CPNI breached, and (iv) the circttmstances of the breach.
During the course of the year, we compile information regarding pretexter attempts to gain
improper u...-r, to CpNI, incltrding any breaches or attempted breaches. We include this information in
our annual CPNI compliance certification filed with the FCC'

Signed

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