Privacy Statement

This policy addresses how information obtained through your use of the Oklahoma Child Support Internet Payment Web Site is collected, stored, and used. The following topics are covered:

• Collection and storage of technical information.
• Collection and storage of personal information.
• Collection and storage of account information.
• Disclosure of personal and account information.
• Securing the web site.

Collection and Storage of Technical Information

Whenever you browse the web site or download forms, we collect and store information about your visit. This information does not identify you personally and consists of:

• Your Internet protocol address. This is a numerical identifier assigned either to your Internet service provider or your computer. It can often be translated to determine the domain name of your service provider.
• The date and time of your first and last visit to this site.
• The web pages or services you accessed during your visit.

Collection and Storage of Personal Information

Certain personal information is required when you choose to submit a child support payment via our web site. This information is collected and stored and readily identifies you; for example, your name, address, telephone number, e-mail address, social security number, APN or FGN.

Collection and Storage of Account Information

If you register for our automatic withdrawal service, the checking account number that you provide is stored for processing purposes.

Disclosure of Personal and Account Information

It is our policy to treat all personal and account information as confidential. However, we may disclose information to third parties about your account, or the transactions you make, in the following situations:

1. Where it is necessary for completing transactions, such as to the processing Financial Institution;
2. In order to verify existence and condition of your account for a third party such as a credit bureau or merchant;
3. If you give us your written permission; and
4. Where required by law or in other appropriate circumstances.

The personal information that you submit, such as a social security number, may become part of the child support file, however, all child support files are confidential. If you choose not to provide personal information through the web site, you may still use the bank draft service by downloading a form from this site and submitting it by mail or fax.

Securing the Web Site

We have taken reasonable steps to safeguard the integrity of the data that we collect and store, along with preventing unauthorized access to information maintained by the web site. These measures are designed and intended to prevent corruption of data, block unknown or unauthorized access to our systems and information, and to provide reasonable protection of private information in our possession. Please be advised that, given the inherent nature of technology and the Internet, no security measures can ever be assumed to be 100% fail-safe.

Every time you use OKDHS-PAYCS, the data transmitted to or from your PC is sent encrypted over a 128 bit Secure Socket Layer (SSL). SSL encrypts all information exchanged between the OKDHS-PAYCS and your PC, such as credit/debit card numbers and other personal data, using a unique session key. Each session key is used only once, during a single session (which may include one or more transactions) with a single user. These layers of privacy protection ensure that information cannot be viewed if it is intercepted by unauthorized parties. When a message is sent, the sending and receiving computers each generate a code based on the message content. If even a single character in the message content is altered en route, the receiving computer will generate a different code, and then alert the recipient that the message is not legitimate. With message integrity, both parties involved in the transaction know that what they’re seeing is exactly what the other party sent.