We recognise that its customers, visitors and users, want to be informed about privacy issues. We provides this Privacy Policy to help you make an informed decision about whether to use or continue using our site/s, Software/s and/or the Service/s. If you do not agree with our practices, please do not use our Site/s, Software’s, or Service/s (site, software or service).
This Privacy Policy is incorporated into and is subject to our Terms of Service. Your use of the Sites, Software’s and the Services and any personal information you provide on our Site or Service remains subject to the terms of this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Service.
Please note that any Status Submissions or other content posted at the direction or discretion of users of our Service becomes published content and is not considered personally including but not limited to personal identifiable information subject to this Privacy Policy.
Our privacy notice apply on all of our Sites, Software’s and the Services.
We can make changes to our terms & conditions without any prior notice and these will be applicable to all current/previous or future users.
We may obtain the following types of information from or concerning you or your mobile phone device, which may include information that can be used to identify you as specified below ("Personally Identifying Information"):
User Provided Information: You provide certain Personally Identifiable Information, such as your mobile phone number, push notification name (if applicable), billing information (if applicable) and mobile device information to us when choosing to participate in various uses of the our Service/s, such as registering as a user, updating your status or requesting status for your contacts. In order to provide our Service, we will periodically access your address book or contact list on your mobile phone to locate the mobile phone numbers of other users (“in-network” numbers) using our services, or otherwise categorise other mobile phone numbers as “out-network” numbers, which are stored as one-way irreversibly hashed values. We also collect user location. We also access the camera and pictures.
Cookies Information: When you visit our Site, we may send one or more cookies - a small text file containing a string of alphanumeric characters - to your computer that uniquely identifies your browser. We use both session cookies and persistent cookies. A persistent cookie remains after you close your browser. Persistent cookies may be used by your browser on subsequent visits to the site. Persistent cookies can be removed by following your web browser help file directions. A session cookie is temporary and disappears after you close your browser. You can reset your web browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, our Site may not function properly if the ability to accept cookies is disabled.
Log File Information: When you use our Site/s, our servers automatically record certain information that your web browser sends whenever you visit any website. These server logs may include information such as your web request, Internet Protocol ("IP") address, browser type, browser language, referring / exit pages and URLs, platform type, number of clicks, domain names, landing pages, pages viewed and the order of those pages, the amount of time spent on particular pages, the date and time of your request, one or more cookies that may uniquely identify your browser, your phone number, phone number you are requesting the status of and various status information. When you use the our Service, our servers log certain general information that our application sends whenever a message is sent or received, or if you update or request any status information, including time and date stamps and the mobile phone numbers the messages were sent from and to. Some of our sites / services use different forms / information to be transmitted to other users of our services.
Information Collected: We keep records of the messages, numbers, locations, different forms and pictures which are being sent or used to send by the user and we also provide these to other users of our services, sites and applications.
We do not collect emails, email addresses, addresses or another contact information from its users’ mobile address book or contact lists other than mobile phone numbers and names emails or any other information unless the services / application is/ are associate with or required for the service or application to be functional or performed certain tasks or actions.
We do not collect location data, but users may voluntarily share or opt to share their location with other users via the user of our Service. Some of our services are location based and required to collect the location information.
Our Service/s are meant to be a SMS replacement / communication or transmitting data , exchange of information using data service through a user’s phone (either via cell network or wifi). Users type their messages or communication, which are sent via data service to our servers, and routed to the intended recipient (who must also be a user of our services or sites).
If you submit Personally Identifiable Information to us through our Sites, or our Services, then we use your personal information to operate, maintain, and provide to you the features and functionality of the our Site and Services as well as to the admin of the services, site or application. Any Personally Identifiable Information or status content that you disclose on our Service becomes publicly available and may be collected and used by other users of our Service. Your name may be displayed to other users when you update your status messages through our Services and other users may contact you through our Service. We do not use your mobile phone number or other Personally Identifiable Information to send commercial or marketing messages without your consent or except as part of a specific program or feature for which you will have the ability to opt-in or opt-out. We may, however, use your mobile phone number (or email address, if provided) without further consent for non-marketing or administrative purposes (such as notifying you of major Site or Service changes or for customer service purposes). We may use both your Personally Identifiable Information and non-personally-identifiable information (such as anonymous user usage data, cookies, IP addresses, browser type, clickstream data, etc.) to improve the quality and design of our Site and Service and to create new features, promotions, functionality, and services by storing, tracking, and analysing user preferences and trends. We may use cookies and log file information to: (a) remember information so that you will not have to re-enter it during your visit or the next time you use the Service or Site; (b) provide custom, personalised content and information; (c) monitor individual and aggregate metrics such as total number of visitors, pages viewed, etc.; and (d) track your entries, submissions, views and such. We may provide services to the government/s or businesses to send the SMS to certain numbers, jurisdiction to communicate with the end users.” User can choose to follow certain brands and once followed user will get the update / sms / information from these brands.
Other users of our Service may see your Status Submissions in a way that is consistent with the use of the our Service. For example, a status of "Can't talk, please SMS instead" set by phone number +44 xxxxxxxxxx will be available to every user of the our Service who has that mobile phone number in their mobile phone’s address book or contact list. In other words: If another user has your mobile phone number stored in their mobile phone address book or contact list, they will be able see your status information. “Last Seen” information is available and displayed to each user who has your mobile phone number in their mobile phone address book or contact book (and which you have not blocked), and reflects the last approximate time our mobile application has been used or brought to the foreground on your mobile phone. “Last Seen” information is reported to us when a user brings the mobile application to the foreground.
We do not sell or share your Personally Identifiable Information (such as mobile phone number) with other third-party companies for their commercial or marketing use without your consent or except as part of a specific program or feature for which you will have the ability to opt-in or opt-out. However, we can use that information for its products and clients. We may / will share your Personally Identifiable Information with third party service providers to the extent that it is reasonably necessary to perform, improve or maintain the our Services or sites. We may share non-personally-identifiable information (such as anonymous User usage data, referring / exit pages and URLs, platform types, asset views, number of clicks, etc.) with interested third parties to assist them in understanding the usage patterns for certain content, services, advertisements, promotions, and/or functionality on the our Site (Site word used on widely basis includes webstie, applications portals etc). We may collect and release Personally Identifiable Information and/or non-personally-identifiable information if required to do so by law, or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with international law or respond to a court order, subpoena, or search warrant or equivalent, or where in our reasonable belief, an individual’s physical safety may be at risk or threatened. We also reserves the right to disclose Personally Identifiable Information and/or non-personally-identifiable information that we believes, in good faith, is appropriate or necessary to enforce our Terms of Service, take precautions against liability, to investigate and defend itself against any third-party claims or allegations, to assist government enforcement agencies, to protect the security or integrity of our Sites or our servers, and to protect the rights, property, or personal safety of, our users or others.
We are currently ad-free and we hope to keep it that way for ever or as long as we can. We have no intention to introduce advertisement into the product, but if we ever do, will update this section.
We use commercially reasonable physical, managerial, and technical safeguards to preserve the integrity and security of your personal information. We cannot, however, ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us and you do so at your own risk. Using unsecured wifi or other unprotected networks to submit messages through the our Services are never recommended. Once we receive your transmission of information, we makes commercially reasonable efforts to ensure the security of our systems. However, please note that this is not a guarantee that such information may not be accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed by breach of any of our physical, technical, or managerial safeguards. If we learns of a security systems breach, then we may attempt to notify you electronically so that you can take appropriate protective steps. We may post a notice on the our Site or through the our Service if a security breach occurs.
Protecting the privacy of young children is especially important. For that reason, we does not knowingly collect or maintain Personally Identifiable Information or non-personally-identifiable information on the our Site or Service from persons under 16 years of age, and no part of the our Service is directed to or intended to be used by persons under 16. If you are under 16 years of age, then please do not use the our Service or access the our Site at any time or in any manner. If we learns that Personally Identifiable Information of persons under 16 years of age has been collected on the our Site or Service, then we may deactivate the account and/or make the status submissions inaccessible.
Our Site and Service are hosted in the United States/ United Kingdom and are intended for and directed to users in the United States/ United Kingdom. If you are a user accessing the our Site and Service from the European Union, Asia, or any other region with laws or regulations governing personal data collection, use, and disclosure, that differ from applicable laws, please be advised that through your continued use of the our Site and Service, which are governed by applicable law, this Privacy Policy, and our Terms of Service, you are transferring your personal information to the United States / United Kingdom and you expressly consent to that transfer and consent to be governed by applicable law for these purposes.
In the event that we are acquired by or merged with a third party entity, we reserve the right to transfer or assign the information we have collected from our users as part of such merger, acquisition, sale, or other change of control. In the (hopefully) unlikely event of our bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganisation, receivership, or assignment for the benefit of creditors, or the application of laws or equitable principles affecting creditors' rights generally, we may not be able to control how your personal information is treated, transferred, or used.
This Privacy Policy may be revised periodically and this will be reflected by the "effective date" below. Please revisit this page to stay aware of any changes. Your continued use of the ou Sites and Services constitutes your agreement to this Privacy Policy and any amendments.