At sms440.com, we respect
and take steps to protect the privacy of our Users.
We strive to make our site a safe environment for
all who visit our website
sms440.com
and use sms440.com services. We are committed to providing
you the best possible online experience as well as
the best products and services. This policy addresses
our practices with respect to our website, but does
not address the practices of any website we link to
(including the merchants and content providers we
link to). This policy is incorporated into, and subject
to the terms of our Terms and Conditions.
We use the information you provide us (during registration
process etc) to keep track of the sms440.com products
and services that you have signed up to receive. The
senders name shall be displayed as your mobile number,
as recorded in your profile. This way the recipient
knows who the sender of the SMS is. We may use contextual
advertising in user generated SMS. Delivering Contextual
advertisement and related links is the key to provide
the users the FREE service. sms440.com stores and processes
your SMS messages. This is completely automated process
with no human intervention.
We may also use your personal information to improve
our marketing and promotional efforts, to statistically
analyze our website usage, to improve our content
and product offerings and to customize our website's
content and layout. We do this in an attempt to improve
our website and better tailor it to meet our Users'
needs. We may also use personally identifiable information
about you to deliver information to you that, in some
cases, is targeted to your interests, such as targeted
banners and promotions. We will use your email address
to contact you regarding administrative notices or
latest news from time to time. We will use information
in the file we maintain about you, and any other information
that we obtain from your current and past activities
on the site, in order to resolve disputes, to troubleshoot
problems and to enforce our Terms and Conditions.
Any information/content that is sent to sms440.com for
SMS text messaging and/or storage purposes will remain
the property of the user. sms440.com will at no time
collect or redistribute this information without obtaining
your consent, except where legally required by law
to do so. This has particular reference to any database,
numbers and/or recipient details that you may deliver
to us, or store on our databases.
As a matter of policy, we neither rent nor sell personally
identifiable information about our Users to any third
party. We may however aggregate all personally identifiable
information and may disclose such aggregated information
to any or all advertisers, marketing and general or
commercial promotional purposes. Even in these cases,
disclosure of any information that could personally
identify you would not be permitted.
sms440.com may offer some features where sometimes it
is required to provide some of the information about
you to a third party, which is offering such services.
It must be understood clearly that we will provide
information only to the extent that the said third
party requires your information, which enables you
to use their service, but prior to that we will make
efforts to notify you of specific information being
provided to such third parties. Before you use the
services of any third party, we request you to check
up and evaluate if the terms and conditions of said
third party services are acceptable to you.
sms440.com might use third-party advertising companies
to serve ads when you visit our website. These companies
may use information (not including your name, address,
email address, or telephone number) about your visits
to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements
about goods and services of interest to you. If you
would like more information about this practice and
to know your choices about not having this information
used by these companies,
click here
It is vital that sms440.com receives from you the permission
and valid rights to transmit your information to a
third party. In addition, please note that we will
comply completely and fully with any or all court
orders, information requests or otherwise from government
agencies and regulators and any other legal and regulatory
processes that require us to disclose personally identifiable
information of our Users.
It is also vital that sms440.com receives from you the
permission and Valid rights to, and that you have
no objection to append targeted Ads to your FREE SMS
messages. By using our FREE SMS messaging services
you are actually confirming that you have gone through
our terms and conditions and that you have no objection
to in our appending targeted Ads to your SMS messages
and to using your personal information.
ANTI SPAM POLICY
Any registered User of sms440.com can send SMS text messages
to his/her friends, family, colleagues, clients, contacts
etc using the sms440.com Interface. These interface conditions
of use strictly forbid spamming to cell phone Users.
We have several software filters to block spam messages.
However, we cannot guarantee that spamming will not
ever occur. Please let us know (email to info@sms440.com)
the details of the message like content of message,
time of delivery, sender name or number etc so that
we can immediately check and block the user responsible
for the same.
Appending contextual Ads to users SMS is not considered
as spam within the meaning of spam. Spam is a totally
uninvited message urging the recipient to avail of
some services. But here the advertisement is part
of a personal message which the recipient receives
and is not a totally uninvited message. Also, the
user has specifically opted-in to use this FREE service
to send SMS to the recipient. Further the communication
is between two known persons.
LIMITS ON OUR ABILITIES
Although your privacy is our top priority, due to
the existing statutory, legal and technical environment,
we are unable to ensure that personally identifiable
information of our Users will not be disclosed to
third parties in ways that are not described in this
policy. Additionally, we may (and here you give us
authorization to) disclose any private information
about you to private entities, law enforcement or
other government officials, which we may believe to
be necessary at our sole discretion or appropriate
to address or to resolve inquiries or problems. We
undertake that this will not be done for commercial
purposes or for our personal gain.
If you have any further questions about our privacy
and anti-spam policy or about its implementation,
please email us at
info@sms440.com
You hereby acknowledge that the acceptance of this
privacy policy is a condition to your use of our products
and services and that you agree to be bound by all
of our Terms and Conditions.