This policy describes the ways we collect, store, use and protect your personal data. You accepted this policy when you signed up for our Service. We may amend this policy at any time by posting a revised version on our website. The revised version will be effective at the time we post it. We last modified this Policy on September 1, 2009

• How we collect information about you
• How we protect and store personal data
• How we use the personal data we collect
• How you can access or change your personal data
• How you can contact us about privacy questions
• How we manage change to this privacy policy
• About our anti spam policy

How we collect information about you
When you visit the get2sms website, we collect your IP address and standard web log information. If you open an account, we collect the your name, mobile phone, email and other similar information.

During registration, we will typically send your password to the mobile phone which you have nominated for your account, this serves as a form of verification to the functionality of your mobile phone. Finally, we may collect additional information from or about you in other ways not specifically described here. For example, we may collect information related to your respond to a survey.

We will store the Personal Data that you provide to us through the Website or otherwise for so long as you are a registered member. After you cease to be a registered member we will keep your Personal Data on our records for a period of 12 months to enable us to respond to any queries or complaints that you may have.

How we protect and store personal information
Throughout this policy, we use the term "personal data" to describe information that can be associated with a specific person and can be used to identify that person. We do not consider personal data to include information that has been anonymized so that it does not identify a specific user.

How we use the personal information we collect
Our primary purpose in collecting personal data is to provide you with a safe, smooth, efficient, and customized get2sms experience. It is necessary for get2sms to process certain types of data, which may contain your Personal data, in order to provide you with the Services, including:

• provide the services and customer support you request;
• customize, measure, and improve our services and the content and layout of our website;
• send you targeted marketing, and promotional offers tailored to your needs and interest
• resolve disputes and troubleshoot problems
• prevent potentially prohibited or illegal activities, and enforce our terms of use
• enhance the get2sms experience by serving relevant and value adding ads to users.
• for quality control and training purposes

More importantly, Get2sms appends contextual ads and related links to user generated SMS based on the personal data and other details that you (“User”) have supplied to us. Upon delivery of a get2sms contextual ad-appended SMS on a recipients mobile phone, the senders name shall be displayed as get2sms.com (or get2sms’ mobile number in case of CDMA subscriber), while your mobile number, as recorded in your profile, shall be appended at the end of your personal message. This enables the recipient identify who the sender of the message is.

Get2sms will not sell or rent any of your personal data to advertisers or any third parties in the normal course of doing business and only shares your personal data with advertisers as described below

Sometimes we may require to share aggregated or anonymized,(information collated such that it does not identify a specific user.) data with some of our advertisers, usually this will be for marketing and commercial promotional purposes only.

Where required by law, and at our sole discretion, we may provide your private data if we deem it necessary that its provision will facilitate in addressing or to resolving inquiries or problems. We undertake that this will not be done for commercial purposes or for our personal gain.

How you can access or change your personal information
If there is any change in the Personal data that you have provided to us through the Website you must use the Website to update such Personal data. In such event your Personal data will be updated as soon as you submit the new Personal data to us.

You can review and edit your personal data at any time by logging in to your account and clicking the Profile subtab under the My Account tab.

How we manage change to the Privacy Policy
Our website policies, content, information, promotions, disclosures, and features may be revised, modified, updated, and/or supplemented at any time and without prior notice at the sole and absolute discretion of get2sms, however if we change this Privacy Policy, will take steps to notify all users by a notice on our Website and will post the amended Privacy Policy on the Website.

How you can contact us about privacy questions
If you have any questions about how we use Your Personal data, please contact us by email on privacy@get2sms.com

About get2sms anti-spam policy
Registered user can send SMS messages to other persons in accordance to get2sms terms of use, however spamming other cell phone users is strictly prohibited. We consistently make cautious effort to stop the activities of spammers; however, we cannot guarantee that spamming will not ever occur.

Users who suspect any form of spamming can simply send an email with the details of the message content, delivery time, senders number and any other relevant details users@get2sms.com, this will enable our team immediately appraise the situation and take immediate actions to mitigate further occurrence.
Get2sms service is not considered as spam as spam is a totally uninvited message urging the recipient to avail of some services.In this case, not only has the sender expressly opted in to use this free service, as defined in the terms of use, the recipient (known to the User) also receives contextual ads that are appended to sender’s (“User”) personal message

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.

It is also vital that SMSTerritory receives from you, express 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 of use and that you have no objections in our appending targeted Ads to your SMS messages and to using your personal data in doing so.