SmsSmarts (“us”, “we”, or “our”) operates the https://smssmarts.com website (the “Service”).
This page describes our policies for collecting, using, and disclosing personal data when you use our Service, as well as your options for dealing with such data.
Your information is used to offer and improve the Service. You acknowledge the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy by using the Service. Unless otherwise stated in this Privacy Policy, terms have the same meaning as in our Terms and Conditions, which may be found at https://smssmarts.com.
SmsSmarts operates within the framework of DGTL SRV LTD (Registration number: 13614326) registered and existing in accordance with the laws of the UK with the registered office at Suite 7095, 128 Aldersgate Street, Barbican, London EC1A 4AE, England.
Definitions
Service
The service is the https://smssmarts.com website, which is run by SmsSmarts.
Personal Information
Personal data is information about a human operator who may be recognized from it (or from those and other information either in our possession or likely to come into our possession).
Cookies
Cookies are all little data files that are saved on your device (computer or mobile device).
Data on Use
Data gathered automatically as a result of using the Service or from the Service infrastructure itself is known as use data (for example, the duration of a page visit).
Data Processing (or Service Providers)
Any natural or legal person who processes data on behalf of the Data Controller is referred to as a Data Processor (or Service Provider).
In order to handle your data more effectively, we may employ the services of several Service Providers.
Data Control
The natural or legal person who (either alone or jointly or in common with other individuals) determines the purposes for which and how any personal information is (or will be) processed is referred to the data controller.
We are the Data Controller of your Personal Data for the purposes of this Privacy Policy.
Subject of Information (or User)
Any individual who uses our Service and is the subject of Personal Data is referred to as a Data Subject.
Information Gathering and Application
We gather a variety of data for various purposes in order to offer and improve our service to you.
Types of Data Collected
- Personal Information
- We may ask you to provide us with personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you ("Personal Data") when using our Service. The following examples of personally identifiable information are not exhaustive:
- Address for email
- Both first and last names
- Contact Information
- Country
- Cookies and Usage Data by
We may contact you with newsletters, marketing or promotional materials, and other information that may be of interest to you based on your Personal Data. By following the unsubscribe link or instructions included in every email we send, you can opt out of receiving any or all of these communications from us.
Data Usage
We may also collect information about how you use the Service ("Usage Data"). This Usage Data may include your computer's Internet Protocol address (e.g., IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that you view, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers, and other diagnostic data.
Tracking & Cookies Data
We track activities on our Service and store some information using cookies and other tracking technologies.
Cookies are little data files that may contain an anonymous unique identification. A website sends cookies to your browser, which are then saved on your device.
Beacons, tags, and scripts are also utilized as tracking technologies to gather and track information, as well as to develop and evaluate our Service.
You may set your browser to reject all cookies or to notify you when one is received. You may not be able to utilize some parts of our Service if you refuse to accept cookies.
Instance of Cookies we use:
- Session Cookies. We use Session Cookies to operate our Service.
- Preference Cookies. We use Preference Cookies to remember your preferences and various settings.
- Security Cookies. We use Security Cookies for security purposes.
Data Usage
SmsSmarts uses the collected data for these purposes:
- To maintain and supply our service
- To keep you informed about any changes to our Service
- To enable you to take part in interactive parts of our Service if you so want.
- To give assistance to customers
- To obtain important data or analysis so that we may enhance our service
- to keep track of how our service is being used
- To identify, prevent, and resolve technological problems
- Unless you have chosen not to receive such information, we will send you news, special offers, and general information about other items, services, and events that we provide that are comparable to those that you have already purchased or inquired about.
Legal Basis for Processing Personal Data Under General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
If you are a resident of the European Economic Area (EEA), the legal basis for SmsSmarts collecting and using the personal information stated in this Privacy Policy is determined by the Personal Data we collect and the context in which it is collected.
SmsSmarts may process your Personal Data because:
- We must complete an agreement with you.
- You have granted us permission to do so.
- The processing is in our legitimate interests, and your rights do not prevent it.
- For the purpose of payment processing
- To abide by the law
Data Transfer
Your data, including Personal Data, may be transferred to and stored on computers located outside of your state, province, country, or other governmental jurisdiction, where data protection regulations may differ from those in your jurisdiction.
For using the website in some countries you have to provide corresponding list of documents according to the law of countries of use.
Your consent to the transfer is based on your acceptance of this Privacy Policy and your submission of such information.
SmsSmarts will take all reasonable steps to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy, and no Personal Data will be transferred to an organization or country unless adequate controls, including the security of your data and other personal information, are in place.
Data Retention
SmsSmarts will only keep your Personal Data for as long as it is required for the reasons described in this Privacy Policy. We will keep and use your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal duties (for example, if relevant laws require us to keep your data), settle disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.
Usage Data will be kept by SmsSmarts for internal analysis. Including where such data is used to increase the security or to improve the operation of our Service, or we are legally obligated to maintain this data for longer periods of time.
Disclosure Of Data
Legal Requirements
SmsSmarts may share your Personal Data if we have reason to suspect that it is required to:
- To fulfill a legal requirement
- To preserve and defend SmsSmarts's rights and property
- To prevent or investigate potential misbehavior involving the Service.
- To defend the personal safety of Service users or the general public
- In order to avoid legal liabilities
Data Security
We are concerned about the security of your data, but bear in mind that no method of Internet transmission or computer storage is totally secure. While we make every effort to protect your Personal Data using commercially reasonable methods, we cannot guarantee its full protection.
Business Transaction
Your Personal Data may be transferred if SmsSmarts is involved in a merger, acquisition, or asset sale. Before your Personal Data is moved and becomes subject to a new Privacy Policy, we will notify you.
Your Data Protection Rights Under General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
If you live in the European Economic Area, you have some data protection rights (EEA). SmsSmarts attempts to make it as simple for you to correct, change, delete, or limit the use of your Personal Data as possible.
Please contact us if you wish to know what Personal Data we have on file for you and if you want it erased.
In certain circumstances, you have the following data protection rights:
- The right to access, update or to delete the information we have on you. You can view, amend, or request deletion of your Personal Data directly inside your account settings area whenever possible. If you are unable to complete these tasks on your own, please contact us for assistance.
- The right of rectification. If your information is incorrect or incomplete, you have the right to have it corrected.
- The right to object. You have the right to object to our use of your personal information.
- The right of restriction. You have the right to request that the processing of your personal information be restricted.
- The right to data portability. You have the right to request for a copy of the information we have on you in a structured, machine-readable, frequently used format.
- The right to withdraw consent. You may also withdraw your agreement at any time if SmsSmarts relies on it to handle your personal information.
Please keep in mind that we may request that you prove your identity before responding to such inquiries.
You have the right to complain with a Data Protection Authority over the acquisition and use of your Personal Data by us. For additional information, please contact your European Economic Area's local data protection authority (EEA).
Service Providers
We may engage third-party organizations and people to help us deliver our Service ("Service Providers"), provide the Service on our behalf, execute Service-related tasks, or assist us in assessing how our Service is used.
These third parties have access to your Personal Data only to carry out these duties on our behalf and are not permitted to share or use it for any other purpose.
Analytics
We may engage third-party Service Providers to monitor and evaluate how our Service is used.
Payments
We may provide paid items and/or services through the Service. In that circumstance, we engage third-party payment processing providers (e.g. payment processors).
We will not save or collect your credit card information. That information is transmitted directly to our third-party payment processors, whose Privacy Policies control their use of your personal information.
Links To Other Sites
Our Service may contain connections to websites that we do not control. When you click on a third-party link, you will be sent to the third-website. party's We strongly recommend that you read the Privacy Policies of any website you visit.
We have no control over, and accept no responsibility for, any third-party website or services' content, privacy policies, or practices.
Google Analytics
Google Analytics is a Google web analytics tool that records and reports on website traffic. Google utilizes the information gathered to track and monitor how our Service is used. This information is made available to other Google services. Google may use the information gathered to contextualize and customize advertisements on its own advertising network.
You can opt out of having Google Analytics track your actions on the Service by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. The add-on stops Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js, and dc.js) from exchanging information about visit activities with Google Analytics.
Please see the Google Privacy & Terms web page for additional information on Google's privacy practices: http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/.
Children’s Privacy
Our Service does not address anyone under the age of 18 (“Children”).
We do not collect personally identifying information from children under the age of 18. Please contact us if you are a parent or guardian and are aware that your children have given us with Personal Data. If we discover that we gathered Personal Data from children without parental agreement, we take measures to erase that information from our servers.
Changes To This Privacy Policy
We reserve the right to change our Privacy Policy at any moment. Any changes will be communicated to you by publishing the revised Privacy Policy on this page.
Prior to the modification being effective, we will notify you through email and/or a visible notice on our Service, and we will update the "effective date" at the top of this Privacy Policy.
It is recommended that you examine this Privacy Policy on a regular basis for any updates. When changes to this Privacy Policy are posted on this page, they become active.
Contact Us
Please contact us if you have any queries regarding our Privacy Policy:
- By email: [email protected]