This privacy policy defines and informs you of the way in which our website collects, uses, maintains, discloses and protect the information that you transmit to our site. The purposes for which we collect your personal data are: improvement of our service, communication with visitors to this site, user data processing for the purpose of online sales, presenting the information requested by the user, providing services associated with the website’s specialization, and for other actions stated here.
Non-personal identification information
We may collect non-personal identification information about Users whenever they interact with our Site. The non-personal identification information may include the browser name, the type of computer and technical information about Users means of connection to our Site, such as the operating system and the Internet service providers utilized and other similar information.
Personal data storage information
We collect and process your personal data only with your willing consent. With your permission, we can collect and process the following data: name, username, e-mail address, phone number. Collection and processing of your personal information is carried out with care.
Data storage, alteration, and removal
The user, who has provided ShawnSMS with their personal data, has the right for their alteration and removal, as well as the right to recall the agreement to data processing. Time, during which your personal data will be stored is: time the personal data is used that is necessary for the website’s main activity. To access your personal data, you can contact the administration of ShawnSMS. We will be able to pass your data to a third party only with your willing consent. If the data was transferred to a third party, which is not associated with our organization, we cannot perform any changes to that data.
How we protect your information
We adopt appropriate data collection, storage and processing practices and security measures to protect against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure or destruction of your personal information, username, password, transaction information and data stored on our site.
Sharing your personal information
We do not sell, trade, or rent Users personal identification information to others. We may share generic aggregated demographic information not linked to any personal identification information regarding visitors and users with our business partners, trusted affiliates and advertisers. We do not pass any personal data to other organizations or services, which are not listed in this privacy policy. As an exception, the collected data may be provided on a lawful request of state authorities that are authorized to request such information.
Cookies
We use cookie files for the correct display of the website’s content and for the convenience of browsing our site. They are small files that are stored on your device. They help the website to remember information about you, such as in which language you use the website and which pages have you already opened. This information will be useful in the next visit. With cookie files, the website’s browsing becomes much more convenient. This information is neither sold to third-parties nor used for commercial promotions. Only our staff has access to these cookies. You can set up cookies reception and blocking in your browser yourself. Inability to receive cookie files may limit the functionality of the website.
Cookies and Web Beacons:
Cookies are not used to manipulate information about visitor preferences. All user-specific information including the accessed web pages is privacy protected. We do not modify web content based on any information send through internet browsers.
Doubleclick Dart Cookie:
Cookies and web beacons may be used by our advertising partners to place relevant ads on the website. One of the third-party vendors associated with our website is Google. It serves ads on the site based on the following information.
- Information received through cookies.
- Information received through DART cookie which reveals the websites visited by individual visitors when they click on ads or visit an AdSense publisher’s website.
Users may seek privacy protection against DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy at this URL: http://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html
Some technologies include the use of cookies, web beacons and JavaScript, this enables advertising networks to evaluate how effective their ads are. They may also modify the advertising content based on this information.
Our website plays no role in accessing or controlling the information – including cookies, Dart cookie, and web beacons – manipulated by third-party advertising servers. The privacy policy of our website does not have any control over the practices and activities of these servers. Visitors who wish to protect their privacy against these ad networks should follow the instructions given below.
- Refer to the individual privacy policies of each of our advertising partners in order to find instructions for protecting your privacy against their practices.
- You may disable cookies through your browser options.
- Visit the official website of your particular browser in order to find detailed information about managing cookies
Processing of visiting technical data
Records of your IP address, time of visit, browser settings, operational system and other technical information is saved in the database when you visit ShawnSMS. This data is necessary for the correct display of the website’s content. It is impossible to identify the person or the visitor using this data.
Use of personal data by other services
This website uses third-party online services, which perform data collecting, independent from us. Such services include: Google Analytics, Google AdSense, Third-party websites.
Data collected by these services may be provided to other services within those organizations. They can use the data for advertising personalization of their own advertising network. You can learn about user agreements of those organizations on their websites. You can also refuse their collection of your personal data. For example, using Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.
Third party websites
Users may find advertising or other content on our site that link to the sites and services of our partners, suppliers, advertisers, sponsors, licensors and other third parties. We do not control the content or links that appear on these sites and are not responsible for the practices employed by websites linked to or from our site. In addition, these sites or services, including their content and links, may be constantly changing. These sites and services may have their own privacy policies and customer service policies. Browsing and interaction on any other website, including websites which have a link to our site, is subject to that website’s own terms and policies.
Google AdSense
Some of the ads may be served by Google. Google’s use of DART cookie enables it to serve ads to Users based on their visit to our site and other sites on the Internet. DART uses “non-personally identifiable information” and does NOT track personal information about you, such as your name, email address, physical address, etc. You may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy at http://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html
Google AdSense advertisements appear on our website from time to time through the use of Google Dart Cookies. This is not due to any personal information manipulated by us. You may read about Google’s policy about their Dart Cookies at this link https://www.google.com/policies/technologies/ads/
Advertising
Ads appearing on our site may be delivered to Users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile non-personal identification information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This privacy policy does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers. You may learn more about opting out of major ad networks at https://websitebuilders.com/tools/advertiser-opt-out/.
Log Files
We make use of log files in order to obtain information about the following:
- Types of internet browsers used to access the website
- Internet Service Providers
- Date and time stamp
- Exit pages
- Number of clicks
This information is utilized for the purpose of studying and analyzing the following.
- The visitor trends
- Collection of demographic statistic
- Tracking how a visitor moves around the website
Changes to this Privacy Policy
Our website has the discretion to update this privacy policy at any time. When we do, we will post a notification on the main page of our Site. These changes are highlighted and are easy to pinpoint by the clients. We advise Users to frequently review our policies from time to time in order to stay abreast of such changes. You acknowledge and agree that it is your responsibility to review this privacy policy periodically and become aware of modifications. Your continued use of the Site following the posting of changes to this policy will be deemed your acceptance of those changes.
Accepting our Privacy Policy Terms & Conditions
By using this Site, you signify your acceptance of this policy. If you do not agree to this policy, please do not use our Site.
REFUND POLICY
Since we are offering virtual numbers, we do not issue refunds once SMS is received and the activation is completed. As a customer you are responsible for understanding this upon purchasing any item on our site. If you did not receive an SMS message within the set time, then the money for the SMS will be refunded automatically after the activation is cancelled. If the automatic refund was not successful, you have to send a request for refund to our support center. Please make sure your request does not contradict our Terms and Conditions.
Also, note that we do not bear any responsibility and therefore we do not satisfy any refund/return/ exchange requests based on incompatibility of our services with some third-party software (plug-ins, add-ons, modules, search engines, scripts, extensions etc) other than those which are specified as compatible in a description available on our sales page of each service. We don’t guarantee that our services are fully compatible with any third-party programs (including web host).
Contact Us
Any questions about our Terms and conditions, Privacy Policy and Refund Policy can be asked via email sent through the contact section on our website.
