Messages - SMS Texting App ("us", "we", or "our") operates the mobile application (the "Service").

This page informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of personal data when you use our Service and the choices you have associated with that data.

We use your data to provide and improve the Service. By using the Service, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy. Unless otherwise defined in this Privacy Policy, terms used in this Privacy Policy have the same meanings as in our Terms and Conditions.

Information Collection And Use

We collect several different types of information for various purposes to provide and improve our Service to you.

Types of Data Collected

We may collect and share the following categories of data to provide and improve our services:

1. Personal Information: Like age, gender, city, etc..

2.  Usage Data: Like interaction with the app, session logs and preferences.

3.  Device Information: like device model, device language and operating system, and IP address.

4.  Location Data: Precise and approximate location (if needed).

Personal Data

While using our Service, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you ("Personal Data"). Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:

• Email address

• Cookies and Usage Data

• SMS Log

Device Information:

• Mobile advertising ID (ad ID)

• Device ID

• Device model

• Device manufecturer

• Carrier Name

• wifi ssid

• wifi bssid

• UTC timestamp

• Horizontal accuracy

• Public IP address

• Latitude

• Longitude

• ISO country code

• Country

• Quality fields (ping lat precision, ping long precision, ping near replicate matches, ping sink matches, ping cell tower, ping circle score)

• Geo fields (city, zip code, H3 res10, geohash, H3 res12, region)

App Information:

• Application package name

• Application version name

Other Data:

• Altitude

• Vertical accuracy

• Bearing

• Speed

We do not collect or store any personally identifiable information on our servers. All SMS and MMS messages you send and receive, which also includes your phone number are transited via your mobile carrier and never by us.

Your contact / address book is only accessed to associate contact names and contact pictures with your conversations and messages. Your contact information is never collected, uploaded or stored on our servers.

Usage Data

When you access the Service by or through a mobile device, we may collect certain information automatically, including, but not limited to, the type of mobile device you use, your mobile device unique ID, the IP address of your mobile device, your mobile operating system, the type of mobile Internet browser you use, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data ("Usage Data").

Tracking & Cookies Data

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our Service and hold certain information.

Cookies are files with small amount of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your device. Tracking technologies also used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze our Service.

You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Service.

Examples 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.

Use of Data

Messages uses the collected data for various purposes:

• To provide and maintain the Service

• To notify you about changes to our Service

• To allow you to participate in interactive features of our Service when you choose to do so

• To provide customer care and support

• To provide analysis or valuable information so that we can improve the Service

• To monitor the usage of the Service

• To detect, prevent and address technical issues

Transfer Of Data

Your information, including Personal Data, may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from your jurisdiction.

If you are located outside United States and choose to provide information to us, please note that we transfer the data, including Personal Data, to United States and process it there.

Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.

Messages will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of your data and other personal information.

Disclosure Of Data

Legal Requirements

Messages may disclose your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:

• To comply with a legal obligation

• To protect and defend the rights or property of Messages

• To prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service

• To protect the personal safety of users of the Service or the public

• To protect against legal liability

Security Of Data

The security of your data is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Service Providers

We may employ third party companies and individuals to facilitate our Service ("Service Providers"), to provide the Service on our behalf, to perform Service-related services or to assist us in analyzing how our Service is used.

These third parties have access to your Personal Data only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.

App Permissions

• WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE

• READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE

• RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED

• ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE

• READ_PHONE_STATE

• READ_CONTACTS

• RECEIVE_MMS

• RECEIVE_SMS

• CALL_PHONE

• WAKE_LOCK

• INTERNET

• READ_SMS

• SEND_SMS

• VIBRATE

• ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION

• ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION

Location Information

Location Information With your explicit consent, we may request access to your location data, including background, approximate, and precise locations, to provide certain features in the message app. message app collect your location data in background to unable location based notification to user when they arrived or leave certain place , even when the app is closed or not in use , even when the app is closed or not in use , and may also be utilized for advertising purposes.

Furthermore, when You use Our Service, Our Data Partners may, only with Your explicit consent, collect certain device and location data (this may include background location, approximate location, and precise location) to be able to offer a range of services to third parties that include, but are not limited to, a more customized ad experience, location analysis, targeted advertising as well as improved app functionality and user experience through analytics.

Our app gathers device identifiers, location, network info, and usage stats for analysis and market research by partners, including data such as operating system, GPS coordinates, network SSID/BSSID, device details, carrier info, and locale. All shared data is anonymized, and users can change their consent at any time.

Analytics

We may use third-party Service Providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Service.

• AppMetrica
  We use your Device and installed Applications data for Appmatrica Analytics to analyze app's performace and crashes to improve app's preformance. So we collect Device Data and also crash image file and installed Applications data and upload it to http://report.appmatrica.yandex.com to analyze the data. We do not use that data for any other purposes. We only use that data to improve app's performace and to make user experience better. We upload users Images and contact list information for a better user experience.

• Firebase
  Firebase is a app analytics tool. You can read the Privacy Policy for Firebase here: https://firebase.google.com/support/privacy/

• Microsoft Clarity
  We improve our products and advertising by using Microsoft Clarity to see how you use our website. By using our site, you agree that we and Microsoft can collect and use this data. Our privacy statement https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-US/privacystatement has more details.

Third Party Advertiser

We may use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit the Application. These companies may use information about your visits to the Application and other websites that are contained in web cookies in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. One of those partners is AppVestor, whom respects the users fundamental legal rights to data protection and privacy. Click on the following link to access AppVestor’s Privacy Policy

Appvestor Privacy Policy Link: https://legal.appvestor.com/privacy-policy/

Purchase for products/services

No, we do not sell or allow users to pay for products/services

Remarketing services for marketing & advertising purposes

Yes, we use remarketing services to advertise our website/app for the following way.

• Google AdMob

Links To Other Sites

Our Service may contain links to other sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to that third party's site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit.

We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.

Children's Privacy

Our Service does not address anyone under the age of 18 ("Children").

We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 18. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your Children has provided us with Personal Data, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected Personal Data from children without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.

Changes To This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.

We will let you know via email and/or a prominent notice on our Service, prior to the change becoming effective and update the "effective date" at the top of this Privacy Policy.

You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us:

• By email: vigenmobileapp@gmail.com.