PRIVACY POLICY

Messenger - Messages SMS & MMS  is developed by one main developer, with a few people helping from time to time, mostly with translations.

Privacy Policy ("Policy") describes how information obtained from users is collected, used and disclosed.

By using Messenger - Messages SMS & MMS, you agree that your personal information will be handled as described in this Policy.

I. Information Collection and Use: Personally Identifiable Information

To function, Messenger - Messages SMS & MMS needs to be the Default SMS app on your phone.

- If you enable texting from any device, your messages, contacts and phone number will be encrypted and sent to our system in oder to sync with your other devices.

Information That You Provide .

As you use the Services, you may provide us with personally identifiable information. This refers to information about you that can be used to identify, track, or contact you (“Personal Information”). Personal Information includes data such as your name and email address, but is not limited to this information. When you contact our customer support services, this may include a record of communication correspondence and associated contact information. 

With your permission, we may access information from your device, such as your general location, contact lists, SMS messages, photo and video library, images and audio, and/or calendar. This information is only accessed if you grant us access to it, and if it’s required for the service to operate, or required for specific features of the service to operate. For example, we cannot display, send or sync a SMS message on your behalf if you do not grant SMS permissions to us. 

The app has no internet access, so it is not sending anything outside the device whatsoever.

Information being collected

Messenger - Messages SMS & MMS does not collect any personal identifiable information.

The `READ_CONTACTS` permission is used at getting contact names from phone numbers, also at showing contact suggestions. It is optional, the app works without it too.

The `READ_PHONE_STATE` permission is needed in cases the user has multiple SIM cards inserted, so he is able to toggle between them.

The app can access the users' phone number, but it is not being sent anywhere outside of the device.

Personal Information Collected and Used, Processing Purposes and Legal Bases

Personal Information 

As you use the Services, you may provide us with information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (“Personal Information”). An identifiable natural person is a person who can be identified, directly or indirectly.  Personal Information includes data such as your name and email address, but is not limited to this information and may vary based on the Services you are using. Personal Information may also include data like your IP address, information about your usage of our Services, financial or transactional details, user identifiers, your location, or other application specific information When you contact our customer support services, this may include a record of that correspondence and associated contact information.

Personal Information That You Provide

Registering and Paying for the Services. Where applicable, you may sign up to use the Services directly via the Site or Application or via certain third party social networking sites (each, a “Social Networking Site”). If you decide to create an account to use the Services via a Social Networking Site, we may extract the Personal Information you have provided to such Social Networking Site (such as your “real” name, email address and other information you make available via the Social Networking Site) from the account you have with such Social Networking Site and use that Personal Information to create your account, or an account for a Service; the Personal Information we extract may depend on the privacy settings you have with the Social Networking Site. We use this Personal Information with your consent.

If you choose to purchase any Services or any virtual goods as part of your use of the Services, to the extent available, we or our third party service providers may collect Personal Information from you to facilitate your payment for such virtual goods. We use this Personal Information to perform our contract with you to provide the Services to you.

We use other Personal Information that you provide in connection with your registration and/or use of the Services (e.g., your name, user name, password, time of registration, birthday, gender, zip code (on its own) and individual preferences) in order to provide our Services and your user account to you. If you participate in a contest, we may use any Personal Information included in your submission. We may also use any Personal Information that you include in any inquiry that you send to us. We use the aforementioned Personal Information to perform our contract with you to provide the Services to you.

Optional Push Notifications. If you wish to receive push notifications on your cell phone, we may use your user ID, the content of the push notifications we send to you and your user preferences that trigger the push notification. We use this Personal Information with your consent. You can always opt-out for the future.

Email and Marketing Communications. If you wish to receive personalized email newsletters, we may use your name, email address and the content of the marketing communications we send to you. We send you our personalized email newsletters on the basis of your consent or our legitimate interests to send you information about similar Services to those that you have previously used or purchased. We may personalize our marketing communications based on the information you provide to us, your preferences, your interactions with the Services, information obtained from third parties, and your search and booking history. You can always opt out for the future. If you decide at any time that you no longer wish to receive such communications from us, please follow the unsubscribe instructions provided in any of the communications or update your “user preferences” information. (See “Your Rights,” below.) Please note that where you opt-out of receiving email newsletters, we may still send you certain communications relating to your use of the Services, such as service announcements, notices regarding the Service and administrative messages.

Information from Your Device You Permit Us to Access as Part of the Services. With your consent, we may access Personal Information from your device, such as your specific or general location, calendar, or photo library in order to provide Services you have requested. For example, if you are using a weather app and would like to receive weather updates for your current location, you may need to enable access to your location. Similarly, if you are using a calendar app and would like to use the app to manage your calendar, you may need to enable access to your calendar for that purpose. Or if you are using a photo editing app, you may need to enable access to your photos if order for the app to modify your photos. We will not seek to access the category of information described in this paragraph without your consent, and we will not ask for your consent unless it is useful or necessary to provide the Services you have requested.

Secure Data. Some services are encrypted and collect data that we are not capable of decrypting under any circumstances. For these services, this includes all or select information stored in your accounts and is associated with your login credentials and your device. We have no way of accessing or providing decrypted Secure data, and we never receive copies of unencrypted Secure data. Your secure data is your property. We claim no rights to it beyond those necessary to deliver services to you. You may add, modify, and delete secure data at your discretion. You are responsible for maintaining your credentials and managing access to your secure data, as outlined in Section XI.

Fitness and Wellness Data Fitness and wellness data includes data you may input when using our Services related to your dietary habits, dietary restrictions, fitness activity, fitness goals, lifestyle (e.g. eating habits and recipes), life events, fitness goals, height, weight, measurements, fitness level, heart rate, sleep data, BMI, and similar types of data relating to physiological condition, and activity. We collect this data in order to provide the Services and to tailor features, advertising, and services to your interests and goals, including providing meal suggestions, reporting and analytics, workout plans, and meal planning related services and product recommendations. Fitness and Wellness Data may also include data you enable to be shared from other services.

Personal Information We Collect Automatically

Our Services may require additional Personal Information or permissions from your device in order to function effectively.

Log Data. When you use the Services, whether as a registered user or a non-registered user, for example in accessing our Services through a Social Networking Site, our servers automatically record information that your browser sends whenever you visit a website or application (“Log Data”). This Log Data may include Personal Information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, browser type or the website or application you were visiting before you came to the Service, pages of the websites or application involved in the Service that you visit, the time spent on those pages, information you search for, access times and dates, operating system, software version, and statistical information related to your use of the Services. We use the Log Data to monitor and analyze use of the Services, to technically administer and maintain the Services, to provide the Services to you, to improve and increase the functionality and user-friendliness of our Services, and for security purposes. For example, some of the Log Data is collected so that when you use our Services again, it will recognize you and will make your continued use of the Services easier (e.g. by storing your game progress or remembering that you are logged into the Services). We also use the Log Data to verify that visitors to the Service meet the criteria required to process their requests. We use the Log Data to perform our contract with you to provide the functioning Services to you.

Cookies and Similar Technology. Like many websites and applications, our Services use cookies and mobile advertising identifiers (“Cookies”) to collect Personal Information. A Cookie is a small data file that we transfer to your computer’s hard disk for record-keeping purposes. We do not link the information we store in Cookies to any Personal Information you submit while using our Services. Please find more information about the Personal Information we collect and use when using Cookies in Section III, below.

How We Use Your Personal Information: 

We may use your Personal Information for the following purposes:

Providing, Improving, and Developing the Services

• Provide the Services to you

• To set up your user account

• Recognize you when you return to our Services, keep your game progress, save your registration ID and login password for future logins, and store information about your use of the Services

• Display your achievements on leader boards within the relevant Application (which will include your basic social media profile information if you choose to link your social media accounts with the Services)

• To enable you to purchase any Services or make purchases within our Services

• Provide customer service and to respond to any inquiry that you send to us

• Operate, protect, improve, and optimize the Services and the user experience, such as by performing analytics and conducting research

• Communicate with you and to send you information by personalized email, postal mail, telephone, text message, or other means about our Services, contests, support messages, updates, security alerts, and account notifications.

• Make your user experience easier, more personalized, more enjoyable and more efficient

• Address problems with and improve our Services and technologies, as well as to develop new Services

• Enable certain features of the Services in order to better understand how you interact with the Services and to monitor aggregate usage.

• Facilitate your ability to share Personal Information (e.g., game scores or photos you have edited) to social media

• Administer and fulfill our contests and other promotions. We may provide further information on the use of your Personal Information in connection with contests when you sign-up for the contest and submit your entry

• Help us learn more about your product preferences

• Send you push notifications with app-related information when you give us your consent

• Fulfill your purchase requests and process purchase payments and refunds

• Operate, protect, improve, and optimize the Services and experience, and personalize and customize your experience. We use your Personal Information on the basis of our legitimate interests in improving our Services and your experience. With your consent, we conduct profiling based on your interactions with the Services.

Creating and Maintaining a Trusted and Safe Environment

• Prevent, detect, mitigate and investigate fraud, security breaches and activities that are or potentially may be prohibited or illegal

• Conduct security investigations and risk assessments

• Verify or authenticate information

• As we believe to be required or appropriate to protect the rights, property, safety and security of our employees, customers and others

• As we believe to be required or appropriate under applicable law, to respond to requests from government authorities and to comply with legal process, investigations, regulatory or governmental inquiries or for other legal or regulatory purposes

• Comply with our legal obligations

• Resolve any disputes with any of our users and enforce our agreements with third parties

• Enforce our Terms of Service or other policies.

We use your Personal Information for these purposes given our legitimate interest in protecting the Services and to comply with applicable laws.

Marketing, Surveys, Sweepstakes, Contests and other Commercial Partnerships

• Personalize, measure, and improve our advertising

• Administer referral programs, rewards, surveys, sweepstakes, contests, or other promotional activities or events sponsored or managed by its third party partners.

• We may use, and disclose the following categories of information about you or your use of the Services for our business and commercial purposes, including to personalize your experience or market other services to you: Identifiers (such as name, email address); commercial information, financial data, user-generated content; device information and identifiers (such as IP address); internet or other network or device activity (such as browsing history or app usage); professional and employment related information; location data; demographic data (such as gender); inference data; and other information that identifies or can be reasonably associated with you

We use your Personal Information for these purposes with your consent, where required, or to perform our contract with you to provide the Services to you.

Information Sharing and Disclosure 

Third-Party Advertisers:

Aggregate Information and Non-Identifying Information; Advertisers. We may share aggregated information that does not include Personal Information and we may otherwise disclose Non-Identifying Information and Log Data with third parties for industry analysis, demographic profiling and other purposes.

In particular, we share Non-Identifying Information (including the advertising identifier currently associated with your device) and Log Data and other aggregated information with third party advertising and technology companies. The data we share with them may include data about your device, approximate location, and use of our Applications, including IP address, device identifiers and information, Application usage data, and purchase data as well as information you provide to us when using our Applications such as game progress and certain technical information. Such information may be used to send you targeted advertisements for products and services that are relevant to your interests. In some cases these third parties will also use the data that they collect for their own purposes, such as aggregating your data with other data they hold in order to inform advertising related services provided to other clients. These third parties may place a Cookie on your browser, or use a web beacon, to collect information about your use of our website so that they can provide advertising about products and services tailored to your interest. That advertising may appear across the Services, or on other websites, apps and services. You can instruct your browser, by changing its options, to stop accepting Cookies or to prompt you before accepting a Cookie from the websites you visit. On your mobile device, you can manage your privacy preferences in app settings, and you may be able to reset some identifiers by taking the following steps (for iOS: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202074 and for Android: https://support.google.com/ads/answer/2662922?hl=en). If you do not accept Cookies, however, you may not be able to use all portions of the website or all functionality of our Services, and advertising will no longer be targeted to your interests.

For example, we may collect and share the advertising identifier associated with your device (such as the Apple IDFA and Android Advertising ID) with advertisers. An advertising identifier is an alphanumeric string that can be used to identify your device so that advertisers can serve relevant ads to you. We use the Apple IDFA only as permitted by Apple, and we use the Android Advertising ID only as permitted by Google. An advertising identifier is assigned, and ad tracking is turned on, by default on your mobile device. You may limit the use of or reset your advertising device ID using the privacy settings on your mobile device; in some instances you may need to reset the operating system to reset the advertising device ID. We do not associate any of your personal information with your advertising device ID without your consent (which may be given by you in our terms of use for an Application).

A list of the third party advertising and technology companies that we use is set forth below:

• AdAdapted, Inc. – Privacy Policy

• Admob (Google LLC) – Privacy Policy

• Amazon Services International, Inc. – Privacy Policy

• Amazon Ad Server – Privacy Policy

• AppLovin Corporation – Privacy Policy

This list may be updated at any time. Please check this Privacy Policy for the most current information.

Email Targeting:

When you enter your email address on our website (either to log in, or to sign up to a newsletter, or similar) or when you use our app, we may share personal data or other information that we collect from you, such as your email (in hashed, pseudonymous form), mobile advertising identifier, IP address, or information about your browser or operating system, with our partners which include LiveRamp, ID5, the Trade Desk and their group companies, acting as joint controllers, and other partners. These partners may use this information to create an online identification code for the purpose of recognizing you on your devices. This code does not contain any of your identifiable personal data. We place this code in our first party cookie or a partner cookie and allow it to be used for online and cross-channel advertising. It may be shared with our advertising partners and other third party advertising companies globally for the purpose of enabling interest-based content or targeted advertising throughout your online experience (e.g. web, email, connected devices, and in-app, etc).

• Detailed information on LiveRamp’s data processing activities is available in LiveRamp’s privacy policy and opt-out here: https://liveramp.uk/privacy/service-privacy-policy/. You have the right to withdraw your consent or opt-out to the processing of your personal data at any time.

• Detailed information on ID5’s data processing activities in connection with this ID and ID5’s opt-out is available in ID5’s platform privacy policy here: https://id5.io/platform-privacy-policy. You have the right to withdraw your consent or opt-out to the processing of your personal data at any time

• Detailed information on the Trade Desk’s data processing activities is available in the Trade Desk’s privacy policy and opt-out here: https://www.thetradedesk.com/us/privacy. You have the right to withdraw your consent or opt-out to the processing of your personal data at any time.

• Additional partners may be added or removed at any time.

Service Providers:

We may employ third party companies and individuals to facilitate our Services, to provide our Services on our behalf, to perform services related to our Services (e.g., without limitation, analytics and reporting services, database & hosting services, distribution platforms, and other web or app services) or to assist us in analyzing how our Services are used. These third parties have access to your Personal Information only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose. We have carefully selected these service providers and entered into data processing agreements, if required by applicable law. The service providers will use your Personal Information outside the EU/EEA (e.g. in the U.S.).

Service providers with whom we share your Personal Information may include:

• Web, App and Game Distribution, Payments and Operating System platforms, including, but not limited to, Apple Inc., Google LLC, Amazon.com, Inc., Facebook, Inc., Stripe, Inc.

• Analytics and Consent Management Service Providers, including, but not limited to, Sisense Ltd., Google LLC (operating as Firebase, Google Analytics, BigQuery, or Google Cloud Platform), Appsflyer, OneTrust, LLC

• Web, App or Game Software, Hosting, Database & API Service Providers, including, but not limited to, Google LLC (Google Cloud Platform) and Amazon.com, LLC (Amazon Web Services)

• Customer Support Platforms, including, but not limited to, Zendesk, Inc.

Group Companies. We may share your Personal Information with our group companies where it in order to provide our Services or customer support to you or based on our legitimate interests for internal administrative and management purposes (for example, for corporate strategy, compliance, auditing and monitoring, research and development, and quality assurance).

Compliance with Laws and Law Enforcement. Law enforcement officials and private parties to enforce and comply with the law. We may disclose any Personal Information to government or law enforcement officials where necessary to respond to any government or law enforcement requests or private parties as we, in our sole discretion, believe necessary or appropriate to respond to claims and legal process (including but not limited to subpoenas), to protect the property and rights of a third party, to protect the safety of the public or any person, or to prevent or stop activity we may consider to be, or to pose a risk of being, any illegal, unethical or legally actionable activity.

Business Transfers. Transfer or otherwise share some or all of its assets, including your Personal Information, in connection with a merger, acquisition, reorganization or sale of assets or in the event of bankruptcy.

Other Disclosures. We may share your Personal Information with our legal, regulatory, audit, and other professional advisors. Those companies may use your Personal Information to assist us in our operations consistent with our legitimate business interests.

How Long We Store Your Information

We keep your Personal Information for no longer than necessary for the purposes for which the Personal Information is processed. The length of time for which we retain Personal Information depends on the purposes for which we collect and use it and/or as required to comply with applicable laws and to establish, exercise or defend against legal claims.

Changes to the Policy

If the Policy changes, the modification date below will be updated. The Policy may change from time to time, so please be sure to check back periodically.

Last modified:15/8/2022.

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