Introduction

This Privacy Policy explains how Messages: SMS Text Messaging ("we," "us," or "our") collects, uses, and discloses personal data when you use our mobile application (the "Service"). By using our Service, you agree to the terms outlined in this policy. Please read this document carefully.

General

This privacy policy ("Privacy Policy") applies to all products/software, services and websites of Messages: SMS Text Messaging. (Messages: SMS Text Messaging, "Company" "Messages: SMS Text Messaging", "our", "we" or "us") (Collectively, the "Services"). You ("you" or "your") consent to this Privacy Policy for collecting, using, disclosing and handling of your information (personal and device information) in connection with your access to, and use of, the Services.

Messages: SMS Text Messaging provides "Free" Services as well as paid Services for users. In order to pay for the "Free" Service, personalized advertisements are placed before you. Your information is used to personalize the advertisements.

The Services are not intended for use by anyone who is not able to enter into a legally binding contract. In any event, if you under 13 years old or if you are not able to legally form binding contracts, you may not use any of the Services or submit information about yourself to us. If you have objections to this Privacy Policy, you should not access, sign up for, or use any of the Services.

Information Collection and Use

When you voluntarily choose to use our services, applications or provide us with your personal information, we may access your personal information.

- SMS and MMS
when you use SMS and MMS services, the app will temporarily access your system's SMS content for SMS sending and receiving. The charging of message content depends on the operator you use. The information will not collect and store your SMS content. Set messages as your default SMS application to experience more messaging capabilities.

- User location information
To provide real-time location sharing service, you can send location information to contacts via SMS, and the app will use your location information. You can change the authorization permission in the system setting function of the device or in the actual use scenario of the APP

- Device Or Other IDs (e.g., Advertising ID, Android ID, IMEI, BSSID, MAC address)

- Under the following circumstances, we may disclose your personal information according to your wishes or legal provisions:

1) At the request of public and governmental authorities;
2) According to the applicable laws, legal procedures and litigation claims within or outside your country of residence;
3) Your prior permission;
4) To safeguard our legitimate rights and interests.

Additional data we may access

We will also visit the following information to provide you an enhanced user experience and better services as well as to improve our products. 
The information that may be accessed, collected or shared may be used for application analysis or advertising analysis or other third-party SDK is listed below:

- Email address
- SMS
- Read your text messages (SMS or MMS)
- Receive text messages (SMS /MMSWAP)
- Read call log
- Contact Images
- Read phone status and identity
- Device ID & call information
- Identity/Contacts
- Record audio
- Take pictures and videos
- Camera/ Microphone

App Permissions and usage

READ PHONE STATE
cellular information allowing a faster and more responsive user experience

READ CONTACTS
allows you to select the contacts you want to send SMS/MMS messages to Our Software Messages require certain permissions on your Smartphone

READ AND WRITE SMS
permission required to read, write and send SMS/MMS messages

AUDIO RECORD
required sending audio messages via MMS

CAMERA
this permission is needed to send photos/videos via MMS

Usage Data

• We use your information to communicate with you, to ensure our services are working as intended, to make improvements to our services, to develop our business, and to protect against fraud and spam.
• We may access some sensitive permissions with your consent to provide you with SMS receiving and sending services. For example: SMS and call permissions.
• We may use personal information submitted by you only for the following purposes: help us develop, share, and improve our products and services and supply higher quality service.
• When you access our Service through a mobile device, we may automatically collect information like the type of device, unique ID, IP address, operating system, and more ("Usage Data").

Transfer Of Data

As our servers are in many countries around the world, we may transfer the Personal User Information we obtain to countries other than the country in which the information originally was collected. When we transfer the Personal User Information to other countries, we will protect that Personal User Information as described in this Privacy Policy.

Security

We implement industry standard security measures intended to protect against the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. Please be aware that no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, we cannot guarantee or warrant the security of any information you transmit on or through the Service and you do so at your own risk.

Children's Privacy

Our Services are not directed to children. If a parent or guardian becomes aware that his or her child has provided us with information without their consent, he or she should promptly contact us and we take reasonable steps to ensure that such information is deleted from our files.

Privacy consent management

In compliance with the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), we display a privacy disclosure inside the app where users can unambiguously provide their consent for the collection of the data described in the present terms. User consent is collected and stored inside the app and can be revoked by the user at any time by resetting the app storage from their Android settings or by uninstalling and reinstalling the app. Users may also exercise their right to be forgotten by third-party advertisers by resetting their Android Advertising identifier in their Android settings r by contacting directly any of our advertisement providers listed in the ‘Advertisement’ section.

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/

Monedata
Monedata (DATA PAYMENTS OÜ, Lasnamäe linnaosa, Lõõtsa tn 5-11, Tallinn, 11415, Estonia, info@monedata.io)

This app uses third-party add-ons that collect varied data, which may include device identifiers, location, mobile network coverage and performance, installed apps list and usage stats.

With the user's consent, this data will be collected and shared with those third-parties for analysis and measurement purposes. The user can change his mind at any time by changing the consent.

To learn more about the data collected and see the list of partners, please visit Monedata’s Partners section.

Huq

We collect the following information: Operating System, Date & time, Latitude, Longitude, Accuracy (GPS), SSID (network), BSSID (network), Bundle ID, Device Model, Device Manufacturer, Carrier Code (Android only), Carrier Name, Sim Code, Country, and Locale. In addition to helping us to measure the usage of our app this information is shared with Huq for their business purposes, which consist of the creation of anonymised reports, market research and trend analyses. Data shared with Huq does not contain information from which users can be identified by name and we will not provide additional information that enables Huq to identify you. You can find a full description of Huq and what it and its partners do with the information collected via our app here as well as details on how to request more information on the use of your data and your rights for editing or removing your data.

Advertising networks and their partners

1) Google Ad Mob and their partners

https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/

https://support.google.com/admob/answer/9012903

https://support.google.com/ads/answer/2662922?hl=en

You’re Privacy Choices

You possess the right to access, correct, or delete your personal information. You can also opt out of receiving marketing and promotional communications from us. To exercise your privacy choices, please reach out to us at statussaver27@gmail.com

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. 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 at statussaver27@gmail.com.