TempSMSOnline Privacy Policy

Effective Date: July 2, 2025

Welcome to TempSMSOnline. We are deeply committed to protecting your privacy and being transparent about how we handle data. This Privacy Policy explains what information we collect, why we collect it, and how you can manage your information.

Your use of our services constitutes your consent to this policy.

Our Privacy Promise: The Plain English Summary

We know legal documents can be dense. Here’s what you really need to know:

• We Don't Ask For Your Personal Info: To use our service, you do not need to register. We don't ask for your name, email address, or personal phone number.

• SMS Messages Are Public: The core of our service is public phone numbers. Any message sent to these numbers is publicly visible on our website for a limited time. Never use our service for sensitive, private, or financial information.

• We Collect Anonymous Technical Data: Like most websites, we automatically collect non-personal technical data (like your IP address and browser type) to keep our service secure, prevent abuse, and analyze performance.

• We Are Ad-Supported: Our service is free because of the ads on our site. Our third-party advertising partners (like Google AdSense) may use cookies to show you relevant ads.

• We Do Not Sell Your Data: We will never sell the limited technical data we collect to third-party data brokers.

The full, detailed policy is below.

1. Information We Collect

To provide and improve our service, we collect a limited amount of information. We have categorized this for clarity.

a) Information You Do Not Provide As mentioned, our service is designed for anonymity. We do not require or collect any personally identifiable information (PII) for you to use our platform, such as:

• Your Name

• Your Email Address

• Your Personal Phone Number

• Your Physical Address

b) Information We Collect Automatically (Log Data) When you visit tempsmsonline.com, our servers automatically record standard information that your browser sends. This "Log Data" may include:

• Your IP (Internet Protocol) address

• The type and version of your browser (e.g., Chrome, Firefox)

• Your operating system (e.g., Windows, macOS)

• The pages you visit on our site and the time and date of your visit

• The time spent on those pages and other statistics

We use this data for technical administration, to monitor our server for security threats, to prevent abuse (such as DDoS attacks), and to analyze traffic to improve our service.

c) Cookies and Web Beacons A "cookie" is a small piece of data stored on your computer. We use cookies for several purposes:

• Essential Cookies: To ensure the basic functionality of our website.

• Analytics Cookies: To help us understand how users interact with our site (e.g., which pages are most popular). We use services like Google Analytics for this purpose.

• Advertising Cookies: Our third-party advertising partners use cookies to serve ads based on a user's prior visits to our website or other websites. This helps keep our service free.

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, some portions of our service may not function properly.

2. How We Use Your Information

We use the information we collect for the following purposes:

• To Provide and Maintain Our Service: Ensuring our website and SMS-receiving infrastructure is operational and reliable.

• To Improve and Analyze Our Service: Understanding how users engage with our platform allows us to fix bugs, improve user experience, and make decisions about new features.

• To Protect Our Service and Users: Monitoring for automated abuse, spam, and other malicious activities to maintain the integrity of our platform.

• To Fulfill Legal Obligations: Complying with legal requests or preventing illegal activities as required by law.

3. Third-Party Services (Advertising & Analytics)

We rely on third-party vendors to help us operate.

• Google AdSense: We use Google AdSense to display advertisements. Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to our users based on their visit to our site and/or other sites on the Internet. Users may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google's Ads Settings.

• Google Analytics: We use Google Analytics to understand website traffic. Google Analytics collects data in an anonymous form. You can review Google's policy here: "How Google uses data when you use our partners' sites or apps".

4. Data Security

We take the security of your data seriously. We use standard industry practices, including SSL/TLS encryption, to protect data in transit. We implement security measures to protect our servers from unauthorized access. However, please 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 information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

5. Data Retention

• SMS Message Data: Messages sent to our public numbers are temporary by nature and are automatically and periodically deleted from our system.

• Log Data: Server log files containing technical data are typically retained for a limited period (e.g., 30-90 days) for security and analysis purposes, after which they are deleted.

6. Your Data Rights (e.g., GDPR, CCPA)

Depending on your location, you may have certain rights regarding your personal data. As we collect very limited data, these rights apply accordingly. You have the right to:

• Request information about the data we hold.

• Request the correction or deletion of your data, where applicable by law.

To exercise these rights, please contact us at the email address provided in our Contact Us section.

7. Children's Privacy

Our service is not intended for use by anyone under the age of 13 (or 16 in certain jurisdictions). We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with personal information, please contact us so that we can take necessary actions.

8. 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 and updating the "Effective Date" at the top. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes.

9. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please do not hesitate to contact us.