Privacy & Policy

SMSPOOL.NET PRIVACY AND COOKIE POLICY

Most recent updated version August 2024

INTRODUCTION

Smspool.net (“we”, “us”, “our(s)) has created and published this Privacy and Cookie Policy (“Policy”). The purpose of this Policy is to inform visitors on our website and Users (“you”, “your(s)”) of our services about what data and personal information we collect when you visit our website and use our services.

Smspool.net is a business operating in the Netherlands.

Smspool.net’s Privacy and Cookie Policy and our internal data protection policies are fully compliant with both the EU General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”). If you have any questions about the manner in which we collect, process and protect your data and personal information, please contact us at info@smspool.net. We may modify this Privacy and Cookie Policy from time to time, for example in response to changes in the applicable privacy laws and regulations.

Any amendments to this Policy are published on this page. Your continued use of our services means that you have read and agreed to the most recent version of our Policy. If you do not agree with this Policy, we recommend you to leave our website.

ARTICLE 1. PERSONAL DATA WE COLLECT

We only collect your data after you have given us your express consent. Before you leave any information with us, we give you the option to agree and continue. If you do not want to share your personal information with us, we recommend you to leave our website and do not complete a registration.

We collect and process the following personal data from visitors and subscribers. The purpose of this will be to register you as a User to our services: Username, password (hashed in bCrypt), and optionally email address. In addition, we may store the IP addresses from each request which is only used for statistical purposes for our DDoS protection such as ratelimits per IP, and this will not be linked to your user data.

ARTICLE 2. THIRD PARTY SUB-PROCESSORS

Smspool.net makes use of the services of third party companies that are processing your data. We are committed to only engage with those companies that fully comply with the GDPR and CCPA, maintain the highest standards of data protection and never sell data to other parties. We only make use of the services of Cloudfare for Analytics, CDN and DDoS protection, based out of the United States that will monitor certain visitor behavior on our website. We advise you to read their Privacy Policy available on https://www.cloudflare.com/privacypolicy/. Next to Cloudflare; we use Stripe which processes your payments and the requests only contain your user ID.

ARTICLE 3. USE OF YOUR INFORMATION

All data we collect and process will be used to provide our Services to you. In addition, we may use this information for maintaining and improving our website, mobile applications and all other services we offer. We may provide you with information about our Services that you explicitly requested from us, answering your questions or responding to other communications you send to us. We do not send sell/send your information for marketing.

We may also track and analyze data for investigating and preventing fraudulent behavior, or other unauthorized or illegal transactions and/or activities. For that purpose we may link, connect or combine certain pieces of data. This information can be requested by law enforcement as long as it is within reasonable demand, and our investigations deem the provided report to be matching up with our internal records.

ARTICLE 4. WITHDRAWAL OF YOUR CONSENT

We only collect and process data that is based on your consent, and personal data which is accurate and relevant for the purposes mentioned in this Policy. In addition, we collect personal information for the legitimate purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. Finally, we collect and process data to comply with specific legal and regulatory duties.

Each User has at all times the right to withdraw its consent. In addition, each individual may request the permanent removal of its personal data and information. Upon your request through your settings page, Smspool.net will remove all personal data that we collected from you. Furthermore, each individual has the right to correct or update its personal information, deletions may take up to 48 hours to process.

ARTICLE 5. YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS