Text Free: Second Phone Number

"Since our TextFree Apps are supported by advertising, we -like other ad-supported companies (e.g. Facebook) – gather information about you, your mobile device from the TextFree Apps, and your use of TextFree Apps. That information is shared with Advertising Companies who process it and match it with other data and use algorithms to serve ads that are more relevant to you. Please keep in mind that some of that information, such as specific geo-location information, passes to Advertising Companies and may not be retained by us."

Pinger collects geo-location data and shares it directly with advertising companies, who may retain it independently from Pinger.

"In some Apps we use Google Signals, which is an extension to Google Analytics. If you have enabled personalized ads in your Google account, then Google Signals allows us access to data linked to your Google account for advertising reports, remarketing, cross-device reporting, and interest and demographic reports, and to use that data for cross-device remarketing."

Pinger uses Google Signals for cross-device tracking and remarketing, linking user activity across multiple devices through Google account data.

"We use analytics tools provided by Google, Facebook, Flurry, adjust, braze and Crashlytics ("Analytics Tools") which also use Tags to collect and analyze information about your use of our desktop and mobile applications. We use Analytics Tools to collect App Data, which we use as provided above. That information is also used by the Analytics Tools providers according to their privacy policies."

Pinger embeds multiple third-party SDKs (Google, Facebook, Flurry, Adjust, Braze, Crashlytics) that independently collect user data and use it according to their own privacy policies.

"Registration Information: Email, Name, Phone Number, Password, Mobile Carrier Identifier, IP address for Registration — Duration of Retention: Indefinitely. Identifiers: Advertising and vendor identifiers, iOS identifiers, Google ID, International mobile equipment identity (IMEI), Device identifiers — Duration of Retention: Indefinitely. Survey information — Duration of Retention: Indefinitely."

Pinger retains registration information, device identifiers, survey data, and account attributes indefinitely, with no clear timeline for deletion even after accounts become inactive.

"App Data can include: IP addresses, domain servers, referring/exit pages, operating system information, unique device identifiers, such as UDID and/or Ethernet MAC address, date/time stamp, clickstream data and information about actions taken by you through interaction with Pinger's products and/or advertising displayed within Pinger products, messages sent and received using Pinger services, information about those messages (date, duration, recipients, size, attachments), type of device, location information, age, gender, type of web browser, one or more cookies that identify your browser, and telecommunications carrier information."

Pinger collects extensive device data including UDID, MAC address, IMEI, carrier information, and detailed message metadata well beyond what a messaging app's core functionality requires.

"Pinger reserves the right, at our discretion, to change, update or modify this Privacy Policy at any time by posting such change, update or modification on the Pinger website and in the app stores from which Apps are made available. Any such change, update or modification will be effective immediately upon notice, which Pinger may provide by any means, including, without limitation, posting on the Pinger website. Your continued use of the Pinger website and/or any Pinger products and services following the posting of changes will mean you accept those changes."

Pinger can change the privacy policy at any time with changes effective immediately, and continued use constitutes acceptance of new terms without requiring explicit consent.

"When you purchase a TextFree Plus subscription, we don't provide your personal information to Advertising Companies, but you have to maintain that subscription in order to continue using TextFree Plus because other versions of TextFree use your personal information for advertising purposes. If you cancel or let the TextFree Plus subscription lapse, then your personal information will be used for advertising in the TextFree Apps and, by allowing the subscription to lapse, you are expressly consenting to our use of your personal information for advertising within the TextFree Apps."

Users must maintain an ongoing paid subscription to prevent their data from being sold to advertisers. Letting the subscription lapse automatically re-enrolls users in data selling, treating lapsed payment as consent.

"If you still want us to delete your personal information, you have to send us a verified request for us to do so. As with information requests, the only way for us to verify who you are is for you to log in and contact us using our Apps. Please note that the CCPA includes a number of exceptions that allow us to retain your personal data despite your deletion request, so we may retain your personal data under those exceptions."

Account deletion requires logging in and contacting Pinger through the app (no self-service deletion option), and Pinger reserves the right to retain data even after a deletion request under broad CCPA exceptions.