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The key points of our privacy policy are:
- thinkSMS does not spam.
- By using thinkSMS, you agree to this privacy policy.
Information collected by thinkSMS
We collect the following types of information about you when you use thinkSMS:
- Information provided by you. We collect personal information, such as your business name, business type, address, telephone number and email address, when you register to become a member of reminderdiary.com. This information is used when you set up your account. We also collect the information about your appointments and your contacts which you provide us on reminderdiary.com.
- Information collected automatically. thinkSMS receives and stores information which is transmitted automatically from your computer when you browse the Internet and use thinkSMS. This information includes information from cookies (which are described in paragraph 4 below), your IP address and browser type. Your IP address is the unique address of your computer which is automatically provided to other computers when your web browser or email application requests a web page or email from those computers on the Internet.
Use and Disclosure of information
- We will use your name so that you are recognisable on our database and so that we can personalize your experience. We will use your email address to contact you from time to time and may also use it for security reasons to confirm that you are who you say you are.
- We may use the information collected automatically, such as your IP address and information stored via cookies, to gather statistics about the number of people who visit thinkSMS and to customise thinkSMS's content, layout and services. We may share this information with third parties to help us improve thinkSMS and better serve our users.
- Advertisements that appear on thinkSMS are delivered to you by our advertising partners. thinkSMS may transfer information about your use of thinkSMS, such as your IP address and information stored via cookies, to our advertising partners and other third parties. This information may be used to provide advertising, promotions and other products and services that may be of particular interest to you. It may also be used to provide you with a tailored choice of content and media products. If you do not want to receive targeted advertisements at any point in the future, please send a request to us via the contact us page.
- Our advertising and promotions partners have no access to your name or personal contact information stored by thinkSMS unless you choose to share it with them. thinkSMS does not provide your name or personal contact information to an advertising partner when you interact with or view a targeted advertisement.
- We may provide your personally identifiable information and the data generated by cookies and the aggregate information to the vendors and service agencies that we may engage to assist us in providing our services to you. Such third party entities will be obligated to use your personally identifiable information solely to provide the services to us.
- We will disclose your personally identifiable information if we reasonably believe we are required to do so by law, regulation or other government authority or to protect the rights and property of thinkSMS.co.uk, its affiliates or the public. We may also co-operate with law enforcement agencies in any official investigation and we may disclose your personally identifiable information to the relevant agency or authority in doing so.
- We reserve the right to transfer your personal information in the event of a transfer of ownership of thinkSMS.co.uk, such as acquisition by or merger with another company. If an acquiring company should plan to materially change this privacy policy, we will notify you beforehand.
Links to Other Sites
This Web site contains links to other sites that are not owned or controlled by thinkSMS. Please be aware that we, thinkSMS, are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites.
We encourage you to be aware when you leave our Web site and to read the privacy statements of each and every site that collects personally identifiable information.
This privacy statement applies only to information collected by this Web site.
Testimonials
We post customer testimonials on our Web site which may contain personally identifiable information such as your name. We obtain your prior consent to post your name along with your testimonial.
Cookies
- Cookies are a common Internet technology. Many web sites use cookies to provide useful features for their users. Cookies are small files that are written or downloaded to your computers hard drive when you access a site. They allow thinkSMS to store and quickly retrieve login information on your computer and provide data that we can use to improve the quality of our service. Most Internet browsers (such as Internet Explorer and Safari) are initially set up to accept cookies. If you prefer, you can set your browser to refuse cookies, although you may not be able to take full advantage of thinkSMS if you do so. You can disable cookies by going to Tools on your top menu bar. This will bring up the "Internet Options" dialogue box. On the top of the dialogue box, click on "Privacy". This will bring up the "Settings" box. Scroll up using the slide bar on the left-hand side of the box, until the wording in the box states Block All Cookies. Then click on the "OK" button on the bottom of the menu box. If you follow these instructions, your computer will not accept cookies in future.
- thinkSMS may link information stored in cookies such as your business type with your personally identifiable information and we may use such information to gather statistics about the number of people who visit Reminder Dairy and to customize thinkSMS's content, layout and services for delivery to you.
- Our advertising partners may set and access cookies or use other technologies such as web beacons (which are electronic files that allow a web site to count users who have visited that page or to access certain cookies) in order to personalise advertising content. Use by these advertising partners of their own cookies and any other tracking technologies are subject to their privacy policies. thinkSMS uses its reasonable efforts to ensure that its advertising partners are operating privacy policies that are in accordance with thinkSMS's own privacy standards as set out in this privacy policy.
Security and confidentiality
- The security of your personal information depends on your protection of your account password. Please do not disclose your account password to unauthorized people. thinkSMS uses industry standard technology designed to help keep your personal information safe. Please bear in mind though, that it is impossible for Reminder Dairy to guarantee that impenetrable security measures are in place. For example, we cannot control any illegal and/or unforeseen activity of other users that may allow them to get around the privacy or security settings on the thinkSMS website. Consequently, you acknowledge that there are circumstances in which your personal information may be accessed by unauthorised persons.
- We limit access to your personal information only to employees who we believe need to come into contact with that information in order to do their jobs in connection with the thinkSMS service.
- If you become aware of any breach of data security or have any other questions about the security of our website, please contact us.
Changes in Privacy Policy
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement, the home page, and other places we deem appropriate so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.
We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement at any time, so please review it frequently. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, by email, or by means of a notice on our home page.
Additionally, we may send registered users an email notifying you of the change. IF ANY MODIFICATION IS UNACCEPTABLE TO YOU, YOU SHALL STOP USING THE THINKSMS SERVICE. YOUR CONTINUED USE OF THE THINKSMS SERVICE FOLLOWING OUR POSTING OF A CHANGE NOTICE OR ON OUR WEBSITE OR RECEIVING OUR EMAIL NOTIFYING YOU OF THE CHANGE WILL CONSTITUTE YOUR BINDING ACCEPTANCE OF THE CHANGE.
Cancelling Account
You always have the option to cancel your account at any time. If you no longer wish to use thinkSMS you can sign in to the site and click on the My Account at the top of the page; then select Request Account Hold and follow the simple instructions.
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