1. Information Collection and Use
BudgetSMS B.V. is the sole owner of the information collected on BudgetSMS.net. BudgetSMS B.V. collects information on different occasions on this website.
2. Registration
To use our SMS service registration is required. Personal information is needed to create an account at BudgetSMS.net. Also, personal information is used by BudgetSMS B.V. to contact the user in case of any questions/problems. BudgetSMS B.V. only uses the information for contacting purposes.
3. Order/Payment
The service offered by BudgetSMS B.V. is not a free service. In order to use the services provided by BudgetSMS B.V. funds need to be transferred.
Funds can be transferred either directly to us with a bank transfer or with our selected payment providers (At the moment PayPal and TargetPay)
4. Information Use
Information collected by BudgetSMS B.V. is solely used for billing, accounts and records purposes. We reserve the right to monitor usage of data and our services, contact you using the data when we deem necessary. Our information is kept private and will never be disclosed to third parties other that to perform actions on behalf of BudgetSMS B.V.. As BudgetSMS B.V. take such a high standing on the use of personal information, the user is expected to provide information which is accurate.
5. Profile
BudgetSMS.net uses cookies and some other devices during our usage of our site and services. BudgetSMS B.V. does not create a profile based on your actions and service usage. BudgetSMS B.V. also does not target it's users depending on usage of our website and services.
6. Cookies
A cookie is a piece of data stored on your personal computer tied to information about the user. We use cookies for session id's. When you close the browser the cookie will be destroyed. No personal data is stored in there cookies. When a user desides not to accept cookies our site might not function properly.
7. Log Files
Log files are used to collect data about our service. This data is solely used to monitor our servers and services to make sure our services perform optimal. Data about the website (pageviews, visitors, search engines, etc) is collected by Google Analytics. This data will be used to optimalise our website.
8. Mobile Phone Numbers
The mobile phone numbers used by clients are stored in our system, pure as logging and security reasons and will not be used by other parties then BudgetSMS B.V.. BudgetSMS B.V. only uses the numbers for delivering services and the status of that service. BudgetSMS B.V. will never use these numbers for sending messages or anything else to contact the owners of that number.
9. Newsletters
Optional newsletter services may be provided and withdrawn by BudgetSMS B.V. at any time. BudgetSMS B.V. will not pass on your email address for these optional newsletters to any third parties unless specified on the individual newsletter subscription page. You can add/remove yourself from these optional newsletters at any time.
10. Service Announcements
On rare occasions it is necessary to send out a strictly service related announcement. For instance, if our service is temporarily suspended for maintenance we might send users an email. These messages are not promotional and are always essential to the users' use of BudgetSMS B.V. products and services. Receiving these messages is part of the BudgetSMS B.V. service.
11. Legal Disclaimer
Though we make every effort to preserve user privacy, we may need to disclose personal information when required by law wherein we have a good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with a current judicial proceeding, a court order or legal process served on our Web site. We will make every effort to help the Police services with their enquiries if we believe it is in our users' interests and to protect the BudgetSMS B.V. service.
12. Third Party Intermediaries
We use a credit card processing company to bill users for goods and services. We may also need to use other companies to deal with your requests or provide certain services. Other companies on our behalf will provide some services. These companies do not retain, share, store or use personally identifiable information for any secondary purposes.
13. Service Providers
Third parties, who are providing a product or service on our behalf to the user, are not allowed to use personally identifiable information except for the purpose of providing these services. Secondary usage is strictly forbidden.
14. Security
BudgetSMS B.V. takes every precaution to protect our users' information. When users submit sensitive information via the Web site, their information is protected both online and off-line.
All of our users' information, not just the sensitive information, is restricted in our offices. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job (for example, our billing clerk or a customer service representative) are granted access to personally identifiable information.