Effective Date: September 30, 2025
1. Introduction Welcome to recvsms.com (“we,” “us,” or “our”). We provide free, temporary, and public phone numbers for the purpose of receiving SMS messages online. Your privacy is important to us, but it is crucial to understand the public nature of our service. This Privacy Policy explains how we handle information in relation to our website and services.
2. Important Notice: Public Nature of Our Service Our service is fundamentally public. Any SMS message sent to a phone number displayed on recvsms.com is publicly visible to anyone visiting our website.
- No Expectation of Privacy: There should be no expectation of privacy for any content sent to the phone numbers on our site.
- Do NOT Use for Sensitive Information: We strongly urge you NOT to use our service for any sensitive information, including but not limited to: passwords, PINs, bank account details, verification codes for personal accounts (e.g., Google, Facebook, WhatsApp), or any personally identifiable information.
- You Are Responsible: You are solely responsible for any information you send or cause to be sent to the public numbers listed on our website.
3. Information We Collect
a) Information You Do Not Provide: We do not require user registration. You can use our service without providing any personal information such as your name, email address, or personal phone number.
b) SMS Message Content: We temporarily store the content of SMS messages received by our public phone numbers in order to display them on the website. As stated above, this content is publicly accessible.
c) Automatically Collected Information (Log Data): Like most website operators, we collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit our site (“Log Data”). This Log Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol (IP) address, browser type, browser version, the pages of our site that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, and other statistics. This information is used for website administration, analysis, and to monitor for abuse.
4. How We Use Information The information we collect is used for the following purposes:
- To Provide and Maintain Our Service: To display received SMS messages on our public numbers.
- To Monitor and Improve Our Service: To understand how users interact with our website, to monitor traffic, and to improve user experience.
- To Prevent Abuse: To monitor for and prevent illegal or malicious activity.
5. Data Retention and Deletion Our phone numbers are temporary and are rotated on a regular basis. All messages associated with a number are automatically and permanently deleted when the number is removed from our system. We do not keep long-term archives of SMS messages.
6. Cookies and Third-Party Advertising We may use cookies to store certain information about your preferences and to enhance your experience on our website.
We may also use third-party advertising companies, such as Google AdSense, to serve ads when you visit our website. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address, or telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. You can learn more about this practice and your choices by visiting the privacy policies of our advertising partners.
7. Security We take reasonable administrative and technical measures to protect our systems from unauthorized access. However, given the public nature of the data we handle, we cannot guarantee the absolute security of any information.
8. Children’s Privacy Our service is not intended for use by anyone under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 13. 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 action.
9. 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. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes.
10. Contact Us If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at: [contact@recvsms.com]