Privacy Policy

Information Collection & Use

Registration

In order to use this Web site, you must first complete the registration form. During registration you are required to give some contact information. We use this information to contact you about the services on our site in which you have expressed interest.

OwnYourPhone.com will not share this information under any circumstances with any third parties unless required by law.

OwnYourPhone may, from time to time, initiate updates, newsletters and technical support contacts. You may opt out of non-email contact from OwnYourPhone from your profile page.

OwnYourPhone is the sole owner of the information collected on Ownyourphone.com. OwnYourPhone Collects personally identifiable information from our users at several different points on our Web site, including the registration page and profile page.

Orders

If you purchase a product or service from us, we request certain personally identifiable information from you on our order form. You must provide contact information (such as name and email.) For your protection, we do not collect or store credit card numbers, rather we depend on PayPal, Inc or your mobile phone provider to provide this service.

We use this information for billing purposes and to fill your orders. If we have trouble processing an order, we may use this information to contact you.

Tell-A-Friend

If you choose to use our referral service to tell a friend about our site, we will ask you for your friend's name and email address. We will automatically send your friend a one-time email inviting him or her to visit the site. OwnYourPhone.com stores this information for the sole purpose of sending this one-time email, tracking the success of our referral program, and giving any referral rewards that we may offer from time to time.

Communications from the Site

We will occasionally send you newsletters, special offers or other updates. Out of respect for your privacy, we present the option not to receive these types of communications on the profile page.

Service-related Announcements

We will send you strictly service-related announcements on rare occasions when it is necessary to do so. For instance, if our service is temporarily suspended for maintenance, we might send you an email.

Generally, you may not opt-out of these communications, which are not promotional in nature. If you do not wish to receive them, you have the option to deactivate your account.

Customer Service

Based upon the personally identifiable information you provide us, we will send you a welcoming email to verify your username and password. We will also communicate with you in response to your inquiries, to provide the services you request, and to manage your account. We may communicate with you by email or by telephone for technical support problems.

ID/Phone number Verification

We may now or in the future use technical means to verify your phone number, in order to ensure that promotional credits are correctly applied.

Information Sharing and Disclosure

Aggregate Information (non-personally identifiable)

We may share aggregated demographic information about our user base with our partners and advertisers. This information does not identify individual users. This information is used to describe our customer base to potential partners and advertisers.

We do not link aggregate user data with personally identifiable information.

Personally identifiable information:

We DO NOT Share Personally Identifiable Information with third parties unless required by law.

Agents

We use an outside company to send text messages, and a credit card processing company to bill you for goods and services. These companies do not retain, share, store or use personally identifiable information for any other purposes.

Legal Disclaimer

We reserve the right to disclose your personally identifiable information as required by law and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or to comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on our Web site.

Choice/Opt-out

If you no longer wish to receive our newsletter or promotional communications, you may opt-out of receiving them by following the instructions included in each newsletter or communication or by emailing us at support at ownyourphone.com

You will be notified if your personal information is collected by any third party that is not our agent/service provider, so you can make an informed choice as to whether or not to share your information with that party.

Log Files

As is true of most Web sites, we gather certain information automatically and store it in log files. This information includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, and clickstream data.

We use this information, which does not identify individual users, to analyze trends, to administer the site, to track users' movements around the site and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole.

We do not link this automatically-collected data to personally identifiable information.

Cookies

A cookie is a small text file that is stored on a user's computer for record-keeping purposes. We use cookies on this site.

We use session ID cookies only. We use session cookies to make it possible for you to navigate our site. A session ID cookie lasts 24 hours from your last account activity.

It is not technically possible to use our site without session ID cookies.

Some of our business partners (e.g., advertisers) may use cookies on our site in the future. We have no access to or control over these cookies. [See the "Third Party Advertisers" section.]

This privacy statement covers the use of cookies by OwnYourPhone only and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers. [See the "Third Party Advertisers" section.]

Third Party Advertisers

Any ads appearing on this Web site may be delivered by an advertising partner. We may share Web site usage information about users with a reputable third party for advertising purposes.

Links to Other Sites

This Web site contains links to other sites that are not owned or controlled by OwnYourPhone. Please be aware that we, OwnYourPhone, are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites.

We encourage you to be aware when you leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every Web site that collects personally identifiable information.

This privacy statement applies only to information collected by this Web site.

Public Pages

If you use the public pages on this site, you should be aware that any personally identifiable information you submit there can be read, collected, or used by other users of OwnYourPhone, and could be used to send you unsolicited messages. We are not responsible for the personally identifiable information you choose to submit on your public page. We reserve the right to terminate your account for abuse of your public page, including posting of adult, libelous, illegal or copyrighted material, without warning and without a refund of any money spent on OwnYourPhone, or any other liability to you.

Access to Personally Identifiable Information

If your personally identifiable information changes, or if you no longer desire our service, you may change it on your profile page.

Security

The security of your personal information is important to us. We use encryption technology, and do not store sensitive information such as your credit card number.

We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it. No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure, however. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

If you have any questions about security on our Web site, you can send email us at support at ownyourphone.com

Business Transitions

In the event ownyourphone.com goes through a business transition, such as a merger, acquisition by another company, or sale of all or a portion of its assets, your personally identifiable information will likely be among the assets transferred. You will be notified via a prominent notice on our Web site for 30 days or by email of any such change in ownership or control of your personal information.

Uses of Information

OwnYourPhone.com uses the information it collects to contact you in the ways outlined above, and in aggregate to design future marketing programs.

Changes in this Privacy Statement

If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement, the homepage, 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.