SMSPool

SMSPool is a service that provides temporary phone numbers.

7.2/10

How we calculate ratings →

Handling

Does the policy allow personally-targeted or behavioral marketing? No

10/10

Does the service allow you to permanently delete your personal data? Yes, using an automated mechanism

5/5

Does the service allow third-party access to private personal data? Yes, all parties specified (only to critical service providers)

8/10

This may come in the form of outright data sharing or by using local third-party analytics software (such as Google Analytics, which collects a plethora of user information).

Note that whether the policy allows sharing aggregated user data does not affect this question.

If the personal data is encrypted when it passes through the third-party, it does not count as third-party access (as the data is inaccessible to that party).

If personal data has been made public by, for example, posting it to a blog, it does not count as private personal information (and is therefore not considered by this question).

Score

Yes

The policy allows sharing personal data with third parties (not just critical service providers), and does not explicitly list the third parties.

Yes, all parties specified (including non-critical service providers such as advertisers)

30%

Yes, not all parties specified (but only to critical service providers)

70%

Yes, all parties specified (only to critical service providers)

80%

100%

Citation

"Smspool.net makes use of the services of third party companies that are processing your data. We are committed to only engage with those companies that fully comply with the GDPR and CCP, maintain the highest standards of data protection and never sell data to other parties. We only make use of the services of Cloudfare for Analytics, CDN and DDoS protection, based out of the United States that will monitor certain visitor behavior on our website. We advise you to read their Privacy Policy available on https://www.cloudflare.com/privacypolicy/. Next to Cloudflare; we use Stripe which processes your payments and the requests only contain your user ID."

When does the policy allow law enforcement access to personal data? When reasonably requested

3/5

Score

Always

This includes cases in which law enforcement either runs the service or has a known backdoor into (or relationship with) the service.

Not specified

When reasonably requested

60%

Only when required by a court order or subpoena

80%

N/A (no personal data to share)

The service would have no personal data to share with law enforcement.

100%

Never (special legal jurisdiction)

The service operates in a jurisdiction in which sharing data with law enforcement is never required.

100%

Citation

"We may also track and analyze data for investigating and preventing fraudulent behavior, or other unauthorized or illegal transactions and/or activities. For that purpose we may link, connect or combine certain pieces of data. This information can be requested by law enforcement as long as it is within reasonable demand, and our investigations deem the provided report to be matching up with our internal records."

Transparency

Does the policy outline the service's general security practices? Somewhat

1/3

Score

Somewhat

The policy provides only a very vague overview of its security practices.

30%

Yes

60%

Yes, including audits

"Reviews," "monitoring," etc. also count as audits.

80%

Yes, including independent audits

Independent "reviews," "monitoring," etc. also count as independent audits.

100%

N/A

The service doesn't collect any personal information.

100%

Notes

Smspool.net is committed to taking all necessary measures and actions to protect your data. Our data protection practices are based on the best industry standards such as hashing your passwords with bCrypt, and only ask for information that is deemed important to us.

Is the policy's history made available? Only the date it was last modified

3/5

Does the policy require users to be notified in case of a data breach? Yes, within 72 hours

7/7

Will affected users be notified when the policy is meaningfully changed? Yes

5/5

Collection

Does the service collect personal data from third parties? Yes, but for critical data only

7/10

Is it clear why the service collects the personal data that it does? Yes

10/10

Does the service allow the user to control whether personal data is collected or used for non-critical purposes? On an opt-out basis, but only for some non-critical data/uses

3/10

Some services allow users to opt-out or opt-in to of non-critical collection or use of personal data, such as collecting data for personalized advertisements.

Score

On an opt-out basis, but only for some non-critical data/uses

30%

On an opt-out basis, for all non-critical data/uses

60%

On an opt-in basis

60%

N/A (no data used for non-critical purposes)

100%

Citation

"All data we collect and process will be used to provide our Services to you. In addition, we may use this information for maintaining and improving our website, mobile applications and all other services we offer. We may provide you with information about our Services that you explicitly requested from us, answering your questions or responding to other communications you send to us. We do not send sell/send your information for marketing."

We only make use of the services of Cloudfare for Analytics, CDN and DDoS protection, based out of the United States that will monitor certain visitor behavior on our website.

Does the policy list the personal data it collects? Only summarily

3/10

Score

The policy does not claim to not collect personal data, but it also doesn't provide any meaningful insight into the types of personal data it collects.

Only summarily

The policy uses overly vague language to provide a summary of the types of collected personal data.

30%

Yes, generally

All general categories of collected personal data are listed, though not all types of personal data are explicitly mentioned (for example, the list might use a phrase like 'such as' when listing types of personal data).

70%

Yes, exhaustively

All types of collected personal data are listed specifically

100%

N/A (no personal data is collected)

100%

Citation

"We collect and process the following personal data from visitors and subscribers. The purpose of this will be to register you as a User to our services: Username, password (hashed in bCrypt), and optionally email address. In addition, we may store the IP addresses from each request which is only used for statistical purposes for our DDoS protection such as ratelimits per IP, and this will not be linked to your user data."

Last Updated

September 9, 2024

Sources

Source #1 ↗

Contributors

smspool, doamatto