Privacy policy
Modern telecommunications are being actively used for distributing all kinds of unwanted advertising (so-called "spam"), which is a serious problem for the Internet as a whole. Low costs, anonimosity, and, mostly, naive users make spam a lucrative source of income for many online fraudsters.
The problem described couldn't miss the mobile market, especially VAS (Value Added Services). More often than not, sms provider's partners are caught using fraudulent ways of advertising services they provide.
To state it clear, we are not associated with such actions, and we do object dishonest behavior among our partners. This article describes our policy on the subject in detail, along with recommendations for the illegal acts prevention in partnership projects.
Restrictions introduced
- We strictly prohibit the distribution of spam (using e-mail, ICQ, or by any other means) to advance one's project regardless of the fact whether the advertising text contains direct instructions of sending an sms, link to a site with such instructions, or a link to a site which redirects a user to any other resource containing such instructions;
- It is forbidden to deploy our services on websites which aren't mentioned in the appropriate setting of each service (this includes so-called "mirrors");
- It is forbidden to deploy our services on sites parked on various free hostings and without WHOIS-record of their own;
- It is forbidden to even attempt to confuse the end user regarding the actual cost and/or purpose of the messages they send;
- It is forbidden to use sms fraud in order to send messages to our services.
In case of violation of at least one of the conditions mentioned above by the user, the profile of the alleged user is blocked, and all operations - respectively - cancelled. We also reserve the right to transfer all the data we have collected on such user's illegal practices to the local authorities, should we think it's necessary.
In order to prevent violations
Given our continuous work with the user base, we have decided that services registered in our system that aren't having a single incoming message for two or three weeks straight, as well as user accounts that aren't being visited in a month or more, will be automatically deleted. In addition:
- We immediately block any service that doesn't meet the above restrictions;
- We pre-moderate some of our service on creation, as well as on key parameters change;
- We review our partners' projects on a daily basis in an attempt to identify the possible violations;
- We have established an inner monitoring system with the aim of identifying the extraordinary number of messages sent from one number, the ratio of established and used passwords (applicable to sms:key), the number of user-unnoticed errors, etc.
These and other measures enable us to prevent the bulk of the illegal activity on the services we provide.
We have a strong interest in working with lawful partners, ones that have resources for an honest cooperation. If you think the last sentence described you appropriately, we have gathered a few recommendations for you here:
- Fill out your profile completely, the personal WebMoney certificate is a good sign of a good faith (we have the registrator attestation record);
- If the service isn't accessible to the general public - please let us know that;
- Do declare strictly negative attitude to fraud like we do;
- In case you provide some end-user service or product as a bonus for incoming messages, make sure that the opportunity is not being used by fraudsters. You can enable this by merely testing passwords of the sms:key or last few digits of the phone numbers of the sms:bank and the sms:transit.
If you see a violation of the above rules, please let us know.
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