Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy (this “Policy”) applies to data and voice communications services provided by Chat Mobility (together with any subsidiaries or affiliates providing your communications services, “we,” “us,” or “Chat Mobility”). This Policy explains how Chat Mobility collects, uses, and discloses information about our subscribers when they subscribe to, access, or use our communications services. Some of the information we may collect is “personally identifiable information” as defined by applicable Federal law. Our use or sharing of such information is governed by applicable Federal law (as described herein) and this Policy. Your use of any Chat Mobility service constitutes your acceptance of this Policy.

This Policy does not apply to the areas of Chat Mobility websites that are accessible to the general public, which are governed by the Chat Mobility website privacy policy (available at www.chatmobility.com/terms-and-conditions/). Chat Mobility is not responsible for information, content, applications or services provided by others. Before you access, use, link to or download a service or application on your computer or wireless device, you should review the associated terms of service and privacy policy. Personal information you submit in those contexts may be read, collected or used by the service or application provider and others associated with these forums in a manner different from that described here.

This Policy applies to all of the communications services we provide. This Policy explains our practices in the following areas:

Our Responsibilities and Your Rights under Federal Law
Information We Collect and How We Collect and Use It
How We Share Your Information
How to Limit the Sharing and Use of Your Information
How Long We Keep Your Information
How We Protect Your Information
How You May Access and Correct Your Information
How You May Contact Us
Changes to This Policy
Violations of This Policy or Your Rights
Annual Notice and Availability of This Policy

1. Our Responsibilities and Your Rights Under Federal Law

When you communicate with us, we collect information from you that we use to deliver, provide, confirm, change, bill, monitor, maintain and repair your services and service-related devices. Some of this information may be “personally identifiable information” or “customer proprietary network information” (“CPNI”) as defined by Federal law.

Section 702 of the federal Telecommunications Act of 1996, as amended (the “Telecommunications Act”) provides special privacy protections for CPNI we may collect about our telecommunications services subscribers. For voice services, CPNI generally includes information about the quantity, technical configuration, type, destination, location and amount of your use of voice services and information contained on your bill concerning the type of voice services and features you subscribe to or receive. Recently, the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) has reclassified broadband internet access service as a telecommunications service and has determined that the core customer privacy protections of the Telecommunications Act extend to providers of broadband services. If you subscribe to voice telecommunications services you have the right, and Chat Mobility has a duty, to protect the confidentiality of CPNI. If you subscribe to our broadband internet access service, Chat Mobility has a duty to take reasonable, good faith steps to protect your privacy and the confidentiality of your personal and proprietary information.

In the event we determine there are any conflicts between this Policy and applicable Federal law (for example, the Telecommunications Act), we will comply with the applicable Federal law. In addition to Federal law, we will also comply with any applicable State law.

2. Information We Collect and How We Collect and Use It

Information Collected When You Communicate with Us

When you communicate with us, we collect information from you that we use to deliver, provide, confirm, change, bill, monitor, maintain and repair your services and service-related devices. This information is also used to resolve issues with your order, with our products and services, or with your account. The information we collect may include your name, addresses, and other contact information; the reason for the contact; and your Social Security Number, date of birth and payment information. We use this information to establish and maintain your customer account and billing records (including establishing credit), provide services to you, authenticate you (i.e., confirming your identify in connection with service or before sharing sensitive personal or account information), and contact you about services that we offer.

When you contact us or we contact you with calls, email, or through a feature on our websites or in our applications, we may monitor or record that communication or keep a record of the transaction to help us train employees and provide high-quality customer service.

Information Collected When You Use Our Products and Services

We collect information about your use of our products, services and sites. Information such as call records, websites visited, wireless location, application and feature usage, network traffic data, product and device-specific information, service options you choose, mobile and device numbers and other similar information may be used for billing purposes, to deliver and maintain products and services, or to help you with service-related issues or questions. In addition, subject to any legal restrictions that may apply, this information may be used for other purposes such as providing you with information about service enhancements, determining your eligibility for new services or service packages, and marketing to you based on your use of services. This information may also be used to: (a) manage and protect our networks, services and users from fraudulent, abusive, or unlawful uses; and (b) subject to consent practices described in this policy, help us improve our services, research and develop new services, and offer promotions and other services.

If you subscribe to our high speed data services, we may automatically measure and monitor network performance and the performance of your Internet connection to improve your, or our, service levels and products. If you contact us for service support, we also may access information about your computer, wireless device or other device settings to provide customized technical support or to install specific applications or services that you use or that are necessary to the applications or services you use.

Information Provided to Us by Third Parties

When you apply for or purchase service from us, we may obtain credit information about you from outside credit reporting agencies to help us with customer authentication and credit-related decisions.

Information Collected on Our Websites

When you establish an online account with us, we maintain information about your user identification and password. This information is used to identify you when you sign in to your account.

Information You Provide

When you contact us online or by other means for information about services, we will respond to your request and may use the information you supply us to provide you with additional information about service offerings either at that time or in the future. Information you provide on our websites about your preferred location and other preferences may be used to provide you with more relevant service recommendations, services and special offers.

We may also collect information from you when you agree to participate in surveys or provide other feedback to us regarding our services, when you register to receive newsletters or similar updates, or when you apply for a job with Chat Mobility. We use this information only for the purpose for which you provide it.

We may send you emails that communicate information about your account or about services, marketing offers, or promotions that may be of interest to you. When you open an email or click on links within these emails, we may collect and retain information to provide you with future communications that may be more interesting to you. Please note that we will not ask you to send us, via email, sensitive personal or account information.

3. How to Limit the Sharing and Use of Your Information

You have choices about how we share and use information.

Customer Proprietary Network Information (CPNI)

Under the Telecommunications Act, you may choose whether to allow us to share your CPNI. We will not use your CPNI for any targeted marketing of our services outside of the category of services to which you already subscribe, which may include sharing your CPNI with any of our agents or affiliates for such marketing purposes, unless we have provided you with notice of such intent and the opportunity to opt out of such use of your CPNI. We will not share your CPNI with any third party for any other reason, other than as may be required by law or as may be requested and authorized by you, unless we have provided you with notice of such intent and subject to your opt in approval before sharing your CPNI.

Telemarketing

Federal “Do Not Call” laws allow you to place residential wire line and wireless phone numbers on the National Do Not Call Registry to prevent telemarketing calls to those numbers. If you would like to add your numbers to this list, you may do so by calling 1-888-382-1222, or by visiting www.donotcall.gov.

You should be aware that even if you add your number(s) to the federal or a state Do Not Call list, most telemarketing laws allow companies to contact their own customers. If you do not want to receive any telemarketing calls from Chat Mobility, you may opt out of receiving such calls by calling a customer service representative at 1-800-944-5526. In order to keep you informed concerning our services and your account, however, we may call you or use an automatic telephone dialing system, artificial or prerecorded voice, text message, or other form of written or audible communication to your designated contact number(s). For example, these informational contacts may include reminders of payment due dates, maintenance alerts, service cutovers, and other important information about your services.

Marketing Email, Text Messages, Postal Mail and Door-to-Door Calls

Chat Mobility may send general, non-CPNI related, marketing emails, text messages, postal mailings, and door-to-door calls regarding our services. Any such emails that you receive from Chat Mobility will include an unsubscribe instruction (usually found at the bottom of the email) that you may use to opt out of receiving future marketing-related emails. You may also opt out of receiving marketing related emails from Chat Mobility by contacting a Chat Mobility customer service representative at 1-800-944-5526.

You may also opt out of receiving certain marketing-related postal mailings or prevent text message marketing from Chat Mobility by calling a customer service representative at 1-800-944-5526. Please note that Chat Mobility may use bulk mail service for some marketing mailings. These services deliver offers to all homes in a neighborhood or zip code. This type of mailing will continue even if you opt-out of receiving marketing-related postal mailings from Chat Mobility.

4. How Long We Keep Your Information

Under our practices and policies, sensitive records are retained only as long as reasonably necessary for business or legal purposes. We will maintain personally identifiable information about you no longer than necessary for the purpose for which it was collected. This means we may also maintain this information for a period of time after you are no longer a subscriber if it is necessary for business or legal purposes. We will destroy the information if we have no pending requests, orders or court orders for access to this information, after we determine that it is no longer necessary for the purposes for which it was collected and in compliance with any applicable federal, state or local laws or requirements.

5. How We Protect Your Information

Chat Mobility has technical, administrative and physical safeguards in place to help protect against unauthorized access to, use or disclosure of customer information we collect or store, including Social Security Numbers. Employees are trained on the importance of protecting privacy and on the proper access to, use and disclosure of customer information. Under our practices and policies, access to sensitive personally identifiable information is authorized only for those who have a business need for such access, and sensitive records are retained only as long as reasonably necessary for business or legal purposes. Although we work hard to protect personal information that we collect and store, no program is 100% secure and we cannot guarantee that our safeguards will prevent every unauthorized attempt to access, use or disclose personal information. In the event of any unauthorized access, use or disclosure of your personal information, we will notify you promptly and take all measures to secure the information in compliance with all applicable laws.

6. How You May Access and Correct Your Information

We strive to keep our customer records as accurate as possible. You may correct or update your Chat Mobility customer information by calling a Chat Mobility customer service representative at 1-800-944-5526 or by accessing your account online and providing the updated information there.

7. How You May Contact Us

If you have questions, concerns or suggestions related to our Privacy Policy or our privacy practices you may contact us at:

Chat Mobility

404 Howland Street

Emerson, IA 51533

Phone: 712-824-7790

Fax: 712-824-7792

Email: billing@chatmobility.com

8. Visual Voicemail requires the following permissions to function properly:

Photos, Media and Files – This allows the app to store your messages on your device. The app does not access any of your photos, media and files that is already there.

Record Audio – This allows you to record a new voicemail greeting.

Make and Manage Phone Calls – This allows you to place a return call to the sender of a voice mail. Standard call charges apply, according to your service plan.

Contacts – This allows the app to show contact information along with your voicemails. No contact data is sent anywhere. It is only used within the app.

SMS Permissions and Charges:

Send SMS – This allows the app to send an SMS to Chat Mobility at the following address: 9345. There is no charge for this SMS, although it counts against your plan limits. The SMS does not contain any of your personal data. Its purpose is to activate your client with the Chat Mobility voicemail server.

Receive and View SMS – This allows the app to receive a notification from Chat Mobility that you have received a voicemail. One SMS is sent for each new voicemail you receive. The SMS is not visible to you. It triggers the app to show the new message in your Visual Voicemail Inbox. There is no charge for this SMS, although it may count against your plan limits.

9. Changes to This Policy

We reserve the right to make changes to this Privacy Policy, so please check back periodically for changes. You will be able to see that changes have been made by checking to see if the effective date posted at the end of the policy has changed.

10. Violations of This Policy or Your Rights.

If you believe that your privacy rights have been violated, please contact us immediately. We will take immediate steps to address your concerns. If you believe that you have been aggrieved as a result of our violation of applicable provisions of the Telecommunications Act, you may enforce the limitations imposed on us through a formal complaint to the FCC and/or a civil lawsuit seeking damages, attorneys’ fees and litigation costs. Other rights and remedies may be available to you under federal, state or local laws.

11. Annual Notice and Availability of This Policy

It is our practice to provide this notice to all customers at the time you first contract for or subscribe to service and at least annually thereafter in January.

Last Updated: August 1, 2024

12. Sale or Merger of Company

Information about our customers and users, including personal information, may be shared and transferred as part of any merger, acquisition, sale of company assets or transition of service to another provider. This also applies in the unlikely event of an insolvency, bankruptcy or receivership in which customer and user records would be transferred to another entity as a result of such a proceeding.

What information do we collect?

We collect information from you when you register on our site, place an order, subscribe to our newsletter, respond to a survey, or fill out a form. We may also record information about your visit including, but not limited to, the time and page you visited, your IP address, and device information.

When filling out a form, ordering, or registering on our site, as appropriate, you may be asked to enter your: name, email address, mailing address, phone number, or credit card information. You may, however, visit our site anonymously.

What do we use your information for?

Any of the information we collect from you may be used in one of the following ways:

To personalize your experience (your information helps us to better respond to your individual needs)
To improve our website (we continually strive to improve our website offerings based on the information and feedback we receive from you).
To improve customer service (your information helps us to more effectively respond to your customer service requests and support needs).
To process transactions.
To administer a contest, promotion, survey or other site feature.
To send periodic emails. The email address you provided for placing an order or registering an account will only be used for order processing and account updates.

Note: If at any time you would like to unsubscribe from receiving future emails, we include detailed unsubscribe instructions at the bottom of each email.

How do we protect your information?

We implement a variety of security measures to maintain the safety of your personal information when you place an order or enter, submit, or access your personal information.

We offer the use of a secure server. All information is transmitted via a secure connection and then encrypted into our Payment gateway providers database only to be accessible by those authorized with special access rights to such systems, and are required to keep the information confidential.

Do we use cookies?

Yes. Cookies are small files that a site or its service provider transfers to your computers hard drive through your Web browser (if you allow) that enables the sites or service providers systems to recognize your browser and capture and remember certain information.

We use cookies to help us remember and process the items in your shopping cart, understand and save your preferences for future visits, keep track of advertisements and compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interaction so that we can offer better site experiences and tools in the future.

If you prefer, you can choose to have your computer warn you each time a cookie is being sent, or you can choose to turn off all cookies via your browser settings. Like most websites, if you turn your cookies off, some of our services may not function properly. However, you can still place orders over the telephone or by contacting customer service.

Do we disclose any information to outside parties?

We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside third parties your personally identifiable information. This does not include trusted third parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or servicing you, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. Also, this does not include any third parties that may be involved in any situation identified in Section 12 of this policy.

Third party services we use to improve the site may also collect information about your or your device. We may also share information about your visit with third parties to help us improve the website. This will never include personally identifiable information.

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Google Analytics provides us detailed information about what users view on our site as well as anonomized demographic information about our users to better understand who is visiting the site (including age, gender, location).

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We may also release your information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others rights, property, or safety. However, non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses.

Third-party links

Occasionally, at our discretion, we may include or offer third-party products or services on our website. These third-party sites have separate and independent privacy policies. We, therefore, have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked sites. Nonetheless, we seek to protect the integrity of our site and welcome any feedback about these sites.

Children's Online Privacy Protection Act Compliance

We are in compliance with the requirements of COPPA (Children's Online Privacy Protection Act), we do not collect any information from anyone under 13 years of age. Our website, products, and services are all directed to people who are at least 13 years old or older.

Please also visit our Terms of Use section establishing the use, disclaimers, and limitations of liability governing the use of our website.

Your Consent

By using our site, you consent to our web site privacy policy.

Changes to our Privacy Policy

If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will update the Privacy Policy modification date below.

This policy was last updated on August 1, 2024.

What information do we collect?

What do we use your information for?

Any of the information we collect from you may be used in one of the following ways:

To personalize your experience (your information helps us to better respond to your individual needs)
To improve our website (we continually strive to improve our website offerings based on the information and feedback we receive from you).
To improve customer service (your information helps us to more effectively respond to your customer service requests and support needs).
To process transactions. Your information, whether public or private, will not be sold, exchanged, transferred, or given to any other company for any reason whatsoever, without your consent, other than for the express purpose of delivering the purchased product or service requested.
To administer a contest, promotion, survey or other site feature.
To send periodic emails. The email address you provided for placing an order or registering an account will only be used for order processing and account updates.

Note: If at any time you would like to unsubscribe from receiving future emails, we include detailed unsubscribe instructions at the bottom of each email.

How do we protect your information?

We implement a variety of security measures to maintain the safety of your personal information when you place an order or enter, submit, or access your personal information.

Do we use cookies?

Do we disclose any information to outside parties?

We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personally identifiable information. This does not include trusted third parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or servicing you, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential.

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- Google Analytics provides us detailed information about what users view on our site as well as anonomized demographic information about our users to better understand who is visiting the site (including age, gender, location).
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California Online Privacy Protection Act Compliance

Because we value your privacy we have taken the necessary precautions to be in compliance with the California Online Privacy Protection Act. We, therefore, will not distribute your personal information to outside parties without your consent.

As part of the California Online Privacy Protection Act, all users of our site may make any changes to their information at any time by logging into their control panel and going to the 'Edit Profile' page.

Children's Online Privacy Protection Act Compliance

Terms of Use

Please also visit our Terms of Use section establishing the use, disclaimers, and limitations of liability governing the use of our website.

Your Consent

By using our site, you consent to our web site privacy policy.

Changes to our Privacy Policy

If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will update the Privacy Policy modification date below.

This policy was last updated on 12/16/2019.